Dreieinigkeitskirche (Buxach)
The Dreieinigkeitskirche ( ) in Buxach is the first new church in the reformed Upper Swabian imperial city of Memmingen . It stands in the middle of the old parish village of Buxach on a hill in the Buxach valley . The independent parish church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Memmingen .
History and design
As early as the 13th century, a small St. Michael's Church was mentioned in the chronicles. In the 17th century, the wealthy citizens of Memmingen wanted a smaller church “in the countryside” to get married there. In 1708 the city commissioned the city architect Wilhelm Knoll to build a new church. It was completed in 1710 after only 16 weeks of construction. It has a four-year nave , a choir and a bell tower.
Building description
The church stands on a hill in the Buxach valley in the east of the village above the Buxach . The choir has a window axis and a 3/8 end. It has a barrel vault over a pilaster structure with a strong entablature cornice . The middle window of the apse shows the Last Supper, a biblical scene from the Passion time. It was created in 1960 by the Gautingen painter Adolf Kleemann . The hall-like long house has three window axes and a flat wooden barrel vault over a strong cornice. The windows have stepped round arches. The entrance door is on the south side with an arched arch . The exterior of the church is structured with pilasters in front of pilaster strips .
Furnishing
The interior of the church is kept cool. The walls are whitewashed, stucco is only available in the choir. This was probably modeled by Dominikus Zimmermann , who was working at the Buxheim monastery at the same time . Frescoes, presumably by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein , are also only available on the choir ceiling. Several oil paintings, one of which depicts Martin Luther, hang on the walls of the main nave and choir. The coats of arms of the Memmingen patrician families and donors to the church are located in the rear part under the gallery and serve as the crowning of the lay chairs. The gallery can only be reached from an external entrance. The organ is on top of it. The carved figure above the entrance and the figure in the choir date from the 18th century. A small carved crucifixion scene is on the south wall of the main nave. The baptismal font was also created during the construction of the church. It consists of an angel carved in gray stone who holds the baptismal font. A carved baptism scene with John the Baptist and Jesus adorns the lid.
Bells
Two bells hang in the church tower. One serves the quarter strike, the other the hour strike. The hour striking bell was cast by Johann Paulus Strobel from Speyer in 1743. It has a diameter of 82 and a height of 62 cm. On her shoulder there is a frieze of hanging triangles filled with a standing vase of flowers. A three-line inscription reads: “STIFFTVNGEN ZV GOTTES EHREN WILL HAVSS VND GSCHLECHT INCREASE / THE SUCCESS OF THIS WVINSCHET THE FOUNDER OF THESE BELLS / OBERPFARRER VND INSPECTOR M: JOHANN VON NOVRIG PROT DENBECK 26. 1743 ". Below is a frieze of hanging acanthus palmettes . The foundry writing above the brass knuckles reads: "GOS MICH IOHANN PAVLVS STROBEL ZV SPEYER". The bell handle with a rectangular cross-section is smooth and has a curved shape with a base on the front. The bell was acquired from Schwaigern near Heilbronn after the Second World War .
Community and use
The church regularly hosts Sunday services at 9:00 AM or 9:30 AM. Today's parish consists of Buxach, Hart and the politically independent municipality of Buxheim . The congregation grew strongly in the 1990s, mainly due to the large new building areas in Buxach, which is why the services for Buxheim usually take place every fortnight in the Marianum . The Protestant high festival services take place exclusively in the Buxach church.
The later regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , and his brother, the later professor of theology and church historian Christoph Strohm, lived as children in the Buxach rectory. Her father Albert Strohm was a pastor in Buxach at that time.
graveyard
The cemetery is divided into two parts. While the part inside the old church wall is ecclesiastical, the other part belongs to the city of Memmingen. The cemetery is almost fully occupied, which is why the city acquired an adjacent property in 2007. The minimum rental period for a grave is 25 years. Because the soil is loamy and impermeable to air, the rotting of human remains takes longer than average. The cemetery has its own funeral hall. Due to its proximity, the cemetery has also become a popular burial place for citizens from the neighboring west of Memmingen.
Plaque
In the sign of the church there is a plaque in memory of the soldiers who fell in World War II and the missing. In the middle there is a cross that divides the panel into four segments. The heading reads “The community of Buxach (separated by the upper part of the cross) their dead u. Missing ”. The names and the days of death or the year of the missing person's report and the respective country are listed under the cross legs. Below the list is the saying S "happy are the dead (separated by the cross) who die in the Lord".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Städtisches Kulturamt Memmingen opposite user: Memmingen
- ^ Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments Bavaria III: Swabia, page 220
- ^ Franz Dambeck and Günther Grundmann: German Bell Atlas . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 1967, p. 349 .
- ↑ Memmingen-Buxach, Bavaria: memorial plaque at the entrance to the ev.-luth. Dreieinigkeitskirche Buxach on Denkmalprojekt.org. Retrieved July 11, 2013 .
- ↑ D-87700 Memmingen-Buxach: memorial plaque at the entrance of the luth.-evang. Dreieinigkeitskirche on kriegsopfer.org. Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 34.4 ″ E