St. Georg (Gottwollshausen)

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The Evangelical Church of St. Georg in Gottwollshausen , a district of Schwäbisch Hall ( Baden-Württemberg ) is located on a small hill at the upper end of the path down into the Schleifbach Valley.

history

A predecessor to today's church in Gottwollshausen is said to have stood as early as the 11th century and was demolished. According to Eugen Gradmann , the Gülden or Güldin von Gottwollshausen, an extinct family in 1431, founded a church on the site of their former castle and donated it to the Johanniter Hospital in Hall in 1229 . The Church of St. George was only consecrated in 1385.

The parish of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit was connected with the parish of St. Johann and Gottwollshausen in 1805, but this construct was dissolved again in 1812: St. Johann and St. Katharina were united, while the parish of Gottwollshausen and the hamlet of Sülz Branch parish of Gailenkirchen became.

description

The late Gothic building was once surrounded by a walled cemetery. It has a choir in the tower . The furnishings once included frescoes , which were renovated in 1689 and were still visible in the mid-19th century. Today the remains of these frescoes can still be seen on the north wall of the church. The church also had three altars with paintings and carvings. Jesus and the twelve apostles can be seen on the predella parts from the late Middle Ages that are still preserved today.

Gradmann also mentions the late Gothic stone wall tabernacle, which he dates to the 14th or 15th century, while today it is assumed that it dates from the time the church was built, and the wooden baptismal table with images of the apostles from 1691. This was a donation by local citizens and by members of the Hall council.

According to Gradmann's description, the sacristy has a wooden ceiling with tendril painting in the early Renaissance style . In Gradmann's time, three bells were used to ring, one of which, by B. Lachenmann, was made in 1509 and was cast around. The other two bells were older. The bell from 1509 has been preserved and is now supplemented by two more bells from 1926 and 1951. The church has had an iron belfry and an electric bell since 1964.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g www.kirchen Bezirk-schwaebischhall.de ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchen Bezirk-schwaebischhall.de
  2. ^ Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 96 ( archive.org ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '25.79 "  N , 9 ° 43' 5.35"  E