Oswaldkirche

Oswaldkirche stands in Weilimdorf, a Stuttgart district, as the area’s oldest building and historical village centre. Romanesque origins meet a 1472 expansion in its present form. Together with the old town hall, schoolhouse, and parsonage, the church marks the centre of a village that remained independent until 1929. Since the Reformation, it has served as an evangelical church.

Inside, three early-fourteenth-century red-chalk drawings show scenes from the Passion of Christ in the choir-window niches. Saint Oswald appears on the keystone of the late Gothic star-ribbed vault. A late Gothic crucifix from around 1500 hangs above the altar, while a sandstone Lamentation of Christ comes from the workshop of Hans Seyffer or a pupil. Twenty-seven biblical paintings from 1678 line the gallery balustrade, showing scenes from the Old and New Testaments.

Johann Sigmund Haußdörffer built the organ in 1761 and 1762, and later expansions brought it to 24 registers. Walther Kohler’s 1935 stained-glass windows depict Christ’s birth, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. War damage destroyed the windows, but Wolf-Dieter Kohler later recreated them. A 1964 baptismal font by Werner Bosdorf and a 1972 baptism or Pentecost window by Elmar Linder add two modern details.