Church district Göppingen
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| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Prelature : | Ulm |
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| Structure: | 33 parishes |
| Parishioners: | 56,522 (2016) |
| Address of the Dean's Office : |
Pfarrstr. 45 73033 Goeppingen, Germany |
| Dean : | Hartmut Zweigle |
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The Evangelical Church District Göppingen is one of 44 church districts or church districts of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Its area is congruent with the Deanery of Göppingen.
geography
The church district of Göppingen lies in the east of the Württemberg regional church. Its area mainly includes the lower valley of the Fils . Its parishes belong to the political cities and communities of Adelberg , Aichelberg , Albershausen , Bad Boll , Birenbach , Börtlingen , Dürnau , Ebersbach an der Fils , Eislingen / Fils , Gammelshausen , Göppingen , Hattenhofen , Heiningen , Ottenbach , Salach , Schlat , Schlierbach , Uhingen , Wäschenbeuren , Wangen and Zell unter Aichelberg in the west of the district of Göppingen .
Neighboring church districts
The church district of Göppingen borders the following church districts (starting clockwise in the northeast): Schwäbisch Gmünd and Geislingen an der Steige (both prelature Ulm ), Kirchheim unter Teck ( prelature Stuttgart ) and Schorndorf ( prelature Heilbronn ).
history
The Deanery Göppingen (then called Spezialsuperintendentur) was established in 1532, shortly after the Reformation in Württemberg, and is therefore one of the oldest deaneries in the regional church. The pastor of the town church in Göppingen was appointed dean. In the 16th century the dean's seat was temporarily in Ebersbach, because the Göppingen pastor was also superintendent of general. The Deanery of Göppingen changed its borders several times and at the beginning of the 19th century its area was identical to the old Württemberg Oberamt Göppingen . It initially belongs to the Adelberg Generalate, from 1598 to the Denkendorf Generalate, from 1810 to the Urach Generalate and since 1823 to the Ulm Generalate, from which today's Prelature Ulm emerged.
As a result of the dissolution of some districts or higher offices in Württemberg in 1939, the church administrative districts were also partially restructured. With effect from April 1, 1939, the Reichenbach an der Fils parish was reclassified to the Esslingen parish. With effect from April 1, 1961, the parish of Roßwälden was reclassified from the parish of Kirchheim unter Teck to the parish of Göppingen, while the parishes of Auendorf and Gruibingen were relocated to the parish of Geislingen with effect from January 1, 1972 and, as announced by the upper church council of February 13, 1975 the Degenfeld parish was reclassified into the Schwäbisch Gmünd church district, separating its previously associated places Nenningen and Weißenstein. Nenningen and Weißenstein, however, were also reclassified to the Geislingen church district in 1975 and assigned to the local parish Donzdorf.
Head of the church district
The church district is managed by the district synod , the church district committee (KBA) and the dean , who is also one of the pastors at the Oberhofen parish in Göppingen . The seat of the deanery is in the house of the Evangelical Church at Pfarrstrasse 45 in Göppingen.
Deans of the church district of Göppingen since 1803
- 1803–1811: Georg Friedrich Fischhaber
- 1812–1840: Erhard Wilhelm Gottfried Burk
- 1840–1870: Johann Ernst Osiander
- 1870–1886: Karl Friedrich Klaiber
- 1887–1889: Karl Ludwig Kalchreuter (1827–1889)
- 1889–1901: Karl August Schnaidt (1837–1902)
- 1902–1912: Karl Heinrich Adolf Hoffman (1844–1912)
- 1912–1913: Paul Hornberger
- 1913–1928: Julius Karl August Kalchreuter (1857–1943)
- 1928–1946 / 47: Otto Stahl (1876–1972)
- 1947–1950: Gotthilf Weber (1900–1987)
- 1950–1967: Gerhard Pfänder (1901–1981)
- 1967–1979: Karl Philippi (1914–1998)
- 1979–1991: Frieder Mörike (1929–2015)
- 1992–2008: Dieter Kunz (* 1944)
- 2008–2019: Rolf Martin Ulmer (* 1958)
- Since 2020: Hartmut Zweigle (* 1962)
Parishes
There are a total of 31 parishes in the church district of Göppingen. The area of the church district of Göppingen mainly belongs to the old heartland of Württemberg, where the Reformation was introduced from 1534. These areas are therefore predominantly Protestant and there are mostly old Protestant churches and parishes.
Parish of Adelberg
The parish of Adelberg comprises the municipality of Adelberg . The place near the monastery was called Hundsholz until 1851 . Church life in Adelberg begins with the establishment of the Adelberg Monastery in 1178. Klostervogt was the current lord of Hohenstaufen Castle , the Duke of Swabia. The women's monastery, built in 1188, was moved to Lauffen am Neckar in 1476 . Most of the monastery burned down in 1361. After that it was subject to Württemberg as Reich pledge. It was rebuilt and was able to gain a modest surrounding area, including ten villages and 19 hamlets. In 1525 the monastery was partially destroyed in the peasant uprising. It was partially rebuilt until the Reformation and there were Catholic abbots until 1565. Thereafter, the Adelberg Monastery was administered by a monastery office and a monastery school was set up in the monastery itself, which existed until 1629. The medieval monastery church of St. Maria and Ulrich disappeared in the 16th century, as did the convent building and some farm buildings. The former Ulrich chapel and the former prelature, a fruit box and the forestry office have been preserved. The Ulrich Chapel was built around 1500 under Abbot Berthold Dürr and his successor lavishly furnished it with a high altar by Bartholomäus Zeitblom . In the village of Adelberg, the village church from 1490 is today the parish church of the Protestant parish of Adelberg, where the community's Sunday service usually takes place. She has a predella , which is also attributed to the Zeitblom workshop. The entire colored window glazing dates from 1972, the middle of the five choir windows shows the "light in the darkness". A Passion Cycle painting from 1980 by the Adelberg artist Ernst Lutz (1941–2008) is on permanent loan from the municipality in the church.
Until 1859 Oberberken and until 1970 also Unterberken belonged to the parish of Adelberg, before a separate branch parish was established in Oberberken in 1859. This was also assigned to Unterberken with effect from January 1, 1970. Until 1992, the Adelberg parish was assigned to the Schorndorf church district and was reclassified to the Göppingen church district with effect from January 1, 1993.
Albershausen parish
The parish of Albershausen (1,772) includes the community of Albershausen . A church in Albershausen was first mentioned in 1275. The patronage came to Württemberg through the Wiesensteig Abbey . The late Gothic St. John's Church was built around 1455 and renovated in 1701, 1800, 1869–87, 1953 and 1971. It has a ribbed vaulted choir, which housed an organ loft until 1971. The west tower was rebuilt after a fire in 1781. The artist couple Gisela Dreher-Richels and Gerhard Dreher from Weilheim were responsible for the artistic renovation concept and the ornamental choir glazing in 1971/1972 (made by Kunstglaserei Hack in Weilheim).
The branch parish of Bünzwangen belonged to Albershausen until 1970, before it was separated from Albershausen with effect from January 1, 1971 and incorporated into the newly formed Ebersbach parish as the fourth parish. In 1990 Bünzwangen was again separated from the entire parish of Ebersbach and has been independent since then.
