Margaret Church (Aldingen)
The Margaretenkirche is the Protestant church in the Aldingen district of the city of Remseck am Neckar in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . In the late gothic built style church was the grave lay the Lords of Kaltental well as part of a no longer extant castle . The namesake is St. Margaret of Antioch .
Today the church belongs to the Evangelical Parish Remseck.
history
Aldingen is said to have had a church as early as the 8th century. The donation of the church to the Hirsau Monastery by Winther von Oßweil in 1100 was the first documentary mention of Aldingen. The church mentioned was a Romanesque predecessor of today's Margaretenkirche. In 1278 the church was owned by Count Ulrich von Asperg , who gave it to the Lords of Kaltental as a fief as part of the Aldingen rule. On November 29, 1380, Hans von Kaltental sold the church to the monastery in Stuttgart.
In place of these previous churches, the late Gothic St. Margaret's Church was built in the 15th century by Hans von Ulm and completed in 1500, as the eastern keystone in the choir vault documents. Although the new church was also owned by the Stuttgart monastery, it was used by the Lords of Kaltental as a residential church for their Aldingen rule and as a burial place. So the western keystone in the choir vault shows the coat of arms of the Kaltentaler instead of the coat of arms of the church owner as usual.
In the course of the Kaltental rule over Aldingen, the interior was repeatedly supplemented and later restored several times and adapted to the needs of the time. During the War of the Palatinate Succession , the church was looted by French soldiers in 1693 and the bells were stolen, among other things. The high altar , which was built during the Catholic period, was dismantled in 1787 and the five figures of saints it contained were sold to the Württemberg State Museum in 1895 .
The last major restoration took place in 2012 , when the church received a new altar , which was designed by the artist Werner Mally.
reformation
After the Reformation was introduced in Württemberg in 1534, Duke Ulrich, as overlord of the Stuttgart monastery, would have had the right to introduce the Reformation also for the Margaret Church, which belongs to the monastery. In favor of the Catholic local lords of Aldingen, however, it was waived.
In the second half of the 16th century, the two brothers Heinrich and Reinhardt von Kaltental and their cousin Philipp Wolf von Kaltental shared local rule over Aldingen. Heinrich and Reinhardt agreed with Duke Christoph, who had ruled since 1550, to introduce the Reformation in Aldingen. However, her cousin Philipp Wolf resisted. A compromise was agreed in 1568 under increasing pressure from Stuttgart. For the villagers, this meant that they were free to choose their denomination - which was unusual for the time. This was expressly stipulated in the Aldinger village order of 1578. The services of both denominations were celebrated in St. Margaret's Church even during the Thirty Years' War . In addition to the evangelically used altar in the choir there was also a catholic side altar. Its altarpiece is still present in the church as a wall decoration.
During the 17th century the number of Catholics in Aldingen fell. After the Catholic line of the Kaltentaler died out, no Catholic mass priest was hired. Only in 1945 did Catholics return to Aldingen, who then built their own church.
Outdoor area
The Margaretenkirche is located in a walled churchyard that can be reached via three gates.
As was customary in the Middle Ages , the nave is oriented in a west-east direction. The choir , which is unusually large for a village church , is on the east side. The main portal with Gothic framework and figural decorations is on the south side. On the left of the portal Mary is shown with the baby Jesus. On the right side St. Margaret with the dragon and above the portal the God the Father. The figures are copies. The originals from the 16th century are now in the tower.
Indoor
Choir
The choir has several large windows with glass paintings from 1979. It houses the organ from 1973 with a disposition by Volker Lutz . There are also several grave monuments of the Lords of Kaltental, the original mansions of the local rulers and the modern altar. At the passage to the choir is the pulpit from 1683. On the pulpit cover there is again the Kaltental coat of arms and also figures of the four evangelists and Christ with the victory flag.
