Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross
The Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross in the city of Weinheim belonging hamlet Holy Cross in the Rhein-Neckar district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg has 1242 first mentioned.
history
The settlement of the Odenwald was mostly carried out on behalf of the church from the Rhine plain . Atzmansweiler, as today's village Heiligkreuz was still called at that time, was probably founded by nobles from Leutershausen . In 1242 the choir of a church in Atzmansweiler is mentioned for the first time . The patronage of the Holy Cross also indicates the time of the Crusades . It was first mentioned in 1496 in the Worms Synodale , a visit report of the parishes in the diocese of Worms . The Heiligkreuzkirche was a branch church of the Leutershausern St.-Johannes-Baptist-Kircheand responsible for the towns of Atzmansweiler, Rittenweier , Rippenweier , Oberflockenbach , Steinklingen , Wünschmichelbach and Ursenbach . The name of the church was later carried over to the village.
The tower was built in the 15th century and the nave was extended in 1788/89. In 1556, Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate . After a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family ruled the Palatinate again, the Simultaneum was introduced in Heiligkreuz in 1699 . When the Palatinate church was divided in 1705, the Holy Cross was apparently forgotten, so that simultaneous use continued into the 20th century. Only when the Catholics in Oberflockenbach built the Herz-Jesu-Kirche did the Heiligkreuzkirche become a Protestant parish church through a replacement contract. The parish today includes the places Heiligkreuz, Rippenweier and Rittenweier, and Oberflockenbach mit Steinklingen and Wünschmichelbach.
description
The church stands in the north of Heiligkreuz at the confluence of the Atzelbach and Apfelbach rivers. A low wall around the church still shows the area of the old cemetery, which was moved to the opposite side of the street in 1834. The east-facing church has a nave with a polygonal, Gothic choir with buttresses. The western extension of the nave and the side arched windows date from the 18th century. The church tower was built in the 15th century on the south side of the choir. The four-sided tent roof of the tower merges into an eight-sided peak.
The central three-part tracery window in the choir was designed by Valentin Feuerstein in 1957/58 . The crucifix dates from the 16th century. In 1974/75 some frescoes from the 19th century were exposed in the choir. The organ was built in 1975 by Ernest Mühleisen . The instrument has nine registers . It was integrated into the baroque organ case , which probably came from Ilvesheim Castle to Heiligkreuz in 1788 and dates from the first half of the 18th century. The three bells with the strike tone sequence e – d – h were cast by Bachert (Bad Friedrichshall) in 1958 .
literature
- Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967.
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 3: The city of Mannheim and the communities of the district of Mannheim . Karlsruhe 1970.
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 306.
- ↑ Homepage. Heiligkreuz-Oberflockenbach parish, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 37.4 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 23.4" E