St. Martinus (Erbach)
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The parish church St. Martinus is a church in Erbach an der Donau in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg . Today's building from 1767 contains significant evidence of the late rococo in its interior .
history
The church of St. Martinus was first mentioned in 1275 in the Konstanz book of tithe . It was one of the first parishes in the area. In 1765 it was demolished because it was in disrepair, but construction began in 1767, financed by a donation of 28,000 guilders from the two barons Beata and Viktoria von Ulm-Erbach, who brought in almost all of their assets. In 1769 the building was completed when the hood was placed on the 48 meter high tower. In the church there is a box for the barons of Ulm-Erbach.
Between 2004 and 2006 the church was extensively renovated. During this renovation, services were held in the nearby Erbach Castle , which has its own chapel.
Furnishing
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The interior is almost entirely designed in the late rococo style, with elaborate stucco work and life-size figures on the high altar by Ignaz Finsterwalder and 20 important frescoes by Franz Martin Kuen , a master of Swabian rococo painting .
organ
Earlier pipe instruments are documented in Erbach in 1694, 1770 and 1913. It is known that the Ulm organ builder C HRYSOSTOMUS B AUR received the order in 1694 to produce a new positive. The current case, initially built for 14 registers with the prospectus added later, dates back to 1770. It goes back to the Oberdischinger sculptor J OSEPH H EGENAUER , who also decorated the choir stalls on both sides (1770). The current 26-register organ was built in 1983 by the R EISER brothers in Biberach as Opus 422. The disposition is associated with the name E DMUND A NGELE . The instrument has 26 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The first manual of the gaming table is a coupling manual.
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- Coupling: III / II (sub-octave coupling), II / P, III / P
Bells
Today's four-note chime sounds in the tone sequence c'-es'-f'-as'. The oldest is the small evangelist bell , which Erbach experienced in good and bad times and could tell a lot. It was created around 1300 by an unknown wandering caster and is unadorned, but bears the name on its coat: “+ LVCAS . MATHE . JOHN . S ". Her bronze sister, cast by S TEPHAN F IRST in Ulm in 1555 , had to be melted down during the First World War in 1917. Then The same fate also suffered two bronze cast of the Ulm Master H ANS B Raun of 1618. So procured the Martin municipality in April 1922 at H SETTING U LRICH in the Thuringian Apolda four cast steel bells : a Marie bell d'(47.12 cwt.), Which today is placed in the church square; a Martinus bell in f '(26.16 Ztr.), a Sebastian bell in g' (16.20 Ztr.) and a Wendelin bell in a '(12.74 Ztr.). The historical evangelist bell served from then on as a sign for the Angelus prayer. This ringing could not be melted down during the Second World War, but in the long run the sound quality was unsatisfactory.
After a new steel bell cage was installed in the tower in 1975, the parish had three new bronze parts cast on November 19, 1999 at A LBERT B ACHERT (born June 17, 1956) in Heilbronn.
They were consecrated on December 12, 1999 by district dean Anton König. On this occasion, P ETER L ACHENMEYER in Nördlingen restored the evangelist bell (in as'). As she has done for 700 years, she and her brazen sisters raise their voices year in and year out. They proclaim joy and sorrow. On solemn festivals and public holidays their common call can be heard over the city, the Hochsträßhöhen and the Danube valley, and their song can also be heard in some neighboring towns that used to be part of St. Martin.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Caster | Weight | volume |
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| 1 | Trinity Bell | 1999 | Bachert bell foundry, Heilbronn | 2032 kg | c 1 |
| 2 | Peace bell | 1999 | Bachert bell foundry, Heilbronn | 1219 kg | it 1 |
| 3 | Martinus bell | 1999 | Bachert bell foundry, Heilbronn | 914 kg | f 1 |
| 4th | Evangelist bell | ~ 1300 | unknown | 609 kg | as 1 |
literature
- Dörthe Jakobs, Jochen Ansel: Restoration of the Catholic parish church St. Martinus in Erbach - a jewel on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. Karl Meschke (†) in memory. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 36th year 2007, issue 2, p. 131 f. ( PDF )
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '21.6 " N , 9 ° 53' 4.3" E