Parish Bad Boll
The parish Bad Boll (until 2007 only Boll) includes the parish Bad Boll with its district Eckwälden. Berta von Boll , who belonged to the Staufer family, founded a monastery in Boll, which became subject to interest in the Constance monastery in 1155 and was incorporated into the Oberhofen monastery in Göppingen in 1464. The former collegiate church is now the parish church of Bad Bolls. It was mentioned in 1286 as St. Cyriakuskirche . It is a Romanesque pillar basilica, under which there is an 11th century crypt. The ship was later extended. The tower is located on the southwest corner of the ship. Inside, some remarkable sculptures can be seen: the Romanesque deep baptismal font, reworked in 1902, the Gothic tracery windows and the stone pulpit on the central pillar on the north side with a vine relief on the banister, and finally the colored Baroque sound cover. As part of the church renovation in 1902, Christoph Blumhardt's collegiate church received two glass paintings (Moses and Christ) designed by Jakob Grünenwald in 1889 for the Kurhaus Boll . The Christ window in the choir was removed in 1957 in favor of the work Revelation by the well-known glass painter Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , the Moses window remained in the north aisle.
The Eckwälden part of Bad Boll belonged to the parish of Zell unter Aichelberg in the church district of Kirchheim unter Teck until 1933. Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on March 18, 1933, Eckwälden was incorporated into the parish of Boll (Göppingen church district). There is no church in Eckwälden. On January 1, 1976, Zell unter Aichelberg was also reclassified to the church district of Göppingen.
After the parish of Boll was given the addition of Bad , the Protestant parish of Boll was also renamed the parish of Bad Boll with effect from July 18, 2007.
One of the two seats of the Moravian Brethren has been located in the Bad Boll-Bad district since 1920 (the other is in Herrnhut in Saxony). The Evangelical Academy Bad Boll of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg is also based here.
Bartenbach parish
The parish of Bartenbach comprises the Bartenbach district of the city of Göppingen . Ecclesiastically, Bartenbach belonged to the Oberhofenkirche and later to the town church of Göppingen. In 1920 Bartenbach became its own parish. A chapel of St. Otmar and Maria was mentioned in Bartenbach in 1404. It was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. Today's church was built at the same location as a transverse church in 1651 . In 1974 the community built a new community center with the architect Gerhard Fetzer (Grunbach), where services are celebrated today. The bronze altar cross with candlesticks was created in 1974 by the Hohenstaufen artist Hermann Schwahn (1927–2003) and the colored glazing in 1980 by the Stuttgart glass artist Anna-Dorothea Kunz-Saile .
The old Protestant village church has since been used as the Holy Cross Church by the Armenian Community of Baden-Württemberg and became their property with a contract dated December 18, 2018.
The Protestant residents in neighboring Rechberghausen also belonged to the parish of Bartenbach, most of whom only moved there after the Second World War. For this, a branch parish of Bartenbach was then established by an announcement of the upper church council on January 13, 1955. By an announcement of October 17, 1974, this was then separated from the mother parish of Bartenbach and raised to an independent parish.
Parish of Bezgenriet
The parish of Bezgenriet includes the Bezgenriet district of the city of Göppingen . Bezgenriet was initially a church branch of Schopflenberg and came to Uhingen with this in 1551. The church in Bezgenriet was built in 1405 as the Laurentius Chapel. The nave and tower were rebuilt in 1611. 1947 they put a royal bauzeit Judgment - fresco in the choir free. The choir window was designed in 1960 by Adolf Valentin Saile with passion motifs and a representation of the patron saint Laurentius . Since 2013 the parish has been provided by the neighboring parishes of Hattenhofen and Jebenhausen .
Börtlingen-Birenbach parish
The parish of Börtlingen -Birenbach includes the communities of Börtlingen and Birenbach . A church in Börtlingen was mentioned as early as 1202. The parish mentioned in 1271 was incorporated into the Adelberg Monastery. From 1595 Börtlingen was a branch of Oberwälden. In 1844 Börtlingen became its own parish again. The core of the Börtlinger church is late Gothic (around 1500), but has been changed several times. The tower was built in 1819. A Johannis bowl from the 14th century and a Vespers picture from 1500 have been preserved in the choir . As part of the major church renovation in 1956, the Stuttgart glass painter Adolf Valentin Saile created the choir window with St. John and Passion motifs.
Birenbach was a divided place. The Württemberg part was assigned to the neighboring parish of Börtlingen after the Reformation, the knightly part of Birenbach remained Catholic. The church in Birenbach is therefore Catholic. In Birenbach, however, there is a Protestant parish hall, which was converted into a church hall in 2007 by the architects Klaiber + Oettle. The church hall received a pipe resonator organ from the Kienle company. There is an ecumenical parish hall in Börtlingen.
Until 1989 the parish and the parsonage were only called "Börtlingen". The Oberkirchenrat announced on March 20, 1989, that both were renamed “Börtlingen-Birenbach”.
Parish of Bünzwangen-Sulpach
The parishes of Bünzwangen and Sulpach have merged into one parish since 2013. Bünzwangen includes the Bünzwangen district of the city of Ebersbach an der Fils . Ecclesiastically, Bünzwangen first belonged to Schlierbach and from 1748 to Albershausen. With effect from January 1, 1971, the branch parish of Bünzwangen was separated from Albershausen and incorporated into the newly formed overall parish of Ebersbach. St. Leonhard's own chapel is mentioned in Bünzwangen as early as 1481. Today's Leonhardskirche in Bünzwangen was built in 1778 as a choir-less rectangular building by adding to the old tower. Baroque paintings of the twelve apostles and Jesus adorn the gallery parapet. Three oil paintings (Christ, Moses, John the Baptist; around 1885) are by the Bünzwang artist and professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy, Jakob Grünenwald . In 1990 the parish of Bünzwangen and the parish of Ebersbach-Sulpach left the entire parish of Ebersbach.
Sulpach includes the Sulpach district of the city of Ebersbach an der Fils . Politically, Sulpach always belonged to Ebersbach an der Fils. In terms of church, Sulpach had its own parish, to which Weiler ob der Fils was also assigned. A church in Sulpach was mentioned as early as 1275. In the 16th century it was called St. Lorenz. The Laurentius Church was given its current form in 1607. In 1955, Rudolf Yelin the Elder created . J. three choir windows (left and right: the evangelists with their symbols; middle: Last Supper, crucifixion, resurrection, royal crown). Later Sulpach was part of the parish Roßwälden (at that time church district Kirchheim unter Teck). By the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on November 28, 1931, Sulpach was detached from the parish of Roßwälden and assigned to the parish of Ebersbach in the parish of Göppingen. With effect from January 1, 1971, the independent parish Ebersbach-Sulpach was formed within the also newly formed Ebersbach parish. In 1990, the Ebersbach-Sulpach parish left the Ebersbach parish together with the Bünzwangen parish. The pastoral care of both parts of the community has long been provided by the owner of the Bünzwangen-Sulpach parish.
Parish of Dürnau-Gammelshausen
The parishes of Dürnau and Gammelshausen have merged into one parish since 2013. Dürnau includes the municipality of Dürnau . A church was first mentioned in 1275. In 1417 she was called St. Kilian and Cyriakus. Through the Lords of Rechberg , the church set came to the Adelberg Monastery, to which the church was incorporated in 1346. The lords of Zillenhart, who ruled the place until the early 17th century, introduced the Reformation in 1545. The extension of the Cyriakus Church in 1583 created a late mannerist building with late Gothic wall paintings (Ten Commandments, scenes from the life of Jesus) on the gallery on the north wall and numerous grave monuments of the Lords of Zillenhart. Christoph Martin von Degenfeld , among others, is buried here. From 1681 to 1964 the church was used as a simultaneous church. The crescent moon on the top of the church tower is not uncommon for churches and, contrary to legend, it is not an item of booty from the Turkish wars.
