St. Jakobus (Hohensachsen)
The St. Jakobus Church is a Catholic church in the Weinheim district of Hohensachsen in the Rhein-Neckar district in northwest Baden-Württemberg . It was built between 1771 and 1772.
history
In 989 a church in Sahssenheim was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex , when Geriniva donated two shares in the "basilica" to the Lorsch monastery. It was the parish church of the three neighboring Sachsenorte on the mountain road Lützelsachsen , Hohensachsen and Großsachsen and the Odenwald hamlet of Ritschweier and Oberkunzenbach. The right of patronage went to the Palatinate in the first half of the 13th century . Ludwig II donated it to the German Order Coming Frankfurt in 1292 . The patronage of St. James was first mentioned in the late Middle Ages. The Worms Synodale, a visit report of the parishes in the Worms diocese , described in 1494 two side altars in addition to the Catherine Altar, which has been attested since 1423.
In 1556 the Electoral Palatinate introduced the Reformation . When a Calvinist preacher was installed in Hohensachsen in 1561 , the Teutonic Order protested, but in 1565 the Catholic pastor was finally expelled from the Palatinate. From then on, the parish in Hohensachsen followed the change of denomination in the Electoral Palatinate between Reformed and Lutherans , and in the Thirty Years' War also Catholic. During the Dutch War , St. James' Church was burned down by French troops in 1674.
From 1685, Catholic electors ruled the Palatinate again. The Catholics in Hohensachsen were initially looked after by a pastor from the Weinheim Carmelite Church , until a parish was set up again in 1700, whose pastor was appointed by the Teutonic Order. From 1705 the makeshift construction of the church began, which was awarded to the Catholics when the Palatinate church was divided. However, the church stood high above the village, the way there was difficult, so that in 1744 the pastor applied for the construction of a chapel in Hohensachsen. But it was not completed until 1766. Since the Jakobuskirche was dilapidated, it was decided in 1771 to build a new one in the village. The plans came from the Heidelberg master bricklayer Matthias Morath, and the construction manager was Caspar Seiler. In 1772 the church was consecrated to St. James. The roof turret was put on by construction director Dyckerhoff in 1812/13. The chapel was demolished and the old Jakobuskirche near the cemetery fell into disrepair. The remains of the tower ruins were removed in 1815.
St. James' Church was renovated in 1864, 1878, 1901, 1929, 1956, 1971/72, 1982/83 and 2004/06. The parish today belongs together with the other parishes in Weinheim and in Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse to the pastoral care unit Weinheim-Hirschberg in the Dean's Office Heidelberg-Weinheim in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
description
The St. Jakobus Church is in the southeast of Hohensachsen on the road to Ritschweier. It is a simple baroque building with a three-axis nave and a retracted choir with a 3/8 end and an eight-sided roof turret . Two tombstones are placed at the church. The heavily weathered grave slab of Pastor Laemmermeyer († 1772) and the gravestone of Pastor Hensler († 1750). He fell on the steep path to the old church and died of the injuries.
The interior of the church is lavishly decorated with three baroque altars. The high altar was created in 1760/70 and comes from Bürgeln Castle . He came to the Catholic Church in Leimen in 1920 and then to Hohensachsen in 1955. The statue of St. Joseph became St. James reinterpreted. The two side altars were acquired in 1805. They were donated in 1730 by the noble Ulner von Dieburg family for the Laurentius Church in Weinheim . On the left side altar there is a statue of Our Lady, on the right a statue of St. John Nepomuk . The painting of the Coronation of Mary in Heaven was also acquired by the Weinheim Teutonic Order Church in 1805. It dates from the second half of the 17th century.
The organ was built by Karl Göckel in 1985. The case and some stops of the previous organ by Xaver Mönch from 1901 have been preserved. The instrument has 17 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967.
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 3: The city of Mannheim and the communities of the district of Mannheim . Karlsruhe 1970.
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 83, September 28, 989 - Reg. 3590. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 140 , accessed on March 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 203.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '8.4 " N , 8 ° 40' 15.8" E