City Church of St. Peter and Paul (Calw)
Today's Protestant town church St. Peter and Paul , built in the neo-Gothic style , was inaugurated in 1888. It lies above the Calw market square and towers over the city center with its 64 m high church tower . It is the main church of the general parish of Calw and the church district of Calw-Nagold in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
history
Calw was first mentioned in a document in 1075. The first Calwer town church was built after 1260, it was to the existing chapel attached to the holy Jacob was devoted to the new church, however the Apostles Peter and Paul . The Gothic choir was built around 1420. The keystones in its vault show the Calw coat of arms, the Württemberg coat of arms, a key as a symbol for Peter and a sword as a symbol for Paul. Only the remains of the wall with two small Romanesque windows between the tower and the choir are preserved from the former Jacob's Chapel .
In 1505 a sacristy was added south of the choir, which still exists today. The old Jacob's altar was moved to the room below so that the church tower could be built. A new nave was also built. When the Reformation was introduced , the eight side altars were removed. In 1627 galleries were built into the church under the then dean ( superintendent ) Johann Valentin Andreae .
During the Thirty Years' War , Calw was reduced to rubble. From the church only the choir, the sacristy and the burned-out walls of the nave and the tower remain. In 1655 the church was restored. The tower was given a "Welsche" hood , with six bells hanging in it. On September 27, 1692, Calw fell victim to the flames again. The tower and nave burned down again, only the choir and sacristy remained. In the poor city, the construction of the new church went ahead with difficulty. In 1696 the preaching began again in the unfinished church. In 1699 five new bells in the tone sequence D-F-A-B-D were cast. In 1725 an organ was set up on the gallery in the choir, and in 1726 the pulpit was inaugurated. The economy in the reconstruction meant that the annealed walls gave way under the weight of the roof.
New building
In 1884 the ship had to be demolished and rebuilt by the court building director Felix von Berner . In 1888 the now neo-Gothic church was consecrated again. The pulpit with sound cover , the choir stalls , the balustrades on the galleries, the carved pews and the organ case date from this period . The newly built tower, crowned with a pointed tent roof, was given a walkway in front of the bell storey. Citizens of Calw donated the choir windows in 1886, 1890 and 1914.
Renovations
In the renovation in 1957 under the overall artistic concept of Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J. , the neo-Gothic wall and ceiling paintings were removed to replace them with a "pure Gothic". The altar and baptismal font were also renewed at that time. The font from 1957 was later removed again , probably as part of the renovation by the architect Johannes Wetzel . During the last interior renovation in 1996, the pews were renewed using the old carvings. The church got underfloor heating and under the organ loft there was an open space with a kitchenette that can be used for community events.
Stained glass
- By 1915, several glass paintings were donated for the choir and produced by the Munich workshops Franz Xaver Zettler and Mayer :
- Choir center window: Last Supper, Crucifixion, crown of thorns, veil of Veronica (1886/88)
- South-east choir window: Stoning of Stephen, Resurrection of Christ (1886/88)
- South choir window: Isaac's sacrifice, Moses, Isaiah (1886/88)
- Northeast choir window: Blessing of children, birth of Jesus (1890)
- West rosette: David with harp (1915)
- R. Yelin the Elder designed other New Testament themes in the windows under the side galleries. J. (Execution: Glasmalerei Saile, Stuttgart) in the years 1930–1933 and 1959
- South window east: Birth of Jesus, Adoration of the Shepherds (1930)
- South window west: Baptism of Jesus, entry into Jerusalem (1933)
- North window west: Crucifixion, Resurrection (1931)
- North window east: Pentecost, World Judge (1959)
organ
There is evidence of an organ as early as 1530. After the city fire in the Thirty Years' War, the organ was given its place in the choir, which was its location until 1884. When the ship was rebuilt, it was moved to the west gallery in front of the rose window. Today's organ has three manuals and a pedal with a total of 52 stops .
literature
- Evangelical town church Peter and Paul Calw ; Passau 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community of Calw
- ^ Eva-Maria Seng: The Protestant Church Building in the 19th Century. The Eisenach movement and the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins . Tübingen Studies on Archeology and Art History Volume 15, Dissertation from 1992, published Tübingen 1995, p. 609
- ↑ Hellmut J. Gebauer: Ernst and Rudolf Yelin - testimonies to their artistic work in Calw ; in: Kleine Reihe der Stadt Calw, Volume 24, Calw 2008
- ^ Claudia Lamprecht: Rudolf Yelin (1902-1991): catalog raisonné of the building-related works ; o. O. (Stuttgart), o. J. (1991), p. 22 f
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 52.4 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 15.5" E