Evangelical Church (Urbach)

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Evangelical Church (Urbach), aerial photo (2016)
The Romanesque west tower
The octagon

The Evangelical Church is a parish church in Urbach ( Neuwied district ) in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The parish Urbach was first mentioned in 1204, when she by the General Chapter of the Norbertine the Abbey Rommersdorf was attributed. Before 1266, the Wülfersberg monastery in Urbach acquired property. In 1354 Salentin von Isenburg bore the patronage of the church as a fief of the Cologne archbishopric. It later came to the Wied . The first Protestant visitation to the church, which was probably consecrated to St. Peter until the Reformation , took place in 1556.

Of the Romanesque church, which followed two naves square choir and semicircular apse was, exists today only the tower from the 13th century with Rhombendoch and one each twin arcade in the gable. The Romanesque choir collapsed in 1824 and the nave was replaced by a new building in 1825-30. This was built by building inspector Ferdinand Nebel as a recourse to the Aachen Palatine Chapel as an octagonal, apsidal central building in neo-Romanesque forms.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, 1984. P. 841
  • Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuwied ( Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Volume 16, Section II), Düsseldorf 1940. pp. 336–339

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 14 ″  E