Herbishofen parish church
The Evangelical Reformed parish church in Herbishofen is located in Herbishofen , a district of the Upper Swabian town of Lachen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The parish church is a listed building.
location
The church stands on the site of a former castle stable in the southern part of the village.
history
The first church in Herbishofen was mentioned in 1167. Most of the current building dates from the second half of the 15th century. The galleries were built in around 1700, the rest of the furnishings are in neo-Gothic style and date from 1908.
Building description
The church has a recessed choir with a 5/8 end . The ribbed vault rests on pyramid brackets. The Evangelical Reformed Church of St. Afra in nearby Theinselberg has the same shape . Only the window in the front wall of the choir has a Gothic pointed arch, the remaining windows were later provided with round arches. The exterior of the choir has strong corner templates and a clover-leaf arch frieze under the eaves. The choir arch is pointed and bevelled.
The nave is a hall with three window axes and a flat ceiling. There are three arched windows on the south side and two on the north side. In the third quarter of the 18th century, a door in the south-west corner was painted with grisaille, shellwork and a Bible verse. On the west and north sides of the nave there are wooden galleries supported by two swellable columns. The western column bears the designation 1700. The parapet railing has turned bars. The tower, in the tradition of the Swabian village churches, has an approximately square floor plan and is positioned in the western front. It has a gable roof and on its west side it is divided by a cornice. The upper floor has a cloverleaf arch frieze and three-part sound arcades on three sides. The bell cage is marked with the year 1768. A pointed arched entrance leads to the two-story sign on the south side between the tower and the nave. The ribbed vault inside is provided with a disc keystone. An arched, walled-up opening on the upper floor probably provided a glimpse into a mount of olives.
Furnishing
As is customary with evangelical reformed churches, the church is poor in equipment .
A fragment of a leaded glass window with the coat of arms of "Philipp Reichs-Eltester Hereditary Marshal Herr zu Pappenheim" , who died in 1619, has been preserved. In the church there is an epitaph of the pastor Zacharias Preuser, who died in 1651. The south facade bears a grave slab made of gray marble from 1837, another is on the west side. A sandstone slab with an inscription, probably from the 18th century, has only survived as a fragment. The coniferous wood choir stalls run around the entire choir wall and date from the middle of the 17th century. The intermediate cheeks are curved.
A memorial plaque for the fallen and missing of the wars between 1805 and 1815 is labeled "Reich Sth.".
pulpit
The pulpit made of softwood with oak inlays was installed in 1655. The polygonal pulpit , structured by fluted pilasters with a diamond-coated base and toothed cornice, rests on the bulging round pillar . There are blind arches in the fields. The railing of the pulpit staircase with an inlaid base frieze is structured by templates and blind arches. The door to the pulpit stairs is treated in the same way as a field of the basket.
Baptismal font
The baptismal font of sandstone is the oldest surviving piece of equipment of the church dates back to the late 15th century. The low base carries a polygonal basin, in whose fields tracery , pass and fish-bubble shapes are incorporated.
See also
Web links
literature
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 123 .
- Hermann Brill, Helmut Kirsch, Joachim Metten, Benedikt Wegmann: 1559 - 2009 The Reformed in the Allgäu . Ed .: Presbyteries of the Ev.-ref. Parishes of Bad Grönenbach and Herbishofen. Bad Grönenbach 2009, p. 80 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-162-9 ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 28 ″ E