St. Veit and St. Martin (Steinbach)
The St. Veit and St. Martin chapel , also known as the "Old Martins Chapel ", was built in 1494. Until then, Steinbach (now part of Mudau ) had no church of its own. The approval for the construction of a chapel was granted by the Amorbach Monastery in a document dated August 6, 1407. However, construction did not begin until the end of the 15th century. The oldest reference found at the chapel is "1494 in die post Viti", that is 1494, on the day after the feast of St. Vitus, ie June 16, 1494. This number is located on the southern opening of the tower. The builder is Johannes Eseler - known as Hans von Amorbach - from the famous stonemason clan of the Eseler von Alzey.
The chapel consists of a tower, a single-nave late Gothic nave made of quarry stones, some with unusually large cuboids, and a reticulated choir. Like all places of worship from this period, the little church is oriented from west to east. In the south windows there are Gothic tracery and stone images of St. Martin and St. Vitus.
The church was enlarged in 1514, and in 1703 a stucco ceiling was inserted in the nave and a wooden gallery was built, which was removed again. The stone pulpit from 1564 is now located in St. Martin's Church, which was newly built from 1897.
The altar top of the high altar has two wings and, according to experts, was carved around 1510 in a workshop in Main Franconia. It is consecrated to Our Lady of Sorrows and shows scenes from the passion of Jesus. The way they are depicted is reminiscent of the work of the sculptor and carver Tilman Riemenschneider . The altar has been restored since 1977 and only put back in the chapel in 1990.
In addition to this altar, the chapel also contains two Baroque side altars from the 18th century with two sculptures. While the documentation about the restoration of Roman legionnaires is mentioned, experts suspect that it is the monastery saints from Amorbach, Simplicius and Faustinus . The church accounts from 1710 record u. a .: "... 24 florins to the sculptor from Amorbach for the statues of Saints Simplicius and Faustinus, 15 Kreuzer wages."
For a long time the chapel served the Steinbach and Rumpfen believers as a church. After Steinbach's elevation to an independent parish with the branches Rumpfen and Stürzenhardt on March 23, 1871, a larger church was required. This was built from August 1897 to August 1899 under Pastor Honikel by the archbishop's building inspector Ludwig Maier from Heidelberg and master bricklayer Karl Krieger from Stein am Kocher , only a few meters away from the old St. Martin's Chapel.
literature
- Dr. P. Albert: Steinbach near Mudau - history of a Franconian village . Freiburg im Breisgau 1899, Lorenz & Waetzels Academic Bookshop
- Otto Lenz, pastor in Karlsdorf: Establishment of new parishes and curatia in the Odenwald since the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded . Volume IV. Steinbach
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Baumbusch: Ceremonial lecture 500 years of the Chapel of St. Martin and Veit zu Mudau-Steinbach. In: The watch tower. Home pages of the Bezirksmuseum Buchen association , No. 2, June 1996
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Nordbadische Nachrichten , 11./12. June 1994
- ↑ Documentation by the restorer Richard Bronold, No. 106/0986, Lauda-Königshofen
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Nordbadische Nachrichten , July 29, 1994
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 46.4 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 31.4" E