Dionysius Church (Bodelshausen)

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The Dionysius Church is the parish church of the Protestant parish of Bodelshausen in the church district of Tübingen .

Church rule

The Bodelshäuser Kirchherr ( rector ) is named in a directory of the Diocese of Constance in 1275 , in which the dues of the clergy for a planned crusade are listed. Church rule in Bodelshausen was probably always linked to local rule. In any case, the lords of Ow are named in the sources as lords of the church from 1345 to 1438. The Counts of Württemberg acquired local and church rule over Bodelshausen in 1446 and 1453.

The patronage of the church is not mentioned until 1565.

Church building

Church building from the 13th century

The tower was preserved from the medieval Dionysius Church. This was built around 1245. A massive, 15.04 meter high tower rises above a square floor plan (side length 5.48 meters). Both Romanesque (arched door on the first floor) and Gothic elements ( quadruple window on the second floor) can be seen in this building. The Gothic nave , demolished in the 19th century, was structurally separated from the tower. It stood east of this, in the direction of the rectory. A wooden corridor about four meters high connected the church and the tower.

Expansion in the 16th century

A construction project from the 16th century can be identified as the source of later problems. The church was enlarged by a side aisle and one side of the roof was raised. In addition, at an unknown point in time, the stone gable was replaced by a wooden structure.

Renovations in the 17th and 18th centuries

The tower spire and bell storey were renewed in 1686. The framework of the tower spire (cross roof and pyramid) shows elements of the Renaissance.

In 1773 the church was being renovated. The basic problem was that the roof load could no longer be adequately dissipated after a renovation: the weight of the roof structure pushed the walls apart. In 1797 it was found that the sacristy was in disrepair.

Closure and demolition

In 1817 there were clear cracks in the masonry, which the state master builder examined. He suggested demolishing and building a new one. But the community was so impoverished that there was no money even for repairs. The church had to be closed for the first time in 1820 because of the risk of collapse. Necessary repairs should keep the decay until the means for a new building are available. In 1842 a storm damaged the building so severely that it had to be closed again. The service now took place in the schoolhouse. A nationwide collection brought in 2,822 guilders, about a tenth of the estimated construction cost.

New building

The plans for the new building of the nave were made by the Oberamt building inspector Johann Georg Rupp ; he had only just turned away from late classicism and turned to neo-Gothic. The foundation stone was laid on June 15, 1846. In order to be able to use a larger area, Rupp moved the new nave to the other side of the tower so that the choir of the new Bodelshausen church is in the west. Before the construction work could begin, the area, which was previously a cemetery, had to be prepared by exhumations. The inauguration took place on October 17, 1847. The new building is a three-aisled nave with lateral galleries and a polygonal choir.

Interior decoration

Altar cross of the Dionysius Church (1720)
  • Altar cross, donated by the mayor Georg Wilhelm Sturm together with Martin Öhrler, dated 1720.
  • Epitaph for the three-year-old Christiana Tabitha Lumptin († 1739), daughter of a Hohenzollern accountant and court cashier. The family lived in the Catholic neighboring town of Hechingen , but the burial took place in the Protestant cemetery in Bodelshausen.

organ

The church only received a new organ in 1849, the work of organ builder Franz Xaver Engelfried from Mühringen . After more than a hundred years, it was exchanged in 1964 for a new instrument made by the organ building company Weigle in Echterdingen . This has 23 registers and 1694 pipes . In the wind chest of the old organ there was an autograph by the organ builder Engelfried, in which he confessed to the revolution of 1848 and stated that he often "ran with the rifle as a sniper in the ranks of the people's fighters". But even before he finished the organ, "Germany was thundered down by the princes and their accomplices."

Bells

The oldest bell dates from the 15th century.

Web links

literature

  • Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen. Volume 1: From the Middle Ages to the middle of the 19th century. Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-933916-01-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 76 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 77-78 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 78 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 516-517 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 518 .
  6. ↑ St. Dionysius (Kirchstrasse 28, Bodelshausen). In: LEO bw, discover regional studies online. Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on December 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 471 .
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 156 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 524 .
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 592 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Sannwald: The story of Bodelshausen . tape 1 , p. 80 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '47.6 "  N , 8 ° 58' 2.2"  E