Evangelical Church Raumland
The Protestant church is a listed church building in Raumland , a district of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
construction time
Raumland was the original parish , which was probably founded in Mainz at the beginning of the 9th century . Originally dedicated to St. Martin's parish church was the mother church in the area. The existing late Romanesque hall church was built in the middle of the 13th century and probably preceded the construction of the similar churches in Arfeld and Wingeshausen .
In 1730 the church was given a wide retaining wall on the south side. The roof turret dates from 1956.
description
The exterior of the simple church is a plastered quarry stone building with a slate roof. The rectangular choir with semicircular main apse and flanking smaller side apses as the east end of the aisles are added to the hall longhouse. The east gables of the nave and choir are slated. In the north there is a porch with a gable roof. The south portal has a clover leaf frame. The window openings are closed in a round arch.
As a hall church, the interior has three naves of equal height, closed with dome-shaped ridge vaults . The pillars are rectangular and have semi -columns in front of them on three sides , which support the slightly pointed arches of the arches of the vault via cube capitals . The aisles close to the east with niches shaped like segments in the floor plan.
In the choir, the vault of which was reconstructed in 1955, wall paintings from the second half of the 15th century were uncovered in 1985, which show scenes of the Passion and tendril motifs.
The galleries, which were built into the side aisles and the west yoke of the central nave in sections from the late 17th century until 1771, are accessible via stairs built into the apses of the side aisles. The most richly decorated gallery parapet on the south side was made by Johann Hermann Riedesel around 1720 .
Furnishing
The altar table has a wooden antependium from the 17th century decorated with inlaid work . The pulpit was built in 1747. The organ, built in 1969 by Detlef Kleucker from Brackwede , has two manuals and nine registers.
Bells
The three bells were cast in the second half of the 14th century and renovated in 2009. They form the oldest preserved bell from a foundry in Westphalia. The striking notes are d 2 -4, d 2 +7 and h 2 +8.
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
- Wolfram Wintzer; Cornelia Kneppe: Bad Berleburg-Raumland: Church location since Carolingian times . In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe, Langenweißbach 2011, pp. 168–171.
- Wolfram Wintzer; Cornelia Kneppe: Raumland: Archeology and history of a parish church in the former county of Wittgenstein . In: Wittgenstein Vol. 75 (2011), H. 2, pp. 47-62.
Web links
- Johannes Burkardt: Information from the parish Raumland. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
- The Bonifatiuskirche on Youtube
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 23 ′ 6" E