Remigius Church (Nagold)
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The Remigius Church is the oldest church in the Nagold area. Already in 773 it was mentioned as a mission church and a church of the royal court. In 710/720 the construction of a square Merovingian church began on the foundations of a Roman villa rustica . The current building is Romanesque , using spoils from the Roman estate, with Gothic changes.
The Remigius Church was also called Oberkirch and was a cemetery church for a long time . Since 1965 it has served as a place of worship for the Protestant parish again.
history
Today, the building is a predominantly Gothic, single-nave church with a choir , a baptistery attached to the south and a north tower. The history of the Remigius Church is interwoven with the first written mention of Nagold in 786, with Queen Hildegard , wife of Charlemagne, and with the Beginensammlung . A baptismal font (around 950) and Roman columns in the triumphal arch (2nd – 3rd centuries) attest to the origin. There are several historical tombs in the church .
Approx. In 800, in Carolingian times, it was converted into an apse church in its current orientation, and further changes in the 10th century. In 950 a square choir was added in Ottonian times. The large Carolingian triumphal arch at the entrance to the choir rests on two low Roman columns, which are believed to have come from a temple of gods. The Carolingian nave is still partially preserved. The Romanesque tower on the north side of the church represents the transition from the Carolingian to the Romanesque style. Today the Gothic elements shape the appearance. The construction of the tower began around 1100 and the construction of the polygonal choir in the 14th century . Significant frescoes from 1320 to 1325 depicting the life of Jesus and the Passion have been preserved in the nave . To the south is a rib vaulted chapel with frescoes from the beginning of the 16th century.
The patronage right belonged to the Stein am Rhein monastery and was incorporated into it in 1386, temporarily confiscated by the empire in 1499 during the Swabian War and handed over to the Kechler von Schwandorf family, sold to Württemberg by the canton of Zurich in 1543.
In 1555 Nagold and with it the Remigius Church became Protestant . A beguinage previously connected to the church was closed and the frescoes were painted over. They were only rediscovered in 1880 and uncovered in 1920. The sister house at the parish church of St. Remigius was first mentioned in 1391 as "cluse ze Oberkirch". The sisters were affiliated with the Dominicans as terziaresses . They were called poor in 1508. In the course of the Württemberg Reformation, the convent dissolved around 1554
Between 1961 and 1964, extensive excavations took place in the Remigius Church under difficult circumstances , which produced important discoveries about the building history of the church and the settlement history of the Nagold basin. It has been possible to trace the structural development of the church from around 700 to the late Middle Ages and to make the regional historical connections clear. In 1965 it was rededicated as a parish church after archaeological excavations and renovation of the building fabric.
Choir and tower
Nave with spoilers to the choir
Choir window south wall
Baptistery in front of the Spolie Triumphal Arch
Baptistery keystone
Baptistery font
Baptistery figurative corbel
Frescoes south wall of the ship Life of Jesus
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literature
- Volker Roeser, Horst Gottfried Rathke (ed.): St. Remigius in Nagold. The excavation from 1961 to 1964. Result and regional historical significance. The history of the parish up to the Reformation. State Monument Authority of Baden-Württemberg. Published by Kommissionsverlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1986.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '38.1 " N , 8 ° 42' 50.8" E