St. Alban (Kirchhausen)

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Catholic Church of St. Alban

The Church of St. Alban in the Heilbronn district of Kirchhausen in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Catholic parish church . The 1841 to 1844 in the round arch style of the Neo-Romanesque church built is the oldest surviving church in the village, which due to its former affiliation with the Teutonic Order was characterized predominantly Catholic until the recent past. During the various renovations in 1931 and 1981, monumental ceiling paintings by Anton Glassen from Heidelberg and August Blepp were lost.

architecture

Interior (2012)

The Albanskirche is a single-nave hall church with a small polygonal choir facing north . The sacristy is attached to the side of the choir . The nave and choir are covered by flat coffered ceilings. In the south a gallery has moved into the nave, on which the organ of the church is located. On the western side wall of the nave, which was built in 1841, is the older tower of the church, the basement of which has been converted into a side chapel.

The main altar is set up in the choir and is surmounted by a wooden crucifix. There are old paintings on the choir walls. Above the doors to the adjoining rooms there is also a Pietà from the 15th century on the choir wall as well as a plastic and colored representation of the Coronation of Mary.

The side altars are formed by altar tables and wall niches. The left side altar is decorated with a statue of the Virgin Mary, the right side altar with wooden figures of St. Sebastian , St. Laurentius and St. Stefanus , the martyrs are each represented with their attributes (arrows, grill grate and stones) with which they died .

On the western side wall of the nave there are three consoles, each with four almost life-size apostle figures, which were made by Benz from Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1875. On the eastern side wall is a modern carved Stations of the Cross and the painting Assumption of Mary from 1663.

In the passage to the tower chapel there is a child's grave from 1724.

Building history

Previous buildings

The Assumption of Mary is the oldest surviving painting in the church

In documents of the Weißenburg monastery, Kirchhausen and Ascheim are mentioned among the monastery estates devastated in the 10th century, probably during the Hungarian invasions in 926 . There was damage to a total of 20 houses and a church in both places. The devastated church is probably the forerunner of today's church. A chapel with the patronage of St. Alban is mentioned in 1468 in the Worms Synodal . The Gothic church was renovated in 1486. The late Gothic church tower was built in 1579. The furnishings of the previous building were retained: the Renaissance is assigned a Pietà (15th century) and an Anna self-third . A font dates from 1563. In 1654 a baroque monstrance with the Teutonic coat of arms was donated, in 1670 the knightly married couple Johann Adolf Sauling and Maria Johanna donated an elaborately decorated baroque chalice. The painting of the Assumption of Mary with a baroque frame dates from 1663. In 1904 the painting was behind the organ, and in 2012 on the east side wall.

  • Church tower (1579)

  • right Anna selbdritt, Renaissance

  • Pieta (15th century)

  • Assumption of Mary (1663)

  • Baptismal font, elevation

  • Baptismal font

New church building in 1841/46

Ex-side altar painting: St. Sebastian by Karl Rauth

On June 21, 1841, the old building began to be demolished in favor of a new building, with the tower of the previous building built in 1579 being incorporated into the new structure. The foundation stone was laid on October 5, 1841. The building, which was completed by 1846, was based on plans by the Stuttgart architect Gottlob Georg Barth under the direction of the Ludwigsburg building inspector Ludwig Abel . Ignaz Pfau, the Kirchhausen historian, inaugurated the church on November 1st, 1844. Since Württemberg substantially financed the church building, the sacred building was created in the so-called "Württemberg finance chamber style". A ceiling painting was created that was created by Anton Glassen from Heidelberg and depicts the resurrection and ascension of Christ , mission of St. Spirit and Mary Coronation showed.

  • Heilbronn-Kirchhausen, St Alban's Church, in the 1880s, before renovation, high altar.jpg
  • Heilbronn-Kirchhausen, St Alban's Church, in the 1880s, before renovation.jpg

  • The Saint Sebastian from the side altar (Rauth, Heilbronn)

Remodeling in 1880

During a first renovation in the 1880s, the two side galleries were shortened by two column sections each. The sacred building received new images: the secrets of the rosary . Both the side and high altars show the same architectural structure from the historicist era. However, while the round arches of the side altars around 1900 still framed the paintings of Mary with the Christ Child and Saint Sebastian (Carl Ludwig Rauth (* October 18, 1820 - February 18, 1881)), the niche with the high round arch of the high altar was around 1900 only decorated with figures ( Kempter from Neckarsulm). In 1875 Benz from Schwäbisch Gmünd created various sculptures , such as the 12 figures of the apostles. The wooden sculpture of the Coronation of Mary by Kempter from Neckarsulm adorned the high altar and has been preserved.

