Erlöserkirche, Gothic Revival church in Seckenheim, Germany
The Erlöserkirche is a Gothic Revival church built 1867–1869 to plans by Hermann Behaghel, with pointed-arch windows and portals with tracery, buttresses and pinnacles. It is a three-aisled gallery church with a recessed choir ending in a 5/8 polygonal apse. Its 65-metre tower has a square base, an octagonal belfry and a steep pyramidal roof; the main portal bears the inscription "Seelig sind die Gottes Wort hören und bewahren" (Lk 11,28).
A church in Seckenheim was first documented in 823. After the Reformation in 1556, St. Aegidius served Catholics and Reformed jointly from 1651. By 1857 the growing Protestant congregation decided to cede it to the Catholics and build their own; land in Freiburger Straße was bought in 1866, construction began in 1867, and the church was consecrated on 21 April 1869.
The name Erlöserkirche ("Redeemer Church") was given in 1951, during an interior renovation. The main portal bears the inscription "Seelig sind die Gottes Wort hören und bewahren" (Luke 11:28). In the vestibule on the right stands a memorial to the fallen of the First World War, made in 1920 and moved here from the choir in the 1960s.
The church received new bronze bells in 2006, including the Redeemer Bell weighing 1,130 kilograms with an inscription reading 'I know that my Redeemer lives'.
The main portal bears the inscription "Seelig sind die Gottes Wort hören und bewahren" (Luke 11:28). In the vestibule on the right stands a memorial to the fallen of the First World War, made in 1920 and moved here from the choir in the 1960s.
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