Friedhofkirche (Balingen)
The cemetery church in Balingen was built in the 11th century and was originally the parish church of the village, later the city of Balingen . This makes it one of the oldest church buildings in southern Germany. The old Liebfrauenkirche was first mentioned in 1255.
In addition to the main altar, it had other side altars, which were donated in the 14th and 15th centuries and transferred to the new town church after it was built. Until the Nikolaus- und Liebfrauenkapelle was elevated to the town church in 1516, which is only the Liebfrauenkirche, it remained the parish church of Balingen.
Parts of the tower and nave of the previous Romanesque building have been preserved. At the end of the 12th century, the nave belonging to the tower seems to have been demolished and replaced by a late Romanesque ship. This church was also demolished in the 14th century and the one that still stands today was built. In 1912 the cemetery church was renovated. Here frescoes came to light that the Sebastian Brotherhood had put up in the choir of the church, including a scene from the martyrdom of Sebastian . On the opposite wall of the choir, St. Christopher (around 1350) is depicted. He was considered an emergency helper against dangers such as fire, water, storms and dangerous diseases.
The church has a large octagonal baptismal font with remains of late Gothic painting (14th century). The tombstone of Elisabeth von Ow (1458) can be found on the inner west wall.
Several works from the interior of the church are attributed to the Balingen sculptor Simon Schweizer , including the stone epitaph of Maria Magdelin von Tierberg (1597), a wooden sculpture of John the Baptist , the wooden epitaph of Obervogt Petter Schör von Schwarzenburg (1603) and the oldest and most valuable tomb on the south facade of the cemetery church for the son of the Balbier and surgeon Pfeffer.
A high water mark on the west facade and a granite obelisk not far from the church commemorate the flood disaster in 1895, which tore down the cemetery wall with the force of its water masses and killed 41 people in Balingen and the surrounding area.
literature
- Eckart Hannmann: The cemetery church in Balingen. State-protected monument of special importance, in: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Small guide sheet 11. Tübingen 1975
- Eugen Gröner: Small monuments on the Balinger Friedhof, in : Heimatkundliche Blätter Balingen Jg. 35 (1988) No. 6, p. 645.
- Ingrid Helber, Andreas Zekorn: Art and cultural monuments in the Zollernalb district . Ed .: Zollernalbkreis. Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1526-X . P. 58f.
- Harald-Müller Baur: Church life in Balingen since the Reformation , in: Stadtverwaltung Balingen (Hrsg.): 750 Years of the City of Balingen 1255–2005 (= Publications of the City Archives Balingen Vol. 7). Balingen 2005, p. 40f.
- Peter Thaddäus Lang: From Christianization to the Reformation - Church in Balingen, in: Stadtverwaltung Balingen (Hrsg.): 750 Years of the City of Balingen 1255–2005 (= Publications of the City Archives Balingen. Vol. 7). Balingen 2005, p. 33f.
- Hans Schimpf-Reinhardt: "A big city fire was" - Plague years, in: Stadtverwaltung Balingen (Hrsg.): 750 years city of Balingen 1255–2005 (= publications of the Balingen City Archives, Vol. 7). Balingen 2005, p. 372f.
- Stefan Uhl: Medieval house and roof structures in Balingen, in: Stadtverwaltung Balingen (Hrsg.): 750 Years of the City of Balingen 1255–2005 (= Publications of the City Archives Balingen Vol. 7). Balingen 2005, pp. 135f.
Web links
- Cemetery church on the pages of the Evangelical General Church Community of Balingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '35.4 " N , 8 ° 51' 14.3" E