Laurentius Church (Hemmingen)
The Protestant Laurentius Church is the oldest building in Hemmingen , a community in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
Location and surroundings
The Laurentiuskirche has the address Alter Schulplatz 5 and is located between the market square and the castle in a churchyard. Right next to the church you will find the evangelical parish hall (formerly rectory, 1806) and the new rectory (1973) behind it in the church garden.
description
The Laurentiuskirche is a village church on a medieval defense tower. It has a high Gothic choir with a straight yoke and a 5/8 end , which is painted entirely in Gothic style. A late Gothic reticulated sacristy is attached to the choir on the right . The nave was extended several times in the Renaissance and Baroque periods up to the interior version of a transverse church and some of it still has baroque paintings . The outside of the church tower has been redesigned historically.
Building history
The building history of the Laurentiuskirche begins with the tower, the foundation walls of which may date from the 12th century. A small church will have attached to it to the east. A stately choir was added to the 14th century church around 1350. From then on, the length of the building was determined by the tower and choir. The late Gothic sacristy was added around 1530.
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Around 1582 the nave was widened to the south . In 1600 there was a further enlargement on the south side to the west. At that time the three Renaissance portals were built, of which the main portal, which is slightly angled in accordance with the urban situation, is more conspicuous: in front are the life-size apostle figures Paul and Peter, the lid bears the four evangelist symbols at the corners and the center is an empty tomba and right at the top crowned the risen Christ. A round stair tower was erected in the southwest.
In 1785 the nave was extended again for the growing community, this time to the north. At the same time, the surrounding walls were raised and space was created for the large circumferential gallery . Since then, the tower has been located with its foundation walls in the cube of the nave.
In 1856 the Laurentius Church was redesigned inside and out by Christian Friedrich von Leins . It was then that the tower received its beveled edges and the characteristic tall lantern .
From 1956 to 1961 the interior was renovated by the architect Klatte, during which on the one hand the Gothic wall paintings in the choir were exposed, but on the other hand the neo-Gothic parts of the pulpit cover and altar were removed or replaced. The chairs and the technology were also refurbished. When the exterior was renovated in 1970, the roof was re-covered.
In 1998 an exterior renovation heralded another renovation of the church. In 2004 the architects Kreuz + Kreuz renewed the church. The surfaces in the nave were straightened, the electrical engineering and lighting were redesigned, the stalls were revised and a new heating system was installed, which is connected to the gas heating system shared with the parish hall.
Furnishing
In the choir of the Laurentiuskirche there are several commemorative plates of the local rule from the families of the Nippenburg and Varnbüls. Two wooden figures represent Laurentius and George. The choir walls are painted in Gothic style with scenes from the story of the saints. A stone baroque crucifix stands in the apex of the choir. In the nave, next to the organ, there is an epitaph from 1595 with a panel depicting the resurrection. Next to it is the Rensch organ, newly built in 1961, with a partially baroque prospectus .
Bells
- Bell 1: Prayer Our Father Bell Weight: 900 kg Strike: f 'Year of casting: 1722 (this bell actually belongs to the municipality of Bietigheim-Bissingen but came to Hemmingen during the Second World War )
- Bell 2: Cross-sign bell-arbitration bell Weight: 400 kg Strike sound: as' Year of casting: 1698 in Höfingen zu Hemmingen by Johan Roßier
- Bell 3: Baptism bell Weight: 163 kg Strike tone: b 'Year of casting: 1950 by Heinrich Kurtz in Stuttgart
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA7BYUrGF50
organ
The first organ from 1738 originally stood in the choir, on a specially built gallery. It has had its current location on the west gallery since 1856. The beautiful baroque prospect today surrounds the one built in 1962 by Richard Rensch (Lauffen / N.). The instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Pastor's Board
Pastors since 1528 (until 1991 from: Heimatbuch Hemmingen, 1991)
- 1528 Sebastian Nippenburger (until 1559)
- 1559 Johannes Wild (I) (until 1584)
- 1584 Johannes Wild (II) (until 1628)
- 1628 Johannes Wild (III) (until 1632)
- 1632 Johann Christian Oswald (until 1635)
- 1635 Johann Georg Azymus (until 1655)
- 1655 Ulrich Christoph Varenbüler (until 1656)
- 1656 Georg Friedrich Weinmar (until 1670)
- 1670 Johann Melchior Eppinger (until 1696)
- 1696 Benjamin Schmid (until 1708)
- 1708 Johann Christoph Simeon Alsatian (1722)
- 1722 Friedrich Christoph Kausler (until 1734)
- 1734 Heinrich Albrecht Schmoll (until 1738)
- 1739 Georg Daniel Esenwein (until 1762)
- 1762 Johann Jakob Friedrich Rau (until 1795)
- New parsonage, parish administrator Christian Jakob Hermann
- 1804 Friedrich Wilhelm Jonathan Dillenius (until 1815)
- 1815 Christoph Friedrich Schott (until 1854)
- 1854 Parish Administrator Wilhelm Köhl (until 1855)
- 1855 Karl Gustav Schöll (until 1869)
- 1869 Emil Demmler (parish administrator, 1870–1877 pastor)
- 1877 Christoph Eberhard Elwert (until 1883)
- 1883 Parish Administrator Georg Dieterle (until 1884)
- 1884 Ernst Hoffmann (until 1907)
- 1907 Parish Administrator Hermann Henne (until 1908)
- 1908 Eugen Hofstetter (until 1910)
- 1910 Parish Administrator Paul Steinestel (until 1911)
- 1911 Ernst Heintzeler (until 1932)
- 1933 Fritz Wölfing-Selig (until 1945)
- 1945 Immanuel Baumann (until 1948)
- 1949 Otto Kicherer (until 1956)
- 1956 Immanuel Kling (until 1974)
- 1974 Hans-Joachim Stambke (until 1993)
- 1985 Parish Vicar Claus Bischoff (until 1987)
- 1987 Parish Vicar Johannes Gruner (until 1990)
- 1990 Parish Vicar Ulf Pomereke (until 1992)
- 1992 Parish Vicar Roland Opitz (until 1996)
- 1993 Dr. Gerhard Schäberle-Koenigs (until 2003)
- 1993 Gabriele Koenigs (until 2004)
- 1996 Parish Vicar Susanne Holzwarth-Raithelhuber (until 1998)
- 1996 Parish Vicar Wolfgang Adelhelm (until 1999)
- 2004 Gunther Seibold (until 2012)
- 2004 Sabine Leibbrandt (until 2009)
- 2009 Stefanie Luz (until 2014)
- 2013 Martin Kreiser (until 2014)
- 2015 Silke Heckmann
- 2016 Barbara Eisenhardt
literature
- Eduard Paulus: The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Neckarkkreis - inventory ; Stuttgart 1889, p. 292
- Ulrich Gräf and Rudolf Pfisterer: Building and Designing in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , Stuttgart 2008, p. 8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ of the Laurentiuskirche
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '57.4 " N , 9 ° 2' 6.8" E