Collegiate Church (Dettingen an der Erms)

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Dettingen Collegiate Church on the Erms

The collegiate church in Dettingen an der Erms in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg is a Protestant church, parish church of the Protestant parish of Dettingen an der Erms in the church district of Bad Urach-Münsingen of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

history

The church is first mentioned in the Bempflingen Treaty of 1089/90. Exposed remains of the foundations point to previous buildings in the Carolingian era . The parish church was dedicated to Martin von Tours . The later city of Urach and Hohenurach Castle belonged to their districts . The parish of Dettingen had tithe rights up to the city walls of Urach until the late Middle Ages, including the Güterstein monastery and the village of Hülben . Around 1100 until the Reformation, the church was consecrated to the church saints Pankratius and Hippolyt of Rome .

The Dettinger parish had four benefices before 1275 (maintenance for parish and chaplain positions), around 1450 five and around 1524 only two. In addition, there were at times the chaplaincy of the church branches in Neuhausen (until 1518) and Glems (until 1534). This shows the formerly rich equipment of the parish, while in the 15th century cities like Urach and Reutlingen only had one priest. The benefices were transferred at various times by Count Eberhard the Greiner and above all by Count Eberhart im Bart to the former church on the Florian near Metzingen, to Tübingen Castle and to the Amandus Church in Urach.

Today's church building is the result of several construction activities spread over a period of around 1000 years:

  • Romanesque : The tower stump has been preserved up to a height of approx. 10 m from the Romanesque period. It was probably built between 950 and 1100, possibly built after the Hirsau building school .
  • Gothic : Between 1483 and 1500, Peter von Koblenz built the Gothic choir and two side chapels on behalf of Count Eberhard im Bart in connection with the founding of the Dettingen Abbey of the Brothers of Living Together . The north chapel still exists today, while the south chapel was demolished in 1866. The tower was changed and raised above the Romanesque tower stump.
  • Neo-Gothic : From 1864 to 1866, Christian Friedrich von Leins rebuilt today's neo-Gothic nave with the filigree construction of the stone vaulted yokes and wooden roofing, a stair tower to access the south pore and the church tower above the Romanesque tower stump. The previously existing shorter and narrower Romanesque nave (three-aisled pillar basilica with arched arcades) had previously been demolished because it was dilapidated.
  • 20th century : Under the architect Manfred Wizgall , the collegiate church was extensively renovated in 1960. The harsh demand of 1959 by the expert Dr. Rieth, monument curator of the State Monuments Office, branch office Tübingen, to replace almost the entire neo-Gothic furnishings and colors, all windows, the floor, the decorative painting, the principles , the woodwork on the organ, stalls and gallery balustrades and the sculptural jewelry, only partially allowed, mainly due to a lack of money : Choir restoration, renewal of the choir windows, new altar and baptismal font as well as painting work on walls and stalls were carried out. "In the past few years, the value of the organ, the remains of the 19th century glazing, which have since been restored, as well as the other components from the previous century have been recognized." In 1989, architect Brendle from Münsingen directed this renovation and the Addition to the sacristy above the boiler room on the site of the former south chapel.

Furnishing

The choir

The Gothic choir from 1494 with the remaining northern Pankratius Chapel impresses with the spaciousness necessary for services and prayer times of the convent of the "Brothers of Common Life" and the cross-rib vaulting with artistically designed keystones and the exposed, restored and carefully supplemented Gothic painting.

Woodwork

Of the neo-Gothic wooden furnishings, in particular the gallery parapets and the pulpit on the choir arch were retained in 1960 . The pulpit basket shows carved half-reliefs by Johannes Brenz , Philipp Melanchthon , Martin Luther and Johannes Reuchlin - men who are important for the Reformation and the translation of the Bible.

Stained glass

  • From 1866 : Parts of the neo-Gothic glass painting (floral motifs in the tracery and so-called carpet patterns ) are still preserved on the portals and on the west side . They come from Gotthilf Wilhelm (1832–1882), one of the earliest Württemberg glass painters of modern times, who introduced glass painting, which was rediscovered after the late Gothic, in well over twenty Württemberg churches, and only a few of them are still preserved today. His Dettinger choir window (the middle one with the crucifixion motif "after Dürer") had been removed in 1960.
  • From 1960 : Adolf Valentin Saile , artist, glass painter and head of the glass painting workshop at the Stuttgart Art Academy, designed and manufactured the three stained glass windows in the choir. They are thematically and in color coordinated with the altar triptych and the vault painting. Left the introduction to the Passion of Christ depicted on the altar: prophets, Moses, birth of Jesus; in the middle the sequence of the altar event: Resurrection and Pentecost; and on the right pictures of the Revelation of John (the apocalyptic woman on the crescent moon ( Rev 12  LUT ), Majestas Domini and the trumpet angels).
  • From 1989 : One of the early works of Thierry Boissel , head of the study and experimentation workshop for glass painting, light and mosaic at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 1991, is the window "The Burning Bush" (based on Ex 3  LUT , created in 1986, 1989 built in) in the then newly built sacristy.

