Evangelical Church (Sötern)
The Evangelical Church Sötern is the parish church of the Evangelical Church Community in Sötern , a district of the Saarland community of Nohfelden , district of St. Wendel . The parish is assigned to the parish of Obere Nahe of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
The church has its origins in a parish church, attested as early as the late 13th century, which was dedicated to St. Mauritius . Since the introduction of the Lutheran creed in Sötern, the main town of the Eberswald rulership that came into being in the 13th century , the church has functioned as a Protestant parish church. This happened before 1559/60.
The dating from 1578 in the portal of the tower indicates that extensive construction work on the church took place in the last quarter of the 16th century. Thus, these are among the earliest evidence of Protestant church building in Saarland. Nothing is known about the destruction in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and in the conflicts originating in France in the second half of the 17th century.
The current nave was built after a fire destroyed the church on March 27, 1745. The construction work, during which the tower presumably received its current helmet , dragged on until 1765.
Architecture and equipment
The Protestant church in Sötern is a baroque hall church with four window axes . The building has corner pilaster strips on the south side . There is also another portal there. The steeple with a pointed helmet stands in front of the west side of the nave, but not in the middle, but offset to the north. The inner walls of the simply designed interior are connected to a flat ceiling by a hollow . On the west side of the interior there is a wooden gallery . Opposite it in front of the east wall is the altar with the pulpit above , which can be reached via a double flight of stairs .
The tower portal from 1578 shows both Gothic and Renaissance forms .
The church's furnishings include some epitaphs from the 17th century that go back to the burial place of the von Hunolstein family, a noble family that ruled the Eberswald rulership from 1575 to 1716 with the main town of Sötern.
Around 1950 a quote from the small catechism written by Martin Luther in 1529 was attached to the wall behind the pulpit altar :
“I believe that Jesus Christ, true God born of the Father in eternity and also true man born of the Virgin Mary, be my Lord, who redeemed me lost and damned people, acquired, won [and] from all sins, from death and of the power of the devil; not with gold or silver, but with his holy, precious blood and with his innocent suffering and death; so that I may be his own and live under him in his kingdom and serve him in eternal justice, innocence and bliss, just as he was risen from death, lives and rules forever. That is certainly true. "
organ
The organ integrated into the parapet of the gallery with its baroque case is a work of the third generation of the Stumm family of organ builders ( Rhaunen - Sulzbach / Hunsrück ). It was built between 1770 and 1780. In 1889 the instrument was extensively modified by Gustav Stumm ( Kirn ), of which, however, neither an examination of the organ by Jürgen Eppelsheim in 1968 nor a repair in 2004 could be found. The Oberlinger company ( Windesheim ) carried out a major renovation in 1930, during which the instrument was given pneumatic wind chests , as well as a change in disposition and re-intonation. Another renovation was carried out in 1975 by Gustav Cartellieri ( Wittlich ), who built in a new wind chest, a new mechanism and an independent pedal, and revived the prospect whistles . The last measure to date was a repair by Rainer Müller ( Merxheim ) in 2004 . A return to the original state could not be carried out for financial reasons.
Since more than half of the original pipe inventory of the Stumm workshop from around 1770 to 1780 has been preserved, the instrument is one of the oldest organs in Saarland.
Currently, the features sliderchest -instrument 12 registers , spread over a keyboard and a pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:
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- Pairing : I / P
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- Remarks
- ↑ Transmission and wind reduction from the manual. Only as a switch to the attached pedal.
literature
- Evangelical church community Sötern (ed.): The imperial direct rule Sötern. Church and village through the ages . Arbogast, Kaiserslautern 1978.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015
- ↑ Church district Obere Nahe on: www.obere-nahe.de, accessed on June 8, 2015
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the district of St. Wendel ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Retrieved June 8, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e f g h The Protestant parish church in Sötern On: www.saarland.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015
- ↑ Martin Luther: The Small Catechism (1529) on: kw1.uni-paderborn.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015
- ↑ a b c Sötern, Evangelical Church ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.saar-orgelland.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015
- ^ Organ of the evangelical church in Sötern on: www.organindex.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '38.9 " N , 7 ° 3' 55.4" E