Evangelical Church (Hottenbach)
The Evangelical Church of Hottenbach is an Art Nouveau church with a Romanesque tower in Hottenbach in the Hunsrück . It had several previous churches and was built on the ruins of a Roman villa rustica , which was discovered in 1903 when the previous church was demolished. In the tower there are early Gothic frescoes and a so-called Viergötterstein , which was also discovered in 1903.
The church has a Stumm organ from 1782 , which was greatly modified in 1904 .
history
The parish of Hottenbach, to which the villages Hellertshausen , Asbach and Weiden also belonged, is first mentioned in 1247. It belonged in the Middle Ages to the country chapter Kirn in the Electorate and Archbishopric of Mainz . The church patronage initially belonged to the von Wiltberg family , who built a new parish church in 1290. On October 21, 1342 Volker von Wiltberg ceded his rights to the church to Archbishop Balduin of Trier . The parish rate initially seems to have changed between the two Wiltbergs' Fronhöfe above and below the church.
The introduction of the Reformation took place relatively late. The cause was the confessional stalemate in Hottenbach: Kurtrier and Messrs. Cratz von Scharfenstein stayed with the old faith, the Wild and Rhine Counts were Lutheran , the Front County of Sponheim was reformed . The first Lutheran pastor can be identified around 1600. During these years the church seems to have been renewed after a fire. Around 1608 the Electoral Palatinate appointed a Reformed preacher against the resistance of the other local lords. From 1621 at the latest, Hottenbach was Lutheran again. During the Thirty Years' War there were two attempts at a Counter Reformation : From 1625 to 1629 and from 1636 to 1640 Hottenbach had a Catholic priest. The bell from 1628 also comes from this short Catholic period.
In 1701 the stalls were increased and the galleries expanded. The church received an ornate pulpit and a baroque church door with a vestibule. During the French period , the parish of Hottenbach belonged to the Consistorial Church of Wirschweiler . This was united in 1817 under the Prussians with the Consistorial Church Trarbach to form the Trarbach District Synod. Because the synod turned out to be too big, it was divided in 1825. The parishes of the Bernkastel and Trier districts now formed the Wolf District Synod , which since 1843 has been called the Trier District Synod after its largest town . The Weiden branch was separated from the Hottenbach parish in 1817, as it was in the Principality of Oldenburg after the new border was drawn. In 1819 the parishes of Hottenbach and Stipshausen were connected to the parish.
Architecture and equipment
In 1903 the dilapidated medieval nave was demolished under the direction of long-time pastor Albert Hackenberg (1878-1912), President of the Rhenish Synod and Prussian state parliament member . It was replaced by a new building designed by the architect and first head of the tree department of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , August Senz . The church is an octagonal building made of exposed quarry stone with cross-shaped extensions and a tent roof. On August 1, 1904, the new church building was inaugurated. The central building combined tradition and modernity by incorporating many components of the previous building and at the same time taking into account the ideas of the Protestant church building of the time. The late Gothic cup-shaped baptismal font , the gallery dated 1601 and the pulpit with rotated foot, made around 1700, have been taken over from the furnishings of the previous building. There is also a curved protective roof in front of the entrance.
organ
The organ of the Stumm family , which was expanded in 1737 and 1782, also comes from the previous building. It was moved behind the altar in the new building and heavily changed in 1904.
tower
The current church tower, probably from the 2nd half of the 13th century, is the former choir tower from 1290 of the previous building. Today the tower stands east of the church and is connected to it by an extension. The undivided tower consists of quarry stone masonry that is now exposed . In the bell storey there are sound windows in the form of coupled arched arcades . The pyramid roof dates from around 1600. Inside, on the ground floor of the tower, the choir of the previous building, there are Gothic frescoes from the 14th century. They depict Majestas Domini , evangelists and saints. There was also a Roman stone of the four gods.
- Frescoes
Gothic frescoes in the vault of the tower
Gothic frescoes in the vault of the tower
Gothic frescoes on the side wall of the tower
window
Bells
The church has a ring of three bells . The oldest bell, according to the type and shape of the crown, probably dates from the 13th century and could have been cast after the tower was completed, the second has the inscription KERSTGEN VON ONCKEL GUSZ MICH ANNO 1595 and dates from the time of reconstruction after the Reformation. The third bell from 1628 is dedicated to St. Wolfgang and is a reference to the Catholic community that established itself in Hottenbach during the Thirty Years War.
use
The church is one of two churches in the Evangelical Church Community of Hottenbach-Stipshausen and is used for church services. In addition to the church and the rectory, Hottenbach has its own parish hall. Since 2011 there has been a connection between the community of Rhaunen-Hausen and Hottenbach-Stipshausen. There are nine preaching sites in the community. The pastor's seat is in Hottenbach. Services are held roughly every two weeks.
Web links
- Evangelical Church Community Hottenbach-Stipshausen at ekir.de Evangelical Church District Trier
- Sound samples of the silent organs and a. also in this church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Glatz: Hottenbach near Rhaunen im Hunsrück , Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Ed.) Series Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 403, Neuss 1994
- ↑ Erik Zimmermann: Hottenbach's "Catholic" bell from the war year 1628 , In: Landkreis Birkenfeld: Heimatkalender (2001), pp. 256–259 (according to RhlPf. Bibliography, accessed Dec. 2014)
- ↑ a b c d e Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (arrangement): Kreis Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 418-419 .
- ↑ a b Information from the Trier parish on the parish of Hausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '25.9 " N , 7 ° 17' 54.1" E