Wendelinskirche (Eschenau)
The Wendelinskirche is the Protestant parish church in Eschenau , a district of the Obersulm municipality in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Protestant parish Eschenau in the church district of Weinsberg-Neuenstadt of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . The church building, which is essentially medieval, with a tower structure in the shape of an octagon , was given its present-day appearance through renovations in the 16th and 18th centuries. Until 1573 Eschenau was a subsidiary of Affaltrach.
history
The church goes back to a church building that already existed in the Middle Ages, of which only the 15th century furnishings in the base of the tower testify. Most of the church was renovated in 1591. In 1756 the nave was renovated in a baroque style by the master builder Johann Michael Krauss from Windsheim, presumably based on plans by Philippe de la Guêpière . Two foundation stones from 1591 and 1756 are set into the east wall of the church. In addition, the inscription in the console stone of the west portal points to the new building of the nave in 1756 and a renovation from 1790 under the local rule of the Barons von Killinger . Those local lords also had a crypt installed under the base of the tower , which was only used for burials for a few decades in the second half of the 18th century.
Under the direction of Hannes Mayer , the church was renovated in 1959, with most of its baroque architectural decorations being lost. More recently, the crypt, which had been closed for a long time, was made accessible again and the west gable of the church was renovated in 2006/08.
Furnishing
The oldest works of art in the church are the frescoes from around 1420 in the tower base used as a sacristy .
Three colored standing figures made of linden wood come from the late 15th century: a Madonna and Child and Saints Leonhard and Wendelin . Another such figure of St. Bartholomäus , but nothing is known about their whereabouts. The figures probably once adorned the church's former Wendelin altar. A special feature of the figures is their motivic dependence. The lower body of the Leonhard figure corresponds to the lower body of the Madonna figure. Wendelin's face corresponds to Leonhard's face.
A high relief plaque formerly in the Eschenau church with the legend of St. Ursula , probably from the shrine of a smaller altar around 1500, was sold to the Stuttgart antiquities collection in 1885 and is now in the Württemberg State Museum .
On the east wall of the nave to the right of the choir are the tombstones of Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen-Fürfeld († 1597) and his wife Dorothea Agatha von Gemmingen-Bürg († 1601). The couple lived in Eschenau and were buried in the Wendelinskirche.
The wooden baptismal font from 1706 and a stylistically matching large candlestick are reminiscent of the earlier baroque furnishings of the church with their colors and ornamentation .
Other noteworthy items of equipment in the church include a sculpture of King David playing harp on the balustrade of the organ gallery and a large Luther plaque on the staircase. The gallery itself is circumferential on three sides and has two floors on the long walls of the church. The brass altar candlesticks are also remarkable. A commemorative dedication to Pastor Gustav Beyer, Heilbronn, who served as pastor in the Eschenau community during the difficult war [...] as a pastor, is engraved on the bottom . Made by master bottle maker Friedrich Württemberger in 1946 . Pastor Beyer was shot dead by the advancing Volkssturm on April 6, 12945, because a white flag was hanging on his house as a symbol for the approaching Americans. The then rare brass for the candlesticks comes from garnet shells collected in the battle area, an example of the biblical promise you ( Micha 4,3 LUT and Isa 2,4 LUT ).
The organ was built by Karl Schäfer in 1879 .
Leonhard
Madonna and Child
Wendelin
literature
- Hartmut Gräf: Unterländer Altars 1350–1540. An inventory (= Heilbronner museum booklet . No. 2). Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1983, pp. 162–163, no. B 49 and pp. 170–171, no. B 55.
- Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0556-6 , p. 275.
- Obersulm. Six villages - one municipality. Obersulm municipality, Obersulm 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the parish of Eschenau
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
- ↑ Otto Friedrich: Evangelical churches in the deanery Weinsberg - picture reading book ; ed. Ev. Dean's office Weinsberg, 2003, page 14 f
- ↑ Gustav Döttling: Dance shoes for the pedals . Stimme.de , August 19, 2010
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 9 ° 24 ′ 4.4 ″ E