The Luther Church in Baden-Baden-Lichtenthal was the first building designed by the 21-year-old architect Martin Elsaesser. In the 1905 competition, he had prevailed against 162 competitors.
Above the door to the gallery, Eduard Pfennig’s painting tells a story of resurrection: the story of Jairus’ daughter. In Mark’s Gospel, in the 5th chapter, it is handed down that the centurion Jairus asks Jesus to heal his seriously ill daughter. He is delayed, arrives too late at the bedside of the girl - she has died in the meantime. But God’s love is mightier than death, Jesus wakes the girl up again.
This includes the area-filling tapestries and paintings by Käthe Schaller-Härlin and Eduard Pfennig, executed in 1910 - almost three years after the inauguration on December 22, 1907.
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