Gammelshausen includes the community of Gammelshausen . Politically, Gammelshausen shared the fortunes of the neighboring town of Dürnau, to which it has also been part of the church since 1798 (previously to Boll), until 2012 as an independent parish. A chapel of St. Maria is mentioned in Gammelshausen in 1436. The current church was built in 1700, but has older parts. The parish of Gammelshausen was looked after by the Dürnau parish before the merger.
Ebersbach an der Fils parish
The parish of Ebersbach an der Fils includes the core town of Ebersbach an der Fils and the districts of Büchenbronn and Krapfenreut. A church in Ebersbach was first mentioned in 1228. In 1481 it was called St. Veit. The church set came from Württemberg to the von Staufen family in 1276, then to the Ulm Order of the Teutonic Order, and finally in 1446 to the Oberhofen Abbey in Göppingen, to which the church was incorporated in 1449. Württemberg introduced the Reformation. Today's St. Vitus Church is a former fortified church in the walled churchyard. The choir is vaulted with a mesh. The tower of the church was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1625 and then rebuilt by Heinrich Schickhardt and given a new spire. The Stuttgart architect Paul Heim jun. (1905–1988) headed the major renovation in 1956. Rudolf Yelin d. J. three choir windows (left Old Testament, colors blue / green: Creation, Fall, Cain and Abel, Tower of Babel, Moses legislation; middle New Testament 1, Gospels, colors yellow / ocher: blessing of children, miracles of healing, crucifixion, burial; Right New Testament 2, colors green / ocher: sending out the disciples, resurrection, lord of the living and the dead). In 1962 a community center with a community hall, kindergarten and service rooms was built; the ornamental glazing in the hall was designed by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen .
Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on November 28, 1931, Sulpach, which had previously belonged to the parish of Roßwälden (at that time parish of Kirchheim unter Teck), was detached from the parish of Roßwälden and assigned to the parish of Ebersbach. As a result of the strong growth of the community, the Ebersbach parish was then separated into three independent parishes, Ebersbach West, Ebersbach East and Ebersbach-Sulpach, with effect from January 1, 1971, and at the same time the Ebersbach parish was formed. The parish of Bünzwangen, which until then was a branch parish of Albershausen, was also affiliated to this. In a letter dated January 7, 1971, the Ministry of Education recognized the entire parish of Ebersbach and its three parishes as corporations under public law. In 1990 the parishes of Ebersbach-Sulpach and Bünzwangen were spun off from the overall parish of Ebersbach and made completely independent.
With effect from July 1, 2006, the two remaining parishes Ebersbach West and Ebersbach East were repealed. Their tasks were transferred to the entire parish of Ebersbach, which was also renamed the parish of Ebersbach. In the meantime there were also three parishes in Ebersbach, whereby the Ebersbach-Süd parish was renamed the Bünzwangen-Sulpach parish in 1990 and has since looked after the two parishes of Bünzwangen and Sulpach. In Ebersbach itself there are still two parishes, east and west. The parish of Ebersbach an der Fils also runs a kindergarten.
Until the 19th century, Baiereck also belonged to the parish Ebersbach, until a separate parish was established there in 1848. Baiereck then part of the Schorndorf church district until it moved to the Göppingen church district in 2016. Furthermore, the hamlet of Nassachmühle (municipality of Uhingen) was assigned to the parish of Ebersbach until 1926. By announcement of the upper church council on May 28, 1926, Nassachmühle was affiliated to the parish of Uhingen. Baiereck has also been part of the Uhingen parish since 2016.
Christ parish Eislingen-Ottenbach
The Christ church parish Eislingen-Ottenbach comprises parts of the city of Eislingen (Fils) , mainly the former community Groß-Eislingen as well as the district Krummwälden and the community Ottenbach . The Täleshof belonging to Groß-Eislingen belonged to Hohenstaufen until 1933. However, by an announcement by the Oberkirchenrat on March 3, 1933, the Täleshof was assigned to the then parish of Großeislingen.
Politically, Groß-Eislingen was divided into various small lordships and monasteries. After the Reformation, most of it came to the Würzburg Monastery, which gave its area to various lords as fiefs. About a third of the town came to Württemberg through the Adelberg and Blaubeuren monasteries and the Faurndau monastery. First of all, the Reformation was introduced in the whole place. In the part of Würzburg the counter-reformation was introduced from 1592 by the lords of Rechberg, so that the parish church of St. Maria (from 1884 St. Markus) of Groß-Eislingen was again Catholic. The Protestant residents of Groß-Eislingen were then looked after by Klein-Eislingen. In 1903 a Protestant parish was established again in Groß-Eislingen and in 1906 a separate church, the Christ Church, was built at which the independent parish of Groß-Eislingen (Christ Church Community of Groß-Eislingen) was built. After the political communities Groß-Eislingen and Klein-Eislingen were merged to form the town of Eislingen / Fils with effect from August 1, 1933, the previous parish of Groß-Eislingen was renamed the parish of the Christ Church in Eislingen .
With effect from April 1, 1934, the Christ parish of Eislingen was merged with the Luther parish of Eislingen to form the total parish of Eislingen after the Ministry of Culture recognized the new general parish as a corporation under public law in a letter dated November 3, 1933. The two parishes remained independent corporations under public law. With effect from January 1, 1963, the entire parish of Eislingen was repealed. Today there are two parishes in the Christ parish in Eislingen, which have the designations I and II. The Protestant community of Ottenbach , which was previously connected to the Hohenstaufen parish , has been part of the Christ parish since 2015 . Since then, the name of the community has been Evangelical Christ Church Community Eislingen-Ottenbach .
The Christ Church was built in 1906 by the Stuttgart architect Richard Böklen in Art Nouveau style. The history painter and director of the Stuttgart Art Academy Friedrich von Keller created the canvas painting Sermon on the Mount in the choir above the original color-glazed east windows. The church and especially the chancel were built in 1963–1964 under the overall artistic concept of Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J. greatly changed, "cleaned up" of Art Nouveau elements and equipped with new principles (pulpit, altar, baptismal font, cross). A renovation from 2020 that appreciates the original building concept and at the same time is future-oriented is in preparation.
Like Groß-Eislingen, Krummwälden was politically divided. The Reformation was introduced in the Württemberg part, the Rechberg and Bubenhofen parts remained Catholic. The church of St. Jakob in Krummwälden, mentioned as early as 1275, initially remained Catholic, but has been used simultaneously since 1592. It is a flat-roofed hall building with a choir and a roof turret. The winged altar dates from 1510/20.
Luther parish Eislingen
The Luther parish of Eislingen comprises parts of the city of Eislingen (Fils) , mainly the former parish of Klein-Eislingen. The Näherhof was only reclassified here from the former parish of Großsüßen (Geislingen parish) following an announcement by the Upper Church Council on March 18, 1933.
In contrast to Groß-Eislingen, which remained predominantly Catholic or became Catholic again through the Counter-Reformation, Klein-Eislingen was a Protestant place after the Reformation by Württemberg. Initially a branch of Holzheim, after the Reformation also responsible for the Protestant residents of Groß-Eislingen, Klein-Eislingen became its own parish in 1863. After the political communities Groß-Eislingen and Klein-Eislingen were merged to form the town of Eislingen / Fils with effect from August 1, 1933, the previous parish of Klein-Eislingen was renamed the parish of the Luther Church in Eislingen .
