St. Lucia (Grünwettersbach)

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Evangelical parish church of St. Lucia Grünwettersbach. View NW

The Saalkirche St. Lucia with west tower is the Protestant parish church of Grünwettersbach , a district in the southeast of Karlsruhe (Baden).

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1278. Like the village of Grünwettersbach, it is probably founded by Cistercian monks . The Romanesque architectural style of the tower and the echoes of the Aurelius Church in Hirsau , built around 1071, suggest that it was built in the 11th to 12th centuries.

history

Only the steeple remains of the first church. Investigations showed that the tower was originally free and the three-aisled nave was added later . The arched frieze below the tower cornice from the second to the third floor has mask heads. In the fourth and fifth floor there are sound arcades , mullioned windows and arched friezes under the cornices. The church was a foundation of the Cistercian monastery Bad Herrenalb . 1278 is the oldest evidence of a pastor in Grünwettersbach. A baptismal font that has been preserved to this day bears the year 1491. The church has been Protestant since 1534. The church fell into disrepair until the church tower was in acute danger of collapsing in 1776. In 1777 the church tower was renovated. The dilapidated nave was torn down in 1781. The foundation stone for the new nave was laid in 1782.

  • Biforien North

  • Biforien South

  • Hirsauer nose

  • Baptismal font

  • West view

  • Tooth frieze (German volume)

  • West mask (so-called capuchin head)

  • Mask south

Trivia

In the legend, the pastor from Grünwettersbach , who knows magic, tells of a pastor named Johann Ulrich Maier, who was at the convent school in Maulbronn and the impression left by Doctor Faust on how to ban people and animals, make them sick or healthy, prepare the weather, tell fortune and can call spirits, had completely written off. The spirit of a Capuchin who walked in and around the church and the rectory disturbed the residents and the pastor drove him away. The legend goes on to say that the church service in Grünwettersbach, earlier than it was Catholic, was often performed by Capuchins. Two of them are walled in in the church tower and were probably used to banish ghosts.

literature

  • Wilhelm Spengel, Heinz-Thilo Krahl: Wettersbacher Heimatbuch. Edited by the Wettersbach local authority. Karlsruhe, undated (1972), pp. 162-175
  • G. Löffler, H. Löffler: Evangelical Church Grünwettersbach. 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Karlsruhe Günther Löffler
  2. ^ "Sagen des Schwarzwaldes" by Wilhelm Straub

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Grünwettersbach (Karlsruhe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 30.7 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 56.3"  E