Monastery Church (Neckarsulm)
The monastery church in Neckarsulm was the church of the former Neckarsulm Capuchin monastery and was completed in 1664. From 1811 to 1892 it was secularized and from 1829 served as the town's warehouse building; It was re-consecrated in 1894. Today it is a branch church of St. Dionysius . The most important art treasure of the church is the Madonna from Scheuerberg .
history
The Capuchin monastery in front of the southern Neckarsulm city wall near Marktstrasse was built between 1660 and 1666. After secularization , the monastery buildings were used as an official prison from 1811 and as a police station from 1980.
The monastery church was completed in 1664 under the supervision of the Capuchin Father Nicholas of Munich . After secularization, it served as a municipal armory and junk shop from 1829 to 1892. Due to efforts of the Neckarsulm parish priest Franz Josef Maucher (1826-1910) to use the church again as such, the restoration began in 1892 under the direction of the Stuttgart architect Ulrich Pohlhammer . The west facade received a new roof turret . A bell was cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf in 1894 . Since the original baroque furnishings had come to Kochertürn (where they have since been destroyed), they had to be almost completely replaced. On October 4th, 1894, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi , the church was consecrated anew. Both Francis and St. Anthony of Padua are named as church patrons . In 1903 the church received a new organ gallery.
Furnishing
A Gothic Madonna figure is to be regarded as significant from an art-historical point of view, which was brought from a grotto on Neckarsulm's local mountain Scheuerberg to the parish church of St. Dionysius in the late 1920s, where it was badly damaged in the Second World War. After the annealed parts of the figure had been put back together, it was placed in the monastery church. Also worth mentioning are the works of the Neckarsulm sculptor Johann Matthäus Zartmann (1830–1896), such as the cafeteria of the high altar and the marble figures of St. Anthony of Padua (left of the altar) and St. Clare (right of the altar). He also created the figure of the good shepherd above the entrance (on the west facade). There is a Marian altar in a side chapel. The altar builder Alois Binnig (1843–1902) from Oedheim delivered these in 1896 . The sculpture of Maria as Queen of Heaven comes from the studio of Theodor Schnell und Sohn in Ravensburg . The side altars from 1900 are dedicated to St. Joseph (left) and St. Anna (right). There is a stained glass window above the high altar depicting St. Francis' sermon on the bird . This was manufactured in 1961 by the Karlsruhe glass workshop based on a design by Franz Dewald from Grötzingen .
literature
- Neckarsulm in words and pictures - St. Dionysius parish, Catholic parish St. Dionysius Neckarsulm 1982
- Uwe Scharfenecker: monastery church . In: The churches of Neckarsulm . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2004, ISBN 3-89870-164-6 , p. 11-14 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '25.6 " N , 9 ° 13' 28.7" E