Mauritius Church (Leimen)

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Mauritius Church
View from the northwest

The Mauritius Church is a Protestant church in Leimen in the Rhein-Neckar district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg .

history

In 791 Leimen was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex . In 1303 the church set was sold to the Andreasstift in Worms . In the Worms Synodale , a visit report of the parishes in the Worms diocese , the church patron St. Mauritius was mentioned for the first time in 1496 . In 1556, Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate .

The lower masonry of the choir tower probably dates back to the 13th century. The sacristy vault dates from the 15th century. During the Dutch War , the Mauritius Church was burned down by the French in 1674, after which the nave was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1684. In 1783 and 1932 the church was enlarged.

description

The Mauritius Church is in the center of Leimen within the old city walls. It is a single-nave choir tower church . Outside there are two grave slabs from 1599 and 1736. Gothic paintings have been preserved in the choir window reveals .

The organ was built in 1974 by the company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker . The instrument has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The organ's prospectus comes from the previous instrument of the Stumm brothers from 1788. The ringing consists of three bells , which were cast in 1470, 1510 and 1951.

year Caster Ø (cm) kg volume
1470 Gotem, Speyer 119 630 G
1951 Grüninger , Neu-Ulm 89 550 a
1510 Lachmann , Heilbronn 80 250 c

literature

  • Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
  • State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the communities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968.
  • Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 686, May 1, 791 - Reg. 2315. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 252 , accessed on February 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 410.

Web links

Commons : Mauritiuskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 53.7 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 28.1"  E