Nikolauskirche (Mistlau)
The Nicholas Church is a Protestant church building in the town Mistlau the city of Kirchberg an der Jagst . The parish Mistlau belongs to the church district Blaufelden . The Nikolauskirche is a choir tower church , in which the tower was not completed, but replaced by a roof turret. The painting of the choir from the 15th century is almost completely preserved.
history
The Nikolauskirche stands on the site of a former Benedictine monastery , which was founded in 1282 by Elisabeth von Lobenhausen , the wife of Gottfried von Hohenlohe . The monastery chapel was enlarged around 1400, and shortly afterwards the first fresco paintings were created in the presbytery, which presumably dates from the 13th century. The Würzburg bishop Johann II von Brunn had the monastery closed in 1413, but it resumed operations around 1427-29, whereupon the chapel was renovated and further frescoed paintings. The frescoes show scenes from the life of St. Nicholas , the Passion of Christ, the four evangelist symbols as well as other saints and various coats of arms. In 1479 the monastery was finally given up due to the poor structural condition of the buildings.
Shortly afterwards, the chapel was extended by a nave and turned into a parish church, the frescoes were whitewashed and the choir room was equipped with a large winged altar. Around 1625 the church received an epitaph from a Hohenlohe bailiff, which he set up there while he was still alive. The nave was demolished in 1791 because it was in disrepair and replaced by a new building. When the altar was to be restored in 1856, the dynasty of the time refused to provide the necessary funds, so the Mistlau Altar was given away in 1868 to the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities in Stuttgart, now the Württemberg State Museum .
In 1970, the foundations of a previous Romanesque building were excavated under the nave. Between 1969 and 1972 the interior of the church was renovated, with the wall to the former sacristy being broken down. The resulting niche was furnished with the choir stalls and the late Romanesque font of the Gaggstatt church, which was demolished in 1904, and rededicated as a baptismal niche. An exterior renovation took place in 1996-97, in the course of which the roof system as well as the tower decoration , the tower clock and the wooden planks on the tower were renewed and the churchyard wall was renovated.
Paintings
In the course of renovation work, the whitewashed fresco paintings were discovered in 1895 and exposed again by the Stuttgart painter Wennagel. The paintings were dated to around 1430 and show:
- Fourth: symbols of the four evangelists
- East side: Calvary with many figures, u. a. Longinus legend, Saint George, Sebastian
- South side: Stations of the Passion of Jesus
- West side: Adoration of the Three Kings, Entombment, Resurrection
- North side: St. Nicholas legends, scenes from the legend of Mary
- Window reveals east: Saint Anthony the Hermit, Saint Scholastica, coat of arms of Württemberg and Vellberg (patron of the church at the time of the painting)
- South side: Saint Catherine (with adoring monk) and Laurentius
- Lower end of the paintings: curtain painting and consecration crosses
- Choir arch: four wise and four foolish virgins
Frescoes in the choir room
Frescoes in the choir room
Depiction of the Magi
Depiction of the crucifixion of Christ
Other equipment
- Two sacraments
- Two small carved figures (around 1430): St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and St. James as a pilgrim
- Grave slab with the Bebenburg coat of arms
- Epitaph for Michael Forst and family from 1617
- Epitaph by Müller Hornung for his deceased wife and two children from 1819 (south side outside)
- Organ by Walcker from 1893: manual and pedal, 5 stops, mechanical cone chests
- Bell from the 13th century (fourth oldest bell in Württemberg), tone "G sharp"; Bell from 1960, tone "F".
literature
- Ulrich Fröhner: The Nikolauskirche in Mistlau and its wall paintings . Eppe, Bergatreute / Aulendorf, ISBN 978-3-89089-096-8 .
- Rosemarie Wolf: Of nuns and saints. The Nikolauskirche in Mistlau an der Jagst . tape 1-2 . Kirchberg Lendsiedel 2015.
- Harald Droes: The inscriptions of the district Schwäbisch Hall I . The former Crailsheim district (= The German inscriptions . Heidelberger Reihe, No. 93 ). tape 18 . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95490-120-3 , On the epitaph of Michael Forst.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 21 ″ E