St. Leodegar (Grenzach)

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St. Leodegar (choir side)

St. Leodegar is a Protestant church in Grenzach-Wyhlen in the district of Lörrach , which is consecrated to the patronage of St. Leodegar . The oldest parts of the building date back to the 15th century.

history

A pastor ("plebanus in Cranzach") is mentioned for the first time in Grenzach in a document from 1275. The church ("ecclesia Krencznach") appears in the written sources between 1360 and 1370. The tower substructure from 1408 and the triumphal arch date from the late Gothic period. The polygonal choir with five-eighths is inscribed and dated to 1426. The construction work must have dragged on for several decades and was completed with the consecration of the new altar on June 2, 1481. The Bishop of Basel consecrated the church in honor of Saint Leodegar von Autun and Saints Stephan, Georg, Sylvester and Columban. A coat of arms on a console in the sacrament house from 1494 commemorates the marriage between Adelberg III. von Bärenfels and Ursula von und zu Schönau.

The late Gothic entrance portal shows the year 1507; this year renovations and extensions took place. After the end of the Thirty Years War , the walls of the nave were pushed out to be widened. In 1728 large rectangular windows were built in and the flat ceiling of the nave was painted with an annunciation scene.

During renovation work in 1835, the organ was moved from the choir to a gallery in the nave. The long sides were given galleries resting on small cast-iron columns. The plasterer Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm was also involved in the work; he was responsible for the font . In the following 100 years the church interior was renewed several times.

The Grenzach Leodegarkirche underwent another fundamental redesign in 1954. In that year, new colored choir windows were installed, which were created by the Schopfheim artist Theodor Baumann. The inventory in the altar area and the font were also renewed and the ceiling painting from 1728 was given a new place on the north side of the nave above the monument to the fallen. Of the gallery, only the one on the south and west side remained.

description

Church building

Nave with a view of the triumphal arch

The church is slightly elevated on a slope near the Grenzach town hall. A four-story bell tower adjoins the nave, which is covered with a gable roof ; in the east a polygonal choir, slightly raised compared to the nave, with a hipped roof at the end . The tower is covered with a gable roof running across the nave. On the top floor there is a round arched sound arcade on each side , including a clock face of the tower clock. The tower is profiled with corner blocks up to the edge of the roof.

Bells

The five-part bell of the church is composed as follows:

Surname Chime Casting year Caster
Midday bell G' 1839 Schnegg, Basel
Baptismal bell d ′ 1921 Bachert, Karlsruhe
Memorial bell e ′ 1950 Rincker, Wetzlar
Our Father Bell H' 1950 Rincker, Wetzlar
Peace bell a ′ 1952 Bachert, Karlsruhe

organ

The church received the original organ from the organ builder Haas from Murg in 1737. Including the old work, a Walcker organ was built in 1839 , which was redesigned in 1954 as part of the renovation by GF Steinmeyer & Co. and combined both organs. The instrument worked with an electric-pneumatic performance and stop action , cone chest and had two manuals , a pedal and 24 stops .

In 2002 a new organ was built by Orgelbau Goll from Lucerne . The instrument received the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden dacked 8th' H
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Octave 2 ′
5. Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
7th Reed flute 8th'
8th. Black viola 8th'
9. recorder 4 ′
10. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. flute 2 ′
12. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′ V
14th Octavbass 8th' H
15th Octave 4 ′
15th bassoon 16 ′
  • Tremulant
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Remarks

H: pipes from the Haas organ from 1737
V: pipes from a previous organ

Epitaphs

Epitaph in the tower hall

On the north wall of the choir there are two epitaphs that recall the following people: Wilhelm von Eckstet († December 24, 1710), Melchior von Bärenfels († 1633) and his wife Margareta von Bärenfels, née. Schauenburg († 1633) and their sons Hannibal von Bärenfels († 1647) with his wife Maria Magdalena von Bärenfels, b. Landsperg († 1647). In the tower hall is an epitaph by Anna Maria Salzmann, b. Bucher († 1678) attached. On the south side of the nave is the grave slab of Elisabeth Catharina Bremmer, b. Ulrich († June 23, 1689).

literature

  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 107-108.
  • Evangelical rectory Grenzach (ed.): Historical sights of the old Grenzach church. Grenzach 1972.
  • Dagmar Zimdars: A gem cross made of sandstone? The late Romanesque portal at St. Leodegar in Grenzach, Kr. Lörrach. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 30th year 2001, issue 3, pp. 145f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Grenzach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Haid: Liber decimationis cleri Constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275 . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 1, 1865, p. 199
  2. ^ W. Haid: Liber marcarum in dioeccesii Constanciensi . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 5, 1870. S. 87.
  3. ^ A. Heimann-Schwarzweber: Topography of the historical sights . In: W. Bechttold (Ed.): Der Kreis Lörrach , 1971, p. 97
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 107 (01.2)
  5. ↑ JFW
  6. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 107 (01.5)
  7. ↑ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , pp. 107-108 (01.5)
  8. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 108
  9. ^ Description of the organ by Orgelbau Goll.

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 43.2 ″  E