Evangelical Church (Mittelheim)
The Evangelical Church in Mittelheim is a church building of the Protestant parish of Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau . The group of buildings consisting of the church, bell tower and rectory is a listed building.
history
The Rheingau as part of the Electorate of Mainz was predominantly Catholic for over 800 years until the secularization of 1803. It was not until it fell to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 and to Prussia in 1866 that a small evangelical community could develop. Many Prussian nobles, officials and their families settled in Wiesbaden and the Rheingau, including the family of the admiral and Minister of State Albrecht von Stosch , who was instrumental in the formation of a Protestant community in Oestrich-Winkel.
In 1891 the first Protestant pastor was introduced to his office. In today's Rheingaustraße in Oestrich, a residential building was purchased as a parsonage and the winegrower's hall next to the parsonage, next to the Koepp chemical factory , was converted into a prayer room in 1893. In addition to the districts of Oestrich-Winkel, Hattenheim , the dissolved Eberbach monastery and the Eichberg psychiatric clinic also belonged to the newly founded community.
After the Second World War , the growth of the Protestant community due to displaced persons and resettlers made it necessary to build a new church. According to plans by the architect Hans Günther Hofmann from Darmstadt, the ensemble of today's church with the parish hall below, as well as the bell tower and parsonage, was built in 1956; the inauguration took place in 1957.
description
The church building is a rectangular hall building in concrete construction with a gable roof. The south wall towards the Rhine consists of glass walls, which are divided by different sized, partly colored glazed bars. Inside, the walls made of hollow blocks and concrete were left visible. In 1987 the artist Lies Ebinger from Bad Ems designed the altar wall with a large ceramic mural.
Next to the church is the open, free-standing concrete bell tower. The parsonage, also made of concrete, is a monopitch roof building with a covered loggia facing the Rhine.
organ
During renovation work in 2014, the old small organ, originally intended only for a cemetery chapel, was badly damaged, so the municipality decided to buy a new organ. A neo-baroque Bosch organ from 1975, which previously had its place in the Laurentius Church in Bergen-Enkheim , was converted by the organ workshop Krawinkel for the Mittelheim church and built into a completely new organ case . The new organ consists of 27 registers , two manuals and 1,600 pipes . It was inaugurated on Reformation Day on October 31, 2014. To improve the poor acoustics of the church, the altar wall opposite the organ was plastered and lost its material visibility.
Individual evidence
- ^ Organs in the Laurentiuskirche in Enkheim ( Memento from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bastian Baumann
- ↑ Organ-Transfer - Bergen Enkheim - Oestrich Winkel ( Memento from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Orgelbau Krawinkel
- ↑ New used organ adorns the Protestant church in Mittelheim Wiesbadener Kurier from October 17, 2014
swell
- From the history of the Protestant parish Oestrich-Winkel.( Memento from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Compiled by Pastor Hans-Dietrich Reimann on the 100th birthday of the parish of Oestrich in 1991.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II: The administrative district of Darmstadt . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
- Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.2 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-29875
- Dr. Josef Roßkopf: Art and Church History . In: Weinstadt Oestrich-Winkel , Geiger-Verlag Horb am Neckar 1988, ISBN 3-89264-270-2
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '8.04 " N , 8 ° 1' 11.44" E