Evangelical Church (Dörrenbach)

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Evangelical Church Dörrenbach
View of the interior
View to the organ gallery

The Evangelical Church Dörrenbach is a sacred building of the Evangelical Church Community in Dörrenbach in Saarland , a district of the district town of St. Wendel . The parish is assigned to the Saar Ost parish of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The origins of the essentially Romanesque church go back to the 13th century. The oldest preserved part of the church is a fortified tower built church tower , which served as a shelter for the population. In the 15th century the upper floor of the tower was raised and received a gable roof . The church became evangelical after the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1575.

The church nave , which dates from the late Gothic period, was given its present shape in 1718 as part of reconstruction and expansion measures by Count Friedrich Ludwig von Ottweiler and Saarbrücken.

Furnishing

Which will enter hall church with choir tower on the west by a portal with pointed arch -Einfassung. The nave has arched windows .

The ground floor of the tower also represents the sanctuary and is spanned by a ribbed vault. In addition to the altar, this room also houses two windows . On the one hand a pointed arch window with a pictorial representation showing a scene from the Gospel of John ( John 4  EU ). This window was in the Second World War by vandalism destroyed, but restored. The other window, which is in the right side wall of the chancel, is of an older date and shows a discreetly incorporated Luther rose in the lower part . Originally there was also an " oculus " in the chancel. Inside, this opening has disappeared under plaster , but is still visible on the exterior of the tower.

From sandstone crafted pulpit dates from around 1600 and is equipped with tracery decorated. During renovation work in 1977, the pulpit was lowered and moved to the left side next to the chancel. On the right-hand side next to the chancel, a baptismal font was placed in the course of the church renovation in 1977 . It is older than the nave and was excavated in 1719 when the rectory next to the church was being built. A stone relief from Roman times has been embedded in the wall above the baptismal font since 1977 . It is probably a part that originally belonged to a Roman tomb .

The windows in the nave were installed in 1977.

organ

Organ prospectus and console

Today's organ from 1975 already had four predecessor instruments in the last century. The direct predecessor organ is located next to other old objects from the church in the local history museum of Dörrenbach, which is housed in the village community center.

The Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ) built today's organ, which is set up on a gallery . The slider chests -instrument has 10 registers , spread over two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Prefix 4 '
3. Sesquialter II
4th mixture 2 '
II Positive C-g 3
5. Wooden dacked 8th'
6th recorder 4 '
7th Principal 2 '
8th. Fifth flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
9. Sub bass 16 '
10. Gemshorn 8th'

Bells

In the tower is a three bells existing bells , the smallest in 1936 by the bell foundry Pfeifer from Kaiserslautern was poured. This bell is a cast , as the previous bell cast by Christian Couturier in Zweibrücken in 1787 had cracked. The other two bells were purchased in 1968 and cast by the Bachert company ( Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf).

Up until the Second World War, in addition to the Pfeifer bell, there was also an approximately 100 kg bell made by the foundry Otto von Speyer from 1440 in the tower, which was given in 1940 for war purposes.

No. volume Weight (kg) Diameter (cm) Foundry, casting location Casting year
1 f sharp ′ 720 109.7 Bachert, Bad Friedrichshall 1968
2 a ′ 430 92 Bachert, Bad Friedrichshall 1968
3 H' 235 JG Pfeifer, Kaiserslautern 1936

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Kirchenkreis Saar-Ost on: www.evangelisch-im-saarland.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  3. ↑ 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), accessed on May 25, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Church leaders ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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) At: www.ekir.de (Evangelical Church in the Rhineland), accessed on May 25, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekir.de
  5. ↑ Dörrenbach on: www.saarlandbilder.net, accessed on May 25, 2014
  6. ^ The organ of the Evangelical Church in Dörrenbach on: www.organindex.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  7. ↑ Description of Turbofreak89 on: www.youtube.com, accessed on May 25, 2014
  8. ↑ Bonkhoff 1997, p. 102 mentions Otto von Speyer as a founder. Elsewhere, bells from the years 1387–1419 are attributed to Master Otto von Speyer and bells from 1431–1452 to Master Otto von Lautern.
  9. ↑ Bernhard Bonkhoff: The bells of the Saarland , Saarbrücken 1997, p 102

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '3.9 "  N , 7 ° 14' 10.9"  E