St. Martin (Gamburg)

The parish church of St. Martin in Gamburg

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin in Gamburg was built from 1895 to 1898 in the neo-Gothic style.

history

A parish church in Gamburg was first mentioned in 1404. This church building and a successor building stood on the current school square in front of the town hall. Today's parish church was built between 1895 and 1898 by Pastor Krug and the then site manager Maier on a plot of land bought for this purpose. The building and furnishings were kept in the neo-Gothic style. It is a flat-roofed hall church with a recessed, polygonally closed and vaulted choir. The sculptor Thomas Buscher was responsible for the furnishings . It was his first work in which he created a high altar , two side altars, the communion bench , the pulpit , two confessionals and a few other figures. The last renovation of the church was carried out in 1996.

Church building and equipment

High altar

pulpit

Interior

Most of the furnishings come from the local sculptor Thomas Buscher.

Statues by Thomas Buscher can be seen on the high altar. They represent the saints Urban and Wendelinus , St. Gertrud and St. Theresia represents.

The altar of Our Lady was built by Thomas Buscher. It contains a late Gothic Madonna statue from around 1490 from the Riemenschneider workshop .

The pulpit is also a work by Buscher.

Monument protection

The church is located at Kirchstrasse 11 and is a listed building . It is a neo-Gothic hall building with a side tower; Designated in 1895.

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Gamburg

literature

• Dagmar Zimdars u. a .: Baden-Württemberg I: The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). German art publisher. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 250.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Gamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gamburg, St. Martin on the website kath-grossrinderfeld.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} pastoral care unit Großrinderfeld: parish church St. Martin . Online at www.kath-grossrinderfeld.de. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b} St Martin Kirchstrasse 11 Werbach - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved May 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Pastoral care unit Großrinderfeld: Parish Church of St. Martin . Online at gamburg.de. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
4. ↑ Erik Soder from Güldenstubbe u. a .: Tilman Riemenschneider - late Gothic faces and his legacy in the Taubertal. Gerchsheim 2004.

Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 6.8 ″  E