Annunciation (Schwäbisch Gmünd)

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Monastery church

The Church of the Annunciation is the former, Gothic , Baroque-style monastery church of the Dominican convent Gotteszell in Schwäbisch Gmünd . Today it serves as the church of the correctional facility for women, which is housed in the former monastery .

Building history

The monastery was probably founded around 1240. The church building, which was first mentioned in 1259, probably also dates from this time. The stonemason marks on the choir are dated to the middle of the 13th century. The first mass foundations in this church are known from 1326. In 1289, 1449, 1525 and 1546 the monastery and the church were badly damaged by attacks and arson . In 1550/51 there were extensive additions and new constructions. The roof structure and the window reveals were renewed at this time. In 1554 a coffered ceiling was installed in the church . In the middle of the 18th century the church was baroque, probably including the sacristywas added to the apex of the choir. The high altar and the side altars were created around 1760. After the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1803, the monastery was converted into a penitentiary in 1808 . In 1825 there were the greatest structural changes in the history of this church until today. 8 benches of the lay stalls were dismantled under the gallery and this part was separated from the church and set up as a guardroom. In addition, a new ceiling was hung over the gallery, over which a prisoners' dining room and a storage room was built. For this purpose, a new gallery was built and the pulpit was moved. In 1839 the entire west facade was demolished and rebuilt. In 1860 the organ loft was enlarged because of the installation of a new organ , which is why the pulpit was moved again. In 1909, the false ceiling that was drawn in in 1825 was removed again and the coffered ceiling was repaired, which was renovated in 1956 with the pattern from 1554 but with cheap plywood .

Interior

The choir and nave are separated by a post-Gothic pointed arch, which was probably drawn in later. A coffered ceiling with a cross pattern and golden rosettes from 1555 and the floor, which also visually connects the parts, are continuous. A tabernacle structure was placed on top of the late Gothic canteen on a three-step pedestal in 1760 , which was taken in 1784. The altar structure consists of a flat base , a high substructure, two full columns with a base on each of which a putto sits and a golden capital , a blown cornice on which a putti sits and gold-plated rocailles . The altarpiece is by Oswald Onghers and was painted as early as 1700 and shows the Sebastiansmarter . The elevator picture shows two angels, one holding the martyr's palm and the other with a victory laurel wreath in a nosedive. The side altars have all been removed. The two altars and an oil painting, which were brought to Heubach-Lautern and dedicated to Saint Wendelin and Saint Dominic and Catherine of Siena , still exist today. The other altars that were erected in Schechingen were converted into firewood during renovation work or distributed in parts to the population.

The pulpit from 1811 was created for the north choir arch pillar and built in 1825 on the south choir arch pillar, where it is used as an oversight pulpit. Today's organ from Weigle from Stuttgart dates from 1859/1860 and has a manual and ten slides and is adorned with neo-Gothic blend tracery .

The choir stalls are made of oak with walnut inlays and have fine rocaille and vase attachments. The parapets are divided into two parts, have four sections and are decorated with geometric patterns. The dorsal has six fields and has three recurring patterns. The choir stalls, which were built around 1760, were restored in 1897/98 and 1997. The lay chairs in the nave have flat carved cheeks and a three-panel, symmetrically carved parapet. The lay chairs are made of softwood, which, except for the base from the 18th century, probably dates from the time it was built.

Roof turrets and bells

The roof turret is an almost square half-timbered structure with pointed arching sound arcades and a tiled roof.

A bell was probably housed in this. The first, from 1426 or 1496, was melted down in Crailsheim in 1770 by Ernst Johann Lösch and re-cast for the church in Spraitbach . On it read : "My name is Osanna. Jesus Christ people in the took. Bernhardt Lachmann poured me. 1426" . Only one bell is known. It was cast in 1850 by Heinrich Kurtz from Stuttgart from its predecessor, about whom nothing is known other than that it burst, and weighed 204 pounds . Her whereabouts are unknown.

literature

  • Richard Strobel, State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd . Volume 4, Churches and secular buildings outside the old town, districts; Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003; ISBN 3-422-06381-1 .
  • Gerhard Kolb: The Dominican convent Gotteszell, a foundation of the Staufer period . In: KJ Herrmann (ed.): Die Staufer and Schwäbisch Gmünd . Schwäbisch Gmünd 1977, pp. 95-128.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '17.4 "  N , 9 ° 48' 42.4"  E