Evangelical Church (Stipshausen)
The Evangelical Church Stipshausen (in Hunsrück) is the church of the Protestant parish Hottenbach - Stipshausen , in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate . The hall from the 18th century is equipped with galleries, a pulpit and an organ from the Stumm family of organ builders . The church, together with the church in Schauren, is the best preserved of these very original and somewhat idiosyncratic Hunsrück churches .
history
A chapel consecrated to St. Anthony is evidenced by an indulgence, probably in favor of its construction. Stipshausen had been its own parish since 1504, and from 1567 it was linked to the reformed parish of Rhaunen. After the Reformation was introduced in Rhaunen in 1560, the pastor there provided for Stipshausen. But the relationship was never free of conflict. In 1714 the subjects asked the collator , Count Cratz von Scharfenstein , to be looked after by the Hottenbach priest.
During the time of the French occupation during the reunification period , they declared the Antonius Chapel to be a simultaneous church in 1686. The Catholics were only allowed to use the church for funerals. The Simultaneum was only dissolved when the Protestant church was rebuilt in 1778/79 and a Catholic chapel was built in 1781.
In 1819 the Prussian government in Trier ordered the parish union of Stipshausen and Hottenbach, in 2012 the two parishes then merged.
The well-known pastor, politician and President of the Rhenish Provincial Synod D. Albert Hackenberg (1852–1912) worked in Hottenbach and Stipshausen .
Architecture and equipment
The nave of the hall church, built in 1744, is an east-facing quarry stone building, 14.70 m long, 8.20 m wide and 5.25 m high. It has a multi-storey roof turret with a small porch. In terms of architecture, it is comparable to the churches in the neighboring villages. The barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling inside and the gallery parapet is painted in the style of the Hunsrück peasant baroque , which - unusual for a Protestant church - shows echoes of the Bavarian and Tyrolean style elements.
During the renovation of 1955 under the direction of the building officer Heinrich Otto Vogel , the church was extensively renovated, the changes of the 19th century were eliminated and its original color was largely restored. On both sides of the arched windows, painted pilasters with Tuscan capitals were exposed, on which the painted wooden ceiling now rests again. Furthermore, some paintings could be exposed again, including a picture of Luther on the south wall of the church. Presbyter stalls, pews, pulpit and gallery were covered with brown oil paint from the 19th century until 1955. The restorer Willi Diernhöfer, who was brought to Stipshausen for the restoration of the wooden ceiling, found by chance a particle of real gold leaf on the pulpit under the painting and then looked for further paint residues. In the presbyter stalls, which had already been dismantled and which were to be auctioned off as firewood, decorative and figural paintings came to light after the brown oil paint had been removed, as did the pulpit, pews and galleries, which cover the walls and ceiling in strong colors. On the ceiling of the nave there are roncaille cartouches painted on a blue background, in the choir there are figurative representations of the baptism in the Jordan, the crucifixion and the Ascension. The upper part of the presbyter stalls was largely reconstructed in 1955. The pulpit depicting the Fall of Man and a crown-like sound cover was moved back over the sandstone altar in 1955. On the parapet of the organ gallery in the west of the church there are half-length portraits of "Salvator Mundi" and the Twelve Apostles .
In 2014 the church received two stained glass windows made by the gemstone designers Bernd and Tom Munsteiner from Stipshausen and made entirely of agate .
organ
The Stumm organ from 1861 on the west gallery with a classicist case, slider drawer and mechanical action has 10 registers distributed over a manual and pedal . In 1985/86 the company Orgelbau Weimbs carried out renovation, restoration and relocation from the east to the west gallery .
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Bells
A bell cast in 1492 was taken over from the previous building.
use
The parish of Hottenbach -Stipshausen is an independent parish and has been parishally connected to the parishes of Rhaunen-Hausen and Sulzbach since 2011. There are seven churches and nine preaching posts in the parish association. A service is celebrated in Stipshausen about every two weeks. Occasional concerts take place in the church. The church is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from April to December.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Munich 1984, pp. 1001-1002.
- 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. 333-334.
- 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. 430 .
Web links
- Stipshausen on the website of the Evangelical Church District Trier, accessed on June 14, 2015.
- Information on church concerts etc. Ä. Stumm-Orgelverein Rhaunen-Sulzbach
- Information and a. about the church and the organ on the Stipshausen website
- 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
- ↑ a b c d Church and History , accessed June 14, 2015
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b c die Kirche on stipshausen.de ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 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.
- ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Munich 1984, pp. 1001-1002.
- ↑ a b Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): Kreis Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 430 .
- ↑ Publication on the agate windows ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Organ at Weimbs Orgelbau (restoration) ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 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.
- ^ Bösken, Fischer, Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 4. 2005, pp. 998f.
- ↑ Information from the Trier church district
- ↑ Information on the website of the Trier church district
- ↑ Stumm-Orgelverein Rhaunen-Sulzbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 32.1 ″ E