St. Maria Magdalena (Buchbrunn)

The church in Buchbrunn

The church of St. Maria Magdalena in Buchbrunn in Lower Franconia in the Kitzingen district is the village's Evangelical Lutheran parish church. The church is in Kirchgasse in the historic center of the village. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Kitzingen . There is also the Catholic branch church of the Assumption in the place.

history

The history of the church is closely linked to that of Buchbrunn. With the Benedictine convent Kitzingen the village received a powerful landlord. The nuns made sure that a chapel was built in Buchbrunn early on . This little church was built over with the still preserved defense tower in the 12th century. The Romanesque church was assigned to the parish of Mainstockheim .

In the 15th century, Abbess Margaret III asked. von Hirschberg asked the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Rudolf II von Scherenberg whether the villagers could convert the chapel into a church. It was only under her successor Magdalena von Leonrod that the church could be built, which was consecrated to St. Mary Magdalene in 1480 . The branch chapel in Buchbrunn had previously been elevated to a vicarie .

Probably soon after its consecration, the church was elevated to a parish church and thus disconnected from Mainstockheim. The first pastor was Nikolaus Jäger, who donated the baptismal font for the Magdalenenkirche. His successor Martin Korner was already the first Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the church. In Buchbrunn, which had come under the influence of the Protestant margraves of Ansbach , the Reformation was introduced around 1528 .

At the beginning of the 17th century a Simultaneum was set up in the Magdalenenkirche , so that until 1805 both the Protestant and the Catholic Buchbrunners visited the church. In 1611 the cemetery that originally surrounded the church was moved to the outskirts. During the Thirty Years War , Catholic services were held in the church again at times. Catholic pastors preached in Buchbrunn between 1629 and 1631 and between 1635 and 1651. The turmoil of the war led to the parish being dissolved again.

In 1666 the parishes of Buchbrunn and Repperndorf merged and from then on shared the parish. The connection was only terminated in 1855. The Thirty Years War had affected the church, and the church was not renewed until 1683. The nave was lengthened and the tower raised to its present height. The equipment underwent some renovations after renovation.

The sacristy was rebuilt in 1791 and the interior was renovated in 1939. Between 1963 and 1964 the Magdalenenkirche was renewed inside and outside. The new consecration was done by the Oberkirchenrat Koch. The municipalities of Buchbrunn and Repperndorf have been reunited since 1982. The church is classified as an architectural monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

architecture

The Magdalenenkirche is east and has a Romanesque choir tower as the oldest part of the church. The tower with a rectangular floor plan has been 35 m high since 1683, divided into four floors and has an eight-sided pointed spire . The main portal of the church is arched, has profiled frames and is surrounded by a frame. Inside the church has a round arched choir arch .

Furnishing

Confessional painting

The most valuable element of the furnishings is the so-called confessional painting. It was probably created in 1606 and was created by the Nuremberg painter Andreas Herneisen . The picture only came to the Magdalenenkirche in 1892, when the wine merchant Karl August Meuschel and his wife donated the picture. The author of the picture was controversial for a long time; Herneisen's authorship could only be proven after a restoration in 2012.

Originally, the image was larger and was cropped so that it is now 125 × 223. It shows the distribution of the Lord's Supper by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon and, with its scenes from Protestant parish life , resembles the denomination pictures in Kasendorf and Schweinfurt . The elector Joachim Ernst von Brandenburg-Ansbach and his wife Sophie can be identified as recipients of the Last Supper .

organ

An organ has been found in the church since the new nave was built in 1683. It had a total of nine registers and came from an unknown instrument maker. The instrument was replaced in 1756, the new organ, which was repaired in 1803, 1825 and 1854 and 1872, was created by Martin G. Singer from Rothenburg . It is thanks to a foundation by Margarete Schloßnagel that the instrument was replaced in 1886.

The new organ was created by the Steinmeyer company from Oettinger . In 1923 the organ pipes were partially replaced. After the Second World War, in 1955, the Mann company from Marktbreit installed a tenth register. In 1964 the instrument was moved to the west gallery. As part of the extensive renovation, the community received a new instrument for the fourth time in 1980. Again the Steinmeyer company created the organ. It has four manuals and 13 stops, the neo-Gothic prospectus from 1886 has been preserved.

Bells

The ringing of the Marienkirche consists of three bells. The first mention of the Marienglocke was in 1520. It stayed in the belfry until the First World War and then had to be melted down. A second bell was created in 1604 by the Nuremberg foundry Christoph. This was also given in the First World War. It was not until 1925 that the community completed the chimes before the bells were melted down again in 1942. Today's bell came in the church in 1949.

