Evangelical Church Altheim

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Evangelical Church Altheim

The Protestant church is a listed church building in Altheim , a district of Münster (Hesse) in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district .

architecture

The oldest part of the church building, the nave , dates from the 10th century, Romanesque, and was increased in 1520. The equally wide, late Gothic choir , the roof of which is higher than the nave, ends with a five-eighth end and was built in 1466 instead of a square Romanesque choir. The net vault rests on figurative consoles . On the south wall there is a wall painting from the 13th century showing Saint Christopher . The last element was the 45 m high west tower , which was built between 1518 and 1520. A pointed helmet was erected over four stone gables in 1608 . The name of the place Spitz-Altheim was derived from this tower crowning ( Spitz-Älthemer church tower ) in earlier centuries . The stepped round arched portal to the tower is the former western outer portal from the 13th century.

history

The patronage of the medieval church related to Mary Magdalene or Saint Dionysius . The mother church was the church in Dieburg , since 1354 Altheim was an independent parish. In the same year the parish church received from Pope Innocent VI. a 90 day indulgence . Harpertshausen belonged to the parish . In 1357 the right of patronage was an Eppstein fiefdom to the Gayling von Altheim . Central church authority in the Middle Ages was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg , Landkapitel Montat . With the Reformation , the place and the church - like the entire county of Hanau-Lichtenberg to which they belonged - became Lutheran in the middle of the 16th century .

Furnishing

Two sandstone holy water stoups from the period 1220 to 1230. The smaller basin is carried on the shoulders by two young figures with entwined arms.

organ

The organ goes back to an instrument that the organ builder Johann Nikolaus Schäfer from Hanau built in 1726 . In the seven-axis prospect , the elevated round central tower is flanked by two corner towers. Narrow flat fields are attached between the pipe towers and to the sides. The pipe fields are finished at the top and the upper part of the case on the outside with gold-plated carvings in the form of acanthus tendrils. The instrument had ten stops on a manual and pedal. In the period that followed, the instrument was renovated and expanded several times. In 1967 the organ building company EF Walker (Ludwigsburg) built a new organ in the historic organ case. The instrument has eleven registers with 660 pipes on two manuals and pedal. The playing and register actions are mechanical.

I Manual C-g 3
1. Covered 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Sesquialter II
4th Mixture II-III
II Manual C-g 3
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Principal 2 ′
8th. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedals C – f 1
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Covered bass 8th'
11. Choral bass 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P (as pedal steps)

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966.
  • Herbert Bender, Richard Luh: The church and the churchyard of "Spitz" Altheim. Evangelical Church Community Altheim, self-published 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 15 and 16 .
  2. ↑ More information about the organ , accessed on March 26, 2018.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 37 ″  E