St. Michael (Whiting)

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Michaelskirche in Wittlingen

St. Michael in Wittlingen is a Protestant church under the patronage of the Archangel Michael . The classicistic church with rococo style features is located in the center of the village and serves as a parish church for the Protestant community.

history

Fragments from 1956 from the Alemannic period indicate a smaller church from the 9th century. It was attached to an older building that is believed to be of Roman origin. The first cleric in Wittlingen is documented in 1275, the church was first recorded from 1360 to 1370.

Around 1500 a larger church was built with a modified longitudinal axis on the same place; In 1530 it appeared as St. Michael's Church. The church walls were painted and the roof was covered with glazed tiles. In 1735 the bailiff Leutrum wrote of the church that it “must be very old according to some of the hewn stones inside; in 1595 it was repaired ”. The structural condition deteriorated so much over the centuries that it was demolished in 1772.

Today's Michaelskirche goes back to plans by Wilhelm Jeremias Müller and was built from 1772 to 1774 around the old foundations. It was built in the Louis-seize style and offered Friedrich Weinbrenner starting points for the Weinbrenner style named after him. The church was consecrated on May 8, 1774.

description

Exterior construction

Choir side of Michaelskirche

The Rechtecksbau the geosteten Michael Church is on its east side, a sacristy and on its western side, a bell tower detached. The building is subject to strict symmetry with pronounced verticality and sparingly used decorative elements. Nave and sacristy with a gable roof covered, the somewhat lower roof of the vestry is back in addition to the east hipped . The three-storey tower with a square floor plan has rectangular sound arcades; above it is the church clock on all sides. The pyramid roof , which is slightly bent in the lower third , is closed off by a tower ball and a cross. To the east of the sacristy is the cemetery.

Equipment and organ

A flight of stairs leads to the inside of the Michael’s Church via the tower hall. Light enters the bright interior through high rectangular windows. The two-storey gallery , which is supported by pillars on both sides and equipped with rows of benches, is striking . The galleries can be reached separately by two stairwells. In the left stairwell, memorial plaques commemorate the fallen and missing of both world wars, in the right stairwell a plaque contains the history of the building.

The slightly raised altar area is in the eastern part of the nave. Since the sacristy is located next to it, the choir is only indicated by a small recess. The font , which was replaced during a renovation in 1957, was made by Rudolf Scheurer . The simple block-shaped altar is covered with a large sandstone slab. Behind it is the door to the sacristy. A pulpit protrudes from the wall above the altar and above, below the nave roof on a protruding gallery an organ . It was built in 1880 by L. Voit & Sons in Durlach . Their mechanism was replaced in 1971 by the organ building company Weigle from Stuttgart and built into the listed housing. It has two manuals , a pedal and eleven stops .

Bells

The small bell from 1773 by Andreas Roost from Lörrach had to be handed in during the First World War in 1917; it was replaced in 1922.

No. Surname Nominal Casting year Caster
1 Big bell f sharp ′ 1876 Benjamin Muchenberger , Blasiwald
2 Medium bell a ′ 1966 Bachert , Karlsruhe
3 Little bell c ′ ′ 1922

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b E. Eble; H. Vocke (Ed.): Die Chronik des Kreises Lörrach , 1966, p. 260
  2. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe : Breisgauer Archive (Wittlingen) gotszhus sant Michels according to Krieger: Topographical Dictionary of the Grand Duchy of Baden , 2 volume, 1905, Sp. 1489/90
  3. ^ A. Hermann-Schwarzleber: Topography of the historical sights in: W.Bechtold (Ed.): Der Kreis Lörrach , 1971, p. 109
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 443
  5. ↑ Church and Homeland 1556–1956 , 1956, p. 137
  6. ↑ a b Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 444

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 59 ″  E