Barbarossakirche St. Jakobus

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View of the Barbarossakirche from the southwest
Interior of the church

The Evangelical Barbarossakirche is a 15th century church in the Hohenstaufen district of Göppingen .

history

The Barbarossakirche was built at the end of the 15th century in Hohenstaufen, which was built together with Hohenstaufen Castle (built around 1070). Presumably there was a church in the same place earlier. The name of the church was St. Jacob .

In the course of the German national movement , the Hohenstaufen pastor Eduard Keller founded the Hohenstaufen Association in 1833, which transformed the church into a national historical monument from 1859 . The west facade was provided with the coats of arms of the Hohenstaufen rulers, ministerial families and seven electors . The church got its new name after the Staufer emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa .

In the interior there was a wall painting with a portrait of Friedrich Barbarossa and verse inscriptions, which was painted on a walled-up gate on the north wall. The year of creation is unknown, the first surviving description is from 1656. The painting was renovated several times and removed in 1891 when the gate was reopened.

Furnishing

In 1932, the Hohenstaufia Tübingen gymnastics association donated the stained-glass choir window with the portrait of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, the imperial eagle and the Staufer coat of arms, following the national cult of the 19th century . The window opposite in the rear west wall represents a corrective to this and a confrontation with the encoded ambiguous "In the years of German fateful turn 1933" - such as the glass inscription erased in 1945, whose subtly time-critical concerns, as well as the artistic representation, apparently from party loyalists Göppingen donors of the window was not understood: The Stuttgart artist Walter Kohler , associated with the Confessing Church , did not create a four-part window with Nazi-related life situations of young people, as was wrongly seen, but only two topics: on the left the current version of the upcoming one arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane by devices with armed soldiers under the leadership of the Judas (indicated by the yellow garment) under the (also extinguished 1945) hook cross in the flag; right the real Christian community in community and conversation, giving and receiving, welfare, education and awareness among the frail and powerless true healing sbringer Jesus on the cross . At the same time and afterwards, the artist Walter Kohler created the large, deeply religious and historically significant Last Judgment fresco in the neighboring Evangelical Church in Hohenstaufen .

literature

  • Bodo Michael Baumunk: A humble national shrine . On the history of the Barbarossakirche. In: Walter Ziegler (ed.): Staufer research in the Staufer district Göppingen (= Hohenstaufen. Publications of the history and antiquity society Göppingen. Vol. 10). Geschichts- und Altertumsverein Göppingen, Göppingen 1977, pp. 153-164.
  • Richard Häderle, Bernhard Dinkelaker (compilation): Illustrated chronicle of the St. Jakobuskirche called "Barbarossakirche" in Hohenstaufen. Evangelical parish, Hohenstaufen 1986.
  • Friedemann Schmoll : "What the bald mountain gives us to think about ..." Hohenstaufen veneration and national monument cult in the 19th century. In: Hohenstaufen, Helfenstein. Historical yearbook for the Göppingen district. Vol. 13 (2005), pp. 135-156.

Web links

Commons : Barbarossakirche St. Jakobus (Hohenstaufen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbarossakirche Göppingen , website of Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH, accessed on April 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Harald Drös: The inscriptions of the district of Göppingen (= The German inscriptions . Volume 41). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997, No. 360 †, urn : nbn: de: 0238-di041h012k0036006 .
  3. ↑ Konrad Plieninger: "Reich" and "Scholle" ; in Karl-Heinz Rueß (ed.): Göppingen under the swastika , vol. 32 of the publications of the Göppingen city archive, Göppingen 1994, p. 148 f
  4. ↑ Ulrich Zimmermann: Christ or Emperor - Claim to Power in Faith and Myth. Hohenstaufen glass window and church painting in comparison ; Lecture on November 5, 2018 in Hohenstaufen (typescript)
  5. ↑ Jürgen Hennig: The great Last Judgment - the wall painting by Walther Kohler ; in: Community letter of the Ev. Hohenstaufen parish, special edition June 2004

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '31.3 "  N , 9 ° 43' 7.6"  E