Protestant Church (Edenkoben)
Edenkoben Protestant Church |
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Denomination | Protestant |
place | Edenkoben, Germany |
Building history | |
construction time | 1739-1740 |
Building description | |
Architectural style | Tower: late Gothic; Ship: baroque |
Construction type | rectangular hall |
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 .
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
literature
- Georg Dehio : Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. 1972, p. 203.
Web links
- 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
- ↑ More information on the history of the Hartung organ