St. Andreas (Kaltensondheim)

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The church in Kaltensondheim

The St. Andreas Church is a church in Kaltensondheim, Lower Franconia . The church is used as a simultaneous church by both the Evangelical Lutheran and the Catholic community and is therefore part of the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Kitzingen and the Dean's Office in Ochsenfurt .

history

Kaltensondheim was first mentioned in the sources in 1290. It is unclear whether a place of worship already existed at this point in time. In the Middle Ages, however, a chapel dedicated to St. Mary was built on the site of the present one. The village lords, the lords of Seinsheim, were responsible for building this church. They also introduced the Reformation in Kaltensondheim in the middle of the 16th century , so that many villagers accepted the new faith. In the course of this, the church was rebuilt from 1579 to 1586.

During the Thirty Years' War the place suffered a lot of destruction and fell almost desolate. Only the Lords of Schwarzenberg took care of the reconstruction in 1663. At the same time, the new masters pushed for the resettlement of Catholic residents in the village. Soon the proportion of Catholics in the village was higher than that of Protestants.

The years 1711 and 1712 were marked by the new construction of the small village church, in 1731 the tower was completed. Soon afterwards, the denominations signed a simultaneous contract that allowed both communities to use the building. St. Andrew was the patron saint of the new church . The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments classifies the Andreas Church as an architectural monument . Underground remains of previous buildings are listed as soil monuments.

architecture

The church presents itself as a hall building . She's faces east and has a choir tower on the east. The tower has three storeys, which can also be seen from the outside through cornices. It is illuminated through simple rectangular windows with drilled frames and ends with a pointed helmet . The nave ends with a gable roof , as well as the tower simple rectangular windows were attached.

Furnishing

The interior of the church with the three altars

The interior of the church is dominated by the three altars. The sheet of the high altar in the choir shows the torture of the patron saint Andreas. He came here around the time the baroque church building was built in the 18th century. The sheet is framed by foliage and angels making music, the extract is formed by a coat of arms of the Lords of Schwarzenberg. The tabernacle is decorated similarly to the altar itself.

The side altars to the left and right of the choir arch were also created in a similar way. They also come from the 18th century. On the left, instead of a sheet of paper, you can see the plastic figure of the crucified, an excerpt has been replaced by the figure of God the Father with a globe in a halo. On the right is the Marian altar with the figure of the Queen of Heaven . Here, too, a statue of God the Father was placed above the structure. A crucifix in the nave also shows Baroque forms.

The two epitaphs that were built into the walls of the nave are of older date . One belongs to the Frick family. The font with angel heads in the base comes from the previous building from 1586 and goes back to a foundation. The simple, wooden pulpit came into the church around 1600 . It has half-length figures of the evangelists in its body. The organ was created by Johann Philipp Seuffert in 1751 and has a three-tower front with lambrequins.

literature

  • Hans Bauer: Blessed Land. Paths through the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Kitzingen am Main . Kitzingen 2012.
  • Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 57.
  2. ^ Bauer, Hans: Gesegnetes Land . P. 124.
  3. ^ Bauer, Hans: Gesegnetes Land . P. 125.

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 42.3 "  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 16.7"  E