Maria Magdalenen Church (Dürrenzimmern)
The Maria Magdalenen Church in Dürrenzimmern , a district of Brackenheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , has been the parish church of the village since 1475.
history
The church goes back to a medieval Liebfrauenkapelle and was originally a branch church of the Martinskirche in Meimsheim . On October 23, 1475, the chapel was elevated to a parish church by the Bishop of Worms , and at the same time the patronage was changed to that of St. Mary Magdalene . After the dead were originally buried in Meimsheim, the local cemetery was laid out shortly after the Dürrenzimmerner parish was founded. The Reformation was probably carried out in Dürrenzimmern in 1534.
The choir tower of the church dates back to the early Gothic period (approx. 12th century), while the church was extensively renovated at the beginning of the 15th century. The current nave was added around 1500 and extended northwards in 1620.
In 1693, during the War of the Palatinate Succession, the church's two old bells were stolen by marauding French troops. It was only more than 30 years later that the community could afford to buy a new bell. The small bronze bell from 1727 has been preserved in the church to this day.
In 1891 the congregation acquired an organ that had previously been installed in Heilbronn's Kilian Church, which had been built by Schäfer in Heilbronn in 1865.
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the church was badly damaged by aerial bombs on April 2, 1945, but was quickly restored and the first rebuilt church in Württemberg to be consecrated again on October 12, 1947. The local pastor Ernst Gottlieb Lauk (1884–1961) was made an honorary citizen of the Dürrenzimmern community in 1948 for his services to the reconstruction .
description
architecture
The Maria-Magdalenen-Kirche is a single-nave hall building with an east-facing choir tower, which tapers above the square stump to a bricked octagonal tower . The choir in the tower base is spanned by a ribbed vault, to the east it has a narrow, early Gothic pointed arched window, to the south a tracery window from the late Gothic period, which was probably broken in during the renovation around 1500. The nave, spanned by a barrel vault , also has late Gothic windows in the south and west.
Next to the left portal there is a stone with the depiction of tools of the crucifixion and the date 1407, which is considered to be an indication of the renewal of the church in the early 15th century. The nave is dated (probably) 1504 with a whitewashed and no longer unequivocally interpretable inscription in the north wall. Next to the right portal, an inscription stone reports on the expansion of the church in 1620.
Furnishing
The window picture in the choir shows Michael fighting the dragon. The stained glass window in the east wall was designed in 1954 by the Stuttgart artist Hans Kassuba and shows the apparition of Christ to the church patroness Maria Magdalena.
The tomb of Pastor Philipp Jacb Niethammer († 1771) was attached to the north wall.
Bells
After the old bells of the church had been stolen by the French in 1693, a new bell could not be procured until 1727, after the temporary use of a "small storm bell". This bronze bell still preserved today has a nominal tone of c sharp, a diameter of 72.4 cm and a weight of 204 kg. It is inscribed with the names of local dignitaries and the year it was cast in 1727. The ringing was then supplemented in 1767 by a larger bell cast by Georg Peter Becker in Stuttgart . This bell had the nominal tone g ', a diameter of 91.5 cm and a weight of 375 kg. Their inscription indicated the founder and the year of the casting. The bell from 1767 had to be delivered during the First World War, whereupon the municipality procured two replacement bells made of sound steel from the Schilling & Lattermann foundry in Apolda in 1921 . The larger of the steel bells had the nominal tone f ', a diameter of 138.5 cm and a weight of 1000 kg. The smaller steel bell had the nominal tone a ', a diameter of 110.5 cm and a weight of 500 kg. The small bronze bell from 1727 had to be delivered during the Second World War. The two chime steel bells survived the collapse of the church tower in 1945, as they were also protected by falling entablature. The sound steel bells were therefore returned to the bell cage during the reconstruction in 1947. In 1948 the old bell from 1727 was finally found in a junkyard and returned to the church. In 1984 the steel bells from Apolda were taken out of service. They were then erected as monuments in Dürrenzimmern and Brackenheim. They were replaced by three bronze bells, cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Bad Friedrichshall in 1984 , which have since been used to ring the church with the old bell from 1727, which was renovated in the same year. The praying bell , cast in 1984, has the nominal tone f sharp ', a diameter of 113 cm and a weight of 928 kg. The cross and arbitrary bell has the nominal tone g sharp ', a diameter of 101 cm and a weight of 671 kg. The mark bell finally has the Nominalton ais', a diameter of 84 cm and a weight of 447 kg. All three bells, cast in 1984, are inscribed with quotations from the Bible and the inscription DÜRRENZIMMERN-BRACKENHEIM 1984 . They also each have Christian symbols (communion cup with Bible, open grave of Christ, Christ cross with alpha and omega).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berner, p. 23
- ^ Norbert Jung: hilf got vnd maria, contributions to the history of bells in the city and district of Heilbronn , Heilbronn 2008, pp. 26–28.
literature
- Heinz Rall: Historic churches in Zabergäu and the surrounding area . Forum-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8091-1088-4 , pp. 20/21.
- Helmut Berner: Drought rooms . In: Home book of the city of Brackenheim and its districts. Brackenheim 1980, pp. 310-314.
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 124 (as Liebfrauenkirche ).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 23 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ E