Peter and Paul Church (Heimerdingen)

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Peter and Paul Church
Peter and Paul Church

The Peter and Paul Church is the Protestant parish church of the Heimerdingen community , a district of the city of Ditzingen .

history

There is no news about the establishment of the parish. In Heimerdingen there was a pre-Romanesque basilica owned by the Weissenburg monastery as early as the 9th century . It was subordinate to the rural chapter Vaihingen , from 1275 to the rural chapter Grüningen of the Diocese of Speyer . The villages Weissach and Flacht also belonged to the parish until 1200 as branch villages .

In 1283 and 1299, a deputy clergyman was named at the church. The Pfarrpfründe was often owned by local noblemen who were represented for the spiritual activities by tenant clergy. Until 1355 the nobleman Fritz Sturmfeder was Kirchherr, in 1372 Hermann von Nippenburg and 1387 Wolfram von Nippenburg. In 1316 feudal sovereignty over the church came to the Counts of Württemberg , who gradually also took control of the entire village. In addition to the main altar, in the pre-Reformation period the church had a side altar consecrated to Saint Barbara and an altar of Our Lady , which were endowed with a chaplaincy or early Mass. Both were probably foundations of the local nobility. Their benefices, like the parish benefices, were awarded by the state rulers around 1524/29. The early knife had a house at the upper gate, the owner of the chaplain St. Barbara had a farm in Heimerdingen and Hochdorf .

In 1534 the Reformation was introduced in the community. In 1541, Bernhard Schlag (Schlack) from Münchingen, the last early knife, renounced his benefice and was admitted to Maulbronn Monastery . The first Lutheran clergy were Bartholomäus Rosch (1535–1568), Magister Theophil Cleber (1568–1574, previously pastor in Ulbach), Magister Pistorius (1574–1581) and Melchior Bärtsch (1581–1591).

From 1821 to 1826 the theologian and mathematician Wilhelm Ludwig Christmann worked as a pastor at the church.

Church building

The church building was rebuilt in 1484 as a late Gothic hall church. The church was completely destroyed on November 2, 1776 in a fire that spread from a neighboring stable of the Adlerwirt. In its place, a new building was built in 1777 according to plans by the church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Götz , which was inaugurated on November 9, 1777. The masonry and stone carving work was carried out by the court mason Johann Jakob Barth. Today's church building is a five-axis baroque plastered building with a straight west end and a square east tower with an eight-sided bell storey. The roof is hipped in the west. The copper-covered Welsche dome of the tower is crowned by a ball, cross and cock.

View of the Peter and Paul Church before 1964

The interior of the church was thoroughly renovated in 1964 and has been largely unadorned since then. The external staircase to the gallery had already been removed beforehand (1960). In the course of the renovation, a hanging cross by the sculptor Ulrich Henn with scenes from the Passion and Easter stories was placed above the simple table altar . It shows the baptism of Jesus, washing of the feet, crucifixion and resurrection on the vertical bar from bottom to top, and the entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) and the imprisonment of Jesus on the cross bar.

The grave monuments for the mayor Sebastian Zeller d. Ä. († 1617) and his son († 1615) received from Leonhard Baumhauer's workshop successor . The two deceased are shown as a full figure in elegant Spanish costume.

organ

In 1765 the church received its first organ (6 sounding voices). It was taken over from the municipality of Kuppingen near Herrenberg and destroyed in the fire of 1776. In 1777 the organ builder Johannes Jakob Pfeiffer (Stuttgart) built a new instrument with 10 sounding voices for the new church building, which was replaced in 1850 by another new instrument (14 sounding parts on two manuals and pedal) by the organ builder Carl Gottlieb Weigle (Stuttgart).

Peal

The medieval bell was destroyed in the fire of 1776. The bell founder Carl Friedrich Blüher from Stuttgart supplied new bells. After charges in the Second World War, the church received one new bells in 1949 and three more in 1958, the latter from the H. Kurtz bell foundry in Stuttgart. The consecration day was May 18, 1958.

literature

  • Helmut Immendörfer: 200 years of Peter and Paul Church in Heimerdingen 1777-1977 (= Heimerdinger Sonderhefte 5), [Ditzingen-Heimerdingen 1977]
  • Otto Schwarz: Ortschronik Heimerdingen. Ditzingen 1982, pp. 88-112.

Web links

Commons : Peter-und-Paul-Kirche (Heimerdingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documents and registers from the Württemberg State Archives. First division: Württemberg regests from 1301 to 1500 . Stuttgart 1922, No. 10502.
  2. ^ Thomas Schulz: Old Württemberg camp books from the Austrian period 1520-1534 . Volume V: Agencies Asperg, Bietigheim, Besigheim, Markgröningen, Leonberg and Vaihingen (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series A. Vol. 27), Stuttgart 1989, p. 287
  3. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Leonberg . Published by the Württemberg State Statistical Office. 1st volume. Stuttgart 1930, p. 782.
  4. ^ Bulletin of the Heimerdingen community, April 9, 1960.
  5. ^ G. Sch .: The new hanging cross in the Peter and Paul Church in Heimerdingen . In: Bulletin of the Heimerdingen community, March 19, 1965.
  6. ↑ Adolf Schahl: The world of form . In: Konrad Theiss, Hermann Baumhauer (ed.): The district of Leonberg . Aalen / Stuttgart [1964], p. 67.
  7. ^ Bulletin of the Heimerdingen community, May 17, 1958.

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 51.7 ″  E