Jakobus Church (Tübingen)
The Jakobuskirche , also known as the Spitalkirche, in Tübingen is a Romanesque church originally consecrated to St. James , which is used today by the Tübingen Protestant Jakobus community in the church district of Tübingen . Together with the neighboring Salzstadel, it forms the historical center of Tübingen's lower town, the so-called Gôgei .
history
The originally Romanesque church of St. James, first mentioned in 1377, which is still reminiscent of a number of small arched windows, was built around 1200 on approx. 14 meter long oak posts as a Romanesque chapel. The Jakobuskirche is thus the oldest still inhabited building in Tübingen. Since the church built in Ammertal was exposed to frequent spring floods, it was filled up by approx. 2.5 m in 1500, and the area was raised accordingly. At the same time it was rebuilt to its current form and a choir was added to the east. On the outside wall of the choir under the window you can read: “ano dmi 1500 in the 10th day of the broke moon [10. June] is laid the first stain at dissen kor. "
The Spittel Church was initially a branch church of the collegiate church of St. Georg in the upper town and the center of the Tübingen lower town, in which mainly the wine growers, farmers and tradespeople lived. For a long time it served as a hospital church - located near the hospital, today's community center. In their immediate vicinity was the Konrad Chapel, which later served as an anatomy building and was abandoned in 1853. After the secularization of 1806, on February 8, 1807, a new-appointed Catholic pastor Johann Georg Dürlewanger and the Lutheran city pastor Dr. Müller reached an agreement according to which the hospital church, as it was called at that time, should be used jointly by both denominations according to a fixed plan. On February 15, 1807, the first Catholic mass in Tübingen since the Reformation was celebrated in the hospital church. As another Catholic church in the grounds of came Wilhelm pin Built Wilhelm Church added, both churches were the Catholic community but soon too tight so that 1875 to 1878 with evangelical support the St. John's Church was built. From this point on, the hospital church was again a purely Protestant church. The Jakobuskirche had been an independent parish church since 1918, today it is one of the churches of the Tübingen general parish. The relatively dark neo-Gothic choir glazing was replaced in 1975 by considerably lighter windows with rose ornaments by Gisela Dreher-Richels .
The church represents a station on the European Jacob's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela . The pilgrimage to the grave of St. James as the namesake is also attested to by James himself with his coat, shell, staff and hat in the choir as the keystone of the cross vault .
Special features include striking keystones, epitaphs and grave monuments in and on the church. In addition, at the church one can find cuboids with relief representations of concentric circles, which are also known as sun disks, with partially attached and bent arms.
literature
- Wilhelm Schneider: The sun disks with the bent arms raised at the Jakobus Church in Tübingen, Tübingen 2000
- Flyer to take away: The Jakobuskirche - interesting facts about the Spitalkirche in Tübingen
Web links
- The parish of the Jakobuskirche
- private page about the Way of St. James in southern Germany
- PDF of the parish of the Jakobuskirche on the oldest church in Tübingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Citizens and Tourist Association Tübingen e. V .: Jakobuskirche Tübingen. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '17 " N , 9 ° 3' 4" E