Evangelical Church (Mülheim an der Mosel)

Church from the north

Interior of the church

The Evangelical Church in Mülheim an der Mosel is a baroque hall church with an older Romanesque tower , which was built from 1669 to 1675. It is one of three churches in today's Evangelical Parish in Mülheim an der Mosel. The church is one of the oldest Protestant church buildings in the region. The main sights of the church are the panel paintings on the gallery by Johann Georg Engisch , created between 1700 and 1740, and the Stumm organ from 1890.

history

Mülheim is one of the oldest Protestant parishes in the Rhineland and was part of the County of Veldenz . The Veldenz Counts promoted the Reformation in their territories in the 16th century. After 1815, the immigrant Protestant Christians came to the localities in the vicinity, which are still predominantly Catholic today. Today the Lutheran congregation of Mülheim has 1,400 parish members, 450 of them in the Catholic villages.

organ

Organ and gallery with panels

The organ was built in 1890 by the Stumm family of organ builders from Sulzbach as one of the last organs from the workshop of the brothers Friedrich and Karl Stumm in Rhaunen- Sulzbach. Except for the prospect pipes , which had to be delivered in the First World War, the organ is original. The organ was last overhauled in 1961 and 1995 by master organ builder Heinrich Jud.

Disposition

I Manual C – f 3 01. Principal 8th' 02. Salizional 8th' 03. Viola da gamba 8th' 04th Dumped 8th' 05. Octave 4 ′ 06th flute 4 ′ 07th Mixture III 2 ′

Pedals C – c 1 8th. Sub bass 16 ′ S. 9. Violin bass 8th' S.

• Koppel : I / P (S) and two fixed combinations (Forte and Tutti) as kicks

Technical specifications

• 9 registers
• 2-fold mechanical box bellows (functional)

• electric wind motor (1955/1995)
• Action :
  • fully mechanical cone shop
  • mechanical stop action

• 980 pipes
• Mood :
  • Height a ¹ = 436 Hz and 74 mm / Ws
  • Bach waiter

Johann Georg Engisch, the Passover meal

Panel paintings

Raising Lazarus from the dead

On the parapets of the three-winged gallery, 26 paintings from the biblical story are arranged. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch from Kirn created the valuable panel paintings with a pupil.

The pictures painted by Engisch himself are images of the Annunciation, over which a motto is written. They show the painter to be a profound expert on the Bible and Martin Luther's theology . The pictures are arranged in such a way that the Old Testament salvation history is related to the New Testament as a mirror image. Both series of pictures run from two sides towards the Pentecost picture on the choir parapet.

The conclusion on the left is made up of two New Testament images of Lazarus and four images from the Revelation of John on the south side. These do not have the clear contours of the other pictures and pastel colors dominate. The pictures were probably painted by a student of Engisch whose name has not been passed down. Stylistically similar are the pictures above the censor stalls to the left of the chancel and the pictures that used to be in front of the benches of the authorities and are now on the right side of the choir. They describe the ministry of the church leadership and the authorities as ministry “under the word”.

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  Birth of Christ - Annunciation

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  Elias and the chariot - Pentecost - Ascension Day

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  Temptation of Christ, baptism of Christ

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  The parable of Lazarus and the rich man - Jonas and the whale

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  Jacob and the ladder to heaven - Moses and the burning bush

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  The Flood - The Sacrifice of Isaac

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  Last Judgment

Further equipment

Stained glass window Resurrection of Christ

On the south side of the church there is a tomb for Pastor Happel from 1680, who directed the construction of the church, and his wife Anna Apollonia.

A stained glass window on the south side shows the motif "Resurrection of Jesus Christ". It was donated in 1929 by the Conrad family from Mülheim, who had lost their only son in the First World War.

Bells

Ringing: Half an hour before the service with the medium and small bells

Bell plenary: ringing the bell before the service

Bell tower at night

The church has 3 bells, all of which were cast by the Bochum Association . The great peace bell from 1951, the Luther bell and the Melanchton bell from 1950.

The big peace bell bears the inscription: My sister made a sacrifice in the world war / I came back through sacrifice / a mother let me rise again / to complain, you fallen sons and brothers / God give you back to us forever.

The Luther bell in the middle bears the following inscription: My name is the Luther bell , / to God's glory I ring / to his words I call.

