Albanskirche (Frankenbach)
The Albankirche in Frankenbach , a district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg , is a Protestant church. The church goes back to a medieval chapel, was renovated around 1590 and expanded in 1863/64.
history
In 1496 the Worms Synodal already mentions a chapel in Frankenbach that was consecrated to St. Alban . This was a subsidiary church of the Peterskirche zu Neckargartach . In 1505 the people of Frankenbach asked the Bishop of Worms and asked him for a mercenarius , a priest. On February 3, 1508, Bishop Reinhard allowed masses to be held in the Albanskapelle by a priest he financed. In a contract dated November 20, 1508, it was agreed that the Frankenbachers had to propose the priest to the Neckargartach parish office, that the Neckargartach might or might not accept the Frankenbacher priest, and that the Frankenbacher owed the Neckargartach pastoral office obedience and fees. From 1515 to 1518 a church was built on it, which was 78 shoes long and 29 shoes wide and was consecrated in 1519 by the auxiliary bishop of Worms. In 1520 the Frankenbachers asked permission for their own pastor in Worms, to maintain a brotherhood and collect alms.
The imperial city of Heilbronn succeeded in carrying out the Reformation in Frankenbach in 1530 by appointing a resigned monk from the Heilbronn Franciscan monastery , namely Lazarus Lebküchner, and encouraging him to give Protestant sermons.
The current building was essentially created in 1589/90 by the Heilbronn master builder Martin Schwarz , whereby the tower, which was begun in 1535, also got its current height of 25 meters. In 1863/64 the church was finally extended to the east and completely redesigned inside. The 19th century was expanded with financial help from the publishers and barons von Cotta from the nearby Hipfelhof , who were given their own gallery in the choir, the Baronenstüble . A fire in the church tower caused by a hot organ engine caused major damage on September 15, 1964. The organ was destroyed as a result, the remaining damage was poorly repaired. A comprehensive renovation only took place in 1972/73, whereby the interior of the church, which was designated as "built in", was completely redesigned. Among other things, the former side galleries were removed and replaced by a large organ gallery on the west wall of the church. A new organ was procured in 1975.
In 2010 and 2011, the last comprehensive renovation of the church took place under the direction of the architect Birgit Theobold . The implemented measures included a. a renovation of the windows, the renewal of the plaster in the lower wall area, a new coat of paint of the church interior, the installation of a new electric heating, the renewal of the lighting and the pipe network, the modernization of the loudspeaker system, the redesign of the entrance area and the installation of a new pulpit.
description
architecture
The Albankirche is a single-aisled hall church with a choir attached to the east and a tower attached to the west. The windows of the nave, choir and tower base are designed as Gothic tracery windows . Today's main access to the church is through the basement of the tower, which opens up to the nave in a large pointed archway. Inside, the church is very simple and shaped by the renovation measures of the 1970s. The nave is spanned by a wooden ceiling. The flat ceiling of the polygonal choir, which is accessed through a rectangular portal, is painted with symbols of the evangelists, which, besides the altar crucifix, are the only older decorative elements in the church interior. To the right of the choir arch there was once a wall pulpit, which could be reached by stairs from the choir and whose walled passage to the nave can still be seen.
The tower of the church is on the western side of the nave. Its base was erected in 1535, and in 1589 the tower was rebuilt and raised to a height of 25 meters. The tower base serves as the entrance area to the church and as storage space; the bell cage with three bells and the clockwork for the tower clock are located in the tower structure.
portal
The portal on the south side wall of the nave shows elements of late Gothic style in its encasement with cross-rib-like elements and the year 1590 in the fields between the ribs.
The tympanum placed on the portal shows Renaissance stylistic features and consists of several fields. The upper field contains an inscription that names the master builder Martin Schwarz from Heilbronn for the year of the renovation of the building: Martin Schwarz zu Halbron ain Mauwrer alda wolgeton, in no and aczigsten ior den Durn erbauwet even in the fifteen hundred and ninety the churches are ufrechtig stin . A sundial with the year 1718 is located in the middle field under the builder inscription.
The lower and largest field of the tympanum contains a table flanked by half-columns with three heads and three coats of arms. This plaque is intended to commemorate the murder of the Frankenbacher mayor Wendel Jakob and other people during the Thirty Years' War . The former inscriptions are handed down in the description of the Oberamt Heilbronn from 1903, but were no longer recognizable even then. Two of the coats of arms show a ploughshare, the historic Frankenbach coat of arms. On the left you can see the head of a man with a beard, whose mouth is wide open. On the right, a bearded male head is shown, which has been "stuck into an ox skin with horns". In the middle is a woman's head, on which the description of the Oberamt recognizes ears that have been “slit open and pierced with awls”. The left head is said to have been designated by a banner as Schultheiss Jakob Wendel. The inscription on the stone read: Wendel Jakob Schultheiß was badly killed by the soldiers on October 6, 1634 and buried on October 8 - Hans Treuninger was blown up by 2 soldiers in the Neckar near Obereisesheim on October 25, 1634, and pulled out again , sewn into a skin, dragged to Frankenbach and died miserably there . According to the description of the upper office, the woman's head could represent Salome Haass, about whom the Book of the Dead reported in 1638: Salome, Michel Haaß's wife, 42 years old, blown up with a large body by 2 soldiers in Neckar, then dragged to Obereisesheim, and died occasionally .
Builder inscription
Tablet with three heads and three coats of arms
Church treasure
The church treasures include historical baptismal equipment donated by the von Cotta family for the baptism of their son Georg Friedrich Carl on July 14, 1869, as well as the communion chalice and the communion jug, donated by Gustav and Anna Philipp in 1932.
organ
The organ of the Albankirche was built in 1975 by the organ building company Plum from Marbach / Neckar. It has 13 registers and a mechanical action , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The game action and stop action are purely mechanical. The organ has a soft and full sound. The French style trumpet also contributes to this .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Others
In the facade of the church there is a memorial plaque for the dead warriors of the First World War 1914-18. In 1938, the Frankenbach war memorial was erected behind the church . Under the slogan “Through the fight to victory”, the Nazi rulers instrumentalized the commemoration of the dead in the sense of their demand for willingness to make sacrifices. The historic stone bridge between the Albanskirche and the cemetery crosses a remnant of the Frankenbacher village ditch. Below the church at Kirchstrasse 4 is the associated historic rectory, which was built in 1756 over an old building from 1695.
War memorial from 1938
Stone bridge over the village moat
Evangelical rectory
literature
- Jörg Kohler-Schunk: The Albanskirche in Frankenbach. In: Matthias Driver (ed.): The Protestant churches in the Heilbronn church district. Evangelical Church District Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2005, pp. 38–39
- Eugen Knupfer (edit.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1904 ( Württemberg historical sources . N. F. 5)
- Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1901/1903
- Frankenbach parish: renovation of the Albankirche , Heilbronn 2011
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '30.6 " N , 9 ° 10' 7.7" E