The Pilgrimage Church St Wolfgang before and after the restoration. (The before pictures were also moved into this folder.)
Date(s): 2006-2010. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 23 of 23 Total. 4476 Visits.
1 Korb-Steinreinach The pilgrimage church St Wolfgang in situ. To the left, the long slope of the Kleinheppacher Kopf. At its foot, St Wolfgang. Whatever it takes to stop an avalanche.
2 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang Historic picture from 1930 (before the ruin was drafted into press house service. The North and West wall of the nave were knocked down at this occasion.)
The church dates back to the mid 15th century. The freestanding tower was added in 1488. The church, Lutheran at the time, was allegedly destroyed by idle Swedish tourists in 1635. (Hardly the whole story. Very few soldiers are so keen on souvenirs that they will put all the soot covered stones of a church choir into their haversacks.) Wider context, the Battle of Nördlingen, Sep 1634, did not go too well for the Protestant side. Waiblingen was burnt down in the same year by Imperial troops. (The particular finger-pointing is somewhat hard to follow. Defeated troops should have kept a safe distance.)
As an aside, a long distance view is enormous helpful if you want to distinguish between the good and the bad. Oblique Eric Flint reference. In his alternate history version of the 30 Years War there is only one army ...
3 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang The remaining South wall after the renovation of 2008. Brand new coping. The bend in the wall still shows the outline of press house roof. There is no going back once something has been force fitted. (The on site display board claims that the coping acts as a brace. Not completely sure about the dentistry details. - I would have expected some kind of newel post. If it is good enough for a free standing handrail.)
4 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang The chess figures are partially filled with concrete. They would otherwise make great life savers in case of flooding. (They are also great favorites with visiting mayors.)
5 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang Tracery sandwiched between blue sky. Any anti pigeon webbing would be pointless.
6 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang Tracery with skywriting (sort of). The pilot did promise me he would go for the trefoil. (The poker card term would be clubs.)
7 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang Niche with Gothic keel arch. Looks somewhat like an aumbry (chalice niche). Probably not the right location (choir arch, under one of the two flanking stone canopies). Also rather diminutive. Similar niches above portals could house a patron saint.
8 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang View from the nave through the East facing choir arch. The slender wall brackets at arch level did served as props for the stone canopies of two side alters. As for the showcased choir, there is no stone left. Fantasy only reconstruction.
9 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang First try. Cover everything with hammered out gold leaf and turn off all direct lighting.
10 Korb-Steinreinach, Wallfahrtskirche St Wolfgang Lead came and stained glass look.
11 Korb-Steinreinach lintel-keystone A fake keystone in a door lintel (private house next to the church). G.C.S. [et] M.C.S.[me faciunt] AD 1783. With an ampersand type contraction in the last line? - An Arabic 'Thaa' would be less likely.
12 marker-of-an-ecclastical-vineyard The stylized chalice needs no explanation. The 'W' will have stood for 'Waiblingen'. Extended vineyard hinterland.
13 first view (old set) The steeple of the St Wolfgang's Church. Just hovering over a field of wheat stubble. - (All following picture are from the old set, the before look).
14 St Wolfgang Church This is still the 'Waiblinger side'. (South West approach).
15 St Wolfgang Church
16 St Wolfgang Church, the clock face Most clock faces are not considered legal tender (at least this side of the Solomon Islands). There still is a wampum connection, although a somewhat tenuous one. Delimitation, I am talking here about old fashioned clock faces, Roman numbers, no cipher substitution or newfangled coin cell gadgets. The Archimedean configuration magic is lost in these cases.
Traditional clock faces show one anomaly. The Roman numeral for four is spelled out IIII rather than IV. The difference, which may well have started as a permissible variation (as in allophone something), has some theological ramifications. Roman numbers are 'weighted numbers' in the true sense. Some are thicker than others. This allows for their use as secondary configuration code. Thin number (I, II, V) regardless of actual value versus thick number (XII). I have now given away most of the plot. Remaining task, find the three thick numbers on a clock face and connect them with straight lines. Cheatsheet (XII, VIII ...
17 Tower Door The solid oak door at the tower base.
18 the tower without a church A Romanesque arch retrofitted with smaller service doors. The narrow top window is tacked out with an all purpose plastic sheet. Projecting stones indicate removed building parts. - The display board says that the planned extension (arch? second tower?) was never completed. Still somewhat intriguing. - A part of the nave was used as baking house.
19 the tower without a church tracery 'counter tacked' with anti-pigeon mesh wire and a fluff of eiderdown
20 the tower without a church Nave with partially walled up Gothic window and the abutting press house. (Demoted at the time into an all purpose storage shed.)
21 the tower without a church Bric a bra wall with stranded arches and walled over coping (I can see a ski jump into it). - New insight: The large semi-arch may have served as external niche for a Gethsemane 'diorama'. (The explanation looks reasonable. It would certainly obviate the need for dating the wall back into a Romanesque period to accommodate the ghosted window shape.) The round window to the left, the free floating felloe fragments, may have served the gallery at the West end of the nave. The original wall was longer. Truncated by the needs of the hour.
22 the tower without a church roughly: low eaves, watch out
23 St Wolfgang fence post overgrown church yard with fence post
