Nagold
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Hohe Straße, 72202 Nagold
The church is named after John the Baptist. It was erected from 1870 to 1874 in neo gothic style as a replacement for the old city church, which was in poor condition and too small. Preceding the Reformation, the Leonhard Chapel stood at this location.
In 1851 the old church, of which only the tower remains, was almost 500 years old. Four years later it was declared to be dilapidated but no one wanted to finance the building costs of a new church.
Dean Freihofer researched the matter and discovered that in 1543, shortly after the introduction of the Reformation, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg had taken the church assets and combined them with the state assets. Freihofer came to the conclusion, that the state was obligated to bear the building costs. As the state refused to do so, several lengthy trials were held and Nagold won the case. The new church was dedicated in 1874.
The model for Nagold’s church was the protestant church at Feuersee in Stuttgart.
Dean Johann Georg Freihofer (1806-1877)
When Johann Georg Freihofer was appointed as dean in Nagold, a very large problem awaited him: the building of a new church. He solved the problem and on the day the cornerstone was laid, he became Nagold’s first honorary citizen. He was strongly engaged in the areas of social welfare, the promotion of agriculture and school pedagogy. His engagement led to the establishment of the teachers training college in Nagold.
The Eisenach Movement
was a reform movement for protestant church-building during the 19th Century. The Eisenach Regulatory of 1861 includes 16 theses, which were to be used in a new construction. Nagold’s church fulfilled 15 of them and, until its renovation in 1968/69, served as a model church of the Eisenach Movement.
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