St. Matthäus (Hessental)

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St. Matthäus is a Protestant parish church in the Schwäbisch Hall district of Hessental .

history

A chapel has been occupied since 1365 and once stood, slightly elevated, on the northern edge of the village. Its Romanesque tower choir with three layers of hump blocks in the lower part of the masonry probably dates from the 13th century . Above these three humpback cuboid layers are three more cuboid layers that were probably smoothed afterwards. It can be assumed that these six stone layers represent the remains of an abandoned castle of the Lords of Hessental. The remains of the castle were probably used by the Comburg to build chapels. When the nave was rebuilt, the tower was also changed in 1731.

Until 1939 St. Matthäus was first a branch church of Steinbach , then of Tüngental , then until 1946 parish administration and from 1946 an independent parish.

Most of the church was destroyed in an air raid in 1944. The reconstruction took place in the years 1948 to 1950 on an enlarged scale. While some sources indicate that the designs came from Walter Zoller, others mention Rudolf Lempp .

architecture

The tower with a square base was probably originally a fortified tower of the castle dialed and has a belfry of truss . The tower choir is separated from the nave by a narrow triumphal arch . The unadorned wooden pulpit stands on the south wall of the arch. The choir gallery with organ on the western end wall continues as a gallery over the entire length of the north wall. The dark wood of the gallery and the paneled beamed ceiling dominate the hall church .

The churchyard was once surrounded by a high mantle wall, remains of which can still be seen on the east side (Schellergasse).

Furnishing

A wooden crucifix is ​​dated to 1645 and is the only art treasure that has remained in the church after a late Gothic winged altar was sold in 1893 . Today it hangs over the stone altar in the choir.

The church received a Walcker organ with twelve registers in 1952 and an electro-automatic tower clock and bell system in 1956 . In 1971, as part of an interior renovation, a colored glass window with images of the four evangelists was installed in one of the three-part windows on the south wall.

Bells

The first bells were from 1696 and 1705. They bore the inscription SOLI DEO GLORIA and the Haller coat of arms. They were cast by Johann Martin Dilitz. These two bells hung in the church tower until 1917. In 1950 they were replaced by two new bells from Heinrich Kurz in Stuttgart and a loan bell from Silesia that had been cast in Breslau in 1561 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolph Friedrich von Moser: Description of the Oberamt Hall. Cotta, Stuttgart 1847.
  2. ↑ a b Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 100-101 ( archive.org ).
  3. ↑ a b St. Matthäus ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Prometheus picture archive of the University of Cologne. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / prometheus.uni-koeln.de
  4. ↑ The history of Hessental , city of Schwäbisch Hall
  5. ↑ a b c d Evangelische Matthäusgemeinde Hessental ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matthaeusgemeinde.de
  6. ^ Horst Clauss, Hans-Joachim König, Ursula Pfistermeister : Art and archeology in the Schwäbisch Hall district. Theiss, Stuttgart et al. 1979, ISBN 3-8062-0277-3 , p. 129; Roland Biser (Ed.): The Schwäbisch Hall district. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Theiss, Stuttgart et al. 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0472-1 , p. 212, ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ^ Hugo Schnell: Church building in the 20th century in Germany. Documentation, representation, interpretation. Schnell & Steiner, Munich et al. 1973, ISBN 3-7954-0400-2 , p. 169, ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 26.2 ″  E