St. Bonifatius (Heilsberg)

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The church

The Protestant village church St. Bonifatius is located in the Heilsberg district of the city of Rudolstadt in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

history

In the Middle Ages the church was an important pilgrimage church . The legend has it that Boniface have been in Heilsberg, hence the name of the Church. The Boniface Spring still exists today. In the past, seekers of salvation came to the town and to the church, including Goethe , who confirmed Boniface or his assistants to have been here.

The Romanesque church tower probably dates from the 12th century. On the east side, the nave was added instead of an apse . The tower was renewed in 1718 and the nave in 1764. After the political change in East Germany , the building was thoroughly repaired.

Furnishing

Several figures of saints have survived from the late Middle Ages. They come from a carving workshop in Saalfeld under the master Hans Gottwald von Lohr. The pulpit and the wooden baptismal frame date from the 18th century. From what were once three bells, a bronze bell is still preserved, which was cast in Erfurt in 1754. The organ is a work by the Schulze company from Milbitz.

Heilsberger inscription plaque

A 90 cm wide, 74.5 cm high and 20 cm thick stone tablet was built into a pillar in the outer church wall. A reference to the inscription can be found in a work by the historian Johann Schilter as early as 1696. He saw this as a possible reference to the division of the Frankish Empire (see Ordinatio imperii ) by Ludwig the Pious (d. 840).

In 1816 it was transferred to the Grand Ducal Library in Weimar on behalf of Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757–1828) . It was initially set up “in the front of the library”. In 1816, Christian August Vulpius , in the “Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present” published by him, asked to deal with the interpretation of the inscription. The Viennese linguist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall also dates the inscription to the 9th century, but sees it as a deed of foundation. In his opinion, the marginal inscription is much more recent. He interprets it as an indication that the stone was later used as a tombstone for Emperor Lothar III. (died 1137) could have served.

The Frankfurt professor Georg Friedrich Grotefend also dealt with the blackboard and was in close contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He published his research results in 1828. Unlike J. v. Hammer concluded that the inner and outer inscriptions must have been created at the same time. He dated both to the 14th century. In his opinion, the plaque refers to the days of judgment that used to be held in Heilsberg. It reminds of the elevation of Ludwig I to Thuringian Landgrave by the later Emperor Lothar III.

After extensive renovation work on the building, the stone tablet has been in the basement of the historic building in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library since 2007 and is accessible to the public after registration.

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has published digitized works on the "Inscription Tablet from Heilsberg" in its digital collections.

Web links

Commons : Heilsberg Church (Remda-Teichel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Steinhaußen : On the way Kochberg-Weißenburg-Ehrenstein-Heilsberg Goethe-Gesellschaft Rudolstadt eV 1996, p. 46
  2. ^ Website of the city of Remda-Teichel - Heilsberg.Retrieved on May 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Photograph of the inscription plaque from 2018 and 1993. Retrieved on August 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Walther Bankwitz: Schwarzburgbote . 26/1929 and 1 / 1930. Mitzlaff, ZDB -ID 1448344-0 , The "Heilsberger Inscription" (a representation of their attempts at interpretation).
  5. ↑ Collection standard data set in the GND. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Johann Schilter: to Epinikion Rhythmo Teutonico Ludovico Regi acclamatum, Cum Nortmannos. DCCCLXXXIII. vicisset . Dulsseckerus, Strasbourg 1696 ( digital copy from HAAB Weimar ).
  7. ^ Jean Mabillon, Johann Schilter: Epinikion Rhythmo Teutonico Ludovico Regi acclamatum, Cum Nortmannos an. DCCCLXXXIII. vicisset . Dulsseckerus, Strasbourg 1696, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 32-1-10028920919 .
  8. ↑ Christian August Vulpius (Ed.): Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present: for pleasant entertainment for educated readers . tape 5 , no. 6 . Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1816, ZDB -ID 748402-1 ( digitized version from ThULB Jena ).
  9. ^ Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall: The inscription from Heilsberg . Frommann and Weselhöft, Weimar / Jena 1818 ( digital copy from HAAB Weimar ).
  10. ↑ Georg Friedrich Grotefend: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts: with coppers and charts / in alph. Series of authors mentioned. and ed. by JS Versch and JG Gruber Sect. 2: H - N / ed. by G. Hassel and W. Müller . Ed .: JS Verlag and JG Gruber. Section 2 / Part 4. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1828, p. 170–174 ( digitized version from SUB Goettingen ).
  11. ^ "Inscription panel from Heilsberg" in the digital collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 59.4 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 59.2"  E