Ulrich Church (Siglingen)
The Ulrichskirche is a Protestant church in Siglingen , a district of the Neudenau community in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .
history
Little is known about the early history of the Church. It was originally a branch church of Züttlingen and could have been founded together with the Neudenauer Laurentiuskirche after 955, i.e. after the battle on the Lechfeld , when the saints Ulrich and Laurentius were popular church patrons.
Due to the location, the shape of the tower and a gaden that has been preserved until the recent past , it is assumed that the Siglingen Church was designed as a fortified church . The tower is the oldest part of the church and has Romanesque style features. In the 14th or 15th century the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style. Remnants of a Gothic roof have been preserved on the tower wall.
In the course of the Reformation by the Württemberg Duke Ulrich , the church was raised to an independent parish in 1542 with the branches Reichertshausen and Kreßbach . In 1556 the church was very dilapidated, whereupon Duke Christoph ordered its restoration. However, the ducal order was probably not obeyed, as there is still documentary evidence of the poor condition of the church from the years 1613 and 1614. On January 13, 1620 the builder Heinrich Schickhardt was in Siglingen. He described the found Gothic church as a narrow single-nave building with a retracted east choir and, due to its poor condition, recommended demolition and subsequent construction. In 1620/21, Schickhardt was asked to send plans that were also delivered, but again nothing happened.
In the further course of the Thirty Years War , which had broken out in the meantime , the church was destroyed in 1636 when imperial troops burned the place down. After the war, the church was rebuilt in its current form. The tower was completed in 1650. Significant renovations took place in 1867, 1955–61 and 1977.
literature
- Hartmut Gräf: Siglingen, Reichertshausen, Kreßbach - Ein Heimatbuch , Neudenau-Siglingen 1978, pp. 171–180.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plans for example: http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/00000814/s_hsta_0117662_005
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 23.7 ″ E