Evangelical Church Oberwesel

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The Evangelical Church in Oberwesel is a small diaspora church in the otherwise Catholic Oberwesel in the former territory of Kurtrier . With about 650 parishioners, it belongs to the Evangelical Church Community of St. Goar .

Church on Chablis Street
Gallery and organ
pulpit

history

Protestants first came to Oberwesel in Prussian times . The minority of 88 Evangelicals in Oberwesel has been collecting money for building their own church since 1891. But this only came together when the manor owner of Gut Schönberg, Arthur von Osterroth, provided the property on the road to Wiebelsheim and the corresponding funds for the construction in 1896 . He also commissioned his house architect, August Heinz from Berlin , who was then based in Boppard and who had built the Villa Belgrano there and who was busy with the renovation of the Schönberg manor, with the planning and construction of the church from 1897 to 1899 May 1899, the church was inaugurated by the general superintendent of the Rhine province Philipp Valentin Umbeck (1842–1911) from Koblenz. Empress Auguste Viktoria donated the altar Bible for the church. The church remained the property of the Osterroth family until 1942, who lived in a castle above the Schönburg , which burned down in 1946. Then she took over the Evangelical Congregation St. Goar . In 1957/58 the youth home was built onto the left wing of the church. In 1974 the interior was restored and in 1997 the building was placed under monument protection.

location

The church stands on today's Chablisstraße, which was renamed Simmerner Straße after Oberwesel's town partnership with the French Chablis and leads into the Oberbachtal. The Holzgasse, one of the oldest streets in the city, joins the church. Behind the small church building begins a pilgrim and hiking trail leading above the western city wall to Michelfeld, which ends at the Kalvarienberg chapel, built in the middle of the 19th century, past the Martinskirche . The cross arm of the south side of the church is adjoined today by a youth home built in 1957/58 and on the north side by the residential buildings of the street. The portal and east side of the church is adorned by a narrow front garden, which is enclosed by a half-height wall with wrought iron bars. The gate of the fence, which was also forged, received floral decorations and was formerly the gate of a bridge over the Oberbach, which was demolished in 1933.

Building description

The three - bay neo - Gothic hall building with a suggested cross plan in front of the altar area is set out above a rubble stone plinth in red exposed brickwork. Corners, wall strips on the side walls as well as window and door arches are made of sandstone. The steep roof and the attached roof turret with the bell are covered with roof slate. The acute spire is of a weathercock crowned. A large rose window sets accents above the street-side entrance . A cross is placed above the slightly protruding entrance and the gable. Noteworthy are the gargoyles that drain the rainwater over the entrance. The right transept with the unadorned side entrance to their seats in the transept, originally reserved for the von Osterroth family, is also adorned with a rose window. The family has also been immortalized on the donor's coat of arms in the church windows. The nave is covered with a ribbed vault, which is supported by side columns of historicizing columns. The sacristy is located in the corner of the choir and the right transept .

Dimensions

The structure has a length of 10.25 m; a width of 8.20 m; the altar rooms are 4.00 m wide; the height of the gallery is 3.20 m; the height of the roof ridge reaches 12.75 m; the sacristy has a length of 3.10 m and a width of 1.82 m: the thickness of the outer masonry is 0.65 cm.

Furnishing

The altar ( oak , glazed ) was created by wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch from Wernigerode . The dominant wooden sermon pulpit is mounted halfway up at the corner of the choir and the right transept over an angular sandstone plinth. Access is via a staircase from the sacristy. Above the entrance, a wooden gallery supported by beams offers space for the organ and church choir . The organ has a pneumatic action , nine registers and a pedal. It comes from the organ building workshop Gerhardt & Söhne Orgelbau, Boppard

literature

  • Eduard Sebald and co-authors: The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate, volume 9. The art monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district, part 2. Former district of St. Goar, here the city of Oberwesel in volumes I and II, State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate ( Ed.) Deutscher Kunstverlag 1977 ISBN 3-422-00576-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artur von Osterroth, on Schönberg. (No longer available online.) Tribe series database of the German nobility, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 24, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stammreihen.de  
  2. ^ Philipp Valentin Umbeck. Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), accessed on November 24, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Fire at Schönberg Palace. Extract from the commemorative publication on the 75th anniversary of the Oberwesel volunteer fire brigade from 1996, accessed on November 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Eduard Sebald, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Part 2. Former district of St. Goar, here City of Oberwesel Volume 2, p. 599 ff
  5. ↑ Eduard Sebald, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Part 2. Former district of St. Goar, here City of Oberwesel Volume 2, p. 599 ff
  6. ^ The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate - ninth volume, The art monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district , part 2.2: Former district of St. Goar - city of Oberwesel (2 volumes), Eduard Sebald (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1997 , ISBN 3-422-00576-5 , pp. 38, 609 f., Fig. 432.
  7. ^ Organ of the church in Oberwesel. Evangelical Church Congregation St. Goar, Community Letter 2004-4-Winter, accessed on November 24, 2014 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '22.7 "  N , 7 ° 43' 31.9"  E