Protestant Church (Lambsheim)

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Protestant Church (Lambsheim)
Protestant Church (Lambsheim)

The Protestant Church in Lambsheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate is a parish church of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . The church was built between 1844 and 1848 as a neo-Romanesque hall church.

history

The previous building of today's church was used as a simultaneous church between 1705 and 1785 , the choir was used by the Catholic and the nave by the Reformed congregation. The choir was demolished in 1785 for the construction of the Catholic St. Stephen's Church in the late Baroque style. After the unification of the Reformed and Lutheran congregations into one parish in the course of the Palatinate Church Union in 1818, the nave of the old simultaneous church no longer offered enough space for the now uniate Protestants. And so, in the 19th century, the Protestant side decided to build a new building. As a result, the once reformed part of the old simultaneous church has now been demolished. The church of the former Lutheran congregation, on the other hand, has been preserved in a translocated form. The building was dismantled in 1839 and rebuilt on the outskirts and still serves as a cemetery chapel today.

Today's Protestant parish church was built from 1844 to 1848 as a sandstone block. It offers space for around 850 people. Pulpit and presbyter stalls are located on the long side, as the parish benches were aligned in a semicircular shape at 180 and 90 degrees on the pulpit and altar in the Reformed tradition until the renovation in the early 1990s.

The lower three storeys of the church tower are the only remains of the previous building from the 13th century. The tower structure with the high pointed helmet was only put on between 1860 and 1861. Inside there are epitaphs of local noble families who were moved here from the previous building. The most important of these, Jakob von Helmstatt and his wife Maria von Affenstein († 1556), came to the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer in the early 20th century .

As the tallest building in the town center, the Protestant Church shapes the townscape. With a height of 69 meters, the tower is the sixth highest church tower in the Front Palatinate, after the towers of the Speyer Memorial Church (100 m), the Speyer Joseph Church (91 m), the Speyer Cathedral (two times 71.2 m) and the Bad Dürkheim Castle Church (70 m) and thus the highest village church tower in the Vorderpfalz.

organ

The historical basic substance of the pipe organ, which is located on one of the two galleries, comes from the Ludwigsburg organ building company Walcker from 1847/48. The Lambsheim organ was Eberhard Friedrich Walcker's first commission in the Palatinate. In 1967/68 the sound of the instrument was modified by the Ludwigshafen company Owart. The then organ building expert and regional church music director Adolf Graf had initiated the sound modification. Walcker's disposition was greatly changed.

Today the instrument comprises two manuals with a pedal and around 25 stops . The originally mechanical action has been electric since the sound change. A few years later, a second console was added so that the organ can now also be played from the nave. Returning the organ to its original state has not yet been considered.

Peal

The church tower has four bells:

  • 1: dis' + 3
  • 2: f sharp + 5
  • 3: g sharp '+ 3
  • 4: h '+ 4

The bell is used by both the Catholic St. Stephen's Congregation and the Protestant Church Congregation. The tower clock belongs to the political community. The bells were all cast in 1950 by the Hermann Hamm (Frankenthal) bell foundry.

List of pastors (since church union in 1818)

  • Daniel Ludwig Winkelbach (1818–1836)
  • Heinrich Friedrich Baum (1837–1844)
  • Jakob Ludwig Göppel (1844–1848)
  • Johann Philipp Lattermann (1848-1859)
  • Friedrich Gottfried Lang (1860–1871)
  • Eugen Moschel (1871–1904)
  • Jakob Peter Hust (1904–1930)
  • Hans Rothhaas, Parish Administrator (1931)
  • Ludwig Richard Kohl (1931–1938)
  • Heinrich Bouquet, Vicar (1938)
  • Ludwig Georg Haller (1938–1972)
  • Albrecht Roth (1973–1982)
  • Martin Pfisterer (1983–1990)
  • Klaus Haller (1990-2018)
  • Vera Ettinger (since 2019)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Manfred Czerwinski, Markus Ziegler: The Church Lexicon of the Palatinate. 1000 churches in the air . Ed .: Institute for Image Documentation. 1st edition. Kaiserslautern 1995.
  2. ↑ a b c Regional Church Council of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (ed.): Handbook of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant Church) . Speyer 2009, p. 107 .
  3. ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Historical organs in the Palatinate . Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1984, p. 226 .
  4. ↑ Kurt Kinkel: Lambsheim and its history . Printing and publishing by Emil Sommer, Grünstadt 1987, p. 93 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 43.6 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 13.1 ″  E