St. Peter and Paul (Grünsfeld)

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St. Peter and Paul

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Grünsfeld , a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , is essentially a late Gothic church from the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th century the church was given a baroque nave , and in the 1960s it was expanded with an extension.

history

The place is mentioned in a document as early as the 8th century. The foundation of the parish and the construction of the first church is attributed to St. Boniface . A pastor was first mentioned in Grünsfeld in 1225 and a church was first mentioned in writing in 1323. The current church was started in the second half of the 14th century. In 1659 the Gothic nave had to be demolished due to dilapidation and replaced by the current one. In 1966/68 a transverse room was added in the north between the tower and the nave.

The Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul belongs to the pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen, which has been assigned to the Tauberbischofsheim deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg since a reform of the deanery on January 1, 2008 .

architecture

portal

Exterior construction

On the north side of the choir rises the 75 meter high tower, the three lower floors of which date from the 14th century. After a fire in 1858, the top floor was raised according to plans by building inspector Haufe from Wertheim and provided with a neo-Gothic tracery parapet and a slim pointed helmet.

The main portal is on the west facade. The inscription on the tympanum recalls the year of construction in 1659 and names Johann Philipp von Schönborn , the builder, who as Archbishop of Mainz was one of the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire and as Bishop of Würzburg, Duke of Franconia . The sculptures of the two church patrons , the apostles Peter and Paul , and in the middle, Christ as Savior, stand above the portal roof . The portal of the southern nave is crowned by a figure of Mary.

Console, angels with tools of suffering

inner space

inner space

The choir dates back to the late 14th century. It is closed polygonally and covered with a reticulated vault, which replaced the original ribbed vault in the second half of the 15th century . The fish-bubble tracery of the choir windows was probably also made during this time . The keystone above the altar is decorated with a coat of arms.

In the south, the nave opens up in two large round arches resting on an octagonal pillar to the Lady Chapel, which is dated to the 15th century. The corner consoles are carved with angel figures holding coats of arms with the tools of Christ's passion .

The baroque nave is covered with a flat ceiling. The arched windows have tracery forms borrowed from the Gothic. The western end is formed by the originally two-story organ and singing gallery, the second floor of which was removed during the renovations in the 1960s to make room for the new organ.

Sacrament house
pulpit

Furnishing

Altars and sculptures

A late Gothic crucifix hangs above the celebration altar , which is attributed to the workshop of Tilman Riemenschneider . The baroque high altar was created in 1781 by the sculptor Georg Winterstein from Würzburg. The altarpiece depicts the assumption of Mary into heaven. On the side are the sculptures of the patrons Peter and Paul and those of the apostles Andrew and James the Elder in polished white .

Sacrament house

A Gothic sacrament house is built into the south wall of the Marienkapelle .

Baptismal font

The font dates from 1618.

pulpit

The carved wood pulpit with the year 1679 stands on a stone column .

Bells

The parish church of St. Peter and Paul has a five-part bell.

No. Caster Casting year material Ø
(cm)		 Weight
(kg)		 Nominal
1 Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling 1952 bronze 139.3 1,863 it 1 - 6
2 C. Rosenlächer 1862 bronze 126.0 f 1 - 6
3 C. Rosenlächer 1862 bronze 102.0 as 1 - 6
4th Friedrich Wilhelm Schillin 1952 bronze 89.4 463 b 1 - 6
5 Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling 1952 bronze 80.2 343 c 2 - 6

Epitaphs

Numerous epitaphs from the Rieneck and Leuchtenberg families are kept in the church. The tombstone of Dorothea von Rieneck († 1503) is attributed to Tilmann Riemenschneider. The splendid alabaster epitaph of the Wundert family was donated in 1673 by Franz Wundert, abbot of Bronnbach Monastery , in memory of his parents.

  • Grave monuments in the Grünsfeld parish church

  • Epitaph from Dorothea von Rieneck

  • Amalia, Countess Palatine near the Rhine († 1483)

  • Alabaster epitaph of the Wundert family

  • Gravestone of a knight from Dottenheim († 1437)

literature

  • Heinrich Niester, Hans Rolli: Parish church Grünsfeld. St. Achatius Grünsfeldhausen (= Little Art Guide No. 1076). 3. Edition. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1994, DNB 944266800
  • Heinrich Niester: The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Grünsfeld, Tauberbischofsheim district. Your structural expansion and restoration. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg . 1st year 1972, issue 2, pp. 10-18. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Saints Peter and Paul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral conception of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . (PDF; 1.3 MB). Resolution of July 21, 2011. Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Archdiocese of Freiburg: Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Grünsfeld Grünsfeld . Online at www.ebfr-glocken.de. Retrieved December 14, 2016.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 30.3 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 40.2"  E