Protestant St. Lawrence's Church, Protestant church in Gimmeldingen, Germany.
The Protestant St. Lawrence's Church in Gimmeldingen has a pale plastered nave with a long reddish-brown tiled roof and a square stone tower at its left front, topped by a steep pyramidal roof, weather vane and clock. Inside, painted ceiling panels rise to a rounded cove, with four tall arched windows along the right wall and an elevated pulpit with a red, blue and gold base.
The church originated before 1160 as a hall church barely 10 metres long. In the last quarter of the 12th century it was enlarged and given the Romanesque tower that now carries three bells. A Baroque hall was added in 1723 and extended to its present size in 1803; the parish became Protestant in 1556 with the whole Palatinate.
The church is named after Saint Lawrence of Rome, whose gridiron symbol also appears on Gimmeldingen's coat of arms. The Gimmeldingen almond blossom festival opens each year on a Saturday at 2 pm on the square in front of the church.
The church stands in the middle of Gimmeldingen at 183 metres above sea level, 200 metres northwest of the Alte Burg. The Gimmeldingen almond blossom festival opens on the square in front of the church on a Saturday at 2 pm. The three bells hang in the Romanesque tower.
The organ case from 1749/1750 by Johann Michael Hartung survives, making it the oldest organ case in the Protestant deanery of Neustadt. The present instrument, built by Oberlinger in 1956 with 20 stops on two manuals and pedal, was the first mechanically tracked neo-Baroque organ in the deanery.
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