Evangelical Church (Thalfang)
The Thalfang Evangelical Church is a Gothic pseudo-basilica that was built between around 1200 and 1450. Today it is one of three churches in the Evangelical Parish of Thalfang - Morbach and is used, among other things, for the Sunday service. The church has a Stumm organ from 1876 and two historical and two new bells.
history
After a controversial but in its historical value document of 4 April 633 the Frankish king gave Dagobert I. the monastery of Saint Maximin at Trier, the royal land between Ruwerbach and Hochwald , which also includes the Hofgut Talovanc belonged. An ecclesia in Talefangh is mentioned for the first time in a bull of Pope Innocent II of May 6, 1140 . Today's church was built in stages on the foundation walls of this first church, which legend says fell victim to the flames.
The Evangelical Church Community Thalfang-Morbach, with its core, the 12 villages of the former Dhronecken Office ("Mark Thalfang"), is one of the oldest Evangelical communities on the Hunsrück and forms an Evangelical enclave in the large Kurtrierische area. The Wild and Rhine Count Otto introduced the Reformation in 1564 and appointed a Protestant pastor to the church in Thalfang. One of the special tasks of the second parish office, founded in 1650, was the supervision of the parish school, in which the children learned to read and read discs, the Christian faith and the Christian life based on Luther's Little Catechism . During the Thirty Years' War , the Thalfanger Church changed hands several times, but the Peace of Westphalia (1648) reinstated the Wild and Rhine Counts in their old rights.
After the peace agreement in the Palatinate War of Succession , the Catholics were granted joint use rights and the church was used as a simultaneous church from 1699 to 1900 . The Protestants only bought themselves free from it in 1897 and the Catholic Church was built.
Building description
The church was built as a pseudo-basilica in the first half of the 14th century by the tithe, the Trier Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin. The high Gothic choir was built around 1450. The Romanesque bell tower dates back to the 13th century and was built by the municipality according to an old custom. Two sound windows with Romanesque arches and capitals, rediscovered in 1961 on the north and east sides, allow a date to be around 1220–30. In the 16th century, the tower received its current bell storey with four double windows above an arched frieze. At the beginning of the 18th century, the octagonal spire was added to the tower. The last exterior renovation of the church took place in 2002.
The church was before the Reformation the . Matthew St. ordained what the still traditionally held in Thalfang on Sunday after 21 September (Matthew) fair recalls.
from the south
Choir
Gate hall
The church was surrounded by a walled cemetery until 1831. The entrance was a baroque gate hall built around 1700 with an open roof, the grate - so called because of the last rest the hearse coming from the villages stopped here before the burial.
organ
The organ was built in 1876/77 by the Stumm family of organ builders from Sulzbach and replaced an organ from 1750. The organ stands on the upper part of the double gallery. The still almost original work has a triangular pipe field in the prospectus. The instrument was restored in 1978 by G. Cartillieri, and the prospect pipes, which had to be delivered in 1917, were also replaced in pewter. The one-manual work has mechanical cone chests and a console that stands in front of the organ so that the organist can see the altar. The organ was last overhauled in 2003.
Interior
Several components date from the 13th to the 16th century, a decorated sacrament house from the 15th century. In 1716, the Dhroneck bailiff, Fr. Chr. Heusner, donated a magnificent sandstone pulpit into which the Bible words for the preaching office are carved. The galleries were built in the middle of the 18th century. The font (1957) and the bronze-clad entrance door (1977) were made by the sculptor Klaus Rothe.
Sacrament house
Side gallery
pulpit
Bells
Since October 2000 the bell has been ringing from four bronze bells, among them the Maximinglocke from 1529 and a smaller bell from 1688.
| No. | image | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | material | Mass (kg) | Chime | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1529 | Dedrich van Prome | bronze | f 1 |
My name is MAXMIN * IN GODES ERE, I LUDEN I * BAD WETTR, I DEDERICH VAN PROME GOS ME * MDXXIX |
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| 2 | 1688 | Matthias Crommel, Trier | bronze | g 1 |
HONOR SEY GOD AT HEIGHT * PEACE ON EARTH * AND THE PEOPLE A WOLGEFALLEN * MATTH.CROMMEL FON TRIER GOS ME * 1688 ( Lk 2,14 LUT ) |
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| 3 | 2000 | Hans August Mark, Brockscheid | bronze | b 1 |
IR, OUR DESCENDANTS, ALSO PRAYS SERIOUSLY, AND DRIVES GOD'S WORD VERY CAREFULLY, RECEIVES GOD'S POOR WINDLIECHT * 2000 (Martin Luther) |
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| 4th | 2000 | Hans August Mark, Brockscheid | bronze | it 2 |
O, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD! * 2000 ( Jer 22.29 LUT ) |
use
In the church there is a service of the Evangelical parish Thalfang-Morbach almost every Sunday and public holiday. The Thalfang part of the community is looked after by its own pastor. Services are typically at 10:30 a.m. and on the first Sunday of each month at 6:00 p.m.
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. 345-350.
Web links
- Evangelical parish Thalfang-Morbach, website of the parish
- Evangelical parish Thalfang-Morbach at the Evangelical Church District Trier
- Entry on Evangelical Church (Thalfang) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Pastor W. Krause: Evangelical Church Thalfang.
- ↑ Anneliese Bösken (ed.), Hermann Fischer , and Matthias Thömmes (. Ed): sources and research on organ history of the middle Rhine ., Vol 4: administrative districts Koblenz and Trier, circles old churches and Neuwied , subband 2: Ma - Z . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-1342-0 , p. 1012f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 17.8 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 49.2" E