Evangelical Church (Alps)

Evangelical Church (2017)

The Protestant church is a listed church building in Alpen , a municipality in the Wesel district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The foundation stone was laid in 1602 by the Electress Amalia von der Pfalz . She committed her brother-in-law, Count Arnold II. Von Bentheim, to finish the work after her death. Count Arnold commissioned the builder Johann Pasqualini , under whose direction an early Baroque wall pillar church in Italian architecture was built from 1602 to 1604. He added the choir of the Gothic St. Nicholas' Chapel as a burial chapel in the brick hall . The church burned down in a town fire in 1716.

The building was built from 1716 to 1718 according to plans by B. Salla, which is documented by a builder inscription. The brick hall, closed on three sides, with paved cross-ribbed vaults is plastered. The surrounding walls of the previous building have been preserved. In the facade of the jumps polygonal bell tower, with a lantern crowned tail hood , risalitartig forth. The crypt chapel on the south side is the former choir of a chapel built before 1602 . In it is the grave monument of the Electress Amalia. The church was restored in 1902 and 1926 and extensively restored after war damage by 1959.

In 2002 a sacristy was added to the church building in the north.

The Evangelical Church in the Alps is the oldest Reformed parish church in Germany.

Furnishing

• The pulpit of Dutch stamping dates from 1719. It was made of oak and gilded sparingly.
• The brass chandeliers date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
• In the crypt chapel there is an epitaph for Princess Amalia, who died in the Alps in 1602. She was the widow of Elector Friedrich III. from the Palatinate . It was donated by her brother-in-law, Count Arnold von Bentheim. The three-part column structure consists of black and colored marble and sandstone. The ancestral sample was lost.

organ

The organ was built in 1771 according to a plan by JE Teschemacher and from 1780 to 1782 his successor G. Schrey added an oak case with partial gilding and a pedal mechanism. The pipe material of the positive chest comes from another organ from 1737, the builder of which is unknown, and was only added to the Teschemacher organ in 1957/1958. The play area is on the side of the organ. The stops are arranged around the music stand in a horseshoe shape. The slider chest instrument has 25 registers , including several divided registers on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I positive C – c 3 6th Metal dacked 8th' 5. Night horn 4 ′ 4th Principal 2 ′ 3. Fifth (D) 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 2. Octave cymbal II 1 ⁄ 2 ′ 1. Violin Shelf 8th'

II main work C – c 3 7th Principal 4 ′ 8th. Drone 8th' 9. Violin (D) 8th' 10. Quintadena (B) 8th' 11. Quintadena (D) 8th' 12. Flute traverso 4 ′ 13. Undamaris (D) 8th'

(Continuation) 14th Octave 2 ′ 15th Sesquialtera II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 16. Cornett III 3 ′ 17th Mixture III 1' 18th Trumpet (D) 8th' 19th Trumpet (B) 8th' 20th Vox humana (D) 8th'

Pedal C – d 1 21st Gedacktpommer 16 ′ 22nd Open bass 8th' 23. Octave bass 4 ′ 24. Lovely trumpet 16 ′ 25th Back set III

• Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P

literature

• Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information about the organ. Retrieved December 8, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Alps  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Story and photos

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 37.3 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 52"  E