St. Juliana (Malsch)
The St. Juliana Church is a Catholic church in Malsch in the Rhein-Neckar district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . It was built in 1771/72.
history
Malsch was first mentioned in a document in 783 in the Lorsch Codex . In 976, Emperor Otto II gave the Mosbach Abbey , to which Malsch also belonged, to the Worms Bishop Anno . The patronage of St. Juliana probably already existed in Mosbacher's time, i.e. before the year 976. In 1302 Malsch came to the Speyer Monastery . Shortly afterwards the church was mentioned in writing for the first time, in 1327 the gentlemen von Weinsberg left the church set to the Speyer Allerheiligenstift , which incorporated the parish and appointed a vicar. Because of its affiliation with Speyer, the Reformation did not find its way into Malschenberg. The parish branches included Rettigheim (see St. Nikolaus ) and Malschenberg (until 1896).
In the 18th century the church became more and more dilapidated. In 1769, Prince-Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten commissioned the architect Leonhard Stahl to plan a new building. The new church was built between 1771 and 1772. Due to the increased population, the end of the 19th century became too small. In 1893 the church was lengthened by two axes and the interior was richly painted. During the interior renovation in 1956, the wall ornaments were removed again.
In 1972 a fire broke out in St. Juliana Church and the church burned down to the outside walls. The baroque furnishings, including the side altars, the pulpit, the 1.50 meter high statues of the 14 helpers and the organ fell victim to the fire. The church was then rebuilt at a cost of 1.5 million DM. The baroque inventory was taken over from the abandoned St. Martin's Church in Zeutern . The first service in the rebuilt church was celebrated on April 7, 1974. In 1997 a renovation took place.
The parish belongs since 2015, the pastoral unit or parish Letzenberg on to which the Catholic communities of places Malsch , Malsch Mountain , Mulhouse with Tairnbach , Rauenberg , Rettigheim and Rotenberg belong.
description
The St. Juliana Church is in the center of Malsch near the town hall. The baroque hall building has a front structured with pilasters and a curved gable. There is a figural niche with the patroness Juliana above the portal. The oldest parts of the church can be found on the tower on the left. The substructure dates from around 1200, the octagonal bell storey with the ogival sound openings was built in 1536.
After the fire in 1972, the main altar, the side altars, the pulpit, the gallery balustrade and the organ case were taken over from the Zeuterner St. Martin's Church. The high altar comes from the workshop of the sculptor Joachim Günther . The division of St. Martin's coat is shown in the center. To the left of the altar is a figure of the church patroness Juliana. Two other figures represent Franz Xavier and Ignatius von Loyola . The two statues were already standing in front of the fire in the old St. Juliana church at the Joseph altar. They are the only original pieces of equipment that were spared from the fire because they were in a restoration workshop. The Rochus statue comes from the vineyard chapel on Letzenberg, which was built in 1736, not far from Malsch. She was taken to church in the 1970s. The richly carved baroque pulpit was once located in the Heidelberg Franciscan monastery, from there it came to Malsch via Zeutern.
Juliana
Franz Xaver
Rochus
pulpit
The organ case was built in 1811 by Johann Jacob Weinmar. The organ himself was built by Michael Weise in 1974 . In 1988 it was rebuilt and re-voiced by Karl Göckel . The instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The four bells with the strike tone sequence d 1 -f 1 -g 1 -b 1 were cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in 1962 . Three survived the fire unscathed, only the Marienglocke had to be cast in 1973.
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 .
- 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. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the communities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968.
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2603, March 5, 783 - Reg. 1819. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 182 , accessed on March 5, 2016 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '43.1 " N , 8 ° 41' 0.7" E