Holy Cross Church (Erlach)
The Protestant Holy Cross Church of Erlach , a district of the Gelbingen district of the city of Schwäbisch Hall , is a historic sacred building .
history
The church once served as a parish church under Comburg's patronage and was later converted into a Protestant branch church . Hall already owned Erlach in the 14th century and bought the place up completely in the 16th century, including from the Comburg monastery . The parish in Erlach was the mother parish of Gelbingen , Eltershofen and Untermünkheim . Comburg already had patronage over the church in 1248. It passed to Haller Eberhart in 1314 and was later returned by them. In 1422 the church, which had been under the patronage of the Holy Cross since 1376, was incorporated into the Comburg monastery . After the Reformation she became Protestant.
In 2013, funds were approved for the exterior renovation of the church.
description
It was discussed whether the building is a fortified church .
The plastered, single-nave quarry stone building with a square frame is Gothic on a Romanesque basis. It's on a hill east of the stove .
The church has an apse with a two-part Gothic window, a choir porch and a tower on the north side. In the lower part of this tower, which was set up as a sacristy , there is a longitudinal barrel vault and a pointed arch door to the choir. The upper tower floors only have slotted windows. The bells are decorated with the Haller coat of arms and the saying SOLI DEO GLORIA ; one of the three bells also bears the date 1660.
The nave is provided with a flat ceiling with hanging trusses and has only a few narrow windows on the north side, on the south side besides a narrow and a two-part high Gothic window also two doors, one of which is round-arched and probably dates from the Renaissance period . The other door is Gothic and has the garment a bar and Kehl profile. The furnishings include a Romanesque font in the shape of a cup, a pulpit hourglass on a wrought-iron frame and the canteen on a side altar.
Late Gothic frescoes have been preserved in the apse ; the choir has a Gothic vault with cross ribs and rosettes keystone . On the south side there is a two-part high Gothic window.
In the floor of the nave there is a grave slab of a clergyman from the 15th century. Another tombstone was attached to the outside of the church wall. It dates from the late 16th century and is reminiscent of a Protestant pastor.
The church is surrounded by cemetery walls with loopholes and graves. The gate of the churchyard dates from 1517. A stone carving in the wall shows the figure of a man about 80 centimeters high, with his hands on his knees. Eugen Gradmann suspected a bearer figure in it, whereas according to a more recent theory it is perhaps the original saint of the church. The mediocre quality of this portrait is also discussed here, which is described as "not so terrible either".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical parishes of Gelingen and Eltershofen ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b c www.leo-bw.de
- ↑ www.nikolaos-sakellariou.de
- ^ Friedrich Gutöhrlein: The Heiligkreuzkirche zu Erlach a fortified church? In: The Haalquell. Vol. 28, 1976, ZDB -ID 128138-0 , pp. 49-52.
- ↑ a b Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 98-99 ( archive.org ).
- ↑ www.suehnekreuz.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 33.2 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 40.8" E