St. Anna Church (Beilstein)
The St. Anna Church is the parish church of the Protestant parish Beilstein-Billensbach in the parish of Marbach of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Originally built outside the city wall, it now stands north of Beilstein's old town . The Beilsteiner Friedhof adjoins the church to the north.
history
In the cemetery in front of the town there was originally a Chapel of St. Nicholas, the earliest known name of which was in 1362. Even before the Reformation , probably around 1470, the St. Anna Church emerged from it. From around 1616 it replaced the smaller Magdalenenkirche on Burgberg as the parish church. The Beilsteiner church bells, however, remained in the church tower of the Magdalenenkirche, since the St. Anna church does not have a church tower. They are housed there to this day, while the Magdalenenkirche itself was abandoned as a church around 1800 and is now a youth camp. The St. Anna Church was rebuilt several times, in 1617 and 1786, and renovated, most recently from 1988 to 1990. A planned new church building that would have made the St. Anna Church the cemetery church to be maintained by the city of Beilstein did not come in 1980 conditions.
architecture
The church is a simple hall church with a small roof turret and a choir to the east . This raised late Gothic choir with tracery windows and net vaults is the oldest part of the building.
Furnishing
The interior includes an old three-sided gallery with parapets containing two Passions , a Renaissance pulpit with depictions of the Evangelists and the Apostle Paul, a crucifix from 1685, a baptismal font from 1707 and stained glass windows by Rudolf Yelin the Younger .
The paintings on the gallery parapets can be divided into two groups. On the parapet of the south pore there is a series of seven pictures depicting the life of Jesus from his birth to the crucifixion. On the parapet of the north gallery there are 16 depictions from the adoration of the kings to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
The seven paintings of the south pore were found during a renovation on the roof of the rectory and could come from the former south pore of the old Magdalenenkirche below Hohenbeilstein Castle . This gallery was demolished when the partition wall to the youth home was drawn in in the old Magdalenenkirche in the 1950s. On old images it can be seen that on the gallery of that church there were seven fields the size of the panels. The panels date from around 1600 and show Jesus 'birth, the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple, Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the capture, the crowning of thorns and the crucifixion. Today they are attached to the south pore of the Anna Church, the birth scene on the narrow side, the remaining six motifs on the long side.
The 16 pictures on the north gallery were painted over before 1954. When uncovered, they have lost much of their original color character. Two of the panels, namely the final motifs with Ascension and Pentecost, have lost so much color that they could no longer be restored. In addition to the 14 restored panels, two newly manufactured panels were attached to the north gallery, while the two unrestorable originals were hung in the sacristy of the church. There are different opinions and arguments about the age of the sequence of images. The restorer H. Wengerter, who restored and examined the panels from 1988 to 1990, believes that they could have been made in the 16th century. Since the north gallery is more recent, Wengerter suspects that the pictures used to be on the older parapets of the west and south pores. Old records in the sacristy of the church date the pictures to the early 17th century, the time in office of pastor Johannes Andreä, which lasted from 1616 to 1620, which is also supported by stylistic features. Manfred Tripps , on the other hand, is of the opinion that the pictures were only created when the north gallery was installed in 1789. The pictures show the adoration of the kings, the flight into Egypt, the baptism of Christ, the last supper, the washing of feet, Christ on the mount of olives, the arrest of Jesus, Jesus before the high priest, the flagellation of Jesus, the exhibition of Christ, the carrying of the cross, the Crucifixion, the Entombment, the walk to Emmaus as well as the scenes based on Lothar Bohring with the Ascension and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
literature
- Heinrich Lücke: The Protestant parish of Beilstein. In: Beilstein in the past and present . City of Beilstein, Beilstein 1983, DNB 840362803 , pp. 330–337.
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 117.
- Justus Maurer: The gallery pictures in the Protestant St. Anna Church in Beilstein . In: History sheets from the Bottwartal , No. 10, 2006, pp. 174-187.
Web links
- St. Anna Church at beilstein-evangelisch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Freizeitheim Magdalenenkirche" on the website of the VCP regional association Württemberg , accessed on September 27, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 36.3 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 46.3" E