With effect from April 1, 1934, the Luther parish Eislingen was merged with the Christ parish Eislingen to form the Eislingen general parish, after the Ministry of Culture recognized the new general parish as a public corporation in a letter dated November 3, 1933. The two parishes remained independent corporations under public law. With effect from January 1, 1963, the entire parish of Eislingen was dissolved again. Today there are two parishes within the Luther parish of Eislingen, which are designated I and II.
A Bernhard chapel was mentioned in Klein-Eislingen as early as 1530. It was demolished in 1698 and replaced by today's Luther Church. In 1912/13 the Luther Church was completely redesigned and greatly expanded by the famous architect Martin Elsaesser with Art Nouveau elements. In the old choir, today the sacristy, some round glass panes donated in 1698 with coat of arms-like glass paintings remained. The chancel from 1913 was given a recently restored Art Nouveau color scheme and a Christmas window by the glass painter Lydia Schäfer (* 1882, later: Jost-Schäfer). A new organ was installed as part of the church renovation in 2001.
The Luther parish Eislingen also has a parish hall on Dr.-Engel- Strasse. It is responsible for two kindergartens, the Rainbow Kindergarten on Friedhofstrasse and the Martin Luther Kindergarten on Lutherstrasse.
Eschenbach-Heiningen parish
The parish of Eschenbach -Heiningen has included the parishes of Eschenbach and Heiningen since the end of 2019 .
Eschenbach was part of the church of Lotenberg , a hamlet that is now part of Eschenbach. The place was divided between Württemberg and the Liebensteiners . The parish church in Lotenberg, first mentioned in 1228, called St. Peter from 1586, came with the castle to Württemberg in 1379, to Hans Dachenhausen in 1420 and was donated by him to the Göppingen Spital in 1434. In 1814 the church was demolished and the parish relocated to Eschenbach, where a separate church without a choir had already been built in 1739. This church on the Bühl was expanded in 1862 and the altar window with a glass painting by Rudolf Yelin the Elder was renovated in 1963 . J. (motifs: Descent from the Cross, Resurrection).
A church in Heiningen was first mentioned in 1228. Michaelskirche, which used to be a fortified church, is located in a former churchyard. The patronage came from the local lords to Württemberg, who exchanged it in 1393 for the Adelberg monastery . In 1398 the Gothic nave was decorated with frescoes: a depiction of Christopher , a rare cross nailing and a so-called "volto santo", a depiction of the crucifixion with a clad Christ. In 1493 the old choir was demolished and in 1514 a new one with a star vault, together with the sacristy, was completed. A high altar that had already been planned was no longer realized because the peasants' war and the introduction of the Reformation in Württemberg interrupted the building history. As part of the church renovation in 1904 by the Stuttgart architect Richard Böklen , the center tracery window in the choir was designed by Rudolf Yelin the Elder. Ä. designed with the motif of the resurrection of Christ . In 1954, Helmuth Uhrig created a memorial to the fallen. There are three bells hanging in the church tower, including an old St. Mary's bell, which was used as a storm bell in a defensive tower until 1731 and was surely cast before 1350; Two bells are rung from 1493 and 1612. There has been a trumpet choir since 1929 and a church choir since 1904, as well as an ecumenical parish hall between the Protestant and Catholic churches.
Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on May 26, 1983, the Protestant residents of the Aussiedlerhöfe Häderle and Schurr, who until then belonged to the Heiningen parish, were assigned to the Eschenbach parish at that time.
Faurndau parish
The parish of Faurndau comprises the Faurndau district of the city of Göppingen . A document from 875 in which Faurndau is mentioned for the first time is kept in the St. Gallen Abbey Archives. There was the monastery of St. Maria, which was converted into a collegiate monastery before 1228. Before that, between 1200 and 1220, today's Faurndau collegiate church , which is one of the most important Romanesque church buildings in Swabia, was built on the foundations of four previous buildings . The three-aisled flat-roofed pillar basilica initially had no tower, which was only added in the Gothic period. Until the Reformation, the Faurndau Monastery was owned by the St. Gallen Monastery . After the Reformation in 1535, the monastery was abolished by Württemberg and the former parish church of the village. - Both the east gable and the capitals inside are equipped with a variety of sculptural decorations . The oldest part is the rib-vaulted choir in the east with a main apse and two side apses, of which the southern one later had to give way to the late Gothic vestry annex. The main entrance to the west is a three-tiered column portal . Individual columns in the anteroom carry early Gothic calyx-bud capitals , which are among the earliest of this type. The early Gothic wall paintings in the chancel date from around 1300. The life of Mary is told on the side wall surfaces . The four symbols of the evangelists can be seen in the vaulted caps, and in the apse dome there are still remnants of the original painting: Christ in the mandorla as judge of the world. The central choir window below the mandorla was decorated with stained glass by Wolf-Dieter Kohler in the course of the church renovation in 1957 : The Archangel Michael weighs the human souls that rise from their graves, awakened by the sound of the seven apocalyptic trumpets to face the judgment of God. - Also in 1957, the bronze altar cross was created by Emil Jo Homolka (1925–2010) and the altar, pulpit and lamb above the south portal by Ulrich Henn . The Fountain of Mercy in front of the Church (2006) also comes from the latter . The well-known architect Martin Elsaesser created a memorial shrine on the wall of the sacristy around 1920, the winged doors of which were designed by the artist Käte Schaller-Härlin with four paintings (Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Lamentation, Resurrection) .
The parish of Faurndau had two pastoral positions from 1964 to 2019, is responsible for a kindergarten and also has a church choir and a trombone choir.
Verbundkirchengemeinde Göppingen
The composite church community of Göppingen includes the core town of Göppingen . It was initially formed as a total parish from the previous parish of Göppingen through the announcement of the upper church council on February 5, 1931, when the two new parishes of the city parish and the upper court parish of Göppingen were formed in this parish. The Ministry of Culture recognized the new parishes as corporations under public law in a letter dated January 31, 1931. Later the Reuschkirchengemeinde were added, in 1953 the Bodenfeldkirchengemeinde (today Martin-Luther-Kirchengemeinde) and in 1969 the Waldeckkirchengemeinde Göppingen, so that it consisted of five parishes. In 2005 the town parish and the Oberhof parish of Göppingen merged to form the town of Oberhofen. This reduced the number of parishes within the entire parish of Göppingen to four. On January 1, 2019, the entire Göppingen parish was dissolved and transformed into a composite parish with changed structures and responsibilities.
City parish of Oberhofen
The municipality of Oberhofen comprises parts of the core town of Göppingen.
