Church of Simon and Judas (Heutingsheim)
The Simon and Judas Church is a Protestant church in Heutingsheim , a district of Freiberg am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg . The church probably already existed in the 10th century and was renovated by the builder Peter von Koblenz until 1487 in the Gothic style. The church has been redesigned many times over the years, most recently after a fire in 1970. The church is the parish church of the Heutingsheim parish in the Ludwigsburg parish of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
history
Due to the documentary mention of episcopal rights and a plebany in Heutingsheim in the 10th century, it can be assumed that there was already a church in the place at that time, which was probably also on the site of today's church. The oldest relic was a Romanesque font that last stood in front of the south portal of the church before being destroyed by vandalism in the recent past .
In addition to the parish church at the east end of the village, there was also a chapel in Heutingsheim on the castle hill, which was demolished in 1835. This chapel, which was demolished in 1806, like Heutingsheim Castle, probably goes back to at least the High Middle Ages, but is probably not assigned to the rights and institutions mentioned in a document, for which only the parish church can be considered.
From around 1485 the parish church was renovated in the late Gothic style, which the year 1487 announces as the year of completion above the south portal and in the choir. The construction took place under Hans von Stammheim , who at that time had patronage and territorial rule over Heutingsheim. The builder is Peter von Koblenz , whose master's mark is in the net vault of the sacristy of the church. This master builder from the Uracher Bauhütte also built the choir of the Nikolauskirche in Geisingen , begun in 1474 , which was also commissioned by the gentlemen from Stammheim . Anton Pilgram was also involved in the design of the Gothic church , from whom a pulpit bearer with the horseshoe typical of Pilgrams has been preserved in the church. The Heutingsheim pulpit bearer carries his horseshoe tucked into his belt on his back and rests on a loaf of bread with his right hand. Comparable pulpit supports come from the Öhringen collegiate church (sold to a museum in Berlin in 1937) and from Rottweil (so-called “Weckenmännle”).
Pilgram probably not only created the pulpit bearer, but the entire pulpit and possibly other architectural decorations, but today's pulpit is more recent, so that only the characteristic bearer can be attributed to Pilgram. The original pulpit has survived the walled up time and could be the reused fragment of an old Gothic altar. There is also an old grimace walled up by the pulpit. The local researcher Oscar Paret , brother of the Heutingsheim pastor, mentions a cabinet with late Gothic tendril carvings and a crenellated top that stood in the sacristy as an old piece of equipment.
The church received a large bell, cast in 1492, which, due to its size and in contrast to other smaller bells, has been preserved in the church to this day, while the respective secondary bells probably fell victim to the circumstances of the time several times. The big bell - 88 cm high and with a radius of 51 cm - bears the inscription: “Osanna + hais + ich + pantlion + sidler + von + esling + gos + mich + im + m cccclxxxxii + iar + vnd + im + namen + ihs + vnd + maria ". Underneath on both sides of the bell is a crucifix and a coat of arms with a woodpecker, the symbol of the Lords of Stammheim. The Heutingsheimer bell is the oldest in the district.
Among the Württemberg feudal lord Heutingsheim was in the middle of the 16th century reformed . A complete list of the local pastors is only available from 1576, so it is not possible to say who was the first Reformed pastor in the town. The patronage right remained with the lords of Stammheim until 1588, then came to the Schertel von Burtenbach and in 1695 to the lords of Kniestedt , before all sovereign rights fell to Württemberg in 1806. During Paret's time in the 1930s, several tombstones of the von Kniestedt family from the period between 1697 and 1853 were on the south side of the church; the former Kniestedt family grave was used in 1921 to erect a memorial to the victims of the First World War.
Until the 19th century there are only a few sources on the history of the church, but it was apparently often rebuilt, including in connection with the destruction of the place by the French in 1688 during the War of the Palatinate Succession . The various renovations were so extensive that today only the south entrance and the vaults of the choir and the sacristy (originally also used as a baptistery) are the original relics of the church building from 1487. B. have only received fragments of the Gothic windows and the painting of the church had long been whitewashed in the 19th century. Extensive renovations are documented for the years 1865 and 1907/08.
The renovation of 1907/08 was carried out according to plans by the architect Martin Elsaesser , who was related to Pastor Paret, and included a. a. an increase in the nave and the installation of a choir gallery. During the renovation, the remains of old wall paintings on the Passion of Christ were discovered on the north wall, and the old walled-in pulpit base and the face-walled grimace at the pulpit were exposed. For a newly created window at the pulpit, the painter Alfred Ale from Ludwigsburg and the glass painter Neumann from Bietigheim created a large window (now installed elsewhere in the church) with the motif of the path of sin based on designs by Reinhard Dohse .
Even after the renovation work was completed in 1908, there were numerous complaints about the condition of the church, as the elevation of the nave made it difficult to heat and the newly erected rows of benches without a central aisle were rather a hindrance at baptism and wedding celebrations. In addition, one perceived the remaining and now useless stone stairs inside the church, which were left over from distant galleries, and the fresco above the choir arch in 1908 was unattractive. From the 1930s onwards efforts were made to renovate the church again, but this was only delayed by the Second World War and then again by the currency reform of 1948. Due to the currency reform, the purchase of a new small bell to replace the old small bells delivered in World War II was postponed. It was not until 1951 that the bells were completed again and in 1953 the church could be renovated, whereby the choir gallery and the fresco from 1908 were removed again.
In the following years, the parish devoted itself primarily to the construction of a new parish center, which was inaugurated in 1969.
On the night of October 23-24, 1970, a fire broke out in the rectory adjacent to the church, which soon spread to the church. The rectory burned down completely, the church was badly damaged, especially in the area of the steeple. On the occasion of the restoration of the church, it was decided to make further structural changes such as B. the widening of the choir arch. The church was consecrated again on June 1, 1975.
literature
- Evangelical Church Community Heutingsheim (ed.): 1487–1987. 500 years of the Simon and Judas Heutingsheim Church in Freiberg am Neckar. Freiberg am Neckar 1987.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 52.6 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 22.5" E
References and comments
- ↑ Profile of the community in the community finder ( memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, accessed on July 22, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Oscar Paret (ed.), Ludwigsburg and the land around the Asperg , Ludwigsburg o. J. (1934), p. 353 f.
- ↑ Heinz Schubert, "Osanna" is 500 years old , in: Freiberger Historische Blätter 12, Volume 4, August 13, 1992 ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
