Evangelical Church in Leideneck
The Evangelical Church in Leideneck in the Hunsrück was built in 1850/51 as a hall church for the approximately 250 parishioners . The parish Bell-Leideneck-Uhler belongs to the parish of Simmern-Trarbach .
The church is the only building in Leideneck listed as a cultural monument in the register of monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district .
Church history
Leideneck had belonged to Bell since ancient times, which also included Kastellaun , which later became the seat of the county of Sponheim . In 1557, the later Elector Friedrich introduced the Reformation in the Duchy of Palatinate-Simmern . In 1561 he switched to the Reformed Confession , but the lands around Kastellaun , which then belonged to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim , remained with the Lutheran confession, including Bell.
Since the one-hour journey to Bell was too far for the Leideneckers, they planned to build their own church and found their own congregation, which was finally approved by the competent ecclesiastical and secular authorities in 1855 through the parish connection with the neighboring, but Reformed, Kappel has been. A provisional presbytery had previously been established to represent the congregation to be established. This connection lasted until 1977. Since the small village communities were financially overwhelmed from around the 1960s, there were amalgamations or associations in many places. In 1977, Kappel was connected to Kirchberg in the parish office and its own parish office was abolished in 1978. Leideneck came back to Bell, but remained independent. On November 1, 2009, Uhler joined the group. Since January 1, 2016, the new parish of Bell-Leideneck-Uhler has consisted of the previously independent parishes of Bell , Leideneck and Uhler , which had been parishioners since 2009.
Building history
When construction began, four Catholic families lived in the village, who also requested a chapel, but were unable to get a chance on the local council because of their small number. The building site in the center of the village was purchased for 600 thalers . The construction work included manual work by the members of the community and the felling of 300 oak trunks with the permission of the Prussian authorities, who were reported to have had an alleged drought . In the period of less field work from autumn 1849 to spring 1850, slate stones were broken and prepared in the surrounding quarries . In addition, the soil on the slope side was removed by about 1 m. Master mason Keim from Simmern laid the foundation stone on May 31, 1850 . The interior work began in February 1851 . The carpenter work was carried out by the master carpenter Nikolaus Conrad from Leideneck . The inauguration took place on March 17, 1852. The total cost was around 5000 thalers.
The church was fundamentally renovated in 1952 and 1966/67, with the choir and pulpit being redesigned. The choir windows were designed by the Trier Binder workshop based on designs by the Trier glass artist Manfred Freitag, and the side windows were also stained glass.
Building description
The three-bay church is built from jointed quarry stone masonry . The base is made of stone . The arched windows and their continuous sill cornices are made of red sandstone . Above the windows, three round arches close off the side walls, which end in pilaster strips at the corners . The gable ends are also divided by three round arches. The larger arch in the middle includes a round window in the attic. The choir, raised by two steps and the same width as the church, has three windows, one on each wall. The door on the west gable has a frame made of yellow sandstone. The church is crowned with a square turret with a bell and a pointed eight-sided helmet that develops from a flat transition over the last yoke. It has a ball and a weathercock as a tip. The roof is slated in German coverage . The straight ceiling with truss and cross beams creates a coffered ceiling. The gallery across the last yoke offers space for the organ and choir. The church covers an area of around 250 m² and thus (with gallery ) offers space for around 200 people.
Bells
Two bronze bells had already been purchased for the inauguration . The bell founder is known from the smaller one : Carl Otto (and his son) from Kastellaun, who took over the Mainz bell foundry from Josef Zechbauer in 1828 and continued it until the 1850s. The origin of the larger bell, which was melted down in World War I , is not known, nor is the bell that was procured as a replacement in 1923 and which was sacrificed in World War II . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary in 1952, donations were used to buy a bell from the Hamburg bell cemetery, which came from Alt-Ristow in Pomerania and was cast in the 15th century.
organ
The first organ from 1862 came from the workshop of Mrs. Weller in Wetzlar. It was constantly in need of repairs and was replaced in 1885 by an instrument from the Oberlinger workshop . It has 10 stops and a pedal in a three-part brochure , has been preserved in the original and was only fitted with a fan in 1960 .
literature
- 150 years church Leideneck , ed. from the presbytery 2002, pressure Jäger, Argenthal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the protocol of the Simmern District Synod of 1867, Leideneck had 205 souls in 1816, at the beginning of Prussian rule, and 287 in 1864.
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 5 (PDF; 1.7 MB).
- ^ Certificate of the regional church office in Düsseldorf from November 1st, 1977.
- ↑ Official Journal EKiR of June 15, 2010 (search with Leideneck)
- ↑ Parish Uhler canceled ( Memento from February 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Baroque bells at Heimatmuseum Nauheim ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (search with Mainz) (accessed July 2015)
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '0.5 " N , 7 ° 21' 50.2" E