Udenheim mountain church

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Evangelical mountain church

The mountain church in Udenheim has belonged to the Protestant parish alone since July 2, 1959. Before that there was the Simultaneum with the Catholic Church, which was forcibly introduced in 1685 . The church was then under the patronage of St. Pancras . The church is listed as a cultural monument in the list of cultural monuments in Udenheim .

history

In the Archdiocese of Mainz , a parish for Udenheim is first mentioned in 1250. Further documents indicate that from 1527 to 1685 the entire congregation remained Lutheran. After the peace treaties of Münster and Osnabrück in 1648, the Simultaneum was introduced in 1685 by the local lord Köth von Wanscheid . From then on, Protestant and Catholic services were held in the mountain church, which led to difficult disputes between the denominations.

The formerly fortified mountain complex, visible from afar, is located on a former Roman cult site.

Building

The characteristic silhouette of the mountain church shows that the west tower is lower, while the choir roof is higher than the nave ridge . From a three-aisled basilica from the mid-13th century, the low, unarticulated west tower with coupled originate sound arcades and gabled roof , the nave north wall, three walled in the south wall pointed arches and two small, also walled clerestory windows above. After a fire, according to an inscription in the tower, a thorough renovation was carried out between 1517 and 1527 by Bavarian stonecutters from the construction team of the builder Jakob von Landshut , who was active in the region at the time. Vaults were drawn into the two basement floors of the tower (the lower one with a beautiful keystone ), the central nave and the north aisle were pulled together to form a flat-roofed hall, and the south aisle was demolished. In addition, a new, net-vaulted choir consisting of two bays and a three-sided end, with tracery windows and buttresses crowned by gables , was added , and a vaulted sacristy was added.

The remainder of a wall painting from around 1300, which was uncovered in 1960, is found on the south wall of the nave. The mural shows Adam and Eve as well as Cain and Abel .

At the church there is a former cemetery from the 19th century. There is a late Gothic wayside shrine from the 15th century; three groups of baroque and Wilhelminian tombs from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as a neo-classical war memorial for those killed in the First World War 1914–1918 from the 1920s.

Interior

The man's chair and three benches are flat carved, they form the rest of a chair from the workshop of Erhart Falckener from Abensberg in Niederbayern around 1518/1520, who lived in Gau-Odernheim at the time and, among other things, the chairs in the Bechtolsheim Simultankirche and the Kiedricher Church carved.

The baptismal font dates from around 1520. The remains of a sacrament house have been preserved . An epitaph by Georg Köth von Wanscheidt († 1590). The vestry cupboard is from the end of the 18th century. The so-called Udenheimer crucifix was purchased from the church by the diocese of Mainz in 1962 . The exact time of origin of this cross is controversial, it is partly dated back to the 9th century, mostly a time between 1070 and 1140 is assumed.

legend

According to a legend , the church was built by one of three sisters. Each of the three inherited so much fortune that the bushel measure was used to divide the coins . And all three decided to make part of their inheritance available for a church building and to erect the structures on hills so that one can see from each building to the other two. One of the three sisters was blind, so the other two decided to take advantage of her by reversing the measure of capacity every time the blind sister got her share. When she later found out that she had been cheated, she cursed her two sisters, whose churches were on the Petersberg , St. Peter , and the Nazarienberg near Mommenheim (which was mentioned in 1194), that they should not stand for eternity, both were destroyed during the Thirty Years War . The smaller mountain church built by the blind sister still exists today.

Bell tower

The Protestant bell tower, Marktplatz 11, is around 450 meters from the church in the village

The Protestant bell tower, a neo-Gothic building made of sandstone blocks, was built around 1900 and is located around 450 meters from the church in the center of the village (Marktplatz 11).

In February 2014, the State Office for the Environment Rhineland-Palatinate determined "that the permissible limit values ​​were exceeded during the day when the police bells" . Accordingly, peak values ​​of 86.8 decibels were measured, but the limits are 49 decibels at night and 59 decibels during the day. The Alzey-Worms district administration issued an order to stop the bell on May 26, 2014.

literature

Web links

Commons : Kulturdenkmäler in Udenheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , as of June 11, 2010
  2. ^ Dorothea Klein, Evangelical Church Community Schornsheim-Udenheim
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Dehio: Edition: 1972; P. 944
  4. ↑ Historic Mainz: St. Gotthard Chapel ( Memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). State capital Mainz 2011. June 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ The story of Gau-Odernheim. Volume 2. Christoph Einsfeld, Adam Reck, Heinrich Mildenberger: The story of Gau-Odernheim. Bilderbd. and additions over the past 100 years. Krach, Mainz 1957.
  6. ↑ The legend of the three sisters
  7. ↑ Werner Lang: Mommenheim - The three sisters. In: Heimatbuch Landkreis Mainz . Printed by Wilhelm Traumüller, Oppenheim am Rhein 1967, p. 159
  8. ↑ Dehio Rheinland-Pfalz from 1972; P. 580
  9. ↑ The Protestant mountain church in Udenheim
  10. ↑ Limit values ​​exceeded / bells ringing: plaintiff speaks up / VG mayor criticizes bureaucratic approach By Carina Schmidt on Allgemeine-zeitung.de of June 2, 2014
  11. ↑ “Tradition must remain” demonstration: Udenheim citizens defend themselves against the ban on bells for the Protestant bell tower by Carina Schmidt on Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 1, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 25 ″  E