St. Margaretha (Salach)

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The St. Margaretha Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Salach . Next to her there is the older Protestant Margaret Church in the village . The patron saint of the church is Margaret of Antioch . The building is listed as a cultural monument.

history

Today's Protestant St. Margaret's Church ( 48 ° 41 ′ 35 ″ N, 9 ° 44 ′ 29 ″ E ) has been used by both denominations since 1655.

After the number of Catholic believers had risen sharply, it was decided at the end of the 19th century to build a new Catholic church. It was built in the neo-Romanesque style by Ulrich Pohlhammer and consecrated on August 24, 1905 by the Rottenburg bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler .

In the years 1955 and from 2016 to 2017 extensive redesigns and renovations took place.

organ

The former organ was probably a used instrument made by the Ludwigsburg organ builder Walcker . A new instrument by the organ builder Eduard Wiedenmann from Oberessendorf was installed in 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg: Cultural monuments and cultural landscapes in the Stuttgart region, Göppingen district, page 115. Accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Parish Church St. Margaretha - Pastoral Care Unit Middle Filstal St. Margaretha Salach - St. Sebastian Ottenbach. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Church: New tones in St. Margaretha. November 9, 2018, accessed March 24, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 30.9 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 30.1"  E