The first parish church in Göppingen, first mentioned in 1275, was the late Gothic Oberhofenkirche outside the city walls , which Count Ulrich V of Württemberg had rebuilt from 1436 to 1490 and converted into a canon monastery on the remains of several previous buildings . With a total length of 49.50 meters, it has an originally planned three-aisled flat-roofed nave, a net-vaulted transept, an elevated polygonal choir and two choir-flank towers, with stone helmets since the work of the Ulm cathedral builder August von Beyer in 1884. Inside it houses important late Gothic choir stalls and numerous grave monuments. On the north wall of the choir there are frescoes from the construction period, on the south wall the only surviving picture of the undestroyed Hohenstaufen Castle from 1470, which was only uncovered in 1938. The Oberhofenkirche initially remained Catholic after the Reformation by Württemberg because of the remaining canons. There were several chapels in the city, the largest of which, the Johanneskapelle near the castle, therefore served as the city and dean's church from 1532 until the city church was rebuilt in 1619. After the canons' monastery was dissolved in 1534, the Oberhofenkirche was used almost exclusively for funeral ceremonies and occasionally as an alternative to construction work on the Renaissance city church due to its location outside the city and in a cemetery. The baroque stucco ceiling from 1686 was created during security measures because of dilapidation. Burials from the late 17th and 18th centuries are documented in magnificent baroque epitaphs. After temporary secular use in the early 19th century, the restoration and neo-Gothic remodeling began in 1854, which was completed with the attachment of stone helmets to the 50-meter-high towers in 1900. Since 1902 the Oberhofenkirche is again the parish church and second parish church of Göppingen. In 1938 Walter Kohler created the glass paintings in the middle choir window ( Passion, Resurrection, Majestas Domini ), in 1983 after completing archaeological excavations in the interior, his son Wolf-Dieter Kohler added the themed windows of God's Creation, Peace Covenant and the promise and work of the Spirit of God at Pentecost on the left and right to the Heavenly Jerusalem . The modern principles from 2013 replaced the artistic pulpit designs from 1883 ( Jakob Grünenwald ) and 1938 ( Helmuth Uhrig ). Next to the Oberhofenkirche is the Heiligkreuzkapelle , the preserved choir of the former Marienkapelle from 1410, which today is mainly used for exhibitions and devotions.
In 1618/19, the city church was built within the city wall next to the ducal castle instead of the Johannes chapel and thus the seat of the Göppingen dean to this day. Master builder Heinrich Schickhardt designed it as a Protestant sermon church without a choir based on the model of his smaller church St. Martin in Montbéliard , namely as a transverse church with a pulpit on the eastern long wall and an altar on the northern narrow side - like the Torgau castle chapel , designed by Martin Luther in 1544 personally inaugurated - and provided with a large three-sided gallery . The stately building (length 40.40 meters, width almost 21 meters), Europe's largest Protestant Renaissance church , offered well over 1,600 seats in its original furnishings. At the urging of the citizens, the roof space was designed and used as a "fruit chute" with four floors. Because the sermon hall should consist liturgical, optical and acoustic reasons to be column-free, had roof and ceiling extremely far stretched and as granary same time be highly resilient. This resulted in a roof structure that was uniquely daring in Europe at that time and is still today, which used to be very susceptible to repairs due to excessive stress. The original transverse alignment of the room was rebuilt in 1772 to the baroque lengthwise alignment of the galleries on the new pulpit on the northern narrow side, which is still valid today. The last interior renovation in 1973-1976 succeeded in combining baroque, art nouveau and modern, movable furnishings. The latter makes the church space ideal for multifunctional and creative use of church services and events, for which it is used by the municipalities and institutions in the city and district after the pastor's office was dissolved in 2007. The fourth organ since the church was built in 1981 offers excellent musical possibilities thanks to its size and design. Since the last renovation, the town church is one of the few buildings today that is heated with hot air via real hypocausts based on ancient models.
By the announcement of the upper church council on February 5, 1931, the previous parish of Göppingen, with its two parish churches since 1902, was converted into a single parish, which in future consisted of two parishes, the town parish and the upper court parish of Göppingen. The Ministry of Culture recognized the new parishes as corporations under public law in a letter dated January 31, 1931. On May 16, 2005, the previously independent parishes were merged to form today's Oberhofen parish . - Due to the strong influx of people in the 20th century, especially after the Second World War, more churches were built and new parishes were founded. This is how the Reuschkirchengemeinde (church from 1931), the Martin-Luther-Kirchengemeinde (formed in 1953 as Bodenfeldkirchengemeinde with a church from 1956) and the Waldeckkirchengemeinde from 1969 (church from 1979) came into being.
Reuschkirchengemeinde Göppingen
The Reuschkirchengemeinde Göppingen comprises parts of the western core city of Göppingen. Due to the strong influx, new residential areas were developed and new parishes were founded. This is how the Reusch parish came into being. The Reusch Church was built between 1930 and 1931 by the Göppingen architect Otto Bengel. The six round windows (motifs: the six days of the creation story) were made by the Göppingen glass cutter Hermann Fischer using the glass cut technique, which is very rare in church furnishings. After being destroyed in the war in 1945, they were replaced by Rudolf Yelin the Elder in 1950 . J. replaced by stained glass (five passion motifs and one Easter motif). In 1986 the Reusch Church was placed under monument protection. The organ dates from 1985.
Martin Luther parish in Göppingen
The Martin Luther parish includes parts of the core town of Göppingen, in particular the Bodenfeld district. Due to the strong influx of people in the 20th century, but especially after the Second World War, more churches and new parishes were founded. This is how the Reusch parish with church from 1930 was created. For the Protestant residents in the pastoral care district of Oberhofen-Süd of the then Oberhofenkirchen parish of Göppingen, the independent Bodenfeld parish was formed within the overall parish of Göppingen by the Upper Church Council on October 23, 1953. In a letter dated September 16, 1953, the Ministry of Education recognized the new parish as a corporation under public law. The Bodenfeld district was spatially separated from the rest of the city by the railway line and the Fils. The associated Bodenfeld Church, later called Martin Luther Church, was built in 1956 by architect Walter Ruff . The large painting on the altar wall with the subject of the mercy seat , a type of image for the Trinity , was created by Wolf-Dieter Kohler . With effect from October 4, 2005, the Bodenfeld parish in Göppingen was renamed the Martin Luther parish in Göppingen. The Martin Luther Church was sold to the Syrian Orthodox community Mor Jakob von Sarug eV in 2014 . As a replacement for the church, rooms were created in a new building for the community.
Waldeck parish in Göppingen
The Waldeck parish of Göppingen comprises parts of the core town of Göppingen, namely the residential areas of Waldeck, Erlenbach and Freihof south of the Fils. Due to the strong influx of people in the 20th century, but especially after the Second World War, more churches and new parishes were founded. This is also the case with the Waldeck parish, which was established as a further parish within the overall parish of Göppingen through the announcement of the upper church council on April 23, 1969, after the Ministry of Education recognized the Waldeck parish of Göppingen as a corporation under public law by letter of January 15, 1969. In 1979 the Waldeck Church was built by the Göppingen architect Walter Bosch . The overall artistic concept lay with Wolf-Dieter Kohler , who created the principles , the altar utensils, the wall hangings and the colored concrete glazing (streams of water ( Ps 137,1 LUT ) and twelve corner and precious stones of the heavenly Jerusalem ( Rev 21,12 LUT )) . The Waldeck parish of Göppingen has a common choir with the neighboring Reusch parish, the Reusch-Waldeck choir community. It also runs a kindergarten.
Hattenhofen parish
The parish of Hattenhofen includes the municipality of Hattenhofen . A church in Hattenhofen was first mentioned in 1275. The church set came through the Counts of Aichelberg to Württemberg and in 1456 to the Oberhofen monastery in Göppingen, to which the church was incorporated in 1457. The Aegidius Church is essentially Romanesque, but has been changed several times, most recently in 1930. The tower (around 1150) still has Romanesque and Gothic windows. In 1920 the Stuttgart glass painter Adolf Saile sen. (1879–1964) designed a memorial window with a Pietà . The parish of Bezgenriet in the Bezgenriet district of the city of Göppingen has been provided by Hattenhofen since 2013.
