Herrenberg Hospital Church

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Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit

The Spitalkirche is a Protestant church building in Herrenberg , Baden-Württemberg .

history

In 1400 the Herrenberger Spital was founded by a foundation of the citizen Hans Huter with the participation of the city. A hostel was to be created for poor and old people. The hospital church Zum Heiligen Geist is mentioned for the first time in 1412 , it was built on the property of the citizen Hans Huter. Herrenberg citizens donated this church. At first it only had the rank of chapel for the hospital.

In 1466 three quarters of the town fell victim to a major fire that probably broke out in the town hall. All certificates and documents from this period were destroyed by flames. In 1508 decreed on "because of the high and difficult going to church, especially in winter, so snow and ice is created, so that many people fell difficultly and sometimes so hard that they followed them all their lives and into the pit" that “due to foundations, mass will be held three times in the Spitalkirche, on Mondays an office read, on Thursdays an office sung by our Lord tender Corpus Christi and on Saturdays an office sung by our dear women”.

In July 1635, the city burned down almost completely due to the "neglect" of a soldier boy. 270 houses fell victim to the flames. Only the provost office and a few houses on Burgrain and on Stuttgarter Strasse survived the fire.

The restored hospital church was consecrated in 1656. The wooden pulpit with inlay work was made by Christian Kleber from Danzig in the workshop of J. Philipp Rommelspacher in Herrenberg.

In 1879 the hospital church was restored. The assumption that this was done by the Stuttgart architect Heinrich Dolmetsch is nowhere proven. In 1909 there were further changes in the interior and the like. a. The gallery parapet was visually opened, new benches were installed and the coffered ceiling was painted over in keeping with the times. In the time of National Socialism, the upper floor of the church was a refuge for church youth work.

In 1942 the bell had to be handed in for armament purposes. On April 16, 1945, the hospital church was badly damaged by a bomb, and the interior was devastated. During the reconstruction in 1947, a fourth window was broken into the south-east wall and fitted with a stylish line and tracery. The southern entrance was walled up. A new wall surface was created to accommodate the altar. The two-tone graffito by Rudolf Yelin was attached and decorated behind the altar . The valuable crucifix from the 15th century was incorporated into the graffito. The gallery, which has now also been widened, had been facing this wall since ancient times, so that now, after turning part of the stalls in the nave, the pulpit in the east corner and the altar on the right below it became the center of the church interior. As a result, the church, which was originally facing Tübinger Strasse, was southward. In February 1948 the hospital church was consecrated again after the work was completed.

Until the 1970s, the hospital church of the Herrenberg parish served as a winter church. The upper floors housed long children's churches and youth groups. When the collegiate church remained closed for ten years due to extensive renovation work, the hospital church became the main meeting point for all believers in the parish.

The church has been closed again since 2000. A plan for the structural renovation and a new usage concept were developed.

organ

The organ of the Spitalkirche in Herrenberg was built by the organ building company Plum. The instrument has 12 registers on a manual mechanism and pedal . The manual registers are on alternating loops and can be registered on two manuals.

I / II Manuals C – g 3
1. Metal flute 8th'
2. Covered 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Principal 2 ′
(Continuation)
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Sesquialter II
9. Mixture IV 1'
Pedals C – f 1
10. Sub-bass 16 ′
11. flute 8th'
12. Trumpet bass 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Traugott Schmolz: Herrenberg Chronicle of a City. From the beginning to 1975. Herrenberg 1987. pp. 18–48.
  2. ↑ Ellen Pietrus: Heinrich Dolmetsch. The church restorations by the Württemberg builder ; Dissertation University of Hanover 2003, published by the regional council of Stuttgart, State Office for Monument Preservation in: Research and reports on building and monument preservation in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 13, Stuttgart 2008
  3. ↑ Information on the organ

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Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 12.5"  E