Evangelical Church (Kochersteinsfeld)
The Evangelical Church in Kochersteinsfeld , a district of Hardthausen am Kocher in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , goes back to the original medieval church in the town and was partially renovated in 1733. It belongs to the Evangelical parish of Kochersteinsfeld in the church district of Weinsberg-Neuenstadt of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
history
A church in Kochersteinsfeld already existed in the Middle Ages, when the right of patronage came from the Amorbach Monastery to the Lords of Weinsberg in 1281 , who in turn sold it together with the church to the Möckmühl Abbey in 1432. The parish in Kochersteinsfeld originally included the subsidiary communities in Gochsen and Lampoldshausen , which were raised to independent communities in 1315 and 1485, respectively. After Kochersteinsfeld came to Württemberg in 1504 , the place became Protestant with the Reformation in Württemberg in the 16th century.
Presumably the Kochersteinsfeld church has always been at its current location in the south-eastern part of the town center. The churchyard surrounding the church was once the original burial place of the place, before a new cemetery was created east of the town center in 1834. After initially there was probably only a wooden church, a first stone choir tower church was built around 1200 , on which at least the tower base as the oldest part of today's church can be traced back.
According to a date on the round-arched west portal, the church was built in its current form in 1733, when the nave was extended to the south and in height. As a result, the spatial axis and the roof ridge shifted to the south opposite the tower and the former tower choir. The greater room height was used to install a double west gallery. In 1789 the neighboring rectory was built. The old sacristy was built to the north of the tower; In 1854 a new sacristy was built on the south side of the tower. In 1876 the church was extensively renovated, and in 1883 the old floor made of sandstone slabs was replaced by a new floor made of black and white cement slabs. The old floor slabs were laid in the footpath to the church. In 1888 the church tower received a clock, and in 1895 a heater was installed for the first time.
When the church was renovated in 1954, the old small tower choir was bricked up to create a closed spatial effect. On the north side of the portal there, a flat roof extension with a foyer and ancillary rooms was built in 2010/13 and a gallery emergency exit was built into the east north window below.
description
The church is a massive single-nave hall church with a gable roof and an east-facing tower, whose former Romanesque tower choir, raised by four steps, was used as a bell room in the basement and has been walled up except for a doorway since 1954. A sacristy is attached to the south of the tower . The nave has an almost square floor plan, is lit by six large arched windows and two baroque oculi in the west facade, and is spanned by a flat ceiling with medallion painting. In the north there is an organ gallery , in the west a two-storey gallery , the parapet areas of which are decorated with paintings of the apostles.
On the former wall of the choir arch there is a pulpit accessible from the sacristy , whose ornate sound cover from 1733 is crowned by a sculpture of the risen Christ. The pulpit is flanked by a wall painting with the parable of the clever and foolish virgins , which the Stuttgart art professor Rudolf Yelin the Younger created on the occasion of the renovation in 1954. The bronze altar crucifix below the pulpit comes from the workshop of the sculptor Martin Scheible from Ulm.
The church organ was built in 1820 as the first instrument by the Walcker organ building workshop in Ludwigsburg and modernized in 1902 at Link in Giengen. It is now located in the Ludwigsburg residential palace .
In and on the church there are various historical grave slabs, including several from the ducal Württemberg forestry masters and two memorials to the local fallen from both world wars. The mourning couple made of Maulbronn sandstone was created by the sculptor Helmuth Uhrig from Stuttgart after the Second World War.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the parish of Kochersteinsfeld
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
- ↑ Page about the organ at walcker.com (accessed on August 7, 2011)
literature
- Evangelical parishes in the district of Neuenstadt am Kocher (ed.): Our home, the church. Home book of the district of Neuenstadt am Kocher. Pictures from the Neuenstadt district. Stuttgart 1959, pp. 50-53.
- Manfred Baral: Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Kochersteinsfeld rectory (with an outline of the local and church history, including a description of the church based on the parish description made in 1905 by the Neuenstadt dean's office), Kochersteinsfeld 1989
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 192.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 31.7 " N , 9 ° 24 ′ 18.7" E