Assumption of Mary (Talheim)
The Church of the Assumption of Mary on Untergruppenbacher Strasse in Talheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church that was built in 1886/87 on the foundation walls of the Lyher Castle in the neo-Gothic style based on designs by the Stuttgart building councilor Josef Morlock .
history
The oldest church in Talheim is Kilian's Church , to which pilgrimages took place as early as the 15th century, but which became Protestant in the course of the Reformation. From 1628 the Teutonic Order tried several times to gain control of the Protestant Kilian Church. The Kilian's Church remained Protestant since 1649, so that in 1659 the order built a Catholic chapel in the upper floor of the Lyher Castle, a former mansion of the Lyher patrician family, and enlarged it several times over the years. The Catholic school was located in the basement of the Lyher Castle. In 1665, a teacher who belonged to the Catholic religious community was appointed, and in the following year there were Catholic processions in the village.
The Catholic community in Talheim was initially a subsidiary of Sontheim . In 1823 a separate parish was set up, the pastor initially staying in a house on Bergstrasse. In 1863 a new parsonage was built near Lyherschlösschen. In the same year the castle passed from the royal Württemberg camera administration into the possession of the parish. Pastor Konstantin Frey founded a church building fund in 1864 to build a "real" church instead of the Lyher Castle. The decision to build a new church was made in 1881.
The original plans came from the Sontheim foreman J. Eckert, but the ordinariate found the cost estimate for the execution to be too expensive, so Eckert reduced the plans and in 1885 the plans were revised by the Stuttgart senior building officer Josef Morlock , who then also received the order to create completely new plans, according to which the church was then built in 1886/87 on the foundation walls of the old Lyher Castle. The church was consecrated on April 12, 1887. A few years later the nearby Catholic schoolhouse was also built.
Since the pilgrimage to the church is celebrated on Ascension Day, the name Church of the Assumption of Mary has been memorized in the local jargon and was adopted by the parish, whereby the original name of the church was the pilgrimage church of Our Lady or Church of Our Lady .
The church survived the Second World War without major damage, however, during an investigation in 1950, district architect Lutz found that the church was dilapidated and in danger of collapsing. In the long run, the old foundations of the Lyher Castle were too weak for the massive church building and the walls, which were made of field and rubble stones and poor mortar for cost reasons, also had major structural defects. A comprehensive renovation took place in 1950/51, during which the outer walls were reinforced and the choir arch, the window situation in the choir and the ceiling above the nave were changed. On the occasion of this renovation, the church received a new high altar that was taken over from the church on the Michaelsberg. From 1955 onwards, larger pilgrimages to the church took place again.
The last extensive renovation took place from 1978 to 1982. At that time the tower and the nave were given a new roof, in the choir the window changes from 1950/51 were reversed, the high altar was restored and the sacristy and side entrance each received a vestibule. In addition, the choir area was redesigned according to the requirements of modern liturgy . In 2006/07 the belfry was modernized.
Furnishing
The most important work of art in the church is a baroque altar of Our Lady with an old statue of the Madonna from the middle of the 14th century, which originally comes from Kilian's Church and was moved to the new Catholic building in 1887. In 1951 the figure was added to the altar of Our Lady , and in 1982 it was restored for the last time, with no exposure or additions being made. In contrast to the child, the figure of Mary is no longer original and was revised as early as the 15th century. The figure of Maria is likely to have received the new overpainting: a white-gray dress, gold-colored coat with blue lining and a headscarf. The female figure carries a child on her right arm, who is carrying a globe and pointing at the woman with her left hand.
Some baroque sculptures and a baroque oil painting showing Saint Nepomuk should also be mentioned. The neo-Gothic choir windows were created by the Stuttgart glass painting workshop Waldhausen & Ellenbeck .
The organ of the church was built by Walcker in Ludwigsburg in 1887 and initially had 11 registers with two manuals and one pedal . In the mid-1960s the organ was expanded. In the 1980s and 2004, cleanings and revisions followed, each of which had the aim of changing the sound image. The historical parts of the organ (individual stops, the cone chest and parts of the action mechanism) are under monument protection.
The original three bells of the church were cast in 1886 by the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf. The two smaller of these bells had to be delivered for armament purposes during the First World War . In 1920 the peal could be completed again, but in 1942 the two larger bells of the peal had to be delivered, so that the small Josefs bell (150 kg, d '') from 1920 remained. In 1952 the ringing was completed again with the Peter and Paul bell (266 kg, c '') and the Marienglocke (447 kg, a '). The Marienglocke had to be melted down in 2006 due to an irreparable crack. At the same time, the bell cage was renovated. In addition to a new Mary's bell, the church received a fourth bell for the first time in 2007, the Christ bell (808 kg, f ').
literature
- Catholic parish Talheim (ed.): Church guide pilgrimage church Maria Himmelfahrt Talheim on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the altar consecration in 2012 , Talheim 2012
- Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2
- Klaus Kramer: On the history of the Catholic parish in Talheim , in: Community Talheim (ed.): History book of the community Talheim in the district of Heilbronn , Talheim 1995, pp. 207–221.
- Hartmut Gräf: Unterländer Altars 1350-1540 . Heilbronn 1983.
- Oberamtsbeschreibung Heilbronn . Published by the State Statistical Office. Stuttgart 1903.
Remarks
- ↑ The Heimatbuch Talheim 1995 names the planner Josef Morlock , who was a son of Georg von Morlok . The church leader from 2012 writes that the church was built according to plans by foreman J. Eckert from Sontheim, who, according to the older Heimatbuch, only submitted the first plans, which were then revised by Morlo (c) k and finally rejected entirely.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '59.9 " N , 9 ° 11' 54.3" E