St. Martin (Münsingen)

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St. Martin (Münsingen)
inside view
Choir room with organ
Baptismal font

The Protestant church and former parish of St. Martin (also called Martinskirche ) is a Gothic basilica in Münsingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the overall parish of Münsingen-Trailfingen in the church district of Bad Urach-Münsingen of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

History and architecture

The church in Münsingen is first mentioned in 804 as the parish church of a larger district. However, nothing is known about the previous buildings. Today's building is a flat-roofed four-bay basilica, which, with its reduced Gothic forms , is based on the architecture of the mendicant order from around 1300. The outside of the church shows three-lane windows with fish bubble tracery over a cornice. The choir flank tower in the north has three simple floors from the construction time of the nave. After completion of the building, the polygon of the sacristy with divided arched windows was added to the tower on the north wall of the choir. The bell storey and the octagonal stone helmet of the tower were only added in 1887/1888 by Christian Friedrich von Leins in the forms of the French high Gothic. The west portal is arranged between simple stepped buttresses in the axes of the tall nave walls. A wooden gallery has been built into the first yoke of the interior since 1557. The vaults of the aisles are late Gothic and were changed when the galleries were added.

At least the late Gothic choir with five-eighth closing was built by Peter von Koblenz , the builder of the collegiate church St. Amandus Bad Urach and the collegiate church Tübingen , whose master's mark can be found in the vault together with that of the co-master. The choir is dated to 1495 and 1496 on the southern buttress. The star rib vault on crossed beginners shows finely designed three-pass keystones from the Urach school with depictions of Saints Maria, Martin , Katharina and Barbara , which, according to a fragmentary inscription on the choir arch, were colored by the Ulm painter Daniel Schüchlin and decorated with flower tendrils and halos. These paintings were uncovered during a restoration of the choir in 1976. The walls are painted yellowish beige with a painted square. In the north-west corner of the choir arch, when the sacristy was installed in 1495, a stair tower leading to the tower was built. The outer sacristy is closed with a star vault.

During the restoration of the ship in 1983/1984, the room setting from the years 1557/1558 was restored, which probably shows gray ashlar painting on the arcades and windows as well as a colorful wooden strip ceiling in the colors ivory, vermilion and old pink with brightly colored shell decoration dates from the 17th century.

Furnishing

  • The colorful pulpit with a tower-like sound cover also dates from the first half of the 17th century.
  • The octagonal baptismal font, dated 1506 and 1528, which shows a cupola with shields and round bars on the edges above a star-shaped base , is probably also a stonemason work by a Urach master.
  • The ascetic, slender crucifix in the sacristy is estimated to date from the beginning of the 16th century.
  • The crucifix above the altar comes from Gruorn and was created around 1490 in the vicinity of the Ulm Weckmann workshop.
  • Two individual figures in an unsuitable new version show Stephanus in fine work of the soft style from the beginning of the 15th century and Johannes Evangelista from around 1490, who probably comes from a crucifixion group.
  • Two epitaphs from the 17th century were created for Johann Niefer († 1695).
  • The colored glazing of the tracery windows in the choir was donated by citizens and created in 1960 by Wolf-Dieter Kohler :
    • left: the works of mercy ( Mt 25  LUT )
    • Middle: Christ exalted, flanked by angels, below Archangel Michael, the weigher of souls , and four angels with trumpets of judgment
    • right: the parable of foolish and wise virgins
  • The aisle windows are from Ursula Nollau (* 1944) from Zwiefalten:
    • 1992 a south window: baptism ( Ps 121,3  LUT )
    • 1994 two south windows: Last Supper (bread and wine)
    • 1999 two north windows: promise ( Isa 11,1  LUT ) and the round window: blessing ( Isa 9,5  LUT )
  • The organ is a work by Orgelbau Vier from 1976 with 36 stops on three manuals and pedal . The prospectus of an organ by Christian Gotthilf Haußdörffer from 1759 was reused.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 470–471.
  • Church guide: Evangelical Martinskirche Münsingen ; ed. Ev. Parish Münsingen, 2004

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Kohler (ed.): Light and Color - Wolf-Dieter Kohler 1928-1985 ; ed. self-published, Stuttgart 1988
  2. ↑ Nollau catalog raisonné see [1] - last accessed on June 7, 2020
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 42.7 ″  E