Johanneskirche (Gemmrigheim)
The Johanneskirche is a Protestant parish church in Gemmrigheim in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The Johanneskirche was first mentioned in a document in 1231. It was originally the own church of the Counts of Vaihingen / Enz. It was sold by Count Gottfried to the knight Rugger von Stockheim, who donated the church to the Augustinian canons in Backnang in 1231 .
In the basement of the tower of the church, a building originally erected as a choir tower church , is the old choir of the church, which has now been converted into a war memorial . Halfway up the tower is a tower chapel with frescoes from around 1400.
The nave of the church was built between 1515 and 1526. Until the renovation in 1963/64, a three-sided gallery was drawn into the nave, on the front of which the organ was placed. In 1963/64 a new organ was installed in the choir and the old gallery was replaced by a simple gallery on the front. During the renovation in 2012, this organ was removed again (and sold to Berlin), since then the community has been using an electric piano and is saving on a new pipe organ that is to be placed on the gallery.
The church's significant art treasures include the painted tower chapel, the cibories of the former side altars and various wall paintings in the nave .
Inside the church there is a war memorial made from several red sandstone panels for the fallen of the First World War , designed and executed by Albert Volk from Weinsberg. After the Second World War , the base of the tower was redesigned as a memorial for the fallen of both world wars, next to name boards there is a lying sandstone figure of a dead soldier.
Frescoes in the tower chapel
War memorial in the tower base
Belfry
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.swp.de
- ↑ Norbert Jung: 1914 - Albert Volk - War Memorials - 2014 , Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-39-4 , pp. 15-18.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 24.1 ″ E