St. Georg (Neuenbürg)

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Neuenbürg St. Georg Tower made of quarry stone masonry with corner blocks Romanesque base

The church of St. Georg in Neuenbürg in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg dates back to the 11th or 12th century and is the oldest church in the city. It is halfway up the Schlossberg and is therefore also known as the Castle Church . After the town church was built in the 14th century , the Georgskirche took a back seat in its importance. The church contains important frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries.

history

The origins of the church are in the dark. The oldest part of the church is the steeple from the 11th / 12th. Century with half-timbered bell room (19th century), the nave , the late Gothic choir and the baptistery built on the north side are a bit more recent . The basement of the tower once served as a bell room and is now the sacristy . The church was once fortified, as evidenced by various loopholes in the tower. Numerous burials took place in the church, of which today old grave slabs put up on the inner and outer walls testify.

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1290. The church was probably used equally by the residents of the Neue Burg as well as the residents of the Burgweiler that was once around the church. The painting of the church goes back to the Counts of Württemberg, who bought the church around 1320. The depiction of the Last Judgment above the triumphal arch dates from around 1460. The fortified church lost its importance after the settlement was relocated to the valley and the town church was built in the 14th century, but after the town fire in 1783 or during renovations of the town church it was repeatedly used for the main church services. Following the changing use, the name of the church changed again and again. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was mainly called the Castle Church.

In 1814 there were plans to convert the church into a military hospital, in 1854 there were considerations to demolish the church in order to enlarge the cemetery. In 1880 the church tower received its current structure. In 1894 the first parts of the wall paintings were uncovered. From 1955 to 1964 the church was extensively renovated, with additional frescoes uncovered. On the west and south walls are a cycle with scenes from the life of Christ, a Pentecost picture and depictions of the death of the Virgin and the coronation of the Virgin from around 1340/50. Above the triumphal arch to the choir is a depiction of the Last Judgment from around 1460.

The church was again extensively renovated from 1995 to 2005 and has recently been used mainly for cultural purposes.

gallery

  • Neuenbürg St. Georg Süd

  • Neuenbürg St. Georg portal

  • Neuenbürg St. Georg tower north view

  • Newburg engraving by Merian 1643/1656

  • Fresco cycle. South side of the choir arch reveal the five foolish virgins (around 1460)

  • Corrugated north chapel with chosen one who raises the worshiping arms.

  • cross

  • East frieze

  • Nordkapelle baptismal font

  • Foolish ones

  • St. Georg (Neuenbürg) depiction of the Last Judgment above the triumphal arch around 1460

  • West wall. The Last Judgment with Christ in the mandorla, sitting on the rainbow, with Mary and John the Baptist standing interceding

  • West wall. On the left the risen from the graves, above them the angel of the trumpets

  • West wall. On the right the damned are being dragged to the jaws of hell. In the latter the hanged Judas

literature

  • City of Neuenbürg (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Neuenbürg. Neuenbürg 1980, pp. 200-202.
  • Hermann Diruff and Christoph Timm: Art and cultural monuments in Pforzheim and in the Enzkreis. Stuttgart 1991, pp. 247-249.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Tetzlaff: Romanesque capitals in France. Lion and snake, siren and angel . Ed .: DuMont Buchverlag. ISBN 978-3-7701-0889-3 , pp. 136 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49.4 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 24.6"  E