Old Rhodes

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Church ruins Alt-Rhoden
Tympanum (cast; original now in the Rhoden town church )

Alt-Rhoden is a deserted , medieval settlement near the former city of Rhoden , today a district of Diemelstadt (Hesse), with preserved Romanesque church ruins.

history

The first traces of settlement can be found around the year 800. At that time there was a Carolingian court in the settlement . The name is not clear. The names Radi , Rothum , Rothen and Roden appear. In 1020 , Count Dodiko, who resided in the Wartburg near Warburg , handed over the Corvey estate to Bishop Meinwerk and the Paderborn Monastery . In the first decades of the 13th century, the residents of Old Rhodes left the settlement and settled near Rhoden Castle, as it offered better protection.

Church ruin

The church was built around 1000 and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the Apostle Bartholomew . Even after leaving the settlement, it was used as a burial church for the surrounding villages until 1817. Numerous tombstones still bear witness to this today. In 1792 the original cross shape of the complex was uncovered during excavations. In 1856 the roof of the nave of the church collapsed, turning it into ruins. The gable wall was demolished from 1858 to 1860. Of particular importance is a tympanum that was built in the middle of the 12th century and depicts the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '  N , 9 ° 1'  E

gallery

  • Gate to the site of the Alt-Rhoden church ruins

  • Church ruins Alt-Rhoden

  • Tympanum above the entrance of the actual building of the Alt-Rhoden church ruins

  • Gravestone next to the Alt-Rhoden church ruins

  • View over the complex of the Alt-Rhoden church ruins

literature

  • Land on Eder and Diemel. An illustrated book about the history, landscape and economy of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Bing, Korbach 1983, ISBN 3-87077-041-4 .
  • Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding: Kreis der Twiste (= The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region. NF Vol. 2). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1938, pp. 224–227.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trombone Choir Rhoden: The City Church in Rhoden ( Memento from February 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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