Parish at Hohenstaufen
The parish of Hohenstaufen comprised the districts of Hohenstaufen and Lenglingen of the city of Göppingen and, until the end of 2014, most of the community of Ottenbach . A dean was mentioned in Hohenstaufen as early as 1228. Count Ulrich donated the parish church, called St. Jakobskirche from 1589 , to the Adelberg monastery, to which it was incorporated in 1454. This church, named Barbarossakirche since 1859 , owned by the Protestant community, a late Gothic choir tower from the 15th century, is used by the Catholic community of St. Maria in Göppingen for services. The neighboring today's Protestant parish church was designed by Karl Marcell Heigelin in 1833 , built posthumously in 1838/39 and expanded and restored in 1934 by Hans Seytter . Thereby creating Walter Kohler the colored arched windows and large in two sections Judgment fresco 1934 the central part (Judge in the Pop Art , with two choirs of the blessed and two angel choirs, crown and instruments of torture supporting) and 1940, the side panels with eschatological parables and motifs, underneath, the fight of Michael with the dragon as a (also historical) symbol of evil is visually striking . The content of the fresco corresponds to Walter Kohler's west window in the neighboring Barbarossakirche. The Hohenstaufen parish also looks after the Maitis parish.
Lenglingen without church building, politically to the Lorch monastery office , from 1807 to the community Großdeinbach , with this from March 1, 1972 to the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd and only since January 1, 1973 to the city of Göppingen , was initially a church branch of Straßdorf . After the Reformation it was assigned to the parish of Hohenstaufen.
The Maitis parish includes the Maitis district of the city of Göppingen . Politically, Maitis belonged to the Hohenstaufen community until 1826. In terms of the church, it was initially a branch of Lorch, since 1680 of Hohenstaufen, to whose parish the parish of Maitis still belongs to this day. The late Gothic church of St. Leonhard and Maria in Maitis was built in 1464. The Maitis parish has been part of the Hohenstaufen parish since 2014.
Ottenbach remained Catholic after the Reformation. Most of the Protestant residents who moved there only after the Second World War were assigned to the Hohenstaufen parish. Ottenbach has been part of the Eislingen Christ Church Community since 2015. Since then, the name of the community has been the Evangelical Church Community of Eislingen-Ottenbach .
Until 1933 the Täleshof (then Großeislingen, now Eislingen / Fils) belonged to the Hohenstaufen parish. By the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on March 3, 1933, the Täleshof was assigned to the former parish of Großeislingen (now the Christ parish of Eislingen).
On January 1, 2018, the town of Wäschenbeuren , which until then belonged to Rechberghausen , was connected to the Hohenstaufen parish. Wäschenbeuren and Rechberghausen remained Catholic after the Reformation. Protestant residents also moved in mainly after the Second World War. In the case of Wäschenbeuren and the associated hamlets of Beutenmühle, Lindenbronn, Schützenhof, Wäscherhof and Ziegelhütte, these belonged to the parish of Lorch (then Welzheim church district , now Schwäbisch Gmünd church district). Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on January 13, 1955, the branch church community Rechberghausen was established as a subsidiary of the mother parish of Bartenbach and its own parish was established in Rechberghausen, finally separated from the mother parish of Bartenbach by the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on October 17, 1974 and raised to an independent parish. At the same time, the Protestant residents from Wäschenbeuren and the associated hamlets were assigned to it. A parish office and a parish hall were later built in Wäschenbeuren. Wäschenbeuren was then detached from Rechberghausen on January 1, 2018 and connected with the Hohenstaufen parish to form the new parish on Hohenstaufen . It bears the name "Parish at Hohenstaufen" . The Wäschenbeuren parish hall was expanded in 2008 and renamed the Martin Luther Church .
Parish of Holzheim
The Holzheim parish comprises the core area of the Holzheim district of the city of Göppingen, excluding the districts of St. Gotthardt and Manzen-Ursenwang. In church terms, Holzheim initially belonged to the Oberhofenkirche. In 1555 its own parish was established. A St. Bernhard chapel was mentioned in Holzheim as early as 1463. It was extended to the late Gothic parish church. This has a cross-vaulted choir. The nave was extended to the north and west in 1671 and provided with a two-sided gallery. In 1878 the church was renovated, with a western ridge turret. The glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler designed the four Gothic choir windows in 1977. In 1994 the north extension followed with exterior renovation and in 2005 the interior renovation with redesign of the altar area. In 2017 the new parish hall was inaugurated next to the church. The parish of Holzheim also looks after the parish of St. Gotthardt, to which the evangelical residents of Manzen, who until then belonged to the parish of Holzheim, were assigned by an announcement by the upper church council on July 6, 1954. In 1965 the Manzen-Ursenwang branch church was formed as a subsidiary of Holzheim. With the announcement of the upper church council on January 22, 1969, this was finally dissolved by the mother parish of Holzheim and raised to an independent parish. Together with Schlat, it has formed the Manzen-Ursenwang-Schlat parish since 2017.
Parish of Jebenhausen
The parish of Jebenhausen comprises the Jebenhausen district of the city of Göppingen . Jebenhausen initially belonged to the Faurndau collegiate church. In 1559 Jebenhausen became its own parish. A chapel of St. Philip and St. James already existed in 1228. The Lords of Liebenstein introduced the Reformation. Jakob Andreä was the reformer . The church was built in late Gothic form in 1506. It has several epitaphs of local rule. After the construction of today's Jakob-Andreä-Kirche, the old church was sold to the city of Göppingen, which opened the Göppingen Jewish Museum there in 1992 . The modern church was designed by architect Heinz Rall and inaugurated in 1966. Two Jebenhausen artists contributed to the design: Sigrid Flassbeck of Liebenstein created the concrete glazing Dallglas in Taufnische and Manfred Spang the wall relief (catch of Peter) and the relief panels on the gallery balustrade (history of the God-man relationship). There are community rooms on the slope below the church.
Manzen-Ursenwang-Schlat parish
The parish of Manzen-Ursenwang-Schlat comprises the districts of Manzen and Ursenwang in the Holzheim district of the city of Göppingen and the municipality of Schlat .
The church community Schlat included the political municipality Schlat. A church in Schlat was mentioned as early as 1275. In 1553 it was called St. Andreas. The church set came through the Counts of Helfenstein to the Königsbronn monastery . Today's St. Andrew 's Church was built in 1472 and expanded in 1584. It was renovated in 1772. The rectangular building has no choir. The tower was rebuilt in 1779 on the basement of the previous building. In 2017 the Schlat parish was dissolved and its district was incorporated into the Manzen-Ursenwang parish of Göppingen- Holzheim , which was also renamed the Manzen-Ursenwang-Schlat parish.
Manzen was created as new districts from 1952, Ursenwang from 1961 on the outskirts of the Holzheim district of the city of Göppingen . The Protestant residents of these districts therefore initially belonged to the parish of Holzheim. Manzen was assigned to the St. Gotthardt branch parish through the announcement of the upper church council on July 6, 1954, which is still looked after by the Holzheim parish to this day. The independent Manzen-Ursenwang branch parish was established through the announcement of the Upper Church Council on December 17, 1965. In a letter dated November 30, 1965, the Ministry of Education recognized the Manzen-Ursenwang branch church as a corporation under public law. By an announcement of January 22, 1969, the Manzen-Ursenwang branch parish was separated from the Holzheim parish and raised to the status of an independent parish. In 1975 a parish of its own was established and the community center with Johanneskirche was built in Manzen by architect Jan Beng Oei from Fellbach . The non-representational concrete glass windows made of Dall glass were created by the artist Annerose Schmidt-Weber from Freudenstadt-Christophstal. In 1990 a free-standing bell tower was added to the community center. Next to it are staff apartments and the rectory. The parish has a singing circle.
