Johanniterkirche (Villingen-Schwenningen)

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Johanniterkirche Villingen, west gable

The Johanniterkirche is the oldest Protestant church in the city of Villingen-Schwenningen in the Villingen district in the Black Forest-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

This also Johannes church called Church building in Gerberstrasse 11 was initially the church, which was founded in 1257 Johanniter - Commandery Villingen. It was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century, as construction professionals read from the largest preserved parts of the masonry.

In 1711 the church was completely renovated in the baroque style. The split, two-lane round arched windows, the stuccoed flat ceilings spanning the nave and choir and the roof trusses go back to this construction phase .

In 1803 the church building was secularized and served temporarily as a prison in the first half of the 19th century .

On April 11, 1859, the Evangelical-Protestant parish, which until then had held its service in the hall of the grand ducal criminal court building, bought the church and the adjoining three-story house from the state government of the Grand Ducal Baden region. On May 20, 1860, the inauguration of the St. John's Church as a Protestant church took place with the participation of “many thousands of people”.

The church was rebuilt and renovated several times, including from 1980 to 1983 and most recently in 2012.

architecture

The Johanneskirche is a four-bay hall church with a retracted two-bay choir with a flat east end. The church tower , crowned with four gables and a pointed helmet, is attached asymmetrically to the south of the choir. The roof trusses of the gable roofs over the nave and choir are constructed as hanging trusses . The architectural elements are set against the white plastered facades in red. The western entrance to the nave is formed by the pointed arched portal with a profiled frame from the medieval construction period.

The simple hall space of the ship and the choir separated from it by a round arched triumphal arch have flat ceilings with stucco decorations and colored paintings. On the long sides, large arched windows with simple frames illuminate the interior. From the original construction phase, in addition to the west portal, the east window of the choir with simple tracery and a pointed-arched sacrament niche in the lower floor of the tower used as a sacristy have been preserved.

Furnishing

Deceased high-ranking people were buried in the church, including the Johanniterkomtur Wolfgang von Maßmünster († 1536). His tomb, adorned with the depiction of the sea ​​battle of Rhodes, is in the Franciscan Museum in Villingen.

The church has an organ (work by the Donaueschingen organ builders Schildknecht and Bergmann from 1829, restored and supplemented by Georges Heintz , 1980) and a bell . The choir stalls, which have been in the Villingen Benedictine Church since secularization, were largely made in the wood carving workshop of Johann Schupp (1631–1713). The Gothic window of the choir contains one of the last glass pictures by Georg Meistermann (1911–1990) depicting the church patron Johannes d. Baptist.

There is also a pulpit . Earlier church paraments were sold to the parish Dürrheim in the parish of Freiburg after 1820. An altar that was initially available was also sold.

In the tower of the church there was a watercolor by the church painter Säger Barnabas, which is now in the Museum Villingen.

literature

  • Paul Revellio: On the history of the former Johanniterkirche in Villingen. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar. Vol. 16 (1926), pp. 183-198.

Web links

Commons : Johanniterkirche (Villingen-Schwenningen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fragment of a tomb depicting the sea battle of Rhodes (1523) on www.museum-digital.de
  2. ↑ Organ and bells of the Johanniterkirche in Villingen and their use ; no content preview; The overview can be viewed  in the State Archive of Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Freiburg, under archive number B 1135/1 No. 429 in the German Digital Library . Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Säger Barnabas: Watercolor in the tower of the Johanniterkirche, 1846 Enter in the search window Johanniter .
  4. ↑ Archive material identification 5-1079984 in the online finding aid , reference to the paraments, archive material identification 5-1079982 in the online finding aid with reference to the pulpit (drawing)
  5. ↑ Reference to the altar in the former chapter room , document in the Ba-Wü state archive.

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 32.3 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 42.2"  E