Trinity Church (Haunsheim)
The Trinity Church in Haunsheim , a parish in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Haunsheim / Bachtal. It was built as a Protestant church at the beginning of the 17th century in the Renaissance style and was largely spared from later remodeling.
location
The church is located on the main road in the middle of the village in a walled cemetery .
history
The origins of the Haunsheim parish can be traced back to the early Christian era. Finds of Roman coins and a tombstone (Fortunatus stone) preserved in the sacristy of the church for the Christian wife of a Roman officer point to a Roman foundation. The Catholic predecessor of today's Trinity Church was consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul .
Haunsheim has been the seat of various noble families since the High Middle Ages . In 1267 the name Eberhardus de Hunsseheim is mentioned in a document. As imperial knights , the landlords were directly imperial and could claim the prerogative of denominational determination. That is why Haunsheim remained Catholic under the von Harbach, von Wellwart and von Horckheim lords, although Count Palatine Ottheinrich von Pfalz-Neuburg joined the Augsburg Confession in 1542 .
The evangelical faith was introduced in 1603 by Zacharias Geizkofler , who bought the rule in 1600. He appointed the theologian, mathematician and astronomer Georg Galgenmaier to be the first Protestant pastor whose tombstone is preserved in the church under the gallery. Zacharias Geizkofler commissioned the builder Hans Alberthal with the demolition of the old and the construction of the current church. The plans come from the painter and architect Joseph Heintz the Elder , some detailed drawings from the Augsburg city architect Elias Holl . In 1609 the new church was completed and on February 4, 1610 it was consecrated .
In the middle of the 19th century, a patron's box with a covered staircase was installed on the outside of the church on the south side of the nave , which was removed again during the renovation in 1975.
In 1666 the rule of Haunsheim came through marriage to the Racknitz family , who sold it to Baron von Süsskind in 1823. Haunsheim Castle has been owned by the von Hauch family since 1864 .
After Haunsheim fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, the parish belonged to the Deanery Leipheim, and from 1921 to the Deanery Neu-Ulm. Until the establishment of the Protestant parish in Dillingen in 1908 and the vicariate of Lauingen in 1956, the parish of Haunsheim took on the care of the faithful. In 1945 the evangelical community Haunsheim / Bachtal (with Bachhagel , Syrgenstein , Zöschingen ) was founded. Today it has 2000 members.
architecture
Exterior construction
A seven-story, square tower is cut into the west gable and is crowned by a four-sided dome with a lantern , globe and weather vane. On the upper floor, above the clock, basket-arched sound arcades open on all four sides .
The west gable ends laterally in the volutes typical of the Renaissance .
A roof turret with an eight-sided turret and weather vane rises above a gable dormer on the east side . An elevator beam was installed here until 1975, as the three-story attic of the church was previously used as a granary.
The southern nave wall is structured by Tuscan pilasters . It is broken up by large arched windows, which are framed by pilaster strips and flat triangular gables on volute brackets . The entrance is on the south side.
inner space
The single-nave nave extends over two bays and ends in a retracted choir, raised by two steps, closed on three sides in the east . It is covered with a groin vault that rests on broad pillars. These have pilasters with Corinthian capitals .
The placement of the pulpit on the north wall and the alignment of the stalls in the nave and choir to the place of the preaching of the words show the Trinity Church as a transverse church and thus as a deliberately Protestant preaching church . This character is also emphasized by the free-standing altar as the Lord's table for the congregation gathered around him for the Lord's Supper in both forms and by the well-known Reformation motto (1 Peter 1, 25) on the structural tie rod required .
The windows are framed by wide stucco frames, which open into blown triangular gables with vases at the top and terminate with flower garlands at the bottom.
The choir is covered with a star vault with a rosette at the top of the vault. The Latin inscription on the choir arch (ZACHARIAS GEIZKOFLER ET C EQVES AVRATVS TEMPLVM HOC DIVINO CVLTVI PIO VOTO A FVNDAM EXTR F (Zacharias Geizkofler, knight of the golden spur , had this church built for the divine service in pious dedication) Church. Above is the year MDCVIII (1608). The iron bar under the choir arch is a symbol for the curtain in the Temple of Jerusalem. It is provided with the Latin inscription: VERBVM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM I PET (the Lord's word abide in eternity, 1 Petr 1,25) BEATI QUI HABITANT IN DOMO DOMINI PSAL. 84 (good for those who dwell in the house of the Lord, Psalm 84,5).
A double gallery forms the western end. The lower gallery rests on basket arches supported by stone pillars. The coats of arms of the Geizkofler and Rehlingen families are placed in stucco cartouches in the arched spandrels . The upper gallery rests on columns made of oak wood decorated with carvings. The balustrades of the galleries are also made of oak and have flat carvings.
