Margaret Church (Salach)

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Margaret Church in Salach

The Margaret Church of the Evangelical Parish of Salach in the Protestant church district of Göppingen is a late Romanesque fortified church and one of two Margaret churches in Salach .

history

A permanent church in Salach is mentioned in a tax register of the Diocese of Constance from the year 1275. It should refer to the predecessor building of the Margaretenkirche , from which the first two tower floors of today's church probably come. From 1356 it is called St. Margaretha.

In the middle of the 16th century, Konrad V. von Rechberg zu Staufeneck had a choir annex built, which adjoined the old tower to the south and under which the stately crypt was housed. The choir wall including the paintings fell victim to this redesign; further wall and vault paintings in the choir were preserved, but were whitewashed around 1680 when the interior of the church was redesigned in baroque style.

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 completely 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, in the course of archaeological investigations and a general renovation, the southern extension was separated from the choir room with the paintings by a glass wall.

literature

  • Theodor Dieterich: Origin and history of the Simultaneum in Salach . In. Sheets for church history in Württemberg . NF, year 16, 1912, pp. 47–76 ( digitized version )
  • Harald Drös: The inscriptions of the district of Göppingen ; in: Deutsche Insschriften Online: The inscriptions of the German-speaking area in the Middle Ages and early modern times ; Interacademic project of the Academies of Sciences Göttingen, Mainz and North Rhine-Westphalia; Volume 41, Heidelberg 1997 - available see [1]
  • Church leaders: Churches in Salach ; ed. Ev. and Catholic parishes of Salach, 2006

Web links

Commons : Margaretenkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community of Salach
  2. ↑ Ludwig Amann: Parish Church St. Margaretha , January 15, 2013 on www.kath-kirche-salach.de
  3. ↑ Marlies Barteit-Klopp: On the previous building and the findings of the Ev. Margaret Church in Salach. Archaeological observations during the renovation in 2003 and 2005 ; in: Hohenstau-fen / Helfenstein. Historical yearbook for the Göppingen district 14; Hg. Geschichts- u. Altertumsverein Göppingen eV; Art and Geislingen History Association, Walter Ziegler, Göppingen 2006

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 35.9 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 28.8"  E