Evangelical Church Kappel
The Evangelical Church in Kappel is a typical Hunsrück hall church . The independent parish associated with Kirchberg is part of the Simmern-Trarbach parish .
The church is registered as a cultural monument in the register of monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district .
Church history
As the place name suggests, was early on in a chapel known as branch church to the parish was assigned Kirchberg. Occasionally plebans are mentioned in the sources for Kappel , who provided the church service.
In 1557, the later Elector Friedrich introduced the Reformation in the Duchy of Palatinate-Simmern . In 1561 he switched to the Reformed Confession , which still exists in Kappel today. During the Thirty Years' War Kappel was temporarily recatholized. In the Palatinate War of Succession , the French introduced freedom of belief; the Kappeler church became a simultaneous church . The parish lost its pastor and its independence and was looked after by Würrich .
When the neighboring Lutheran parish of Leideneck , which belonged to the parish of Bell , built its own church in 1852 , the desire for independence also grew in Kappel, which was made possible by a parish union between the two parishes in 1855. The pastor's seat was the larger Kappel with 345 Evangelicals in 1855 (Leideneck had 287 in 1864). In 1907 the purchased rectory - a half-timbered farmhouse - was demolished and replaced by a new building in the rectory garden. The new double municipality formed were 1860, the few evangelicals in the Diaspora from the predominantly Catholic locations Masters Hausen , Reidenhausen , Hesweiler , Blank Rath , Hase Rich , Walhausen , Tellig , Schauren , Panzweiler , Peterswald and Löffelscheid from Koblenz consistory the Rhine province of Evangelical Church in Prussia hospitable as assigned .
In 1890 the Catholic people from Kappel founded a church building association for their own church; at the same time the dissolution of the Simultaneum was carried out. This was decided by the competent authorities in 1894 and 95 and approved by the Koblenz administrative district on July 14, 1895 . Until the completion of the new building by the church architect Eduard Endler on September 28, 1899, the Protestant church was allowed to continue to be used free of charge. From the 1960s onwards, there were mergers or assignments in many places. In 1977, Kappel was also connected to Kirchberg in the parish office and its own parish office was abolished in 1978. Leideneck came back to Bell. In 2008 a church building association was founded, which aims to collect a maintenance fund through donations and help maintain the church and the parish / community house.
Building history and description
Today's church building was erected by both denominations on the site of a previous building, which is described as very dilapidated around 1720/30. Parts of the wall, especially in the tower base, were still used. The year 1747, documented by wall anchors on the tower, is the date of completion. Except for the spire, the building has no reference to the Baroque period . The east-facing hall church in quarry stone masonry is 18 m long, 8.10 m wide and 10.70 or 11 m high up to the ridge with the three-sided choir (without the tower) . The ship is covered by a wooden barrel vault.
The massive square tower with two loopholes windows on the 5.10 m wide west side is 24.60 m high up to the cross with weathercock , the slated beam structure with still square bell chamber and its double curved eight-sided hood measures 13.20 m. Access is from the south through the tower, then through another door into the ship. The tower porch has a groin vault , which may be older.
The side walls, each with three arched windows, are reinforced by four external buttresses made of brick . This is also an older stylistic feature that has not yet been interpreted. The choir is illuminated through two windows. The front wall has no windows, as the Catholic main altar had to stand here. The Protestant altar was in the tower hall. The choir ridge is crowned by a cross.
On a drawing from 1896 as an inventory before the rededication and renovation, a small gate from the Catholic period can be seen to the right of the last supporting pillar of the south wall. The tower clock, which is also still shown, was scrapped at the beginning of the 20th century as it could no longer be repaired. The Catholic Church had a clock.
Around 1900 the now Protestant church was extensively renovated with the help of an all-Prussian church collection. New pews were purchased and an organ ordered, for which a gallery was built. After the renovation, the ship had 180 seats and the gallery reserved for the young men had 25 seats. Further thorough renovations were carried out from 1947 to 1953 with the removal of war damage and repainting of the choir with Bible verses and an angel with an anchor symbol. From 1966 to 1967, the masonry was repaired, the choir room redesigned and new glass windows were installed, as was the installation of underfloor heating. In 1988 the masonry was drained again and the interior was given a new coat of paint. In 1981 the church was listed as a historical monument .
