Marienkirche (Upfingen)
The Protestant St. Mary's Church in Upfingen , a district of the parish of St. Johann in the Reutlingen district , Baden-Württemberg , was built from 1448 and was last renovated in 1992.
Building and Church History
On July 4, 1449, Count Ludwig I of Württemberg issued the first priest Heinrich Diel the letter of approval for the construction of the church building. It was initially planned as a pilgrimage church, which explains its relatively monumental appearance for the place. In the course of the Reformation , Marienkirche became Protestant in 1534 when Martin Linder, the clergyman at the time in Upfingen, converted to the new faith.
The Marienkirche has a Gothic choir with cross vaults . In its current expansion, it has around 350 seats.
Furnishing
Mural
The mural of Christophorus on the south wall of the nave, 4.20 meters high opposite the entrance, comes from the early days of the church . There is another mural on the north wall of the choir, with the motif of the Madonna and Jesus Christ. It was probably donated by Count Ludwig II of Württemberg, who probably suffered from epilepsy, or by his mother Mechthild von der Pfalz . The count's pilgrimages to Upfingen are mentioned. The frescoes may come from the school of the painter and copperplate engraver Martin Schongauer .
Baptismal font
The artistic stone carving of the baptismal font is dated to around 1530. It could have been created by Christoph von Urach , the artist from the Amandus Church in Bad Urach .
Stained glass
From the late Renaissance around the year 1600, very rare examples of glass painting have been preserved for southern German churches (Protestant and Catholic), namely a colored insert in two modern, clear-glazed windows, made from remnants of cabinet or coat of arms panes from 1607. In the left window you can see a bull, probably as a symbol of the evangelist Lukas, underneath an inscription with the mention of Johannes Scheerer, then princely cellar master at the Hohentwiel fortress; on the right several allegorical motifs (time and power, life and death, a pelican sacrificing himself as a symbol of Christ for his young ) as well as the mention of the name of Christoph Gastpar, the monastery administrator of Denkendorf at the time. It has not yet been clarified how this stained glass relates to the Marienkirche in Upfingen, in any case the ducal officials mentioned were involved in building matters with the well-known Württemberg Renaissance builder Heinrich Schickhardt and did not come from Upfingen. Stylistically and technically, these panes could have come from the Augsburg glass painter Achilles Miller , who in 1608 created comparable works of art for the Evangelical Trinity Church in Haunsheim .
Others
The baroque organ by the organ builder Hagemann dates from 1777.
A whore's chair , a special church chair for women who have been punished for "fornication", has not been available for a long time . Such a shame chair still existed in the church of Upfingen in 1790. A discussion about the alleged justification and use of the whore chair is given by Johann Ferdinand Schlez in his chronicle from 1794 of another village.
present
The last major renovations to the church were made in 1992.
The Evangelical Church Congregation Upfingen belongs to the Evangelical General Church Congregation Upfingen-Sirchingen in the church district Bad Urach-Münsingen of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Services take place every Sunday in the Marienkirche. The church is also used for concerts.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kerstin Dannath: The Marienkirche of Upfingen. A place of worship in the middle of life . In: Alb magazine 2/2013
- ↑ see for example [1]
- ^ Richard van Dülmen: Culture and everyday life in the early modern period: village and city: 16th - 18th century ; CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-45016-4 Volume 2, pp. 327/328
- ↑ Johann Ferdinand Schlez , History of the little village Traubenheim: written for the people and for people's friends , Grattenauer, Nuremberg, 2nd edition 1794, Volume 1, pp. 42-44
- ↑ Website of the parish of Upfingen-Sirchingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '16.9 " N , 9 ° 23' 15.2" E