1809 [1]
Historic maps showing Bad Rappenau: West of Wimpfen, near (14°,46°)
1705 Johann Adrian Rupert and Magdalena Ritterin were married on August 11 in Rappenau, Baden (Baden-Württemberg), Preußen. [4]
1705 Maria Magdalena Rüpert, daughter of Johann Adrian Rüpert and Magdalena Rüpert, was baptized on September 18 in Bad Rappenau, Preußen, Baden. Maria Magdalena Rüpert was born on September 17. [5]
1706 Johann Adam Ruppert, son of Johann Adrian Ruppert and Magdalena Ruppert, was baptized on December 26 in Rappenau, Preußen, Baden. He was born on December 24. [Familienbuch Bad Rappenau entry for Johann Adrian Rupert, Peter Ruperts schmidts allhier ehelicher sohn. Item 2 of 7] [6] [7]
Attempted transcription of German script: Ao 1706. D 24 Dec: nachts und 9 uhr, ist obgedachtein Johann Adrian Ruppert, von seiner hauß frauen Magdalena ein sohnlein gebohren (?) den 26 ditto beÿ der (?) tauft Johann Adam genemert werden gerabtern (?) Hanß Martin eßig, des gerichts (?) frÿligenpfleger allhier, und Hanß Adam Dörtzbach burger allhier.
1733 Matthaus Ruppert and Anna Catharina Straibin were married on November 11 in Rappenau, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany. Matthaus Ruppert, son of Adrian Ruppert, was born in Rappenau, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden. [8]
1747 Magdalena Ritter, married, spouse of Joh. Adrian Ruppert, died on October 12, at age 69, in Rappenau, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden. Magdalena Ritter was buried on October 15 in Rappenau, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden. [9]
1748 Son Mathaeus Ruppert died on November 13 at age 38. He was buried on November 15 in Rappenau, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden. [10]
This history of the town church was adapted from a Wiki article, which has a drawing of the old church. [11]
The town church of Bad Rappenau is a Protestant church. The church goes back to a late medieval predecessor and was rebuilt in 1887.
The area of the city of Bad Rappenau originally belonged to the diocese of Worms. In 1343 the Bishop of Worms allowed Konrad von Helmstatt to equip the Rappenau branch chapel of the Wimpfen parish church as his own parish church. The church patronage lay with the local rulers, the lords of Helmstatt. The church was dedicated to John the Baptist. In 1501 a new church was built on the site of the first church. The church formed the center of the upper village, the historic settlement core of the city, with a manor house once located here, later with the neighboring old town hall and the surrounding buildings. From 1530 the local lordsReformation introduced, as a result of which Rappenau was a predominantly Protestant community for centuries.
In 1609 the church was enlarged. The structure was 22 meters long and nine meters wide. In the course of this expansion, the cemetery originally located around the church was abandoned and a new cemetery was set up on the outskirts. The place was devastated by Tillys Troops in 1622 during the Thirty Years War. In 1634 it is reported that the citizens of Rappenau "faithfully helped to plunder the church and rectory and to sell the inventory". From 1640 to 1654 the pastor's position was vacant, and pastors from surrounding towns performed the parish service. In 1655 the church was still damaged. The neighboring manor house was also destroyed in the Thirty Years War, its stones were used to rebuild the also destroyed band house, which was in the vicinity of the church until 1970. The church itself was not completely repaired until 1686, when a new pulpit was also donated. The local lord Uriel von Gemmingen and his wife Ursula donated two bronze bells in 1698.
In 1708 the church was extensively renovated and a sacristy was added. In the period from 1761 to 1854 various repairs and alterations were carried out, and in the middle of the 18th century the front sides of the galleries were painted. In 1776 the church received a sundial. However, the church gradually became too small with its seats for 380 adults and 80 schoolchildren after the congregation, now part of the Evangelical Church in Baden after the transition to Baden in 1806, had also grown with the growth of Rappenau. On February 27, 1887, the demolition work began after a solemn closing service to make room for a more spacious new building.
The Lords of Gemmingen held the fiefdom for Rappenau during this era. [12]
During the Thirty Years war, the minor Eberhard (1628–1675), who fled to Menzingen with his mother, was the only family owner [of Rappenau]. In 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia, the fiefdom over Rappenau was granted back to him. He was temporarily director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau and died childless.
After Eberhard's death in 1675, his older and already wealthy great-nephew Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1608–1680) joined the line of succession. His sons Erpho, Weiprecht, Uriel and Reinhard administered their father's property together until 1688, after which Rappenau came to Uriel (1644–1707), who from 1684 was also director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau.
Uriel was followed by his son Karl Ludwig von Gemmingen (1700–1752), who had no male offspring, so that Rappenau came to his distant cousin Eberhard von Gemmingen (1713–1757), who became known as a Prussian military person, in 1752.
[1] Johann Heinrich Haas, Gottfried Meister, Conrad Felsing, Special Karte von dem Odenwald (Darmstadt: [Heyer], 1809), [Darmstadt University], [Old Maps Online].
[2] Heinrich G. Bronn, Geognostische Reise-Karte der Umgegend von Heidelberg (Heidelberg: Groos, 1830), [Old Maps Online], [ETH Zurich].
[3] Joseph Edmund Woerl, Benjamin Herder, Carlsruhe - Stuttgart (Freiburg im Breisgau [Herder'sche Kunst- u. Buchhandlung]: 1834), [David Rumsey Maps].
[4] Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985, [AncestryRecord].
[5] Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Germany, Baden, Bad Rappenau, Familienbuch 1654-1731, image 186, [ArchionImage].
[7] Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Germany, Select Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Germany, Select Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958, [AncestryRecord].
[11] Wiki, Bad Rappenau town church - Stadtkirche Bad Rappenau, [URL].
[12] Wiki for Bad Rappenau, [URL].