St. Afra (Theinselberg)
St. Afra is an Evangelical Reformed parish church in Theinselberg in Swabia .
location
The church stands on an elevation in the Upper Swabian town of Theinselberg in the immediate vicinity of a castle stable . The parish church is east and is a listed building .
history
A first parish church of the patronage of St. Afra is handed down from 1167 through a reliquary donation from the Ottobeuren monastery . The building, which today consists of Nagelfluh ashlars, was built in 1484. In 1558 and 1559, Philipp von Pappenheim introduced the reformed faith according to Zwingli in his territories and thus also in Theinselberg. In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War the parish church was devastated. A restoration took place in 1649. This restoration was financially supported by several Swiss cities. Following the Thirty Years War, the church served as a simultaneous church for both Catholics and Reformed believers. In 1707 the church finally became the property of the Evangelical Reformed community. Today it is one of two churches in the Evangelical Reformed parish of Herbishofen . For the Catholic community, Simpert Kraemer built its own church from 1713–1715 based on plans by Christoph Vogt; In 1723 the nave was added. This church burned down in 1746, the parish then built its new church in Lachen in 1746/47 .
Building description
The church consists of a retracted choir with a ribbed vault on simple pyramid consoles. It has two yokes and a 5/8 end . The tracery windows have a Gothic pointed arch and partially renewed tracery . The east window of the choir is walled up. The exterior has simple buttresses with a water hammer . The choir arch is pointed with beveled edges. The flat-roofed nave has four window axes. In the western axis there are round-arched windows on both sides, otherwise only on the south side there are pointed-arched windows with tracery, which has also been partially renewed.
The tower is in the northern choir corner. The steeple, which is in the tradition of the Gothic, Swabian village churches, has a gable roof. The north side has three-part sound arcades on the upper floor and two-part sound arcades on the south. The basement of the tower has a ribbed vault , one of which has been cut off. The sign in the south was added later. It has a gable roof and a round-arched entrance with sloping walls . The church portal is ogival with sloping walls.
The interior is characterized by a groin vault and in the side walls by round-arched blind niches . The organ is on the west gallery.
Interior
The parish church has a simple interior as is usual for the evangelical reformed churches. Most of the equipment is neo-Gothic style. The pulpit was made of wood around 1700 and the grain was painted on. On an Ionic column is polygonal basket attached. This is structured by twisted columns. The fields are decorated with flat blind niches and crank frames. The rear wall has the same structure. Blasted gables can be seen between the volutes of the sound cover. On the pulpit there is also a foliage decoration in flat carving and fretwork. The grave slab in the chancel was let in in 1898. The simple choir stalls encompass the entire choir room. Only one chair was left out at the exit to the sacristy. The Reformed Creed is written in golden letters on the backrests.
List of Reformed preachers and pastors from Herbishofen - Theinselberg
| No. | from | to | Surname | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1559 | Johann Bächlin | Switzerland | |
| 2 | 1593 | 1600 | Hanserschel (Erkel) | |
| 3 | 1605 | 1651 | Zacharias Preusser | |
| 4th | 1651 | 1661 | Hans Rudolf Wiser | |
| 5 | 1661 | 1692 | Johannes Wirth | |
| 6th | 1692 | 1703 | Johann Jakob Heidegger | |
| 7th | 1703 | 1713 | Wilhelm Adam Heiz | |
| 8th | 1713 | 1725 | Johann Heinrich Fuesslin | |
| 9 | 1725 | 1740 | Hans Kaspar Freudweiler | |
| 10 | 1740 | 1751 | Wilhelm Heinrich Hug | |
| 11 | 1752 | 1763 | Johann Rudolf White | |
| 12 | 1764 | 1778 | Wilhelm Schinz | |
| 13 | 1778 | 1797 | (Hans) Heinrich Steinbrüchel | |
| 14th | 1797 | 1803 | Johann Heinrich Breitinger | |
| 15th | 1803 | 1809 | (Hans) Heinrich Steinbrüchel | |
| 16 | 1810 | 1827 | Lukas Balthasar Caflisch | |
| 17th | 1828 | 1849 | Gabriel Black | |
| 18th | 1848 | 1851 | Johannes Vogel, Verw. | |
| 19th | 1852 | 1871 | Nikolaus Eduard Zollikofer | |
| 20th | 1871 | 1886 | Karl Keller | |
| 21st | 1886 | 1889 | Karl Wilhelm Buff | |
| 22nd | 1889 | 1929 | Heinrich Grob | |
| 23 | 1929 | 1939 | Dr. Christian Gahr | |
| 24 | 1940 | 1968 | Paul Maschauer | |
| 25th | 1968 | 1978 | Helmut Ballis | |
| 26th | 1980 | 1982 | Dr. Jan Rohls | |
| 27 | 1982 | 1991 | Ernst Wissmann | |
| 28 | 1991 | Joachim Metten |
See also
literature
- Hermann Brill, Helmut Kirsch, Joachim Metten, Benedikt Wegmann: 1559–2009 The Reformed in the Allgäu . Ed .: Presbyteries of the Ev.-ref. Parishes of Bad Grönenbach and Herbishofen. Bad Grönenbach 2009, p. 80 .
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 226 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-8027-0021 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-162-14 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1559–2009 Die Reformierte im Allgäu, p. 70.
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 32.3 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 59" E