City Church St. Vitus (Hayingen)

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St. Vitus (2009)

The town church St. Vitus in Hayingen is a baroque Roman Catholic parish church which is consecrated to the martyr Veit .

history

An entry on August 11, 1271 in the record book of the Heiligkreuztal monastery confirms a parish in Hayingen. The oldest parts of the church also date from around this time. The tower of the church shows that the church was originally laid out as a fortified church . After considerable damage occurred in the Thirty Years' War , the church was converted into a baroque hall church in 1724 and, among other things, provided with an onion dome on the church tower. The church was extensively renovated in the years 1923 outside and 1934/35 inside.

The parish had an extensive parish early on with the places and today's districts of Anhausen , Ehestetten , Derneck , Indelhausen , Maisenburg , Münzdorf , Oberwilzingen and Weiler . With the relocation of the Hayingen Marienkaplanei to the district of Indelhausen in 1903 and the establishment of its own parish there, only Oberwilzingen belonged to the parish of Hayingen , after which Ehestetten was parish off to Eglingen shortly before the Reformation . At the beginning of the 21st century, all places now belong to the pastoral care unit Zwiefalter Alb in the Reutlingen-Zwiefalten dean's office in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

Furnishing

The oldest pieces of equipment include the epitaphs , including that of Countess Ana von Kirchberg from the Gundelfingen house in 1374 , and another from 1470 from the Baustetten family . There is a larger than life crucifix from the Gothic era above the high altar . The figure of Mary as Mother of Sorrows in the high altar was created by the Riedlingen sculptor Johann Joseph Christian around 1750. The other figures of the high altar were acquired during the renovation in 1935, as was the figure of Joseph on the Joseph altar, which dates from the Baroque era. The figure of the Virgin Mary on the altarpiece dates from the period between 1740 and 1750 and was temporarily in Indelhausen. Next to the magnificent pulpit in the early Rococo style is a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1935 by Karl Nägele . The choir stalls are from 1734.

The ceiling frescoes are by Joseph Ignaz Wegscheider and a church painter Kneer.

The church has a ring of four bells. The oldest dates from 1457 and is dedicated to Saints Vitus Modestus and Kreszentia . A bell from the 13th century broke when two other bells were removed for the First World War , which is why the ringing was completed again in 1922 with three new bells. The three new bells were melted down again for the Second World War . They were replaced in 1950. They have the inscriptions: “Our lb. Home for protection and blessing! ”,“ Our lb. Woman and City Mother ”and“ Our lb. Dead to Eternal Rest ".

The organ was built in 1989 by the Harald Rapp organ building workshop . The instrument has 16 registers spread over two manuals .

literature

  • Johannes Schwendele: Ortschronik Hayingen: History of the city and the parish of Hayingen , Schwabenverlag 1958, pp. 42–51.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Art travel guide Württemberg and Hohenzollern", Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1988, ISBN 3-8112-0591-9 , p. 322.
  2. ↑ H. Sibert: "Hayingen" in sheets of the Swabian Alb Association No. 10, October 1926, pp. 201-206.
  3. ↑ Harald Rapp ( Memento from December 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 31.4 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 42.5"  E