Agidius Church (Brettach)

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The Agidius Church in Brettach, the remaining Gaden in the foreground on the left
View through the nave to the altar

The Egidius Church is a former fortified church in Brettach, a district of Langenbrettach in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Evangelical parish of Brettach in the Weinstadt-Neuenstadt church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

history

The church, first mentioned in 1264, goes back to a very old, probably Alemannic cult site at a spring. Probably in the late 10th century the church was expanded into a walled fortified church with a moat. In addition to the church, the complex once comprised 23 so-called gaden , which were used as fruit storage sheds with vaulted cellars, but also as places of refuge for the population within the weir system. The portal from 1514, which was moved to the new west wall in 1578 and an inscription on the nave that names the builder Clemens Vock for this year, testify to the expansion of the church in the 16th century . Above all, it was about the considerable expansion (area quadrupling) of the nave to the north and west in the sense of a transverse church with installation first of the west, and in 1681 also the north gallery (including the eastern leg on the front wall up to the choir arch) and alignment of the Church stalls to the pulpit in front of the south wall (moved as a low ambo to the arched wall in 1955 ). Around 1570 the weir ditch was also filled in and the spring, which faces the church fountain, was covered with a vault, creating the Lindenplatz in front of the church. The already dilapidated Gaden was demolished in 1578. Today only one Gaden remains, which was still used as a community prison in the 19th century.

The church has been rebuilt many times. The west entrance indicates a renovation at the time of the Baroque . In 1886 Heinrich Dolmetsch renovated the church, the interior was renewed again in 1955 by Hannes Mayer , whereby the respective character of the early Romanesque choir and the Renaissance nave were restored.

The interior of the church has preserved renaissance wall paintings: by David Ebermann from Heilbronn in 1591 the north wall painting depicting Luther with a swan , probably the oldest Luther painting in Württemberg, and by Hans Veit Becker from Heilbronn in 1681 the wall paintings from Isaac's sacrifice to the new Jerusalem. The historical furnishings also include more than 20 paintings in the balustrade of the galleries with depictions from the Old and New Testament, the high baroque age of the apostles from 1681 including a crucifix with evangelist medallions on the four arms of the cross, the pulpit, the historic organ prospect from 1762, two Angel figures in the tower base as well as an epitaph picture with kneeling donors in front of the risen on the choir wall.

The glass painter Adolf Valentin Saile contributed to the renovation in 1955 with the depiction of Peter, Paul and Christ the ruler of the world in the choir window.

On the outside of the church there are two war memorials for the local fallen of both world wars (the second is by Helmuth Uhrig ), in the surrounding cemetery there is the large copper beech planted around 1840 .

In the 18th century, Philipp Friedrich Hiller worked as a pastor's assistant at the church, from 1928 to 1935 Julius von Jan was pastor in Brettach.

literature

  • Julius Fekete (text), Rose Hajdu (photos): Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0556-6 , pp. 211-213.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community in Brettach
  2. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
  3. Evangelical parishes of the district of Neuenstadt am Kocher (ed.): Our home, the church. Home book of the district of Neuenstadt am Kocher. Pictures from the Neuenstadt district. Stuttgart 1959, p. 33 f
  4. ^ Evangelical Church in Brettach - Discoveries in the year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation ; Published by Evangelical Church Community of Brettach, Brettach 2017
  5. ↑ For floor plan, see the parish website
  6. Ellen Pietrus: Heinrich Dolmetsch. The church restorations by the Württemberg builder ; Stuttgart 2008, p. 261

Web links

Commons : Aegidius Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '30.2 "  N , 9 ° 22' 46.8"  E