Raphaelskirche (Cleebronn)
The Raphaelskirche in Cleebronn in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg has been documented since the 14th century and has been the parish church of the village since 1479 .
history
The church goes back to a documented Raphaelskapelle in 1351, whose patronage rights lay with the Kirbach Monastery . The church is located in the former Württemberg part of the village and was elevated to a parish church by Count Eberhard im Bart in 1479. For the mainzischen part of Cleebronn there was still a separate Liebfrauenkapelle at that time. Both districts were reformed in 1535, and from 1558 the Wuerttemberg pastor at the Raphaelskirche was responsible for both districts. However, the residents of the Mainz district were formally parish only in 1736.
description
The church has a west-facing choir tower , the basement of which was spanned by a cross vault and which, according to building findings, probably dates from the 13th century. The chapel room and the tracery window of the choir tower are built to the east and date from the Gothic period . The nave was extended several times: in 1608 it was extended to the east, in 1706/07 it was widened to the north. The church underwent various redesigns inside, with the vault of the tower choir being lost in the 18th century and the large windows broken into the side walls. The slated half-timbered structure of the tower was built in 1787. In 1900 the choir was walled up, the galleries partially removed and the church painted in a neo-Gothic style. During the last extensive restoration in 1992, these interventions were largely reversed by reopening the choir, replacing the missing cross vault with a stucco vault and painting the church white again. In 1992, most of today's furnishings such as the altar, pulpit and baptismal font were also newly purchased. The stained glass window in the church was made by Anne-Dore Kunz-Saile , the panel painting showing an angel by Isolde Schlösser . The historical furnishings are essentially limited to the wooden altar crucifix from the 18th century.
Bells
Until 1901 there were two very old bells in the tower of the church. The larger bell had an inscription with the names of the evangelists, the smaller bell was cast according to an inscription in 1452. In 1901 the old bells were replaced by a three-part ring from the GA Kiesel foundry in Heilbronn. The bronze bells with diameters of 73, 88 and 101 cm had the chimes c '', a 'and f' and weighed between 200 and 700 kg. However, the two larger bells had to be returned for armament purposes as early as 1917. In 1919 a bronze bell from the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf with a nominal tone of a ', a diameter of 90 cm and a weight of 380 kg came as a replacement . A steel bell with the strike note a '' completed the three-part peal. The steel bell supplied by Philipp Hörz in Ulm had a diameter of 55 cm and a weight of 62 kg. In 1921 the steel bell was replaced by a third bronze bell. This was cast by Bachert in Kochendorf, had a striking note f ', a diameter of 112 cm and a weight of 763 kg. During the Second World War, the two larger bells had to be delivered again, so that only the small pebble bell from 1901 remained in the tower. In 1948 a new three-part bell set was finally cast by Bachert in Heilbronn. For sound reasons, the middle of these bells was exchanged for another bell, also cast by Bachert, in 1955.
The arbitration and prayer bell (1948) has the strike tone f sharp ', a diameter of 112 cm and a weight of 815 kg. Their inscription commemorates the sons of the village who fell and went missing between 1939 and 1945. The sign or Christ bell (1955) has the strike note a ', a diameter of 91.5 cm and a weight of 470 kg. The christening bell (1948) has the striking note h ', a diameter of 83 cm and a weight of 325 kg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cleebronn - Raphaelskirche. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
- ^ Norbert Jung: hilf got vnd maria, contributions to the history of bells in the city and district of Heilbronn , Heilbronn 2008, pp. 41–44.
literature
- Heinz Rall: Historic churches in Zabergäu and the surrounding area . Forum-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8091-1088-4 , pp. 18/19.
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 9 ° 2 ′ 21.1 ″ E