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[2] Station 2 - Ev. Johanneskirche mit Pfarrhaus und Gemeindehaus

St John"s Church in 1890
St John"s Church
St John"s Church
current state
St John"s Church 1950, interior view
interior view
Rectory, condition 1982
condition 1982
Farm building in 1890
The photo shows the farm buildings in 1890. The double barn and the residential building were demolished in 1982 and 1987. The farmer couple in the photo was intended to show that the village was still rural at the time despite the onset of industrialisation. Even then, the men no longer wore traditional costume in everyday life.
Martin Luther House (Protestant parish hall)
current state

Description

Johanneskirche - One of the oldest churches in Württemberg

At the turn of the millennium, the Celts also settled in the lower Echaz valley, the Romans built farmsteads and forts, and around 260 to 280 the Alamanni arrived with the migration of peoples and presumably did not leave the valley uninhabited. The mention of our village is possible due to the report, which is not precisely located, that in 918 Bishop Solomon of Constance built a stone church in southern Germany over the graves of the royal messengers Erchanger and Berchtold, whose violent deaths he was guilty of, as atonement after a pilgrimage to Rome. Erchanger, Duke of Swabia 915-917 was executed in Kirchheim. Places mentioned are Oferdingen, Kirchen, Weil and Dieboldsburg/Rauber in the Lenningen valley. Skeletal remains found in 1890, which were not scientifically examined, corroborate this information. The first mention in the Constance tithe book in 1275, in 1333 Albrecht v. Blanckenstein sells the Wannwyl settlement to the Reutlingen hospital. Our church became Protestant in 1524 with the Reutlingen marketplace oath by Matthäus Alber, even before Württemberg was reformed in 1534 after the return of Duke Ulrich. The imperial city of Reutlingen also provided the pastors of the Wannweiler parish. Wannweil became part of Württemberg at the end of the imperial city period in 1802/03. Reutlingen became one of 64 Württemberg Oberamtsstädten and, from 1818, the seat of the government of the Black Forest district.
Pastor Bernd Rexer has been the pastor of the local parish since 2019. 
Description of the church of St. John the Baptist and the parish in the church guide
Link: https://www.wannweil-evangelisch.de/fileadmin/mediapool/gemeinden/KG_wannweil/Startseite/Kirchenfuehrer_eboo-1.pdf

 

Rectory, condition 1982

Since it was built in the Baroque period, the almost 300-year-old vicarage has undergone only a few changes to the fabric of the building, apart from necessary maintenance work. For example, it was not until 1968/69, when the vicar changed, that the external privy extension was removed and a bathroom and flush toilets were installed. A well with a pump on the ground floor was decommissioned. The study in the attic was moved downstairs and the chicken coop became a beautiful, bright parish office. Today, the vicarage offers contemporary living comfort in a partially original layout.

The rectory barn, located between the rectory and the church, was converted into a so-called youth centre with a small parish hall and attic flat around 1950. After a parish hall was built in 1988, the small hall became redundant and made way for three garages.

 

Protestant parish hall, Martin Luther House

In 1982, the Protestant parish took the opportunity to acquire the site of the former third fiefdom, which was for sale, in order to build its own parish hall. The Martin Luther House was inaugurated on 2 Advent 1988. A large partitionable hall on the ground floor, group rooms in the basement and a caretaker´s flat with an additional attic flat were planned by the Stuttgart architect Stern and realised under Pastor Konrad Ludwig.

The photo shows the farm buildings in 1890. The double barn and the residential building were demolished in 1982 and 1987. The farmer couple in the photo was intended to show that the village was still rural at the time despite the onset of industrialisation. Even then, the men no longer wore traditional costume in everyday life.