Evangelical Church Burgen (near Bernkastel-Kues)
The Evangelical Church of Burgen is one of three churches of the Evangelical Parish of Veldenz in the village of Burgen of the Rhenish Church in the church district of Trier.
history
Before the Reformation, the church was consecrated to the Evangelist Mark and a branch of Veldenz . During the Reformation the church became Protestant, at the beginning of the Thirty Years War it became a simultaneous church , namely for the Protestant part as a branch church of Veldenz and for the Catholic part as a branch church of Dusemond (today Brauneberg ). The Simultaneum was dissolved at the end of the 19th century when the Catholics built a new church.
Architecture and equipment
The church is a plastered quarry stone building with 14.50 m length, 9.20 m width and 5 m height inside the church. The nave with a rounded wooden ceiling was built in 1716 in the same size as the previous building. The somewhat older flat-roofed choir probably dates from the end of the 17th century. The church has a stone Renaissance - pulpit from 1682 with considerable relief ornaments in the style of metal cartridges, a rosette and two grotesque masks.
tower
The church has a Romanesque west tower with sound arcades from the 11th century with built-in Roman bricks on the original site of a Franconian defense tower. The tower is square with an edge length of 3.5 m. 1880, the tower was given an octagonal pointed spire .
use
The church is one of three churches in the Protestant parish of Veldenz. Currently (2015) there is a regular Sunday service in the parish. This alternates in rotation between the Church in Burgen, the Evangelical Church Veldenz and the Evangelical Church Gornhausen , so that a service takes place in Burgen about every third week. The parish of Veldenz has had a parish relationship with the parish of Mülheim an der Mosel since 2011 .
literature
- Hans Vogts : The art monuments of the district of Bernkastel (= The art monuments of the Rhine province, vol. 15, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1935, pp. 159-160.
Web links
- History of the parish of Veldenz on the website of the church district Trier, accessed on June 30, 2015
- The church on the website of the municipality of Burgen
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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, 159-160.
- ↑ Internet offer of the municipality of Burgen
- ^ Entry on Evangelical Church (castles) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Parish gazette of the parish Veldenz spring 2015
- ↑ http://www.kirchenrecht-ekir.de/kabl/19333.pdf Announcement in the official gazette of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, May 16, 2011; P. 283
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 49.3 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 59.3" E