The inscription on the small Melanchton bell reads: Melanchton bell is my name / I help the Luther bell / I admonish peace and harmony.

use

In the church there is a service of the Lutheran congregation of Mülheim almost every Sunday and public holiday. There are other churches in the community in Brauneberg and Andel ( Evangelical Church (Andel) ). Services are typically at 10:30 a.m., sometimes at a different time. As part of the open church project, the church is open on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. in the summer months. Organ music is often played at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on these days. Since 2011, the Mülheim parish has had a parish relationship with the Veldenz parish.

Pastor of the Evangelical Church Community in Mülheim on the Moselle

Surname	Term of office	annotation
unknown	1523-1553	Rectory in Brauneberg
Peter Dusemond	1538-1558	Rectory in Brauneberg
unknown	1559-1632	Rectory in Brauneberg
Konrad Tilmann Liernur (Learner)	1633-1643	1637–1643 as a war expellee in Litzig
Parish office vacant due to the war	1643-1649	Occupation by Kurtrier in the Thirty Years War
Johann Konrad Happel	1649-1675
Johann Albert Liernur	1675-1676
Johann Peter Debus	1676-1703
Johann Nikolaus Faust	1703-1724
Johann Philipp Faust	1724-1730	Son of his predecessor
Johann Jakob Herrmann	1730-1774
Friedrich Christian Herrmann	1774-1790	Son of his predecessor
Johann Philipp Moritz Wittmann	1790-1797
Karl Heinrich Bartz	1806
Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Ludovici	1806-1851
Karl Ludwig Eberhard Schultz	1851-1872
Gottlieb Wilhelm Spies	1872-1913
Johann Heinrich Otten	1913-1916
Karl Gerhard Wilhelm Büren	1917-1937
Heinrich Adolf Gerhard Kutscher	1937-1950
Dr. Wilhelm Johannes Lotz	1951-1955
Ernst Volk	1956-1992
Thomas Berke	1992–

literature

• Hans Vogts : The art monuments of the district of Bernkastel (= The art monuments of the Rhine province Volume 15, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1935, pp. 264-269.
• Anette Schommers, Reinhold Schommers : Saalkirchen of the rear county of Sponheim (Hunsrück) (= Rheinische Kunststätten issue 342). Neuss printing and publishing house, Neuss 1989, ISBN 3-88094-613-2 .
• Ernst Volk : The Evangelical Church Mülheim / Mosel and its panel paintings . Schnell & Steiner, Munich a. a. 1993.
• Thomas Berke: Painted Gospel - 300 years of panel paintings by the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle . Evangelical parish Mülheim an der Mosel, Mülheim an der Mosel 2014.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Mülheim an der Mosel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Evangelical church community Mülheim an der Mosel, at the Evangelical church district Trier
• Entry on the Evangelical Church in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Evangelical Church in Mülheim (built in 1672). Retrieved on December 12, 2014 (website of the Evangelical Church District Trier). 
2. ↑ The Evangelical Church in Mülheim (built in 1672). Retrieved on December 12, 2014 (website of the Evangelical Church District Trier). 
3. ↑ Thomas Berke: Painted Gospel - 300 years of panel paintings by the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle . Evangelical Church Community Mülheim an der Mosel, Mülheim an der Mosel 2014, p. 47 .
4. ↑ The Evangelical Church in Mülheim (built in 1672). Retrieved on December 12, 2014 (website of the Evangelical Church District Trier). 
5. ↑ Geord Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 697 .
6. ↑ Thomas Berke: Painted Gospel - 300 years of panel paintings by the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle . Evangelical Church Community Mülheim an der Mosel, Mülheim an der Mosel 2014, p. 42-44 .
7. ↑ Thomas Berke: Painted Gospel - 300 years of panel paintings by the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle . Evangelical Church Community Mülheim an der Mosel, Mülheim an der Mosel 2014, p. 47-48 .
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. Information from the community of Bernkaster-Kues 
9. ↑ http://www.kirchenrecht-ekir.de/kabl/19333.pdf Announcement in the official gazette of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, May 16, 2011; P. 283
10. ↑ Thomas Berke: Painted Gospel - 300 years of panel paintings by the Birkenfeld court painter Johann Georg Engisch in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle . Evangelical Church Community Mülheim an der Mosel, Mülheim an der Mosel 2014, p. 49-51 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 43.8 "  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 27"  E