Marienkirche (Onolzheim)
The Marienkirche is the home church of the evangelical parish of the Crailsheim district Onolzheim (approx. 1,150 church members).
history
In 1404, Nikolaus Possek, the auxiliary bishop of Würzburg, consecrated the choir and altar of a chapel and in 1415 gave them indulgences (the letter of indulgence from the Bishop of Damascus is in the Ludwigsburg State Archives). The oldest bell in St. Mary's Church dates from 1475.
In 1476 a separate parish was established, but it was only finally separated from Crailsheim after the Reformation. In 1754 the foundation stone for the new nave was laid. The Ansbach agricultural master builder David Steingruber made the plan. In 1872 the nave was lengthened again by 3.5 meters. In 1925 the church was added to the list of cultural monuments in Germany.
The church today
The Marienkirche underwent a thorough renovation in 1970: The Ansbach church wall with altar and pulpit were abandoned one above the other. The tower side was given a board wall, the side gallery was removed and a new west gallery was created instead. The organ found its place on this. In 1995 the church was renovated outside and in 2002 inside. During the interior renovation, the most serious change was that the wooden altar wall was provided with a painting "Resurrection" by the Karlsruhe artist Thomas Gatzemeier to a size of 7.14 m × 8.50 m (approx. 60 m 2 ). Central aisle and a new pulpit, changes to the two entrances and new lighting were further points of the renovation. The rectory of the Protestant parish was built in 1980. The parish hall was built in 1989 instead of the old schoolhouse and later town hall of the community Onolzheim.
The construction
In principle, since the conversion to a very simple building without external decorations. The entire building is simply plastered and painted white. The overall structure is reminiscent of a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque styles. In the windowing, round arches predominate, as in Gothic, while the roof is more Romanesque-squat. A tower clock was also attached to the bell tower. The interior is more of a functional ambience. Apart from the altar, which is artistically designed and the painting by Thomas Gatzemeier mentioned above, the inventory is basically arranged appropriately.
Individual evidence
- ^ Source: Onolzheimer Heimatbuch, Onolzheim 1997
literature
- Homeland book Crailsheim. 1928
- Hans-Joachim König and Heinz-Georg Kaern: Onolzheimer Heimatbuch. 1997
- Letter from the Episcopal Ordinariate of Würzburg dated April 7, 1993
- Elmar D. Schmid (Ed.): Parish Church of St. Gangolf. Röttingen, undated
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '49.8 " N , 10 ° 2' 4.7" E