Parish Rechberghausen
The parish Rechberghausen comprised the parishes Rechberghausen and Wäschenbeuren until 2017 . Both parishes remained Catholic after the Reformation. Protestant residents also moved in mainly after the Second World War. In the case of Rechberghausen these initially belonged to the parish of Bartenbach, in the case of Wäschenbeuren and the associated hamlets of Beutenmühle, Lindenbronn, Schützenhof, Wäscherhof and Ziegelhütte to the parish of Lorch (then Welzheim church district , now Schwäbisch Gmünd church district). Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on January 13, 1955, the branch church community Rechberghausen was established as a subsidiary of the mother community Bartenbach and its own parish was established in Rechberghausen. In 1960/61, the Stuttgart architect Paul Heim jun. his own church, the Jesus Christ Church with community rooms on the slope floor below. The painter and graphic artist Albrecht Braun designed the church outside in the entrance area with concrete reliefs (crucifixion, resurrection, Emmaus, Pentecost) and on the east wall with a sgraffito (Michael's dragon fight). By the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on October 17, 1974, the branch church community Rechberghausen was separated from the mother church community Bartenbach and raised to an independent church community. At the same time, the Protestant residents from Wäschenbeuren and the associated hamlets were assigned to it. Later, a parish office and a parish hall were built in Wäschenbeuren (expanded in 2008 and renamed "Martin Luther Church"). Wäschenbeuren was then detached from Rechberghausen on January 1, 2018 and connected with the Hohenstaufen parish to form the new parish on Hohenstaufen . The church community Rechberghausen also runs a kindergarten in Rechberghausen.
Parish of Roßwälden
The parish of Roßwälden-Weiler comprises the districts of Roßwälden and Weiler ob der Fils of the city of Ebersbach an der Fils . A church in Roßwälden was first mentioned in 1275. In the 16th century it was called St. Benedict. The church set came through Heinrich the Amann von Bissingen to Konrad Malse and in 1337 to the Adelberg monastery, after the Reformation to Württemberg. Today's Benedicts Church is a hall building with a three-sided choir closure from the 16th century, renovated in 1726 and added a sacristy in 1980. The font dates from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. The glass painter Adolf Valentin Saile designed the three choir windows in 1980 (left: Fall of Man, Moses, birth of Christ; middle: Crucifixion, resurrection, rulers of the world; right: Pentecost and miracles). Until 1961 the parish Roßwälden belonged to the church district Kirchheim unter Teck. With effect from April 1, 1961, it was reclassified to the church district of Göppingen.
Weiler ob der Fils used to be a branch of Sulpach. Today the place belongs to the parish of Roßwälden. In Weiler, the Blasius Church was built as a branch church on the site of a previous building in 1603 . In accordance with the Renaissance period, it received a choir that had not been retracted, the pulpit on the north wall, opposite a west and former south pore with a former external staircase. In 1990 an annex was added to the west as a sacristy and group room.
Parish of Salach
The parish of Salach includes the parish of Salach without the hamlet of Baierhof, which was reclassified into the parish of Süßen (Geislingen an der Steige parish) by an announcement by the Upper Church Council on April 23, 1957.
A church in Salach was mentioned as early as 1275. From 1356 it is called St. Margaretha. It was not until 1600 that Württemberg introduced the Reformation. It was reversed from 1635 by Wilhelm von Guyn, but he had to accept a Simultaneum in the Margaret Church in 1655 . The Catholics were then assigned according to little sweeties. The parish of Salach was initially not occupied. It was not until 1798 that Salach became its own parish again, with its seat in Staufeneck . In 1819 Salach was assigned to the parish of Großsüßen and only in 1898 was it again its own parish. The Salach Church was used simultaneously until 1905, when the Catholics built their own St. Margaretha Church . Since then, the old Margaret Church in Salach has been entirely Protestant. The late Gothic choir tower was renovated in 1906 and the choir window was decorated with a representation of the resurrection by the glass painter B. Kraus. During the next renovation at the end of the 1950s, it was fitted into the window of the south extension. In 1959, Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen created a new resurrection window for the choir. The tower has a helmet roof and a ribbed vault. The wall paintings from 1400 were uncovered and restored in 1958. The church contains grave monuments of the Lords of Rechberg from the 16th century. In 2005, as part of a general renovation, the southern extension was separated from the choir room with the paintings by a glass wall. The Salach parish also has a trumpet choir and a singing group.
Parish of St. Gotthardt
The parish of St. Gotthardt comprises the district of St. Gotthardt in the Holzheim district of the city of Göppingen . Ecclesiastically, St. Gotthardt initially belonged to the Oberhofenkirche. The chapel in St. Gotthardt (the only place with this name north of the Alps and outside of northern Italy and Austria) was probably a pilgrimage church, which was part of the frame of Seifried von Zillenhardt, a knight at the nearby Zillenhart Castle , who traveled to Tuscany in mercenary services around 1350 of the Gotthardt worship at that time and gave its name to the place that was created afterwards. The smaller of the two bells dates from this time. A remnant of a fresco (flagellation of Jesus) and floor tiles from 1500 were exposed during the church renovation in 1993. In 1973, the glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler designed the round window in the altar wall with the Easter motif of the three women at the empty Christ tomb. The little church is the second oldest building in today's Göppingen after the Romanesque Protestant collegiate church in Faurndau . Since the Reformation the parish of St. Gotthardt has been looked after by the Holzheim parish. The claim that St. Gotthardt was at times its own parish is based on a misinterpretation of a note from 1907. In 1987, a farmhouse next to the church was inaugurated as a parish house after extensive renovation .
By the announcement of the upper church council on July 6, 1954, the Göppingen new housing estate Manzen, later also the settlement Ursenwang, was assigned to the parish of St. Gotthardt. Before that they belonged to the parish of Holzheim. Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on December 17, 1965, the Manzen-Ursenwang branch parish was formed for the two places Manzen and Ursenwang, which was finally elevated to an independent parish in 1969.
Parish of Schlierbach
The church community Schlierbach includes the community Schlierbach . A church in Schlierbach was mentioned as early as 1275. The church set passed through the court warden from Kirchheim to von Randeck, then to Salome von Lichtenstein and finally to the Kirchheim monastery, to which the church was incorporated in 1465. The church stands in an elevated former churchyard. The nave with the ribbed vaulted choir was built in 1497, the tower in 1498.
Parish of Uhingen
The parish of Uhingen comprises the city of Uhingen with its districts of Baiereck , Diegelsberg , Holzhausen , Sparwiesen and Nassachmühle , whereby Nassachmühle still belonged to the parish of Ebersbach until 1926 and was affiliated to the parish of Uhingen through the announcement of the upper church council on May 28, 1926. On January 1, 2016, the parish of Baiereck-Nassach im Nassachtal , which had previously been assigned to the Schorndorf parish, was merged with the parish of Uhingen.
A church was first mentioned in Uhingen in 1275. The church set belonged to the Adelberg Monastery. The church is a west tower with a reticulated choir from 1519. Remains of a previous church were discovered in May 2020 during archaeological excavations before a floor slab was concreted. In 1693 the nave was extended slightly to the north in order to build a gallery there and in the west. The baroque pulpit also dates from this period. The tower received an extension in 1823. In 1912 and 1964 the church was renovated. The organ gallery was removed from the Gothic choir.
