Grave chapel of the barons of Ellrichshausen (Züttlingen)
The grave chapel of the Barons von Ellrichshausen is located in the cemetery of Züttlingen , a district of Möckmühl in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .
history
The chapel goes back to the old church of the village, attested to by the parish as early as 1325. In the 15th century there were separate parishes and churches in Züttlingen as well as in neighboring Assumstadt . From the middle of the 16th century, Züttlingen received church supplies from Assumstadt, where the Sunday and holiday services took place, while the Züttlingen church was only used for baptisms, weddings and funeral celebrations. In 1795 the church in Assumstadt was demolished due to dilapidation, after which the church in Züttlingen was again used for services for some time until it was also largely demolished in 1844 due to dilapidation. In 1856/57 Züttlingen received a new church with today's Lukaskirche . The preserved choir of the old church was renovated in 1873 by the barons Karl and Joseph von Ellrichshausen and converted into the family grave chapel and crypt .
The old church consisted of a choir , tower and nave , with the tower located between the choir and nave and the nave was probably added later. The nave was 34 feet by 20 feet , and the square tower was 20 feet on each side. A round arched tower portal was dated 1580. The base of the tower was spanned by an ogival cross vault with four belt arches, in the vault was a coat of arms with a dog, possibly that of the Lords of Berlichingen .
The polygonal final choir, whose length and width are each 10 feet (about three meters), is preserved in today's cemetery chapel. As a conclusion, a wall with a pointed arched gate and stepped gable was built on the west side, which was previously connected to the tower , into which an old coat of arms of the Lords of Hartheim was built. The interior of the chapel is spanned by a cross vault, the old choir windows are pointed-arched tracery windows with fish bubbles .
Inside the chapel there are several old tombstones, the oldest of which are no longer legible. The grave slabs of Anna Kolbin von Reindorff, nee. von Herda († 1668) and Johann Jakob Kolb von Reindorff († 1670) as well as Anna Catharina von Hutten. The chapel is enclosed by a fenced-in burial place, the gate of which shows an ornate forged coat of arms of the von Ellrichshausen family. Inside this burial place, but also in other places in the Züttlinger Friedhof, are the graves of former local lords and landowners, including the grave of Ludwig von Ellrichshausen (1789–1832).
literature
- Description of the Oberamt Neckarsulm , Stuttgart 1881, p. 674 ff. ( Digitized at https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn , Stuttgart 1991, p. 240.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 49.8 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 48.4 ″ E