All Saints' Day (Dittelsheim)

The Protestant parish church, formerly All Saints' Day , is located in the Dittelsheim district of Dittelsheim-Heßloch . It is included in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate as a cultural monument, see also the list of cultural monuments in Dittelsheim-Heßloch .

Building

The west tower belongs to the so-called " Heidenturmkirchen von Rheinhessen " (see also: St. Paul in Worms , St. Viktor in Guntersblum and St. Bonifatius in Alsheim ) that occurs several times in the area . According to the older view, the Romanesque choir tower in the west, built around 1200, is, according to the Dehio manual, "the most beautiful and most developed of the towers with domed crowns that are found several times in the area, based on the model of oriental central buildings". Dendrochronological studies of the timbers in the octagonal tower floors have shown that they were erected around 1080. Timber in the dome base of the tower crowning was dated after 1984 investigations to the time around 1144. Follow-up investigations could not confirm this result, but showed earlier felling dates of the timbers.

Allegedly, Moorish or Byzantine style influences are a determining factor in this Romanesque tower; it is often referred to as the most beautiful of its kind in Rheinhessen . The spire with the 16-fold dome roof indicates the relationship between the Hohenstaufen Rhineland and the east and belongs to a group of similar spiers in Rheinhessen. The name " Heidenturm " ( Saracen tower ) refers to the crusaders who are said to have built it.

Above the square ground floor, which is extended to form a three-aisled vestibule by side extensions, there are three tapering octagonal storeys, each with four coupled acoustic arcades, in which there are columns with cube capitals; Crowning of four gables with windows and a short octagon with a sixteen-part folding dome, also windowed on all sides. The ground floor inside (a baptistery since the 1970s at the latest) divided by square arched arcades and opened to the single-nave baroque nave by a group of three arcades of the same type; walled up the original entrances in the west. Uniform furnishings in the nave around 1730. The organ, created by Friedrich Carl Stumm around 1790 , has had a new work since 1931 .

The church itself was demolished in 1729/30 and replaced by a baroque hall building in 1730, only the vestibule and the tower remained.

See also

• All Saints Church

literature

• Dehio manual for Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland; P. 191; 1972.
• Wolfgang Bickel: Notes on the Dittelsheimer church tower , in: Alzeyer Geschichtsblätter 19 (1985), pp. 132-140.
• Hans-Jürgen Kotzur: The riddle of the Rheinhessen Heidentürme , in: Lebendiges Rheinland-Pfalz 40 (2003), Heft III – IV, pp. 2–48.
• Eduard Sebald: Traces of the Crusades in Rheinhessen? Comments on the so-called Heidentürmen , in: MZ 105 (2010), pp. 105–114.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Pfarrkirche Dittelsheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The "Heidenturm" of the Protestant parish church Dittelsheim-Heßloch (formerly All Saints' Day) PDF file
• The Protestant parish church in Dittelsheim on regionalgeschichte.net
  • ALLERHEILIGEN Dittelsheim - reconstruction model of the tower and east group PDF file
  • Aluminum model of the Heidenturm of the Ev. Parish church in Dittelsheim (formerly All Saints) by Gerhard Roese

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heidenturmkirche: Dittelsheim
2. ↑ Dehio; P. 191
3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kotzur : The Rheinhessen "Heidentürme" , regionalgeschichte.net, Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed July 18, 2016