St. Barbara (Kochendorf)

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St. Barbara in Bad Friedrichshall

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Barbara in Bad Friedrichshall in the Heilbronn district is the parish church of the Catholic parish of Bad Friedrichshall, but is also used by the Protestant parish .

history

The church, which has 400 seats, was prefabricated within a year . The Frank design by the architect Wilhelm Frank from Herrenberg , which was chosen from 1964 to 1975 from a total of 26 new churches in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , was implemented. On Sunday, September 24, 1972, the new church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Anton Herre . Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht appointed it to replace the Trinity Church built in 1950 as the new Catholic parish church of Kochendorf. Since 1984 the church has also been available to the Evangelical Christians in Kochendorf.

The patron saint of the church is St. Barbara , who is also the patron saint of miners . Every two years, pull the miners of bad friedrichshall and Heilbronn salt mines at St. Barbara, December 4, in their miner costume from the salt mine Bad Friedrichshall to worship in the church of St. Barbara.

The prefabricated church of the Frank type looks like a tent and is intended to refer to the forty years of desert wandering by the people of Israel, when Yahweh and his people went along in a tent.

Furnishing

Stained glass window

Since a renovation between 1998 and 2002, the church has had artistic glass windows by Hans Schreiner .

Kilian's altar

The church houses an important Kilian altar. The carved altar was in the cemetery chapel in Bad Friedrichshall-Hagenbach for a long time before the Barbarakirche was built ; its original location is unknown. In the rectangular central shrine there are carved and colored relief depictions of St. Kilian in bishop's costume and his two companions Kolonat and Tothnan , both with monastic tonsure, martyr's palm and book as an attribute, beneath intersecting segmental arches with tendril decoration. The left wing shows the martyrdom of St. Sebastian: he is tied naked to a tree and pierced by arrows. On the right wing Saint Anthony is shown standing, wearing a cap, holding a book in his right and a cross in his left. Both figures of saints on the wings have halos.

The shrine is attributed to the master of the Schwaigerner Marien Altar from around 1525. The side-mounted wings, which are painted with depictions of Saints Sebastian and Anthony , are smaller than one half of the shrine and therefore probably come from another altar. For the painting on the wings, a journeyman of the master of the Wimpfen Vesper Altarpiece , also from around 1525, may be considered.

There is a baroque crucifix above the Kilian altar .

Holy figures

There are numerous other figures of saints in the Barbarakirche. These are:

Web links

Commons : St. Barbara (Kochendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hans Riexinger: The churches of Bad Friedrichshall. In: Bad Friedrichshall. Volume 3. City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 2001, pp. 308-317
  • Hartmut Gräf: Unterländer Altars 1350–1540. An inventory . Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1983 ( Heilbronner Museumsheft No. 2), pp. 24–25, No. A 1.
  • Ulrike Plate: Church service in a kit. Prefabricated churches in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . In: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , 42nd year 2013, issue 2, pp. 75–81 ( PDF; 6.7 MB )

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 53 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 3 ″  E