St. Aegidius (St. Ilgen)
The St. Aegidius Church is a Catholic church in St. Ilgen , a district of Leimen in the Rhein-Neckar district in northwest Baden-Württemberg .
history
In 1100 who gave Speyer Bishop John the monastery Sinsheim Possession of the later district of St. Ilgen. In the time of Abbot Johannes (1158–1170) the monastery founded a provost house there with initially three monks. The church was completed under Provost Rudolf at the end of the 12th century. In 1474 the Sinsheim monastery sold the St. Ilgen branch to Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz , who two years later donated it to the Dominican monastery in Heidelberg . The St. Ilgen Monastery also ended with its dissolution in 1550/51 at the latest. The monastery church became a parish church. The parish of Leimen has been responsible for pastoral care since 1475. In 1556, Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate , but when the Palatinate church was divided, the church fell back to the Catholics in 1707.
The St. Aegidius Church was rebuilt in the late Gothic period and again between 1780 and 1784. In 1824 the roof turret was renewed. From 1961 to 1964 the church was renovated and a celebration altar was erected. The last major renovation was between 1993 and 1995 when the church was expanded and renovated. Since 2011, the Catholics in Leimen have formed a pastoral care unit with Sandhausen and Nußloch in the Wiesloch dean's office in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
In the German-speaking world, Egidius is also known as Aegidius, Egidius, Egydius, Ilg, Ilgen, Jilg, Gilg, Gilgian or Gilgen. The name of the town "St. Ilgen", which later developed around the monastery, can be traced back to a variant of the name of St. Aegidius.
description
The St. Aegidius Church is located in the old monastery district in the center of St. Ilgen. The portal has been preserved from the Romanesque period. In the tympanum there is a relief representation of Christ as ruler, two men kneeling at the sides, one of them St. Aegidius , patron of the monastery and church, who receives the shepherd's crook from Christ. The crossing is also from the Romanesque period . Two transepts and three rectangular apses were added to them during the expansion in 1995 . Since then, the stalls have been oriented towards the altar area from three sides.
The celebration altar , ambo and sedil , the ceiling painting in the nave and the relief of the choir area were created by Michael Münzer . The ornate side altars were placed in the apses, on the left with a representation of the return of the Holy Family from Egypt and on the right of St. Aegidius as a hermit.
organ
The organ was built in 1995 by Hans-Georg Vleugels . The instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The prospectus dates from the 18th century.
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literature
- Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the communities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968.
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 10.6 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 22.5" E