Evangelical Church Rodenbach

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Evangelical Church Rodenbach

Ebertsheim-Rodenbach, Evangelical Church

Basic data
Denomination evangelical
place Rodenbach , Germany
Building history
completion around 1200
Building description
Architectural style Romanesque, late Gothic
Coordinates 49 ° 34 '26.8 "  N , 8 ° 6' 19.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '26.8 "  N , 8 ° 6' 19.3"  E
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The Protestant church in Rodenbach was named “St. Brigitta ” and is therefore older than the one in the center of Ebertsheim . The building that defines the townscape is a listed building .

location

The church is centrally located at the confluence of Rathausstrasse and Lautersheimer Strasse (“Rathausstrasse 2”). To the east lies the Kirchgasse named after her . To the south is the Rodenbach .

history

The place is mentioned in documents of the Lorsch monastery as early as the late 8th century . In 976 Emperor Otto II gave his royal estates here to the faithful Giso. In the 14th century the Lords of Oberstein were wealthy in the village . Later it came to the County of Leiningen , from 1467 to the Electoral Palatinate .

The church was built around 1200 in place of an older one. In the late Gothic period, the rectangular east choir with a three-sided choir niche was added and the tower was renewed. It was subordinate to the Diocese of Worms (Landkapitel Neuleiningen ) and belonged to the foundation property of the Worms Cathedral , which is why the collature belonged to the Provost of Worms. After the Reformation she became Protestant. In 1508 the defense tower was rebuilt, in 1684 the ship.

Building stock

Romanesque human relief, tower, east side

The hall building is geosted and stylistically assigned to the Romanesque . The upper part of the church is in the late Gothic style . To the east of the nave is the recessed, rectangular choir with a three-sided choir niche. The defense tower stands north of the nave.

Special

Romanesque stone sculptures of animal and human heads are walled in on the west, north and east sides of the tower. It is not clear whether this is a deliberate type of defensive spell or whether only existing spoilage from an older building was reused. On the east side of the tower there is also a Romanesque relief depicting a person with outspread arms; possibly it should be a stylized depiction of the crucifixion. A Romanesque decorative frieze is also embedded in the western tower wall.

Inside, a high-quality Gothic baptismal font with decorative figures has been preserved.

Surroundings

The church is located in the middle of the enclosed churchyard with tombs of the Seewaldt family from the 19th century, as well as the baroque epitaph of a pastor.

  • Choir from the northeast

  • Tower, north side, general view with 6 heads

  • Heads on the north side of the tower

  • Heads on the west side of the tower

  • Animal head on the east side of the tower

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation: The Art Monuments of Bavaria. Administrative region Pfalz, VII. District Office Kirchheimbolanden, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1938, pp. 248–258.
  • Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 3, Speyer, 1837, p. 214 u. 215; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 31 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler, Carl Günther Ludovici: Large complete Universal Lexicon of all sciences and arts , Volume 59, Column 173, Leipzig, 1749; (Digital scan)
  3. ↑ Website for the font in the Prot. Church Rodenbach