Furnishing
Until the renovation at the beginning of the 1950s, the pastor sat in a wooden barred parsonage in the choir room on the left opposite the presbytery bench . From there he climbed a flight of stairs to the pulpit . This was replaced by a relocatable lectern in 1966/67, and the presbyter's bench was also removed. The massive altar table was replaced by a lighter one.
The Trier workshop Binder created the choir windows with motifs for baptism and communion based on designs by the Trier glass artist Manfred Freitag, as did the remaining six stained glass windows. The choir wall is dominated by a large wooden cross. A song board from 1779, on which the songs were written in chalk, has been preserved from old furnishings . The altar bible comes from a legacy of the Kaiserswerth deaconess from Kappel who died in Jerusalem in 1896 ; the pulpit bible was donated by two teachers from Kappel for the re-inauguration in 1900.
Bells
Because of their historical significance, the three bells survived the deliveries in the two world wars. A report that classified the uniform ringing as worth preserving (Group D) was also followed in 1942. The Churtrier piece and bell caster Mauritius Mabilo and his son Johann Babtist , based in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein , as recorded on bell one, cast them on site in 1779. A previous bell was used for the new cast, from which part of the pre-Reformation inscription was carried over to the new largest bell weighing 326 kg and 83 cm in diameter: MARIA VOCOR-CHRISTUS-LUCAS-MARCUS-MATÄUS-I ROSSI ME FECIT. Fritz Langensiepen suspects their origin in the Rosier bell foundry in Lorraine . The bell is an evangelist bell . Bell two weighs 234 kg and is 73 cm in diameter. Bell three weighs 166 kg and has a diameter of 65 cm. Its inscription is: BENEDICTA SIT SANCTISSIMA TRINITAS. The large and small bells also bear the inscription: INSCRIPTIO REFORMATORUM ET CATHOLICORUM EST DICTUM PETRI ACTORUM IV: VS 12 (4.2 EU ). They indicate the quality of the bells of a simultaneous church. The bells have the mood c´´ - d´´ - f´´, the Gloria chime , and are the oldest preserved chime of the Mabilon family.
organ
The church's first organ dates from 1900 and comes from the Oberlinger workshop in Windesheim. It has five registers in the manual and the sub-bass in the pedal with a total of 297 pipes on a cone chest . The three-part case is made of fir wood, the front of the brochure is made of oak. It has been preserved in its original form and was fitted with an electric fan during the 1966 renovation .
use
Church service is held every 14 days at different times by Kirchberg pastors, retirees and preachers.
Churchyard
Around the church was the cemetery, which was occupied until the new construction above the village in the 1830s. In 1860, against the opposition of the Catholic pastor, it was de-dedicated and leveled. Part of the property was used in 1913 for a Protestant school with a teacher's apartment. The Catholics continued to use the school hall above the bakery until 1928, which was accessible at ground level from the church hill. The church hill could be reached from the Dreispitz via a staircase. The hill is otherwise accessible at ground level from Kastellauner Straße in front of the former school. The sides facing Kastellauner Strasse and the entrance to the Catholic Church on the other long side of the church hill are underlain with walls. There is a war memorial on the east side. In 1960 the churchyard was replanted and the area between the church and the former school was re-paved with split, sand and stones. In March 2015, the municipality received € 148,000 from the village renewal program for redesigning the area in the center of the village around the Protestant church.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the churches in Altlay , Holzbach , Altweidelbach , Riesweiler , Pleizenhausen and Bubach
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 21 (PDF; 1.7 MB).
- ↑ 150 Years of the Church in Leideneck , ed. from the presbytery 2002, p. 50
- ^ Certificate of the regional church office in Düsseldorf from November 1st
- ^ Lewentz: 148,000 euros for village renewal in Kappel. Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Infrastructure of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, March 26, 2015, archived from the original on July 8, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2019 .
Literature / sources
- Presbytery of the Evangelical Church Community Kappel (ed.): 250 years Evangelical Church Kappel Böhmer, Simmern 1997
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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 33.8 ″ E