St. Anastasius and St. Edith Stein (Erlach)

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St. Anastasius and St. Edith Stein from the south

St. Anastasius and St. Edith Stein in Erlach , a district of Renchen in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg , is a Catholic parish church of the Renchen pastoral care unit . Originally it was only the holy Pope Anastasius I consecrated. He is little known, and the Erlach Church is the only one consecrated to him in the Archdiocese of Freiburg - 21 churches are dedicated to St. Mauritius (see below), for example. After Edith Stein was canonized in 1998, the parish elected her as the second patroness.

history

The inhabitants of the village of Erlach, through which the Rench flows, originally belonged to the neighboring parishes of Ulm (Renchen) (located to the northeast) and Nussbach (Oberkirch) (located to the south). In 1511 in Erlach, on the left the Rench, a branch church of the Ulm parish of St. Mauritius was built and consecrated to St. Anastasius. It was single-nave with an eastern tower, the ground floor of which served as a choir. In 1876 St. Anastasius became an independent parish. The Erlach congregation committed itself, “the buildings on the church, the parsonage with the economic building, whether it concerns their maintenance or new construction ... in the event that the funds of the ... church and building fund should not be sufficient, from the To dispute the municipal treasury ”. It was decided to demolish the nave of the medieval church and rebuild it larger. The choir tower should remain - when the choir floor is raised and the choir windows and the vault are raised. In addition, the tower should be raised. The building was completed between 1884 and 1885. Altars, organ, bells and other pieces of equipment were taken from the old church. The church was last renovated inside in 1976 and outside in 2001.

building

The main room is a simple hall. The two eastern, ogival tracery windows in its north and south walls come from the previous building. The old square tower, also with pointed-arched tracery windows on its two floors, joins the hall in the east. It is raised by a bricked octagonal storey from 1884–1885 and a copper-clad octogen pyramid. The gothic keel arch portal with stonemason's mark and the year 1511 was reused as the west entrance. The hall is covered by a bent wooden ceiling, the choir is covered by the old, higher net vault.

  • North side altar shrine

  • Outside of the wings of the north side altar

  • Choir with high altar and new celebration altar

  • High altar

  • South side altar

Furnishing

The high altar with St. Anastasius in the middle, two putti and twisted columns is attributed to Philipp Winterhalder . "Blind wings formed from ribbed bands with foliage overlapping at the edge and the crowning of the altar are combined to create a rich decoration that is unique to Winterhalder's work around 1715."

In the shrine of the north side altar, dated between 1480 and 1520 in literature, Mary and her child stand in tracery-framed niches on the crescent moon, over which angels hold a crown, to the left Saint Catherine of Alexandria with book, sword and wheel, right the Saint Barbara of Nicomedia with book, chalice and tower. The painted wings show a proclamation of the Lord on the inside from the 19th century, on the outside Jesus as Man of Sorrows and Maria as Mater dolorosa , around 1600. In the neo-Gothic space there is a third Anna herself "probably from the second half of the 16th century" . "This altar is very similar to the winged altar in Lautenbach and has repeatedly been seen at art exhibitions."

The southern side altar is a "typical Renaissance structure, around 1600", with reliefs and fully plastic figures, framed by scrollwork and fittings . Longinus opens the side of Jesus with a lance in the large central relief . Above it, God the Father holds the globe, even higher in the altar extract is a Pietà , accompanied by Saints Peter and Paul . Below the central relief, a relief shows the handkerchief of Veronica . To the left and right of the central relief there is an imperial couple, presumably Holy Emperor Heinrich II and his wife, Holy Empress Kunigunde .

The celebration altar and the ambo as well as the decoration of the reticulated vault, reminiscent of Gothic tendril painting, was created in 1997 by Helmut Lutz (* 1941), who also designed the modern liturgical furnishings in the above-mentioned, nearby Lautenbach, in the local pilgrimage church of Mariä Krönung .

Looking west

The three bells came in 1922, the organ on the west gallery came into the church in 2001. Above the west entrance, a stained glass window by Manuela Bijanfar (* 1962) from 2006 with a menorah is reminiscent of Edith Stein.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Anastasius and St. Edith Stein with photos on the Renchen pastoral care unit website.
  2. ^ Hermann Oechsler: The church patron in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . Freiburg Diocesan Archive 1907, 35: pp. 162–238.
  3. ↑ Schweizer 1927, p. 34.
  4. ↑ a b Anonymous leaflet from the parish of St. Anastasius and St. Edith Stein Erlach, after 2002
  5. ^ Hermann Brommer : Philipp Winterhalder (1667-1727). In: The Ortenau. 1974, 54: pp. 54-113.
  6. ^ Wingenroth and Kraus 1908.
  7. ↑ Schweizer 1927, p. 37.
  8. ↑ Zimdars 1997.
  9. ↑ John 19:34  EU
  10. ↑ website of Manuela Bijanfar.

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 24.1 ″  E