Evangelical Church (Schauren)

Church from the outside

The Evangelical Church Schauren is the Protestant church in Schauren of the Protestant parish Schauren-Kempfeld-Bruchweiler in Schauren in the Hunsrück , a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Today's church is a hall from the 18th century with a gallery and pulpit from the time it was built. The church, together with the church in Stipshausen, is the best preserved of these very original and somewhat idiosyncratic Hunsrück churches .

history

Choir from the gallery

South wing of the gallery with paintings

The place Schauren was first mentioned in a document in 1279. The church was originally dedicated to Saint Maternus and is first mentioned in 1386. In the church there is evidence of a Nicholas altar and a Maternus brotherhood until 1555.

Architecture and equipment

altar

Painted church ceiling

The east-facing hall church was built in 1767 according to a plan by Johann Nikolaus Wenz, a carpenter in Schauren. It is a plastered quarry stone building with an east-facing choir .

The tower at the west end of the ship is shaped like a roof turret . Square at the bottom, it merges into an octagon at the top. The entrance area on the west side is protected by a porch typical of the Hunsrück. The iron of the iron frame of the seven arched windows is made of Hunsrück iron.

The nave is - unusual for a reformed church - decorated with paintings that echo the Bavarian and Tyrolean peasant baroque . The nave is vaulted by a flat-arched wooden ceiling painted with diamond patterns. These offer a strange effect; if you look at them for a long time, they start to shift. The ceiling painting above the choir shows:

1. Jesus' baptism with proclamation to the Son of God
2. Crucifixion with forgiveness of sins
3. Resurrection with hint of Ascension of Christ.

On the back wall of the pulpit there is a depiction of Jesus preaching. The five panels on the pulpit parapet show the image "I am a good shepherd" at the front and the four evangelists on the sides.

On the west side of the ship there is a two-wing gallery on which the organ is located. The 18 panels on the parapet show scenes from the New Testament . The signatures show the corresponding texts. The following are shown with a view of the gallery from left to right:

1. Announcement of the birth of Christ
2. Birth and adoration of Christ
3. Circumcision of Christ
4. Christ as a 12 year old teacher
5. Wedding at Cana
6. Christ makes the blind see
7. Raising Lazarus from the dead
8. Youth to Nain
9. Go your son is well
10. Megdelein stand up
11. Jesus' miracle feeding 5000 men
12. Jesus walks on the maere
13. Jesus heals 10 extraneous ones
14. Jesus heals wonderfully at betesda
15. Jesus wonderfully heals sick of all kinds
16. Jesus' verdict on an adulteress
17. Jesus casts out devils
18. A bloody woman becomes healthy by touching Christ's clothes

The painting is comparable to that in the churches of Bruchweiler , Stipshausen , Krummenau , Mülheim an der Mosel and Starkenburg . The name of the artist is not known. It is assumed either a certain Franz Freundt from Kastellaun or a member of the Engisch family of artists, who originally came from Graubünden . The choir stalls on the 5-sided choir wall were traditionally for the pastor with family on the left and the presbyters (church elders) and two censors (moral guardians) on the right.

organ

Nave, gallery and organ

The Stumm organ from 1780 on the west gallery has a late baroque case decorated with carved wings and naturalistic tendrils and a mechanical action . As with many comparable organs, the console is attached to the side. During the renovation in 1969 by the Oberlinger company , the wind pressure was lowered.

The organ's disposition is:

Manual C – d 3 Principal 8th' Gedackt B / D 8th' Slack 8th' Gamba B / D 8th' Flöth 4 ′ Octave 2 ′ third 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture III 1' Trumpet B / D 8th' Vox humana B / D 8th' Quint 3 ′

Pedal C – d 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th'

• Pairing : I / P

Bells

The bell of the church today consists of three bells, two more, no longer functional, stand next to the altar. A historical bell from 1480 with a lower diameter of 1 m, several bell foundry marks, the relief of a bishop's figure and the inscription in Gothic minuscule "MATERN HEISSE ICH - EVERYONE CANNOT BE DRIED - CLAIS VON ECHTERNACH GOES ME ANNO M CCCC LXXX" hang in the belfry today. as well as two bells that were made on the initiative of Pastor Hamm by the Rinker foundry in Sinn near Herborn in the Dill district . The historical bell and the two new bells are tuned to the Te Deum motif fis-ah with their chimes . Since they are significantly heavier at 300 kg and 400 kg respectively than their 60 kg and 80 kg predecessors, the bell cage had to be replaced for them.

The other two historical bells no longer have their original sound and are now standing next to the altar. The larger of the two has a lower diameter of 52 cm, was cast around 1350, has two reliefs of a Calvary group on the mantle and an inscription in early Gothic large letters between two hoops, some of which can be read from right to left. This is not readable for laypeople, because it is, for whatever reason, encoded by Latin and Greek abbreviations, mirror writing and twisted letters. In plain text it is written on it: "CHRISTE GLORIE REX O VENI CUM PACE" in German "Christ, King of Honor, O come with peace". The smallest bell also has a lower diameter of 52 cm, is only decorated with hoops without an inscription, and was probably cast around 1300.

use

The parish of Schauren-Kempfeld-Bruchweiler has existed since 1974 and has been parochial with the Protestant parish of Wirschweiler-Allenbach-Sensweiler since 2011. A total of six churches and nine preaching posts are to be served in the two parishes. In Sensweiler currently (2015) a service is celebrated on about three Sundays a month and on the church holidays.

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. 335-337.
• Handbook of German Art Monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 11.
• Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): District of Birkenfeld (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 426-427 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Schauren)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Look at the pages of the Evangelical Church District Trier
• The organ in stummorgel.de
• Information about the church, organ, bells on Schauren.de
• Sound sample organ EG 607 Lord, please come and bless us
• Sound sample organ EG 667 / GL 889 When the bread we share
• Sound samples of the silent organs and a. also in this church
• Information about the Stumm organs, their churches and viewing opportunities at VG Rhaunen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Berlin / Munich 1984, pp. 936-937.
2. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 335-336.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Church and History. Look at the pages of the Evangelical Church District Trier, accessed on June 6, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} under -> Sights -> Description of the church on schauren.de ( Memento of the original from July 21, 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. . 
5. ↑ The organ in stummorgel.de .
6. ↑ Information from the Trier church district .
7. ^ Announcement in the official gazette of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, May 16, 2011, p. 283 .
8. ↑ Congregational Letter 2/2015 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 24.7 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 10.5 ″  E