St. Petronilla (Kiechlinsbergen)

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St. Petronilla is the Roman Catholic parish church of Kiechlinsbergen , a district of Endingen am Kaiserstuhl . Together with the parishes of St. Peter in Endingen, St. Martin in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl , St. Vitus in Amoltern , also a part of Endingen, and St. Johannes Baptista in Forchheim (Kaiserstuhl), it belongs to the pastoral care unit of the Northern Kaiserstuhl of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Church and cemetery

Parish history

Kiechlinsbergen, located on the northern edge of the Kaiserstuhl , takes its name from the Freiburg noble family Küchlin . Initially referred to as "Bergen" or, in contrast to Oberbergen in the interior of the Kaiserstuhl Mountains, as "Unterbergen", in 1308 it was first named "Ze heren Küchelis Bergen". In 885 Richardis , the wife of Emperor Charles III. from the Carolingian dynasty , the village is part of the Andlau Benedictine monastery in Alsace. The bailiffs of the monastery were the lords of Üsenberg and later the knights Küchlin. They sat on the dialed Castle Kiechlinsbergen in Won "castle", but should at the site of the present church have had a second castle. From 1344, and finally in 1659, Kiechlinsbergen came to the Tennenbach Cistercian monastery through the purchase of Andlau . It belonged to him until it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden with the secularization of 1806 . The canonical involvement changed in 1827 to the new Archdiocese of Freiburg.

The first church, probably an own church of the Andlau monastery, was looked after by Andlau clergy. It was dedicated to Saint Peter . The parish is first mentioned in 1275 among the parishes of the Diocese of Constance . At that time St. Petronilla , according to a legend, a daughter of St. Peter, was co-patroness. Later the priests came from the Tennenbacher monastery until after the death of the last monastery priest in 1810, Franz Josef Kaspar from Herbolzheim-Bleichheim became the first secular priest. He requested an investigation into the dilapidated older and too small church.

Reminder of the interior renovation in 1929

Building history

The appraiser, Friedrich Arnold , a student of Friedrich Weinbrenner , declared a new building to be unavoidable and then managed it. The foundation stone was laid in 1813. Arnold's request for the surrender of altars "from the long-dead monastery chapel in Tennenbach" was granted and the Kiechlinsbergers received two side altars for which they had to pay 100 guilders, despite their argument that they had a right to the altars as a former "Tennenbach village" had. In 1815 the responsible dean's administrator reported to the diocese of Constance the complete expansion of the church "according to a construction which was peculiar to the choir and tower and which differed from the usual". In 1817 she received a high altar from the Johanniter monastery in Kenzingen, which was also secularized in 1806 .

As early as 1822, seven years after the completion of the building, cracks in the walls revealed static problems for the first time, which are due to the fact that only part of the church stands on natural ground, while the tower and choir are on heaped loess. Almost the entire weight of the tower rests on the cemetery wall, which is up to 1.40 meters thick, but which should actually be 5 meters thick. At the beginning of 2017 the cracking was so severe that the church had to be closed for security reasons. In 2018, renovation work began, in which more than 200 concrete columns are injected into the ground to act as an artificial foundation to stabilize the cemetery wall and the church tower.

In 1917 all bells except for one from 1748 were melted down for war purposes. Those newly acquired in 1920 suffered the same fate in 1940.

Pastor Johann Baptist Knebel became important for the village and the parish church . He helped found the Kiechlinsbergen winegrowers' cooperative and in 1929 initiated the neo-baroque redesign of the interior of the church, which had previously been poorly decorated.

  • Inner direction of the choir

  • Holy Family

  • Inside towards the entrance

  • Entrance to the church and cemetery

  • Church from the south

construction

With the choir facing south-east and the facade surmounted by the tower facing north-west, the church is picturesquely above the town in the walled cemetery. The way up to it “with its old walls and the 'Burgtor' has the atmosphere of a medieval castle, from where you have a wide view of the Rhine plain.” The square tower closes with a four-sided pyramid helmet. The semicircular choir follows the nave with four window axes and a vestibule. Next to it are the sacristy and the confessional room. The ceiling of the ship rests on a cove into which stitch caps cut above the windows .

