St. Hippolyt (Ottmarsheim)
The Protestant parish church of St. Hippolyt is a late Gothic church building in Ottmarsheim in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
location
The parish church of St. Hippolyt is located on a hill above the center of Ottmarsheim. To the south of the church there is a walled cemetery that was once only accessible through the church's tower base, which was designed as a passage. A steep staircase north of the church was once the only access to the church, the cemetery and the old school house of the village located on the walled northern forecourt. The entire complex therefore has a distinctly defensive effect, which gives the church the character of a fortified church .
history
The origins of the Ottmarsheim church are documentary in the dark. It is assumed that a wooden church originally stood on the hill on which the church is located, which was then gradually expanded as a stone structure to its present form in the Middle Ages. From the patronage of Hippolytus of Rome one concludes that the first church was built at the time the place was first mentioned in the 8th century. In a document dated October 12, 1244, a plebanus in Ottmarsheim is mentioned, which is interpreted as the first mention of a pastor , subject to the unclear translation possibility. The tower base and the sacristy , which was built around 1400, are considered to be the oldest components of the church ; the floor plan of the nave also existed before 1500. In its present form, the church was essentially completed in 1502. An inscription on the north wall of the tower passage dates from this year. The choir , whose roof overhangs that of the nave and which has presumably replaced an older, smaller choir, was probably built around this time .
In 1634 the tower underwent a structural change, as the documents of the Liebensteiner clerical administration show that part of the tower was demolished and re-covered due to the risk of collapse. The church survived the wars of the 17th century largely unscathed. Although the description of the Oberamt Marbach from 1866 reports the alleged destruction of the nave by fire during the French invasions in 1693 , according to the documents received, only minor repairs were carried out in the years after 1690, so that the Oberamt description probably confused it with the actual one There is a rectory that was burned down by the French in 1693, in which all the old church records were burned, while the church was probably only looted. In any case, after the time of the French invasions, all they got was a new clockwork and a new bell.
In the 18th century the nave needed a new roof structure because the beams of the old one had rotten through. On the occasion of this great construction project was decided a renovation of the church interior, which it made in the years before 1750 his today interior impression formative architectural decoration stucco in the style of Rococo received. The stucco work was mainly carried out by Johann Friedrich Paul from Stuttgart and his senior journeyman Franz Carl Clostermayer from Mannheim. The stucco elements that are still visible today are mainly made by Paul, while Clostermayer created a pulpit that is no longer in existence. Above the choir arch you can still see the original wooden ceiling, above it the stucco coat of arms of Duke Eberhard Ludwig . Whoever painted the stucco is not recorded in the Liebensteiner account books; the painting was probably made through private donations. During the renovation around 1750, the church also received new galleries. Johann Daniel Haug painted the parapet fields, whose origin unfortunately has not been passed down.
In 1845 the present organ was obtained from Eberhard Friedrich Walcker . Around 1880 the stucco work on the ceiling was renewed because it had become very damaged. The shape and design of the new ceiling corresponds to the old one, only the ceiling paintings that were previously available have not been redone. On the occasion of this renovation, the well-known architect Heinrich Dolmetsch was also approached with a request to plan a general renovation of the church. Dolmetsch did draw up a plan for the neo-Gothic redesign, but the implementation failed due to the necessary funds, so that the rococo jewelry of the church has largely been preserved to this day, while in 1902 only the choir was partially redesigned according to Dolmetsch's plans, whereby the Rococo pulpit and the choir gallery were lost.
In 1934/35 the church was renovated again, the stucco was repaired and the paintings on the gallery were cleaned.
description
The parish church of St. Hippolyt is a single-nave church, with its choir facing east. The church is accessed through the basement of the tower built on the west, designed as a passage from the northern forecourt to the southern cemetery. The tower is not exactly parallel to the nave walls, but is rotated a few degrees. The cause is presumed to be the geological properties of the subsurface. To the south of the choir is the old sacristy, the vault of which has striking grimacing consoles. The ceiling of the nave is covered by a rococo stucco ceiling, the much higher choir has a late Gothic reticulated vault and tracery windows. The tower passage is also spanned by a late Gothic vault.
In the west of the nave there is a three-sided gallery , on which the organ is located at the front. The parapets painted by Johann Daniel Haug show Moses receiving the tablets of the law, the Last Judgment, the manna blessing, the feeding of the 5000 and the collection of the ark.
The grimace console of the sacristy vault
Gallery parapet, retrieval of the ark
Walcker organ
literature
- Markus Otto: Parish Church St. Hippolyt , in: Festschrift 1200 Years Ottmarsheim , Ottmarsheim 1966.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '57.7 " N , 9 ° 12' 9.4" E