  • The Coronation of Mary from the high altar (Kempter, Neckarsulm)

  • Apostle figures

  • Apostle figures

  • Apostle figures

Remodeling in 1931

Moses, stained glass window by Josef de Ponte, 1981

In 1931 the sacred building was renovated again, with the historicist ceiling painting being removed. The flat ceiling received the painting Transfiguration of Jesus by August Blepp. During the renovation, the symbols of the Eucharist were attached to the sanctuary in warm yellow tones.

post war period

In the early 1950s, the “neo-Romanesque wooden altars” - that is, the historicist architecture of the high and side altars from 1841/1846 - were removed.

In the course of the modernization carried out in 1981, the ceiling painting from 1931 was removed. The artist Josef de Ponte was commissioned to design a total of 19 church windows. There are three lead glass windows in the choir with the themes "Creation" and "Holy Spirit" (round window), nine lead glass windows in the main nave with scenes from the Old and New Testament and four smaller lead glass and concrete glass windows in the small side chapel and above Organ.

In 1994 a carved Stations of the Cross by the sculptor Wolfgang Kleiser was added. It consists of panels arranged in three groups that are almost 2.90 by 0.60 meters in size.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn. Konrad Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, p. 73
  2. ↑ Monument topography 2007, p. 204.
  3. ↑ a b c d Mayer, p. 23 [ The new building of the Catholic Church of St. Alban ]
  4. ↑ a b Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn. Konrad Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, p. 69
  5. ^ Eduard Paulus : The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Inventory [Neckarkreis] , Stuttgart 1889, I, p. 268
  6. ↑ Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach and Susanne Schlösser: Kirchhausen - as it once was: The old townscape in photographs 1877-1945 , Heilbronn 1995, p. 21
  7. ↑ State Statistical Office (ed.): Oberamtsbeschreibung Heilbronn , Part 2, Stuttgart 1903, p. 394
  8. ↑ Joachim Hennze: "Stylish but simple and worthy". Catholic churches in the Heilbronn area from the end of the Old Reich to the First World War . In: Heilbronnica. Contributions to the city and regional history . Volume 4. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2008, ISBN 978-3-940646-01-9 ( Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn . 19) ( Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history . 36). Pp. 351-382
  9. ↑ [1]
  10. ↑ Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach and Susanne Schlösser: Kirchhausen - as it once was: The old townscape in photographs 1877-1945 , Heilbronn 1995, no. 35 [St. Alban's parish church, interior view of the choir around 1925], no. 36 [St . Alban, interior view of the choir during the renovation in 1931], No. 37 [Parish Church of St. Alban, interior view of the choir, after 1931. The renovation is complete] and No. 38 [St. Alban, interior view of the organ gallery after the renovation, probably 1932. The ceiling painting depicts the transfiguration of Jesus .]
  11. ↑ Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach and Susanne Schlösser: Kirchhausen - as it once was: The old townscape in photographs 1877-1945 , Heilbronn 1995, no. 35 [St. Alban's parish church, interior view of the choir around 1925], no. 36 [St . Alban, interior view of the choir during the renovation in 1931], No. 37 [Parish Church of St. Alban, interior view of the choir, after 1931. The renovation has been completed.] And No. 38 [St. Alban, interior view of the organ gallery after the renovation, probably 1932. The ceiling painting depicts the transfiguration of Jesus .]
  12. ↑ Angelika Elser: Church of St. Alban in Kirchhausen. Community bazaar in favor of the house of God . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 260 , November 10, 2000, pp. 24 .
  13. ↑ rf: New Way of the Cross of St. Albans Church Kirchhausen now consecrated. Not just a story of suffering . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 89 , April 15, 1992, pp. 24 .
  14. ↑ as: The new way of the cross of the St. Albans Church in Kirchhausen will be consecrated tomorrow by Dean Möhler . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 80 , April 4, 1992, pp. 21 .

literature

  • Rudolf Mayer: From the history of Kirchhausen . In: Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach and Susanne Schlösser: Kirchhausen - as it once was: The old townscape in photographs 1877-1945 , Heilbronn 1995, p. 9–28, p. 23 [ The new building of the Catholic Church of St. Alban ] .
  • Eugen Knupfer (edit.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1904 ( Württemberg historical sources . N. F. 5)
  • Ignaz Pfau: History of the Württemberg village of Kirchhausen together with a historical description of the new church and castle there , Heilbronn 1844 [2]

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