Furnishing

As you enter, the neo-baroque interior, richly decorated in terms of form and color, is surprising compared to the simple, classicist exterior. A "Bayerlein" or "Beierlein" created the stucco work, the paintings were created by the Karlsruhe painter Josef Mariano Kitschker (1879–1929) and other artists.

The ceiling painting in the ship, signed Mariano Kitschker 1928, shows the Holy Family under God the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit . An angel flutters a banner saying “PRAY AND WORK”. On the left, St. Petronilla protects Kiechlinsbergen with its church and the former provost's office of Tennenbach Monastery between vines and in front of the Katharinenkapelle on the Katharinenberg of the Kaiserstuhl in the distance.

  • Altars

  • Left side altar

  • Saint Benedict

  • High altar

  • Fourteen helpers

  • Right side altar

The side altars are symmetrically designed with blue marble columns, altar extracts and putti . The painting on the left side altar, signed by Johann Pfunner , shows St. Benedict of Nursia , next to whom a putto is holding his abbot's staff and the chalice with a small snake with which one tried in vain to poison him. There is a pietà on the altar . In the excerpt the eye of providence shines . The painting in the right side altar, also signed by Pfunner, shows Our Lady with the fourteen helpers in need . On the altar is a sculpture of St. Petronilla. In the excerpt, the dove of the Holy Spirit floats in a halo.

Many of the fourteen helpers in need can be recognized by their costume and attributes, namely the saints from left to right and from bottom to top

  • Stations of the Cross

  • “Jesus condemned to death” Mk 15.1-15  EU

  • “Jesus speaks to women” Lk 23: 28-31  EU

  • “Jesus dies on the cross” Mk 15,33-41  EU

  • “Jesus removed from the cross” Mk 15.42-46  EU

  • “Jesus laid in the grave” Mk 15,46-47  EU

According to the signature on the last station, Walther Meyer-Pfaff painted the fourteen stations of the cross. They are surrounded by magnificent stucco frames.

  • Sebastian

  • Brother Konrad

Above the southern entrance there is a Gothic sculpture of Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows . On the southern wall of the ship “P. Valentin 1935 ”(so the signature), again in a splendid stucco frame, the brother Konrad von Parzham , who was canonized in 1934 . The figure of Pope Urban I was made by the village carver Otto Bauer (1925–2001).

literature

  • Hermann Brommer , Bernd Mathias Kremer, Hans-Otto Mühleisen: Art at the Kaiserstuhl . 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-284-3 .
  • Gerhard Everke: Kiechlinsbergen at the Kaiserstuhl . In: Christoph and Friedrich Arnold - Two architects of classicism in Baden . Volume 2: Catalog of works, Phil. Diss. University of Freiburg 1991, pp. 719–720.
  • State archive directorate Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district Emmendingen (publisher): Kiechlinsbergen . In: The district of Emmendingen. Volume 2.1. Community descriptions Emmendingen to Malterdingen . Jan Thorbecke Verlag , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-1362-0 , pp. 195-200.
  • Joseph Sauer: Church art in the first half of the 19th century in Baden . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1933, pp. 224-229. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  • Wilhelm Schifferdecker: Bergen 862–1987. 1125 years of Kiechlinsbergen. History of the village of Kiechlinsbergen at the Kaiserstuhl . Catholic rectory Kiechlinsbergen 1987.
  • Wilhelm Schifferdecker: History of the village Kiechlinsbergen . 2nd part: 20th century. Catholic Parish Office Kiechlinsbergen 1996.

Web links

Commons : St. Petronilla (Kiechlinsbergen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the pastoral care unit Nördlicher Kaiserstuhl . Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Everke 1991.
  3. ↑ Johanniterordenshaus Kenzingen on the website Klöster in Baden-Württemberg . Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Martin Wendel: Neue Risse: Church stays closed beforehand , Badische Zeitung, February 15, 2017 online ; Joshua Kocher: The Tower of Kiechlinsbergen , Badische Zeitung, February 7, 2019 online
  5. ↑ Schifferdecker 1987, p. 4.
  6. ^ Brommer et al 2008.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '22.1 "  N , 7 ° 39' 17.2"  E