Frauenkirche (Neckarsulm)
The Frauenkirche , actually Church of Our Lady on the Steinach , is a Roman Catholic church in Neckarsulm in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .
history
The church can be found north of the old town. The oldest, early Gothic components point to the 12th to 14th centuries. According to documentary evidence, the builders are the Knights of Sickingen sitting on the Scheuerberg . The coats of arms of Johann von Sickingen and Johanetta von Hohenstein are preserved on the southern outer wall of the church. The church was originally an early mass chapel of the parish church of St. Dionysius . In 1668, the chapel was expanded to form a church by adding a choir with a small tower. In the 18th century the church was a destination for pilgrims from the Rhine and Moselle rivers. The high altar with St. Elisabeth (left) and St. Georg (right) was created in 1682 and restored in 1901. It was supplemented in the upper part with a glass painting of the Holy Trinity .
Furnishing
The Frauenkirche is a single-aisled church with a gallery drawn in on the western gable side and a choir attached to the east. The nave is spanned by a flat coffered ceiling. On the walls of the choir room there is a figure of St. Clare of Assisi and on the right that of St. Dominic . The origin of these figures is unclear. They could come from the Heilbronn Klarakloster and the Wimpfen Dominican monastery . The organ, which was manufactured in the Carl Schäfer workshop in Heilbronn in 1895 , is one of the few surviving examples from this workshop. The gallery was renewed in 1986 and shows a sculpture of the Holy Family on its parapet . There is also a figure of a Pietà in a gable arch above the side portal .
In the little garden south of the church are the sandstone sculptures of St. Johannes Nepomuk , which comes from the Neckarsulm sculptor Joseph Kilian Holbusch (1712–1779), and that of St. Wendelin set up. The old Neckarsulm cemetery extends north of the church and has numerous historical tombs.
literature
- Kath. Pfarramt St. Dionysius (Hrsg.): Neckarsulm in words and pictures. Parish of St. Dionysius. Neckarsulm 1982.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 42 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 33.8" E