St. Lukas Chapel (Frankenhardt)

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The chapel of St. Luke (also: St. Lukas-Kapelle Hellmannshofen ) is a small church in the municipality of Frankenhardt , which was first mentioned in 1520, but is much older. The architecture dates from the transition from Romanesque to Gothic .

architecture

The church in the hamlet of Hellmannshofen is a single-nave tower choir, which was apparently built in one go. The nave has Romanesque lintels and Romanesque arched windows on the south side. The choir arch is also Romanesque. An early Gothic pointed arch window was built into the tower. If this window was made at the same time as the church was built, it could have been made around 1220/30. The half-timbered structure of the tower dates from the 16th century. In the tower there are two bells from 1520 with the inscription: “help god and maria, bernhardt Lachamann gos me”, the year, and “help maria, bernhardt lachamann gos me 1521”. The Lachamanns were a family of bell founders from Heilbronn.

On the wall of the chancel there are two simple cross cartouches in the plaster , a wooden gallery on the left hand extends the seating and a wooden crucifix from the 16th century is in the church.

history

Little is known about the chapel in documents. It is now owned by the civil community of Frankenhardt. It used to belong to the parish Honhardt and was profaned at the beginning of the Württemberg period, at the beginning of the 19th century . The description of the upper office from 1884 only notes that the chapel is said to have been an asylum.

In 1978 the chapel in Hellmannshofen was saved from complete disintegration. During this time, the Frankenhardt community is fundamentally renovating the chapel with the support of the state. Today the church is equipped with floor heating, an electric bell and a still fully functional valuable tower clock, as well as a harmonium. It is used for festive occasions (cultural events, weddings, baptisms) and the community also uses the chapel for civil weddings. The Frankenhardt community renovated the chapel again in 2008 and had a toilet house built. Former Federal President Carstens once attended a service in the chapel. The key to the chapel for tours as well as for the toilet house is available from Mr. Wolf in house number 7.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ leo-bw.de .
  2. ↑ Page to the St. Likas Chapel on the website www.frankenhardt.de of the Frankenhardt community.

Web links

Wikisource: Section on the Hellmannshofen plot in the chapter on Gründelhardt  - the description of the Crailsheim Oberamt from 1884

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 58.8 ″  E