Spitalkirche (Bad Grönenbach)

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Spitalkirche seen from the market square.

The Spitalkirche zum Heiligen Geist is a reformed church in Bad Grönenbach in Upper Swabia .

location

The church stands in the middle of the Upper Swabian market Bad Grönenbach on the market square. It limits this to the north and at the same time forms the east end of the hospital building. The town hall is located directly to the east of the church .

history

The church was donated by Ludwig von Rothenstein and his wife Jutta von Hirnheim in 1479. In 1633 the Swedes destroyed the church in the Thirty Years War . After the Reformed Confession was introduced in Bad Grönenbach, it was left to the Reformed in 1649 for worship, and they began to rebuild, including the foundation walls. In 1723 the church was used again for a church service for the first time. In 1808 it was purchased by the Reformed , together with the adjoining hospital Zum Heiligen Geist , and in 1825 a chancel was added. The classicist painting inside the church was removed during renovation in 1956 and restored in 1982. The tower of the church dates from 1880.

Hospital church, interior view

Building description

The church consists of a simple, flat-roofed hall with five window axes and a north-facing, round closed choir. The interior of the church is kept extremely simple. Except for a few writing and frescoes, it is unadorned. The wooden communion table is in the choir, with a metal cross hanging above it. The simple pulpit is attached to the east corner next to the choir in the nave on the wall. Opposite it is the ambo , which is also kept extremely simple. There is an organ gallery in the south of the church.

List of Reformed preachers and pastors from Grönenbach

No. from to Surname comment
1 1560 Bächli Switzerland
2 1598 Markus Sulzer Winterthur
3 1606 Rudolph Schwarzenbach Zurich
4th 1613 Nikolaus von der Bliechten Holstein
5 1621 Philip Gessertus Churpfalz, was expelled in 1621 and the reformed church closed
6th 1650 Johann Christoph Fäsi Zurich
7th 1659 Kaspar Paravicini Valtellina
8th 1691 Johann Heinrich Ulrich Zurich
9 1699 1706 Johann Ludwig Nüscheler Zurich
10 1706 Johann Jakob Pestalozzi Zurich
11 1716 Karl Adolf Burkhard Zurich
12 1731 Johann Heinrich Heinz Zurich
13 1737 Wilhelm Heinrich Hugo Zurich
14th 1740 Salomon Nüscheler Zurich
15th 1746 Salomon Brennwald Zurich
16 1761 Leonhard von Lähr Zurich
17th 1773 Johann Heinrich von Lähr Zurich
18th 1792 Jakob Locher Uitikon
19th 1801 1805 Salomon Wirz Zurich
20th 1806 1813 Michael Rehm Memmingen
21st 1814 1824 Sebastian Berlocher Platten at Rheineck
22nd 1824 1834 Christoph Ludwig Köberlin Volkratshofen near Memmingen
23 1834 1864 August Vorbrugg Pfersee
24 1868 1909 Julius treasure Schweinfurt
25th 1909 1946 Paul Maria Schatz
26th 1946 1974 Eduard Kohl Kolomea
27 1975 1995 Rainer Huber
28 1995 Hermann Brill

See also

Web links

Commons : Spitalkirche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 167 .
  • Information boards in and around the hospital church
  • Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach . Ed .: Historical association for the overall promotion of local history of the Allgäu. Kempten 1910.
  • Tillmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 114 .
  • Karl Schnieringer: Grönenbach - Its development from taking land on the Ach to a market and Kneipp spa . Kurverwaltung Grönenbach, Grönenbach 1975, p. 44-45 .
  • Eduard Kohl: 300 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Grönenbach . Erlangen 1949, p. 6-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann Breuer: Stadt- und Landkreis Memmingen, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, 1959, page 114
  2. ^ Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Bad Grönenbach , 1910, page 219, 220
  3. ↑ 1559 - 2009 The Reformed in the Allgäu, page 70
  4. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland . Meyerschen Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1797 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 30.4 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 19.1 ″  E