Surname	Keynote	Casting year	Weight in quintals	inscription
Mercy bell	f sharp	1949	16	"Even if the mountains give way and the hills begin to sway - my grace will never leave you and the covenant of my peace will never waver, says the Lord, who has mercy on you." ( Isaiah 54.10 EU )
Christ bell	a	1949	11	"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." ( Hebrews 13.8 EU )
Resurrection bell	cis	1949	6th	"I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even if he dies "( John 11.25 EU )

Further equipment

The altar forms the center of the choir. The crucifix in the center, the oldest piece of interior decoration, was created around 1480. In 1720 the altar structure was replaced. Almost a hundred years later, in 1817, the Buchbrunn community acquired the mighty, two-pillar structure at the auction of the furnishings of the dissolved Ursuline monastery in Kitzingen . To the left of the altar there is a colored sacrament house adorned with tracery set into the wall.

The baptismal font with its framework structure comes from the early Renaissance and was moved to the Magdalenenkirche in 1522. The inscription “Sub d nicolo jeger primo plebano” (Under Mr. Nikolaus Jäger, the first priest) refers to the founder. The wooden pulpit donated Philipp Hartmann in 1606 to remember his parents. In 1855 an artist from Würzburg put pictures of the evangelists on the pulpit. At the same time, the painter Brechtlein created pictures of the apostles for the north gallery .

Pastor

The main portal of the church

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
NN	1470	Buchbrunn, an unknown vicar from Mainstockheim
Nikolaus hunter	1506-1525	first pastor of Buchbrunn, catholic
Martin Korner	1528	first Evangelical Lutheran pastor
NN	1556	changing pastors
Johannes Hartmann	1556-1605	Pastor in Buchbrunn for almost 50 years, † at the age of 80
Georg Wunderer	1605-1617
Jesse Beck	1618-1619	then prefect and teacher in Heidenheim monastery
Paul Rauchbar	1619-1629	Escape 1629
Paulus Zapf	1629-1631	controversial, captured in 1632, deported to Bamberg, Forchheim, Ingolstadt
NN	1631-1666	Counter-Reformation , temporarily not occupied
Johann Heinrich Holl	1666-1677	also Hollius, Escape 1673
Johann Caspar Pistorius	1677-1702
Johann Carl Beyer	1702-1731	previously pastor in Albertshofen , Rödelsee , † at the age of 73 in Buchbrunn
Johann Daniel Schmidt	1731-1748
Johann Albrecht Beuerlein	1748-1753	† at the age of 37
Johann Georg Andreas Hecht	1753-1768
Johann Christoph Lampert	1768-1809	a total of over 40 years in Buchbrunn, † at the age of 75
Johann Christian Clericus	1809-1818	Founder of the Sunday and Industrial School in 1816
Johann Christoph Gottlieb Sebald	1818-1824
Georg Andreas Stepf	1824-1832	Larynx disease, † at the age of 56
Karl Friedrich Jakob Mayer	1832-1838	* 1801, baptized at the age of 18, marriage in 1828, previously vicar of pastor Georg Andreas Stepf in Buchbrunn
Georg Ignaz Volkhardt	1838-1852	last common pastor of Buchbrunn and Repperndorf
NN	1852-1857	Parish administrator
Ernst Paul Abraham Martin Nopitsch	1857-1860	previously pastor in Buttenheim , † 1860 in Buchbrunn
Johann Heinrich Salomo Winnerling	1860-1869	* 1818, previously pastor in Upper Franconia, then pastor in Binzwangen
Erich Brachmann	1869-1876	* in Amorbach, then pastor in Joditz
Johannes Zellfelder	1877-1886	then pastor in St. Gumbertus , Ansbach
NN	1886-1888	Parish administrator
Ernst Harleß	1888-1892	then pastor in Castell
Wilhelm Bauernfeind	1892-1914	* 1859, marriage in 1894, previously pastor in NN, then pastor in Westheim , † May 2, 1935 in Kitzingen , = in Buchbrunn
Erich Hermann Wilhelm Erhard	1915-1929	† August 23, 1945 in Kitzingen, = in Buchbrunn
NN	1929-1933	various vicars and pastors Matthes, Neuses am Berg
Karl Stock	1933-1940	then pastor in Katzwang
Friedrich Gastroph	1940-1950	then pastor in Kempten and Munich
Edgar Scholtes	1950-1961	* in Transylvania
Hans-Joachim Baumgardt	1962-1971	* in Breslau , previously City Vicar of Würzburg , then on January 1, 1971 pastor in Hammelburg
Ernst Schmidt	1972-1979
not provided	1980-1982	vacancy
Martin Steinbach	1983-1991
Michael Bausenwein	1991-2003
Georg Salzbrenner	2004-2008
Doris Bromberger	2009–

literature

Hans Bauer: Blessed Land. Paths through the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Kitzingen am Main . Kitzingen 2012.
Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.
Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia . Munich and Berlin 1999.
Wolfgang Döring: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the independence of the Buchbrunn parish . Buchbrunn 2006.
Wolfgang Döring: Church books and parish descriptions . In: Wolfgang Döring (Ed.): Buchbrunn. History and stories . Buchbrunn 2014. pp. 96–111.
Ernst Schmidt: 1480–1980. 500 years of the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Buchbrunn . Buchbrunn 1980.