St. Emmeram Church (Trommetsheim)

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The south side of the church with the cemetery wall
The north side of the church with the sacristy
Inside the church, looking east
Altar painting "Descent from the Cross", copy after Rubens
Gothic sacrament niche
Baptismal font from 1699
Gothic font under the pulpit

The St. Emmeram Church is a medieval Protestant-Lutheran parish church in Trommetsheim , a district of Alesheim in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , which was redesigned in the Baroque period . It stands on the western edge of the village at an altitude of 415  m above sea level. NN . The walled churchyard includes the southern cemetery.

Parish and building history

In the 18th century it is said that in 1030 the Regensburg monastery Sankt Emmeram in "Truthmuotehem" owned 7 hubs , 10 courtyards and the tithe . It is also said that the pastor had a hat; therefore there must have already been a church in the village at that time. When in 1282 Chunradus de Muer sold an estate in "Trumoldesheim" to the Heidenheim monastery , this was done with the consent of the Bishop of Regensburg. In the 13th century the Rebdorf monastery also owned the town; The Teutonic Order in Ellingen acquired land here in the 14th century, and the Augustinian monastery Pappenheim received half the church fee and the tithe from Trommetsheim in 1380 from Heinrich von Pappenheim .

Most of the courts in Trommetsheim were ultimately owned by the marshals of Pappenheim (9 in 1444, 26 in 1801). They also owned the church set shortly before 1380 , and they had the right to present the pastor of the Trommetsheim parish church of St. Emmeram, as shown by a schematic of the clergy of the Eichstätt diocese for 1480 drawn up in the 19th century . In 1373 Seifrid, who came from the lower local nobility, is the Hausner "Kirchherr zu Trumetsheim". Soon after 1380 Marshal Henry VIII von Pappenheim donated half the church fee, the tithe and the Widdumhof to the Augustinian monastery in Pappenheim . In 1495, the St. Emmeram monastery enfeoffed the Pappenheim city bailiff Christoff Zeisolt with the large and small tithe to "Trümetzhaim" and also with the church sentence and the Widdum. In 1510, construction work was carried out on the church under Pastor Johannes Ling, whose abandoned gravestone has been preserved in the church in front of the south portal.

Although the Ansbach margraves accepted the Reformation in 1528 , the then Trommetsheim pastor Hans Kraft stayed with the Catholic rite for two decades. After his departure, Veit Hurtel († 1555), the first Protestant pastor, raised in 1552. In the Thirty Years' War , Trommetsheim faced bad years from 1632, the pastor fled to Weißenburg . After the end of the war, the damage to the church and in the village was quickly repaired. In 1702 a large-scale church renovation was carried out, including the construction of the south wall.

Towards the end of the Holy Roman Empire there were 62 subjects in Trommetsheim in 1801, who belonged to seven different landlords. In 1806 a new era began, the village now belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria with the former Margraviate of Ansbach . New construction work was required on the church. So in 1809 the top floor of the tower was removed, it was rebuilt and the tower was closed with a pointed helmet. In 1822 the church was expanded to the west. In 1874 the cemetery was enlarged to the south by means of landfills.

Trommetsheim has not had its own pastor since 1969, but is also provided for by Alesheim.

Building description

The church is oriented roughly from northwest to southeast. The tower with the choir on the first floor stands in the east in the middle of the nave; this has a flat ceiling. On the south side of the nave there are four slightly ogival windows and the portal between the second and third window axis; There is a small round window each above the portal and in the east of the south facade. On the north side of the nave there are two smaller windows in gallery height and a larger window in the west. Below the two gallery windows there is a central arched niche. The sacristy is attached to the north side of the church tower. A sign with side doors is added to the west facade as a small transverse building . The church has a north and a west gallery with stair access from the inside.

The three-storey choir tower will probably still be of Romanesque origin, but was already heavily changed in the Gothic period. The top floor has centrally mounted round-arched sound openings and a tower clock with laterally mounted clock leaves on three sides of the tower and a four-sided pointed helmet. The choir has a groin vault, the choir arch has a pressed tip.