Diegelsberg , Holzhausen and Sparwiesen have always been branches of Uhingen. Sparwiesen was an independent parish until 1922, which was merged with the parish of Uhingen with effect from April 1, 1922 through the announcement of the consistory. In these three districts, architect Walter Ruff built his own Protestant churches. The Pauluskirche Diegelsberg 1957, the Resurrection Church Sparwiesen 1960 and the Christ Church Holzhausen 1964. The Stuttgart glass artist Adolf Valentin Saile provided the following Uhingen buildings with colored windows: 1949 Municipal Mortuary ( Descent from the Cross, Resurrection ), converted into the funeral hall in 1981, there also the light band; 1953 Baiereck Church ( Passion and Resurrection, with inscription ( Joh 13,34 LUT ) ); 1957 Diegelsberg Pauluskirche (choir window Majestas Domini / Last Judgment , plus the Paulus sgraffito on the tower); 1959 Uhingen parish hall ( Archangel Michael ); 1960 Sparwiesen Auferstehungskirche (altar wall window Resurrection of Lazarus , sacristy window ), 1964 Christ Church Holzhausen (glass concrete south wall), 1964 Cäcilienkirche Uhingen (three choir windows - left: Christmas; middle: Passion, Easter; right: Majestas Domini, Works of Mercy ). The Uhingen glass cutter Helmut Edelmann created four ground glass windows in the hall (symbols of the evangelists) using flat glass etching for the parish hall of the Christ Church in Holzhausen in 1964 ,
The former parish of Baiereck , which has merged into the parish of Uhingen, includes the Baiereck district with the hamlet of Unterhütt in the city of Uhingen. In church terms, Baiereck was initially a branch of Ebersbach an der Fils. In 1848 a separate parish was established, which initially included the hamlet of Nassachmühle. In 1860 the neighboring village of Schlichten was also assigned to the Baiereck parish. The responsibility for arbitration expired with the transition to Uhingen. The church in Baiereck was built in 1595 and redesigned in 1849. She has a roof ridge.
A parish hall was built in Nassachmühle in 1998.
Until 1937, the Niederwälden district of Wangen also belonged to the Uhingen parish. By the announcement of the upper church council of March 19, 1937 Niederwälden was assigned to the parish of Wangen.
Wangen parish
The parish of Wangen-Oberwälden includes the municipality of Wangen , since 1937 also the hamlet Niederwälden and since the end of 2019 also Oberwälden . Niederwälden was reclassified from the parish of Uhingen to the parish of Wangen by an announcement by the upper church council on March 19, 1937.
Oberwälden comprised the Oberwälden district and formed its own parish until the end of 2019. A church in Oberwälden was mentioned as early as 1187. Later it is called Nikolauskirche . The patrons were the von Staufeneck , which then came to the Adelberg monastery as well as Ahelfingen and Zillenhart . In the square Romanesque tower choir, the church has an almost completely preserved cycle of frescoes from the turn from early to high Gothic around 1300: Evangelists in the vault, a cycle of Mary and the church patron, St. Nicholas , on the north wall, the east wall with a representation of Jonah , Christ as the Man of Sorrows and a representation of the Madonna in protective cloak , and opposite to the nave on the archway the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. It was not until 1909 that the frescoes were rediscovered and restored during the church renovation by the architect Richard Böklen . The Oberwälden parish also looked after the neighboring parish of Wangen until 1967, when the parish was relocated there. Since the end of 2019, Wangen and Oberwälden have been one municipality.
Ecclesiastically, the main town of Wangen was initially a branch of the Oberhofenkirche Göppingen . A Barbara chapel in Wangen was abolished in 1535, but a separate parish was established in 1557. For a time it was united with Oberwälden. The present church was built in 1887/88 in the neo-Gothic brick style by the architect Theophil Frey instead of the late-Gothic church, which was expanded in 1682, and has a wooden barrel vault and is richly ornamented. The stained glass in the choir window and rosette (resurrection of Christ, sacrificial lamb, ornaments) comes from the Munich workshop of Franz Xaver Zettler . In 1977 the church was renovated.
Parish of Zell unter Aichelberg
The parish of Zell unter Aichelberg includes the communities of Aichelberg and Zell unter Aichelberg .
A church in Zell unter Aichelberg was mentioned as early as 1275 and later called St. Martin . Most of the Martinskirche dates from 1386. After a lightning strike in 1667, the Martinskirche received its characteristic spire. Inside, murals were discovered on the north wall and in the choir in 1907 . They date from the first half of the 15th century. Three rows of pictures separated by wavy bands show the Last Judgment and Veronica with the handkerchief on the north wall, then - starting on the north wall and continuing on the choir walls - the childhood story of Jesus , ending with the flight to Egypt . In the middle row of the choir walls the Passion , beginning with the Mount of Olives scene and ending with the Entombment . And finally, in the lower row, starting on the north wall, several apostolic martyrs . The colored choir window in the middle of the frescoes was deliberately designed non-representational by Wolf-Dieter Kohler in 1963 .
Aichelberg was always a church branch of Zell unter Aichelberg. Your Christ Church was built in 1959 by the Reutlingen architect Manfred Wizgall . The lead glass windows with their strong colors were designed by the artist Martin Domke, who lives in Hepsisau : at the bottom right in the south wall from back to front birth, suffering and grave of Jesus, where the angel points the women to the risen one on the front wall, top left on the north wall then Christ sending out the twelve apostles. The altar window to the east shows Christ as ruler of the world and as judge of the accepted and the damned, as a blessing and inviting redeemer of those who hear the call of the trumpets of revelation. The bronze cross, the candlesticks and the baptismal font were also created by Martin Domke.
Until 1975 the parish of Zell unter Aichelberg belonged to the church district of Kirchheim unter Teck . With effect from January 1, 1976 it was reclassified to the church district of Göppingen.
Until 1933, Eckwälden was also assigned as a subsidiary to the parish of Zell unter Aichelberg. Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on March 18, 1933, Eckwälden became part of the parish of Boll, which at that time was already part of the Göppingen church district.
literature
- The Evangelical Württemberg - Its church offices and clergy from the Reformation to the present, collected and edited by Christian Sigel, pastor in Gebersheim, 1910.
- The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume III: Region Stuttgart - Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 .
Sources and further information
- ^ Website of the Adelberg parish
- ^ Website of the parish of Albershausen
- ^ Website of the Bad Boll parish
- ^ Website of the parish of Bartenbach
- ^ Website of the parish of Bezgenriet
- ^ Website of the parish of Börtlingen-Birenbach
- ^ Website of the parish of Bünzwangen-Sulpach
- ^ Website of the parish of Dürnau-Gammelshausen
- ^ Website of the parish of Ebersbach an der Fils
- ^ Website of the parish of Eislingen-Ottenbach
- ^ Website of the parish Eislingen Lutherkirche
- ↑ Website of the parish Eschenbach-Heiningen
- ^ Website of the parish of Faurndau
- ^ Website of the Oberhofen Göppingen parish
- ^ Website of the Reusch parish in Göppingen
- ^ Website of the Martin Luther parish in Göppingen
- ^ Website of the Waldeck parish in Göppingen
- ^ Website of the parish of Hattenhofen
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community at Hohenstaufen
- ↑ a b Website of the parishes of Holzheim and St. Gotthardt
- ^ Website of the parish of Jebenhausen
- ^ Website of the Manzen-Ursenwang-Schlat parish
- ^ Website of the church community Rechberghausen
- ^ Website of the parish Roßwälden-Weiler
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community of Salach
- ^ Website of the Schlierbach parish
- ^ Website of the parish of Uhingen
- ↑ Website of the Wangen-Oberwälden parish
- ^ Website of the parish of Zell unter Aichelberg