St. Laurentius (Neudenau)
The parish church of St. Laurentius is a Catholic parish church in Neudenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The baroque church from 1742 goes back to a much older Gothic predecessor building.
history
The construction of the first church in Neudenau is probably related to the construction of the castle there and the expansion of the town into a town in the 13th century. The tithe right lay with the Amorbach monastery and went to the Wimpfen monastery in 1276 , whereby the Gangolf chapel in the nearby (now submerged) town of Deitingen was transformed from an independent parish church to a branch church of the Neudenau church. In 1301 Konrad von Weinsberg donated the Frühmesspfründe on the St. Nicholas altar of the church. In 1330 the church was rebuilt, to which today's church tower still goes back. In the middle of the 14th century, Burkhard Sturmfeder donated the Liebfrauenpfründe and a small Katharinenchor including the associated priestly pledge. In 1606 the church was already dilapidated, but the new building was initially delayed due to the many wars of the 17th century. In the early 18th century there was a protracted dispute between the parish in Neudenau and the Wimpfen monastery over the building obligation, which ultimately lay with the parish for the nave and with the Wimpfen monastery for the choir. Between 1739 and 1741, the builders Franz Häffele and Georg Philipp Wenger submitted plans for a new church, and Wenger was ultimately commissioned to carry it out. The construction was completed in 1742 while retaining the old 44 meter high tower, but was not re-consecrated until 1748. The interior was procured in the following years. The stair towers on the west side were added in 1898. In summer 2012 the outside of the church was completely renovated.
description
building
The parish church of St. Laurentius is a baroque single-nave church building with a 44 meter high, late Gothic church tower in the west and a choir in the east. The church is located on a hill on the northern bank of the Jagst , the historic settlement center of Neudenau joins in a semicircle to the northwest around the church. Around the church there is religious picture and figure decorations, including a crucifixion group on the north wall of the church opposite a historical grave memorial decorated in relief and a grotto of Mary.
The vaulted basement of the west tower serves as an entrance hall, on both sides of the tower there are smaller stair towers leading to the gallery. The nave is spanned by a flat ceiling. The interior decoration consists essentially of stucco work on the triumphal arch , lintels and window frames, ceiling and the parapet of the two-storey gallery in the west , on the second storey of which the organ is located.
Look at the choir
Gallery
West portal
Tower vault
Furnishing
The furnishings of the church (high altar, side altars, pulpit, baptismal font) are mostly from the 18th century. On the north wall in the choir there is a late Gothic wooden Anna herself . In the nave there are baroque sculptures of St. Anthony and St. Francis on the north wall . There are also several stone tablets in the walls of the nave with Stations of the Cross from 1856. The celebration altar was designed by Heinz Singer (* 1932) in the second half of the 20th century and shows relief sculptures with biblical motifs on its long sides.
The ceiling painting in the nave is by Sebastian Schedell from Aub and shows the Assumption of Mary into heaven . The similar old ceiling painting of the choir shows the Holy Trinity .
Anna herself the third
Baptismal font
Ceiling painting in the nave
Ceiling painting in the choir
Altars
The baroque high altar in the choir shows a scene from the life of the church patron Laurentius on its altarpiece . The picture was replaced by a depiction of the Holy Sepulcher during Holy Week and was torn up in the 19th century, which is why the original altarpiece was replaced in 1867 by a new painting by Wilhelm Dürr (1815–1890), which the Neudenau councilor Franz Theodor Merckle ( 1807–1889). In the side niches of the high altar there are sculptures of St. Sebastian and St. Gangolf .
The side altars from around 1756 on both sides of the chancel arch show St. Nicholas of Myra on the left and the handing over of the rosary to St. Dominic on the right altar. The side altars and the pulpit on the right choir arch, created by the marble artist Peter Schaidthauff (1707–1754), are largely original.
Side altar on the left
Side altar on the right
Relief sculpture on the celebration altar
church Square
The area around the church was the original Neudenau burial site, before the space available there after the rebuilding of the church and the construction of the schoolhouse in 1780 and today's Neudenau cemetery was laid out in 1780 .
On the north wall of the church there is a historical crucifixion group , which was built in 1716 by Lieutenant Johann Krintz from the Electorate of the Palatinate in honor of his wife Susanna Catharina, née. Goos, was donated and originally set up in the Neudenauer suburb. The sculptor was Georg Friedrich Schmiegd (also Schmicht ) from Amorbach in the Odenwald. In the lapidarium of the Josefine-Weihrauch-Heimatmuseum , the inscription stone with information on the founder and sculptor, who once adorned the base of the group of figures, has been preserved. In 1858 the group of figures was moved to the west wall of the church, still with its original base. When the stair towers of the church were added in 1898, the group of figures, still with a plinth, came to their present location on the left of the north side entrance of the church. In 1972 the crucifixion group was removed from the base and the figures were attached to the church wall in their current arrangement.
Opposite the crucifixion group, there is a sandstone mount of olives on the church square , created by the Neckarsulm sculptor Johann Zartmann . The Mount of Olives was donated by Franz Michael Merckle in 1864 and was originally also on the west wall of the church above the burial place of the donor's grandmother, Barbara Diemer, née. Goos († 1805). Like the crucifixion group, the Mount of Olives had to give way in 1898 when the stair towers were added and was moved to the southern outer wall of the church, where it remained until the 1960s before it was dismantled and moved to the rectory. In 2000 the Mount of Olives was restored and placed again in the churchyard, now north of the church.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neudenauer Heimatblätter No. 328, April 2011
- ↑ Wilfried Strasser: On the crucifixion group at the Neudenauer parish church, in: Neudenauer Heimatblätter No. 205, January 2001
- ↑ Wilfried Strasser: About the Ölberggruppe at the parish church, in: Neudenauer Heimatblätter No. 204, December 2000
literature
- Clemens Jöckle: Churches and chapels Neudenau . 1st edition. Schnell & Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1992 (Schnell Kunstführer, 1975), ISBN 3-7954-5696-7
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '28.7 " N , 9 ° 16' 17.4" E