St. Anna and Elisabeth Hospital Church (Öhringen)
The hospital church of St. Anna and Elisabeth in Öhringen was consecrated in 1376. The church originally belonged to the Öhringen Hospital , in the 20th century it was a Catholic parish church for a few years and today belongs to the Protestant parish .
history
In 1353, Anna von Hohenlohe founded a hospital in honor of Saint Anna and Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia with a chapel, chaplaincy and cemetery. The hospital was supposed to take in the poor, the infirm and the homeless and was under the direct spiritual authority of the bishop. The founding family received the right to appoint the clergy, the patronage right . On June 15, 1373, the new hospital church in the old town of Öhringen was consecrated ( in antiqua civitate ). It was built in the Gothic style.
reformation
Until the Reformation of the monastery in 1556, the church served the benefactors of the hospital for worship. At the request of the city council, Count Ludwig Casimir and Eberhard von Hohenlohe moved the service to the collegiate church in 1563 , and since then a sermon has only been held in the hospital church on Thursdays. The benefactors complained to the rulers that they now had to go to the collegiate church for worship, and in 1578, referring to the eternal chaplaincy foundation , demanded that Sunday services be held. The authorities thereupon ordered the city clergy to hold church services in the hospital, as they used to be. This was followed until 1611, when the city chaplains again refused to celebrate Sunday services in the hospital church. Until the 19th century, only three Holy Communion celebrations were celebrated annually and the Thursday sermon was held every week.
Catholic parish church
From 1863 the Öhringen Catholics tried to be able to celebrate their own services in the hospital church. The founding family refused this request, as a service for the hospitalites was held every second Sunday. This service was performed by the third parish priest in Öhringen, who received special remuneration from the hospital for this, which can be traced back to the original foundation.
In 1881 the Öhringen Catholics approached the royal family again with this request. At this point in time only one beneficiary was still living in the hospital, and the Protestant parish council and the upper church council supported the Catholics' request. The service was then approved, but with the condition that the evangelical character of the church could not be changed.
During the renovation of the collegiate church, the hospital church was used again by the evangelical community from 1887, the cemetery church of St. Anna was given to the Catholics. From October 1, 1934, the Catholic community used the hospital church for an annual rent of 120 marks. This was taken over by the Diocese of Rottenburg from 1935 after a visit by Bishop Joannes Baptista Sproll . With the purchase of the church in 1940 for 10,000 marks, the hospital church became a Catholic parish church. The Catholics began renovating the church after the purchase, but this work stopped in 1943. After the war, the renovation continued and ended in December 1946. Auxiliary Bishop Franz Josef Fischer then consecrated the altar. Masses were now held daily in the hospital church, and two services on Sunday.
Hospital church today
The rapid growth of the Catholic parish soon made it necessary to build a larger church. The new St. Joseph's Church was consecrated in 1961. In 1963 the Catholic Church sold the hospital church to the Protestant parish. She made this available to the newly formed Greek Orthodox community. Today the hospital church is occasionally used for church services, concerts and events of the evangelical parish as well as for ecumenical church services and events. The hospital church is one of the diaconal Vespers churches . In January and February the hospital church offers a warm meal as well as coffee and cake for two weeks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vesper churches
literature
- Gerhard Taddey : The Hospital Foundation in Öhringen. A historical overview . Princely Hohenlohesche Hospitalverwaltung, Öhringen 1976.
- Öhringen. City and pen. Published by the city of Öhringen. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-7631-2 (research from Württembergisch-Franken, 31).
- Wilhelm Mattes: Oehringer Heimatbuch . Reprint of the original edition from 1929. Hohenlohe'sche Buchhandlung Rau, Öhringen 1987, ISBN 3-87351-010-3
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 54.9 ″ N , 9 ° 30 ′ 0.8 ″ E