Furnishing

  • The altar with acanthus decoration on the side is a baroque carpenter's work from Ellingen from 1707. The framed altarpiece from 1840 between the two smooth marbled and the two winding columns with leaf tendrils shows the Descent from the Cross by five men and three women, a copy of the "Descent from the Cross" by Peter Paul Rubens , executed by Amalie von Peter from Weißenburg. In the elevator, the eye of God is shown in a triangle with 17 rays emanating from it .
  • A sacrament niche from the early 15th century has been preserved on the north wall of the choir, which is closed by a forged diamond lattice and has a pointed triangular gable with a finial and pinnacles .
  • The baroque pulpit in the southeast corner of the nave with small angels' heads above the fields of the polygonal body separated from one another by twisted corner pillars is marked 1702. The sound cover is crowned by a stylized flame vase.
  • A Gothic font (around 1400) in the form of a large sandstone bowl is stored under the pulpit . It has a surrounding tracery frieze and lilies in the fields. In use is an octagonal baptismal font, a stone column with a slightly widened water basin, marked with the year 1699 and adorned with relief-like angel heads. He stands in the middle in front of the choir. The chandelier above is from 1883.
  • On the inside of the south wall of the nave and at the entrance in the floor there are a total of three grave slabs from the 16th to 17th centuries.
  • 1974 was Steinmeyer - organ replaced in 1868 on the west gallery by a new instrument of the same company.
  • The paintings by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon are foundations from 1859.
  • On the south east side of the nave there is a memorial for the fallen of the parish.
  • The north side of the church shows two other tombstones and the tombstone for Pastor Georg Pächtner, who as a friend of Wilhelm Löhe strongly supported his missionary movement.
  • A small bell from the late 14th century is the oldest piece of equipment in the church. The big bell was cast in Nuremberg around 1500 . A third bell is from 1954.

literature

  • Trommetzheim. In: Felix Mader and Karl Gröber (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. V. City and District Office Weißenburg i. B. Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1932, pp. 472-475.
  • Erich Strassner: rural and urban district of Weißenburg i. Bay. Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 2 . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1966, No. 240, p. 69f.
  • Trommetsheim Church of St. Emmeram (Evangelical Lutheran). In: Werner Somplatzki: Churches in Altmühlfranken. Treuchtlingen: Verlag Walter E. Keller 1990, pp. 46-48.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Edited by Tilmann Breuer and others. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999, p. 1034.
  • Johann Schrenk and Karl Friedrich Zink : God's Houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, p. 226f.
  • Werner Somplatzki: Foray through the Trommetsheim church history. Trommetsheim: Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation 2010.

Web links

Commons : St. Emmeram (Trommetsheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strassner, p. 69
  2. ↑ a b c d Strassner, p. 70
  3. ↑ Strassner, p. 70; Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 5; Mader / Gröber, p. 472, even refer to him as "Pastor"
  4. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 5
  5. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 8
  6. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 9
  7. ↑ a b Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 12
  8. ^ Johann Caspar Bundschuh : Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia. 5th vol., Ulm 1802, column 324
  9. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 226; Somplatzki, Kirchen in Altmühlfranken, p. 46
  10. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 226
  11. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 18
  12. ↑ a b Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 24
  13. ^ Somplatzki, Kirchen in Altmühlfranken, p. 46; Dehio, p. 1034
  14. ↑ Mader / Gröber, p. 472
  15. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 226f .; Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 17
  16. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 227; Somplatzki, Kirchen in Altmühlfranken, pp. 46, 48
  17. ↑ Mader / Gröber, p. 475
  18. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 227; Somplatzki, Streifzug, pp. 11, 21
  19. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, p. 21
  20. ↑ Somplatzki, Kirchen in Altmühlfranken, p. 48
  21. ↑ Somplatzki, Streifzug, pp. 6f., 23

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 39.3 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 51.9 ″  E