Evangelical Church Sandbach
The Evangelical Church Sandbach is the parish church of the parish for Sandbach and Wald-Amorbach in Breuberg- Sandbach and a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Ecclesiastically it belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
history
Like many churches in Mümlingtal, the church was built as a medieval fortified church on a hill dominating the village. It was first mentioned in a document in 1320. Since its earliest history, it served as the mother church of the Breuberg rule , and later as the burial place of the younger Breuberg line of the Counts of Wertheim .
The reformation of the church was initiated by the Counts of Wertheim , Georg II. And Michael II., And carried out after 1537 by Countess Barbara von Wertheim as the guardian regent.
The earliest medieval church was followed by a Gothic building in 1445 . This was in turn replaced in 1786–89 by today's baroque church. Renovations in 1908 and the 1970s up to 1986 have largely retained the baroque character.
investment
The oldest, medieval part of the complex is the church tower in the west, which was given a late baroque bonnet in 1789 . The nave is designed as a spacious hall building with a three-sided closure in the east. It has a relatively flat roof and nine rounded arched windows. The furnishings on the altar side with altar, baptismal font, pulpit, altar cross, gallery and organ come from the construction period. The altar, pulpit, gallery and organ arranged in the middle of the choir give the interior a strict, axial symmetry.
The epitaph of Count Michael III on the back wall of the choir is worth seeing . von Wertheim († 1556) with colored painting. It was created in 1559 by Peter Dell the Younger in Würzburg . The portrait shows the count in armor with a lively profile rotation of the upper body. Numerous coats of arms are arranged on the outside as ancestral samples. On the opposite side of the choir is the tombstone of Pastor Scherpfius († 1569). The simple design by a good artist's hand shows the pastor in half-length in the aedicula .
In the eastern part of the cemetery, which surrounds the church, other 19th century gravestones have been placed on the churchyard wall.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Hessen. (Ed .: Magnus Backes), 2nd edition, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00380-0 , p. 776.
- Hans Teubner and Sonja Bonin: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Odenwaldkreis. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1998 ( Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany ), ISBN 3-528-06242-8 , p. 228.
Web links
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Sandbach, Evangelical parish church with cemetery In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- Evangelical Church Sandbach on www.breuberg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Langguth: New building blocks for the Reformation history of the Breuberg rule . Ed .: Highest monastery fund. Höchst / Odenwald 1992, p. 45-89 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 58.5 ″ E