Bartholomäus Church (Nordheim)
The Bartholomäuskirche in Nordheim in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Protestant parish church . The church is the original church of the village, which has been attested since 1307 and its present shape was essentially given by the reconstruction after the destruction in the Second World War.
history
A church consecrated to Saint Bartholomew has been attested in Nordheim since 1307. The choice of the church saint is justified with the misinterpretation of his cleaver as a vine knife and the ensuing veneration as the patron saint of the wine growers. The church has been destroyed and rebuilt several times in the course of history. The oldest component is the tower base from the Gothic period . In 1693, the French burned down half of the church in the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1810 the church again fell victim to a major fire caused by arson and was then rebuilt in a larger form as a sermon church facing the pulpit with a walled up choir. In 1905 the church was renovated under the direction of the Stuttgart architects Böklen and Feil and was painted in the Art Nouveau style. During the fighting for Nordheim towards the end of World War II , the church was destroyed again on April 5, 1945. Until 1949, the reconstruction took place essentially in its present form, whereby the previously walled up choir was reopened. During a renovation between 1989 and 1991, the south pore was removed, making the interior much lighter. In addition, the church received a new higher spire , the tower there is also a museum room has been set up. In 2000 a 50 square meter photovoltaic system was installed on the church roof.
description
architecture
The Bartholomäuskirche in the center of Nordheim is a Gothic choir tower church . The 37 meter high tower is located a little north of the central axis of the church and is also rotated about 5 ° counterclockwise. This asymmetry probably resulted from the enlargement of the nave during the new building after the fire of 1810. There was an altar pulpit on the wall of the choir, which was walled up at the time , before the choir was reopened towards the nave during the reconstruction in 1945 . The remains of an old sacrament house from the pre-Reformation period are preserved on the north wall of the choir . The choir window on the east wall of the choir was designed in 1973 by Wolf-Dieter Kohler .
Furnishing
In the nave of the church, on the south wall, there is a historic tombstone of pastor Johann Gottfried Hiller (1733–1775). His father Johann Leonhard Hiller was also a pastor in Nordheim from 1729 to 1766 and was a cousin of the hymn poet Philipp Friedrich Hiller .
The altar crucifix was made by glasses in Stuttgart in 1952. The small crucifix by the pulpit to the left of the choir arch was made from barbed wire from the former inner-German border, based on a design by Pastor Altenfelder of the partner community Betheim in Thuringia.
organ
The organ of the Bartholomäuskirche, which is set up to the right of the choir arch, was made by Richard Rensch in 1991 and has 23 sounding registers . The longest of the 1576 pipes measures about three meters, the smallest pipe is only about twelve millimeters. Except for 62 wooden pipes, the pipes are made of a tin-lead alloy. The organ case was made of oak. The wooden ornamentation above the organ pipes is designed as vine leaves and grapes.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The four bronze bells of the church were bought second-hand from different origins after the Second World War and were consecrated on March 26, 1955.
Individual evidence
literature
- Heinz Rall: Historic churches in Zabergäu and the surrounding area . Forum-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8091-1088-4 , pp. 72/73.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 30 ″ N , 9 ° 7 ′ 47.2 ″ E