City Church (Neuenbürg)
The city church in Neuenbürg in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg is the city's Protestant parish church . It was built in the course of the establishment of the settlement in the 14th century in the valley under the Neue Burg with the older St. Georg church , and was renewed in 1594 and 1777 and again after the town fire of 1783.
history
After a castle hamlet was initially located under the Neue Burg, halfway up the Schlossberg around the old St. Georg church , the focus of the settlement shifted to the valley in the 14th century, where today's town of Neuenbürg was established. A church to our dear women was first mentioned in 1393. In 1586 the little church in the little town is described as a towerless building 11 meters long and 7.20 meters wide with a roof turret with two bells. The surrounding buildings are said to have towered over the small church.
In 1594 there was a new building with about twice the width and length and a 19 meter high tower. The enlargement of the church was done at the expense of the already limited surrounding space and the church was extremely crowded against the neighboring buildings. To the south there was only about 60 cm of space to the next building. In 1688 the church was widened to the north. In 1733 the tower was rebuilt. However, the structure of the church was inadequate, so that the weight of the roof structure threatened to push the outer walls over.
After the congregation was able to acquire the building, which is close to the south, they initially considered widening the church to the south, but then, because of the already known structural defects, it was decided to build a completely new building for which additional plots had to be purchased. In December 1777 the baroque new building was inaugurated. However, it only lasted six years and was destroyed in the town fire in 1783.
According to plans by Land-Oberbauinspektor Johann Adam Groß , another new building was built in its current form by 1788, which essentially follows the dimensions of the building from 1777, but is much simpler. The church was renovated in the 1950s and again in 1978 and received a new organ in 1971.
description
The town church is a hall building with a curved west tower facade. Its architectural style is a transitional form from Baroque to Classicism , as some baroque elements from the previous building, which only existed for a short time, such as the curved west gable, had been taken over, but in the style of the time when the new building was built in 1788, it was already simplified to a classicist style, reduced to rectangles and circles Structure of the facade with arched windows, ox eyes, pilaster strips and other things.
The organ is installed in the west of the one-story gallery , and a pulpit altar in the east .
The organ was built in 1971 by the organ builder Mühleisen (Strasbourg). The slider chest instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The action actions are mechanical, the stop action is electro-pneumatic. The case was built in 1740 by Johann Adam Schmahl.
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literature
- City of Neuenbürg (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Neuenbürg. Neuenbürg 1980, pp. 196-199.
- Hermann Diruf, Christoph Timm: Art and cultural monuments in Pforzheim and in the Enzkreis , Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1680-0 , p. 258
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 46.7 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 20.4" E