Altar areas

A bronze sculpture by Karl Hemmeter in the shape of a cross rises above the altar of the north chapel , but the body is not depicted as a crucified Jesus, but as an exalted and blessing Christ. The modern main altar is adorned with a triptych of late Gothic panel paintings from 1520–1530 (flagellation, crucifixion, Christ crowning thorns). Above him, at the top of the choir arch, a crucifix from the 17th century commemorates the crucified Christ as the focal point of worship and sermons.

Burial place

In the middle of the 11th century, Dettingen was the oldest known residence and burial place of the ancestors of the Counts of Urach and Achalm .

In the area of ​​the north chapel of the collegiate church, the burial place of the Akhalmgraves is said to have been.

Buried in Dettingen were:

  • Rudolf I. Graf von Achalm (at the time of Emperor Konrad II. 1024 to 1039 with his brother Egino I in Dettingen † September 24th ----), Rudolf completed the construction of Achalm Castle near Reutlingen after the death of Egino I. . The origin of the two brothers is uncertain; it is suspected that they were descendants of Mathilde, the daughter of King Konrad of Burgundy . As well as his children:
  • Hunfried († as a child)
  • Berengar († as a child)

After the founding of the Zwiefalten monastery , Rudolf and his children were reburied there.

organ

The listed highly romantic cone chest - organ with 30 registers was in 1866 by Wilhelm Blessing (until 1863 Company Gruol & Blessing built) from Esslingen.

Bells

The Dettinger collegiate church has a total of five bells :

  • 1441: prayer bell, 1200 kg.
  • 1922: Parish bell, 47 kg.
  • 1950: cross bell, 739 kg and drawing bell, 519 kg.
  • 1961: christening bell, 312 kg.

literature

  • Eva-Maria Seng: The Protestant Church Building in the 19th Century. The Eisenach movement and the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins . Tübingen Studies on Archeology and Art History Volume 15, Dissertation from 1992, published Tübingen 1995
  • Church guide: The Dettinger Stiftskirche - history and interesting facts ; Dettingen 2010
  • (On the 150th anniversary of the new church building) Wolfgang Albers: Lively then, now too ; in: Ev. Municipal Gazette for Württemberg, No. 8/2016, p. 32 f

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Stiftskirche Dettingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Dettingen an der Erms
  2. ^ Fritz Kalmbach: With a spade and excavator into the Middle Ages. In Fritz Kalmbach: Dettingen an der Erms. 1992, ISBN 3-9802924-0-1 , pp. 292-328.
  3. ↑ Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: The Ottonians and Swabians . In: Commission for historical regional studies Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Journal for Württembergische Landeskunde . 1955, p. 292 .
  4. ^ Franz Quarthal: Clemens and Amandus. On the early history of the castle and city of Urach. In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch. 1976/78 (1979), p. 17ff.
  5. ↑ Fritz Kalmbach: You should preach God's word - The evangelical pastors since the Reformation . In: Fritz Kalmbach (Ed.): Dettingen an der Erms . 1992, ISBN 3-9802924-0-1 , pp. 280-284 .
  6. ^ Entry in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive .
  7. ^ Fritz Kalmbach: With a spade and excavator into the Middle Ages. In: Fritz Kalmbach: Dettingen an der Erms. 1992, ISBN 3-9802924-0-1 , pp. 292-328.
  8. ↑ see above : Seng, Kirchenbau , pp. 522–534, especially pp. 532 ff, picture pages 90–94 figs. 263–278
  9. ↑ Catalog of works and vita see [1]
  10. ^ Sigmund Riezler: History of the Princely House of Fürstenberg and its ancestors up to 1509. 1883 , accessed on May 3, 2020.
  11. ^ Fritz Kalmbach: With a spade and excavator into the Middle Ages. In: Fritz Kalmbach: Dettingen an der Erms. 1992, ISBN 3-9802924-0-1 , pp. 292-328.
  12. ↑ Hans-Dieter Lehmann: “Unruoch proavus Liutoldi comitis” to “Dux occupavit Furstenberc” - The Urach Eginones and their relationships with the Zollern. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar. Volume 55, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  13. ↑ Entry on Stiftskirche Dettingen at www.dettingen-erms.de , accessed on May 3, 2020.
  14. ↑ Entry on Stiftskirche Dettingen at www.dettingen-erms.de , accessed on May 3, 2020.

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 45 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 45 ″  E