Evangelical town church Möckmühl
The Evangelical City Church in Möckmühl , a town in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg, was built according to plans by Heinrich Dolmetsch after the fire in the old church in 1898 . Archaeological excavations have shown that a church already existed here in the middle of the 8th century and that today's church is the fifth church building there.
history
A church in Möckmühl was mentioned in a document as early as 815 in a contract between the bishop of Würzburg and the abbot of Fulda . Archaeological findings, however, suggest that the church is still much older at this point. The first church was probably a small Martinskirche built before 754. In the late Carolingian period , this church was significantly expanded and with the patronage of St. Boniface provided. While Boniface is documented as the patron saint of the church, the older Martin's patronage from the two former Möckmühler annual markets (Martinimarkt and Bonifatiusmarkt) is closed. Around the year 1000 a third church was built in the early Romanesque style . This church had a semicircular apse and was supplemented by a tower in the middle of the west facade in the 12th or 13th century. At the beginning of the 14th century a new, now Gothic church was built, in which only the foundation of the tower was preserved. In its Gothic design, the church lasted until October 30, 1898, when a church fire destroyed almost the entire structure. In the years 1899/1900 a new church was built according to plans by Heinrich Dolmetsch in the neo-Gothic style , using the old tower base and the Gothic choir . The church was consecrated on December 16, 1900. Significant renovations took place in the 1970s and 2001/2002.
Architecture and equipment
Due to the church fire of 1898 and the subsequent new building, only a few historical relics have survived in the church. The east-facing Gothic choir with ribbed vaults could be restored after the fire. In the vaulted cap, frescoes from the late 15th century have been preserved, depicting evangelist symbols accompanied by angels making music . On the left choir wall there is also a fragment of another fresco with the Coronation of Mary . The sacrament house from 1471, located in the left corner of the choir, made of sandstone and decorated with figures and coats of arms , probably originally came from the town church, but was located in the Möckmühl cemetery chapel from the late 16th century before it was returned to the town church in 1974 when the town church was renovated Choir was attached. The two stained glass windows in the choir date from 1900 and show the Sermon on the Mount and the encounter between the Captain of Capernaum and Jesus. The pulpit, altar, baptismal font, gallery parapet and organ case also date from the time the church was built in 1900. The interior of the organ was renewed in 1974 by Weigle in Echterdingen.
On the outside of the tower, above the second cornice, the names of the builders Hans Hainen and Heinrich Dolmetsch can be read alongside the dates and coat of arms elements. Hainen was probably responsible for a renovation of the church in 1513.
The church bell consists of four bells. The oldest of the bells was cast in 1924 in the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf . The remaining three bells were cast by Kurz in Stuttgart in 1950 and 1956.
Web links
literature
- Evang. Parish Council Möckmühl (ed.): The town church of Möckmühl , Möckmühl 1974.
- E. Strohhäcker: The church saint of the town church in Möckmühl . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, 22nd publication , Heilbronn 1957.
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 21.7 " N , 9 ° 21 ′ 39" E