Protestant Church (Edenkoben)

Protestant Church

Edenkoben Protestant Church
Basic data
Denomination	Protestant
place	Edenkoben, Germany
Building history
construction time	1739-1740
Building description
Architectural style	Tower: late Gothic; Ship: baroque
Construction type	rectangular hall
Coordinates 49 ° 16 '54.8 "  N , 8 ° 7' 39.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '54.8 "  N , 8 ° 7' 39.7"  E

The Protestant church , formerly St. Laurentius Church , from Edenkoben is one of the most important baroque buildings in the Vorderpfalz and the city's landmark. The church is on the north side of the town's market square.

history

On April 13, 1739, the administration council Jacobi from Heidelberg laid the foundation stone for today's church building. Four floors of the tower were retained from the late Gothic church.

The nave is a rectangular hall 32 m long and 19 m wide. The pulpit and altar , which was surrounded on four sides by a wooden barrier, the so-called garden, are on the north side. A circumferential gallery rests on twelve columns, the parapet of which has 41 paintings , today only 38 paintings because of the organ . Although pictures actually have no place in the Reformed church, the Reformed congregation had their gallery adorned with representations from biblical history.

The reason is likely to be to be found in the existing competitive relationship with the Lutheran neighboring town of Rhodt . It remains unknown who selected the somewhat randomly compiled program. The painter, who sometimes based his representations on paintings by Johann Seekatz , is also unknown. At least two, if not three, different hands were at work. For example, the New Testament scenes, including the landscape background, such as the flight to Egypt or the paradise scene, are executed much more finely (with the mentioned echoes of Seekatz) than the primitive illustrations of the story of David and Saul. Here Matthäus Merian's illustrations of the Bible were used as a model.

organ

The organ in the church was built in 1757 by Johann Michael Hartung from Bad Dürkheim. The instrument has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

Major work C – a 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Viola da gamba 8th' 4th Hollow pipe 8th' 5. Octave 4 ′ 6th Pointed flute 4 ′ 7th Fifth 3 ′ 8th. Super octave 2 ′ 9. Gemshorn 2 ′ 10. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 11. Cornett IV 4 ′ 12. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 13. Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

I main work C – a 3 14th Dumped 8th' 15th Salicional 8th' 16. Principal 4 ′ 17th Reed flute 4 ′ 18th Salicional 4 ′ 19th Octave 2 ′ 20th Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 21st Zimbel III 1' 22nd Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 23. Principal bass 16 ′ 24. Sub-bass 16 ′ 25th Principal 8th' 26th Violonbass 8th' 27. Octave 4 ′ 28. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 29 Trombone bass 16 ′ 30th Trumpet 8th'

• Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Georg Dehio : Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. 1972, p. 203.

Web links

Commons : Protestant Church (Edenkoben)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Memorial plaque for the laying of the foundation stone of the St. Laurentius Church (with words of thanks to Elector Karl Philipp von der Pfalz and Privy Councilor Joachim von Brawe )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information on the history of the Hartung organ