St. John the Baptist (Hohentrüdingen)

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The church; the former donjon is clearly visible

The St. John the Baptist Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hohentrüdingen , a district of the Heidenheim market in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is the parish church of the parish of Hohentrüdingen in the parish association Westheim - Ostheim -Hohentrüdingen in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Heidenheim . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-140-46 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list. The patronage of the church is St. John the Baptist .

location

The church is located in the north of Hohentrüdingen and is one of the few architectural monuments in town. The postal address of the church building is Schlossweg 2. North borders the forest Hague on. The Raingraben rises around 300 meters north of the building and the Maßholdergraben around 250 meters south .

The church was built over the remains of the Hohentrüdingen Castle , built by the Counts of Truhendingen at the end of the 11th century and once the largest high medieval fortification between the middle Wörnitz and Altmühl . The entire surrounding area is therefore designated as a ground monument .

Coat of arms of the Counts of Truhendingen, builders of Hohentrüdingen Castle

Building history

After the castle ruins were sold for demolition in 1812, the church building was erected from 1817 to 1819. However, the building turned out to be too big for the small community. The new building replaced the castle chapel , which was expanded for the second time from 1711 to 1720 and demolished in the early 19th century , which the local parish, which had been parish to Westheim from time immemorial (until 1722, then its own parish), had used for worship purposes. Only the organ from 1720 and the pulpit have been preserved from the furnishings of the previous church.

Architecture and inventory

The classical hall building

The building is a simple classical hall church with four window axes and arched windows . The organ case is made up of five parts with acanthus panels from 1720. The rectangular pulpit as a balcony over two columns, at the same time framing the sacristy door behind it, is remarkable . Today a new ambo-like pulpit is used on the north wall. Several aristocratic graves with coats of arms have been preserved from the 18th century. Moving the altar to the north side in 1966 resulted in a new spatial structure as a transverse hall construction.

The approximately 27-meter humpback square - keep the former castle now serves as a bell tower of the village church. The walls of the former keep are three meters thick. The church tower carries a belfry with clockwork as polygonal tower of the 18th century; the sacristy was added to the south side of the tower . The tower can be climbed.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : St. John the Baptist (Hohentrüdingen)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin , List of Heidenheim monuments at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on November 25, 2015)
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ^ Karl Gröber and Felix Mader (editor): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Mittelfranken. VI. District Office Gunzenhausen. Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 166
  4. ^ Johann Schrenk / Karl Friedrich Zink : GottesHäuser. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, p. 106
  5. ^ Johann Schrenk / Karl Friedrich Zink : GottesHäuser. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, p. 106f.
  6. ^ Karl Gröber and Felix Mader (editor): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Mittelfranken. VI. District Office Gunzenhausen. Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 167f.
  7. ↑ Hohentrüdingen. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia. 2., Munich 1999, p. 480.
  8. ↑ Hohentrüdingen - St. Johannis ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Open Church Bavaria (accessed December 12, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offene-kirchen-bayern.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 4.3 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 51.3"  E