Nave
In addition to the other grave monuments, there is also a gallery in the nave, which is decorated with two picture cycles. Both cycles date from 1733 by the Stuttgart painter Borny. The thirteen-part cycle Jesus and the Apostles is attached to the main gallery. The cycle of salvation history is located in the side gallery. It consists of six pairs of images, each juxtaposing scenes from the Old and New Testaments.
The Gothic baptismal font dates from between 1491 and 1515.
Funerary monuments
The following list contains the 24 of the original 36 monuments preserved in the church as well as the two paintings in honor of Heinrich von Kaltental and Agatha von Kaltental.
| No. | Funerary monuments | Art | date | Location |
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| 1 | Jerg (Georg) from Kaltental | Funerary monument | after 1555 | Choir |
| 2 + 3 1 | Reinhart von Kaltental and his wife Anna Maria geb. Emergency | Grave monument (double statue) 2 | 1607 | Choir |
| 4th | Wolf Philipp von Hirnheim | Funerary monument 3 | 1546 | Choir |
| 5 | Philipp Wolf von Kaltental | Funerary monument | around 1584 | Choir |
| 6th | Reinhart von Kaltental | Grave slab | 1580 | Choir |
| 7th | Agatha von Hirnheim born from Kaltental | Funerary monument 3 | 1553 | Choir |
| 8th | Daughter of Jerg von Kaltental | Grave slab | 1544 | Choir |
| 9 | Daughter of Philipp Wolf von Kaltental | Grave slab (fragment) | 1572 | Choir |
| 10 | George the Elder of Kaltental | Funerary monument | 1537 | Nave |
| 11 | Philipp von Kaltental | Funerary monument | 1546 | Nave |
| 12 | Philipp von Kaltental | Grave slab | Nave | |
| 13 | Margret von Kaltental | Grave slab | 1512 | Nave |
| 14th | Jörg (Georg) Wolf von Kaltental | Grave slab | 1619 | Nave |
| 15th | Friedrich Georg Wolf von Kaltental | Grave slab | 1698 | Nave |
| 16 | Magdalena von Kaltental born from Weyler | Grave slab | 1703 | Nave |
| 17th | Magdalena Salome from Kaltental | Grave slab | 1684 | Nave |
| 18th | Caspar von Kaltental | Memorial stone 4 (fragment) | in the 16th century | Nave |
| 19th | Wilhelm von Kaltental and Elisabeth von Neuhausen | Memorial stone 4 (fragment) | in the 16th century | Passage to the tower hall |
| 20th | Anna Nothaft from Hohenberg | Grave slab | 1595 | Nave |
| 21st | unknown Herr von Kaltental | Grave slab | around 1500 | Tower hall |
| 22nd | George of Kaltental | Grave slab | 1537 | Tower hall |
| 23 | Apollonia from Kaltental | Grave slab | 1529 | Tower hall |
| 24 | Heinrich von Kaltental | Funerary monument | 1504 | Tower hall |
| - 5th | Heinrich von Kaltental (Resurrection-Christ- Epitaph ) | painting | 1608 | Passage to the choir |
| - 5th | Epitaph for Agatha von Kaltental | painting | 1613 | Nave |
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1 The double statue is usually counted as two monuments
2Suspected sculptor from Jakob Müller's environment 3Created by Joseph Schmid from Urach
4th The memorial stones remember people who died before the church was used as a burial place
5 The two paintings are usually not included in the number of grave monuments
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Steeple
The church tower on the west side of the nave was also part of the fortifications of the castle, which is why, with the exception of the top floor, it has loopholes instead of windows. In addition to its massive exterior, there are various other indications that indicate that the tower was taken over from the previous church and was built in 1398. This is why this is occasionally given as the year the church was built. Elsewhere, however, it is assumed that the tower was built together with the rest of the church as a unit and was thus completed in 1500.
Tower clock
Originally the tower only had a sundial . A mechanical clock was retrofitted early on, but the sundial as an ornament on the south wall of the tower has been preserved to this day. The original movement from the early 16th century was expanded to include a quarter-hour strike in 1802 and was finally replaced by a new movement in 1931.
