Old rectory (Flein)
The old rectory in Flein is a former rectory . It was built in 1751 at the St. Vitus Church in place of an older previous building from 1575. The coat of arms of the Holy Cross Order from 1751 that was attached to the building of the rectory became the "stumbling block" between the imperial city of Heilbronn as sovereign and the Upper Hospital Memmingen as church lord .
history
For many years the imperial city of Heilbronn and the Heilig-Geist-Spital von Wimpfen or their legal successors fought over the rights to the Fleiner St. Vitus Church. In 1625 the legal dispute was temporarily ended, the imperial city and the Order of the Holy Spirit in Mergentheim had reached an agreement. In 1695 the administration of the Heilig-Geist-Spital von Wimpfen fell to the Upper Hospital of the Heilig-Geist-Orden in Memmingen. The Oberspital wanted to get the “Fleiner Gef slope” into their hands. In 1728 the order bought the rights to the Fleiner Church from the city of Heilbronn for the sum of 18,000 guilders. When the parsonage from 1575 fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 18th century, the Memminger Spital - owner of the Fleiner church slope - wanted to build a new, significantly enlarged parsonage. Rooms as dwellings for the numerous clergymen, a large cellar and storage for the tithe wine were to be created in the luxuriously planned building. The Heilbronn Council was against these building plans. The city of Heilbronn feared that by erecting such a spacious building it would never be able to regain the rights to the Fleiner Church. The new building was blocked for years due to this legal dispute. In 1736, the pastor Dibold complained that the parish buildings had meanwhile become unusable. The Heilbronn council obtained a legal opinion. In the report, the order was obliged to immediately rebuild the rectory in its original size. The hospital finally built the rectory in 1751 without the planned extensions. The coat of arms of the Holy Cross Order from 1751, which was attached to the building of the new rectory, became the "stumbling block". The Heilbronn council unsuccessfully requested the order to remove this stone from the Flein rectory. In the stone are the first letters of the name of the Father Foster Father Andreas Stückle, the year and the double cross, the symbol of the Order of the Holy Spirit. With the double cross the order signaled its claim to church patronage in Flein.
The building served as a parsonage until the 20th century and was finally replaced in this function by a new building erected in 1982/83 offering more space on a property also adjacent to the St. Vitus Church.
Coat of arms stone of the Holy Cross Order from 1751 on the rectory in Flein
Old rectory, seen from Ilsfelder Strasse
literature
- Peter Wanner (Ed.): Flein, Flein, you noble spot . Municipality of Flein, Flein 1988, pp. 137-139, 512.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 51.8 ″ E