Marienkirche (Bronnweiler)
The Protestant Marienkirche is a Romanesque, Gothic converted hall church in the Bronnweiler district of Reutlingen in the district of the same name in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Evangelical Parish Bronnweiler in the parish of Reutlingen of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
History and architecture
In the Middle Ages, the church was a pilgrimage church of Our Lady. In 1968 a wooden predecessor building from the 8th century and a stone building from the 9th century were proven by excavations. The current Romanesque nave comes from the middle of the 12th century, of which the arched door in the south wall and the window in the west gable are visible. In the 14./15. In the 19th century, the west portal was broken into, the other windows date from the 19th century.
The Gothic choir, which clearly towers above the Romanesque nave, is provided with buttresses and was started in 1415 according to an inscription on the tower staircase. It is one of the most interesting buildings in the Neckarland in the succession of the Swabian-Bohemian Parler family , who mainly worked at the minster in Schwäbisch Gmünd . The wide clear space consists of a transverse rectangular long yoke and a rarely occurring polygonal end of six sides of a decagon, which is closed with a dome-like star vault. The grooved ribs of the vault put on mask consoles over short services .
The core of the built-on tower north of the choir, probably pre-Romanesque, was given its present appearance in 1415. On the lower floor there is the sacristy with a ribbed vault, the door of which is provided with Gothic iron fittings. An open roof truss installed in 1969 forms the end of the Romanesque nave.
Furnishing
The most important pieces of equipment, a crucifixion group and a representation of the Visitation of Mary by the master of Bronnweiler , are now in the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart .
The wall paintings from the 13th to 15th centuries, uncovered in 1952 and restored in 1970, are remarkable. The oldest layer with scenes from the life of Mary is arranged between a zigzag and a round arch frieze and shows the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi on the eastern section of the north wall as well as depictions from the Passion of Christ in the south. Fragments of another cycle of the Life of Mary and the Passion of Christ by Heinrich (Haintz) Gretzinger, which can also be traced back to the Erhard Chapel in Trochtelfingen and the church in Laiz , can be found on the north wall and the north wall of the choir arch. The depictions of Saint Barbara and Saint Nicholas in the garment of the arched window on the north side and the frame painting around the sacrament niche with a tower monstrance date from the same period .
The simple choir stalls and a vestry cupboard with flat carvings date from the second half of the 15th century. A Vespers picture on the north wall with a childlike little dead Christ in his mother's lap was created around 1360/1370. The organ is a work by Hoffmann Orgelbau from 2002 with three registers on one manual .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 127–128.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 20.1 ″ E