Bells
Since 1525 the tower had a wooden bell cage for a triple bell. The bells stolen in the Palatinate War of Succession were replaced in the 18th century. The Neubert bell, cast in 1773, has been preserved to this day. The remaining bells were dismantled and melted down during the two world wars . In 1951, a three-way ring was made again with two new bells. In 1957 a new metal bell cage was installed and the ringing was extended to include a fourth bell.
investment
The Margaretenkirche and its predecessors together with the so-called Schlössle and its farm buildings formed a castle complex, which was surrounded by a curtain wall and a kennel. A ditch on the mountain side is said to have protected the castle complex.
Due to a fire in the 18th century, only the church itself and parts of the wall, the so-called Pfaffenhaus and the old school house, are preserved today.
Schlössle
Colloquially Schlössle -called Old Palace , also known as Inside Castle called, was the 14th-century noble residence of the Lords of Kaltental after castle Kaltental had left and had moved to Aldingen. After the construction of Aldingen Castle , the castle remained the seat of the Catholic line of the local lord family. On the night of September 28th to 29th, 1784, the manor house was struck by lightning and burned down. It was never rebuilt, so only remains of the foundation are preserved. There are several local legends about the building. It is said that there was an underground passage to Neckarrems , but it was never discovered.
Pfaffenhaus and rectory
The so-called Pfaffenhaus , documented from 1500 but probably much older, was part of the original complex and was built directly onto the churchyard. Before the Reformation it was the home of the parish priest and later the Catholic mass priest. After the Catholic service in the Margaretenkirche had been stopped, the Pfaffenhaus housed several Jewish families in the 18th century who also set up a prayer room here. The Jewish citizens of Aldingen were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hochberg .
A parsonage was built outside the complex for the Protestant pastors in 1568 and expanded into a parsonage in the 18th century. To date, this is Rectory of the responsible parish housed.
Old school house
In 1685 the facility was supplemented by a building that housed Aldingen's first school . In 1778 this building, which was directly adjacent to the churchyard, was torn down and replaced by a larger new building, the so-called old school house . The school moved again as early as 1836, and the old school building is now used privately.
literature
- Jochen Tolk: The Margaret Church in Aldingen . In: Eduard Theiner (Hrsg.): Local history series of publications of the community of Remseck am Neckar . Volume 15. 1996
Web links
- Margaretenkirche on remseck-evangelisch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Thomas Müller, Wolf-Dieter Retzbach: Weather vane, cross and cock . Ed .: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung. Ungeheuer + Ulmer, Ludwigsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930872-75-6 , p. 130 .
- ↑ a b c d Impressions Aldingen. In: stadt-remseck.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ^ Karl Eduard Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Ludwigsburg. Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau Württemberg, 1859, accessed on April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ The Margaret Church - The Altar. In: remseck-evangelisch.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Dr. Ulf Scharlau: The Kaltenthalers and the belated Reformation in Aldingen. In: remseck-evangelisch.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Dr. Jochen Tolk: The Margaret Church in Aldingen . In: Eduard Theiner (Hrsg.): Local history series of publications of the community of Remseck am Neckar . tape 15 , 1996, pp. 47-52 .
- ↑ Dr. Jochen Tolk: The Margaret Church in Aldingen . In: Eduard Theiner (Hrsg.): Local history series of publications of the community of Remseck am Neckar . tape 15 , 1996, pp. 16.17 .
- ↑ Dr. Jochen Tolk: The Margaret Church in Aldingen . In: Eduard Theiner (Hrsg.): Local history series of publications of the community of Remseck am Neckar . tape 15 , 1996, pp. 22-25 .
- ↑ a b c d Historical tour through Remseck-Aldingen. (PDF, 806 kB) In: stadt-remseck.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '58.8 " N , 9 ° 15' 11.4" E