St. Maria Magdalena (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 |
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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
Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
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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.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Schmidt: 1480–1980 . P. 4.
- ↑ a b Hans Bauer: Gesegnetes Land . P. 26.
- ↑ Erich Schmidt: 1480–1980 . P. 6.
- ↑ Hans Bauer: Gesegnetes Land . P. 118.
- ↑ Hans Bauer: Gesegnetes Land . P. 119.
- ↑ Erich Schmidt: 1480–1980 . P. 9.
- ↑ Schmidt, Ernst: 1480-1980 . P. 9.
- ↑ Schmidt, Erich: 1480–1980 . P. 6.
- ^ Döring, Wolfgang: Church registers and parish descriptions . P. 108.
- ↑ Schmidt, Ernst: 1480-1980 . Pp. 10-15.
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '34.4 " N , 10 ° 8' 4.6" E