Eglise Protestante

Woerth originally boasted two places of worship : outside the town, near the cemetery, the mother church of St Laurent : in the centre where the protestant church is today there was a simple chapel. The date of its construction is not known although it is mentioned in a number of documents from 1550. In a request to the owners, the lordship of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1728 the pastor Ehrenfried Hoeffel asked for the church to be enlarged. He explained that although the church was big enough for the parishioners of Woerth, it was too small on the days when the neighbouring parishioners from Oberdorf, Spachbach and Morsbronn attended the services. The building was also in a very bad state. After several attempts permission was given for the enlargement. Even so during the work it was necessary to urge the different parties involved, the parish of Woerth, the villages of Morsbronn, Spachbach and Oberdorf as well as the Abbey of Stürzelbronn to honour their financial commitments. It was only in 1754 that an organ was installed in the new church. In 1788, at the request of the catholic parish, the choir was enlarged and the church enlarged to its present size. In 1896 the combined use by Protestants and Catholics, the simultaneum, came to an end with the construction of a separate Catholic church. Since 1995 a mural by the artist Astrid Koerner-Lampert illustrates the words of Psalm 150 : 'praise the Lord with the sound of the trumpet, praise him with the lute and the harp!'. Note that the church contains a stained glass window by the refomer Clavin.