St. Agathe (Fahrnau)

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St. Agathe in Schopfheim-Fahrnau

St. Agathe in Schopfheim is a former Protestant church in the Fahrnau district .

history

The first written mention of a church in Fahrnau (Ecclesia Varnovva) took place in 1143. The church, first named in 1344 as the Church of Our Lady (zu Varnowe ze our Frowun), was named Agathenkirche as early as 1501 (sant Agten gotzhus zu Farnow). After this was a branch church of Schopfheim between 1360 and 1370, it was referred to as a parish church in 1470 . Nothing is known about the exterior of this church.

The oldest parts of the church preserved today are believed to date from around 1480. After the Reformation was introduced in the Markgräflerland in 1556, St. Agathe became a branch church again. In the years 1722 to 1723 the building was expanded and renovated, which is reminiscent of a plaque on the east wall inside. In the years 1847 to 1848 there were further renovations.

After Fahrnau was raised to an independent parish again in 1911, plans were made to enlarge the church from 1913 onwards. Delayed by the two world wars, the plans never came to fruition and after the end of the Second World War there was a call for a new building, which was finally carried out in the early 1960s with the Matthäuskirche . Since its completion, St. Agathe no longer serves for church services. In 1998, medieval frescoes from around 1300 were found. For conservation reasons, the murals were covered again.

description

The church of St. Agathe consists of a hall building covered with a rectangular saddle roof , which carries a roof turret on its east side. There is a clock face each on the north and south sides of the tower clock. In the upper part there are three-way, rectangular sound openings on all sides. The pyramid roof is slightly bent in the lower third. Inside, two epitaphs recall the staff holder Tobias Fluri (March 5, 1745) and his wife Anna Fluri, née Blankenhorn (November 5, 1746), as well as Maria Salome Beyer (September 1720), the daughter of the pastor Johann Jacob Beyer.

Until 1963 the church had two bells (d ″ and e ″). The bells created by the Bochum Association in 1949 were given away to a diaspora community in Austria . A Hammond organ with two manuals and a pedal stood in the church from 1957 to 1964. She was transferred to the Matthäuskirche.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Agathe (Schopfheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch , 1849 ff, Volume 2, p. 172
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Bechtold (ed.), Annemarie Heimann-Schwarzweber: Topography of historical sights . In: Der Kreis Lörrach , 1971, p. 97
  3. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 327 (09.3)
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 328

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 8.7 ″  E