Coronation of Mary (Lautenbach)
The pilgrimage church of the Coronation of Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Lautenbach in the Ortenau district . The building, erected in the late Gothic style in the 15th century , is one of the most important cultural monuments in southern Germany. The Coronation of Mary has been the parish church of the village since 1815 .
In the 15th and 16th centuries and after the abolition of the All Saints Monastery as part of the secularization, the church and parsonage building complex temporarily served as the residence of the Premonstratensian Canons from All Saints.
Building history
The pilgrimage church was built as a renovation of an older chapel, which was used to worship a portrait of Mary described as miraculous , as attested as early as the 14th century . Local families from the lower nobility - including the Schauenburg in particular - but also simple farmers began building the church consecrated to the Coronation of Mary in 1471 with the aim of offering the growing flow of pilgrims a larger prayer room, but also a representative burial place for the local to create lower nobility. The church, which was begun by master builder Hans Hertwig , who maintained a hikers' hut, was - still unfinished - consecrated in 1483 by the Strasbourg bishop Albrecht . At that time, the Allerheiligen Monastery had already taken over the supervision of the construction and participated in the financing. In 1488 the church was completed. In the 16th century the church was expanded to include a two-storey hospice , which is now used as a rectory ; This parsonage, like the church, has also been preserved undamaged. In 1895 the church was enlarged by two yokes by Max Meckel and supplemented with a church tower.
Building description
Like comparable regional buildings, the Coronation of the Virgin was built in red sandstone . The building now consists of a six-bay nave with a reticulated vault after the expansion . The two supplemented yokes are located in the western entrance area, the original western wall with the portal was dismantled and reused during the expansion. The church tower connects to the north side of the extended nave. The south side of the nave contains the Chapel of Grace with the portrait of Mary. It is located in the place of the original chapel, which in turn was probably built on the site of a Celtic spring shrine. After completion of the new church building surrounding and roofing it was demolished by order of the Strasbourg bishop and rebuilt in a splendid late Gothic style. The rood screen in front of the choir spans the entire width of the nave , which was available to the monastery convent as a completely closed prayer room after the two-winged portal originally attached in the middle was closed. The rood screen, originally the place where the Gospel was proclaimed, is also a gallery with an altar under a high cross. This room is still used liturgically on high feasts. In this way, the church contains four churches under one roof: the original pilgrimage chapel, the roofed main church area as a burial church, the lockable choir in the east, financed by the All Saints Monastery, which is separated from the nave by the rood screen, and the extension with the tower. Particularly astonishing is the fact that the church survived completely and completely undamaged the centuries and the two complete devastation of the Renchtal with the expulsion of all its inhabitants. The first bell of the bell tower has also been preserved to this day.
Furnishing
The stained glass windows made between 1482 and 1488 in the workshop of Peter Hemmel von Andlau , which, in addition to religious themes, primarily depict the donors, are particularly valuable . It is not, as is usually the case, about painted windows, but rather mosaic windows made of different colored glasses, which are assembled on thin panes of non-colored glass, so they do not need lead bars. All of these windows have been preserved in their original state and do not need to be restored, as the colors come from crushed gemstones that are added to the glass flow. The three-part high altar is a winged altar and consists of a central carved part and the two particularly artistic painted parts of the wings. It comes from the beginning of the 16th century. The unknown painter from the Strasbourg school is listed as the master of the Lautenbacher Altar in art history . Another valuable altar is dedicated to St. Martin and dates from 1521. The choir stalls date back to the 15th century, the wooden Renaissance pulpit with precious inlays was built in 1650 by Johannes Mayr.
literature
- Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall: Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 . P. 411 ff.
- Hans Heid, Rudolf Huber: Parish and pilgrimage church "Mariä Krönung" in Lautenbach / Renchtal , Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7954-0498-3 .
- Smaller writings and a DVD from the church's literature.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heid, Huber, p. 6
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '8.4 " N , 8 ° 7' 5.9" E