Leaded glass window
Six coats of arms from 1608 are built into the choir windows . They were made by the Augsburg glass painter Achilles Miller and represent the coats of arms of the Geizkofler and Rehlingen families, the builders of the church. Four panes date from 1878/79. They were created by Max Mittermair from Lauingen and represent the coat of arms of the von Hauch family, the current owners of the Haunsheim Castle.
Furnishing
- The octagonal baptismal font made of suevite bears the year 1530.
- A Gothic decorative brick walled into the wall comes from the floor of the previous church that was demolished in 1606/07.
- In the choir, the stalls with wall paneling from the time the church was built have been preserved. Like the pulpit and the gallery, it was created according to designs by Joseph Heintz the Elder . The Geizkofler-Rehlingen alliance coat of arms is placed above the door to the sacristy and on the opposite side .
- In the middle of the choir hangs a wooden crucifix with an almost life-size body from the first half of the 17th century.
- Behind the altar is in the floor the access to the family crypts the miser . The cover stone dates from 1752.
- The tower clock was built by Johann Mannhardt .
- The pulpit is decorated with gilt carved ornaments. The pulpit rests on a winged angel's head, on the sound cover the Lamb of God sits enthroned with a flag of victory and a halo. The edges of the sound cover are decorated with angel heads.
pulpit
Sound cover
Angel head under the pulpit
organ
The organ comes from the Ulm organ builder Heinrich Conrad Branmann (1840–1882). It was installed in 1878. On January 7, 1876, an organ with eleven registers on two manuals and a pedal was commissioned from Ulm master organ builder HC Branmann for 3200 marks . The organ has the following disposition on mechanical cone chests :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
When the church was renovated in 1909, the Link brothers, Giengen, added two stops: viol 8 ′ and flute 8 ′. For Flute 8 'and the offset Octave 2', a pneumatically controlled additional windchest is installed in the lower case . 1917 were front pipes made of tin confiscated for military production. They were replaced by zinc pipes in 1931. An electric fan was also installed at that time. An expert report prepared in 1951 recommended that the organ be removed and a new one built using a few registers. That was not done at the time due to lack of money.
In 1973 the Munich musicologist and organ expert Jürgen Eppelsheim described the organ as an excellent work worth preserving. He recommended the restoration of the original state of the building, considering an economical addition of a few bright voices to be possible. In line with this report, the organ builder Gerhard Schmid , Kaufbeuren , took over the renovation and expansion. All bearings that had been knocked out after a hundred years of use were renewed, and the modifications made in later years were reversed. Pewter pipes came back into the prospectus. A slider drawer was built into the lower case and attached to the action of the second manual. It contains the following registers: Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′, Schwiegel 2 ′, Octave 1 ′, Sharp cymbals 3-fold 2 ⁄ 3 ′. They give the organ the crown it needs without affecting the original substance. The costs for this work amounted to 50,000 DM .
Epitaphs and tombstones
- The limestone epitaph on the east wall of the choir is dedicated to Zacharias Geizkofler and his wife, Maria von Rehlingen , and was made by Christoph Murmann the Younger in Augsburg in 1617.
- On the northern choir pillar epitaph for Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz with coat of arms, relief images and name inscriptions of his two wives and their twelve children
- On the southern choir pillar epitaph for Baroness von Wöllwarth (1733–1808), second wife of Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz, with inscription
There are several grave slabs and epitaphs under the organ gallery:
- Epitaph for Ottilia von Horkheim , née von Harbach († 1568), with four angel heads in the corners, in the middle alliance coat of arms Horckheim-Harbach, above and below ancestral coat of arms, with signature and maker's mark, by Hans Schaller (Ulm)
- Grave slab of Alexander von Wellwart († 1549), relief representation of the deceased in armor kneeling in front of the crucifix, below the arms of the Woellwarth and Harbach families, attributed to the sculptor Loy Hering
- Gravestone for Barbara Christina von Horchkheim († 1575), daughter of Wolff Casper von Horckheim, at the age of 15 weeks
- Grave slab of Gabriel von Harbach († 1530) and his wife Agatha, née von Knöringen , with a relief image of the deceased in armor, below the Harbach and Knöringen coats of arms
- Gravestone for the first Protestant pastor in Haunsheim, Georg Galgenmaier († 1619), with the coat of arms of the deceased and celestial globe with the comet that appeared in November 1618 and which he also discovered, by Christoph Senft (Lauingen)
Epitaph for Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz and his two wives and their twelve children
Epitaph for Alexander von Wellwart († 1549)
Gravestone for Barbara Christina von Horchkheim († 1575)
Gravestone for Georg Galgenmaier with celestial globe and the comet he helped discover
literature
- Klaus Lobisch: Trinity Church Haunsheim . Ed .: Evang. – Luth. Parish for the parish of Haunsheim / Bachtal, Haunsheim 2005.
- The art monuments of the district of Dillingen an der Donau , edited by Werner Meyer, in the series: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen on the Danube . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 348-363
- Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Edited by the district of Dillingen ad Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 281–285.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festschrift 100 Years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dillingen . Ed. from the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office Dillingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 25.5 ″ E