Evangelical parish church Langenlonsheim

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Protestant church around 1868

The Protestant parish church in Langenlonsheim is located at Naheweinstraße 96. The sacred building goes back to a Saint Nicholas church around 1200. It has a late Gothic choir from around 1500, the sacristy dates from around 1588 but is still partly Romanesque . In 1777 a late baroque hall was added as a nave. In 1867/68 the nave was extended in a classicist and neo-Gothic style, and the nave was rebuilt according to plans by the Wuppertal architect Carl Conradi, district builder from Bad Kreuznach .

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Saint Nicholas Church around 1200

The sacred building goes back to a Saint Nicholas church around 1200. The builders are the Counts of Loon , who as burgraves were the highest secular court lords of the city of Mainz and who held their tithes in Langenlonsheim. The church stood on the then highest point of the then fortified Langenlonsheimer settlement and was built entirely of stone. It also had a bell, which the residents would ring not only for worship, but also in the event of danger and for the meetings of the common men set by the mayor. According to the rules of the church, a bell tower is assumed at the Langenlonsheimer Sankt-Nikolaus-Kirche.

St. John's Church around 1475

In a document from 1475 the church is mentioned as the parish church of St. John. In the War of the Bavarian-Palatinate Succession , it was damaged in 1504 and rebuilt in 1526. When the village burned down in 1540, the church burned down too. The church building was provisionally restored after the fire in 1541/1545.

New building as Protestant parish church in 1588

After the Reformation, the formerly Catholic Church was assigned to the Reformed . The new building took place in 1588, of which the choir and the sacristy have been preserved to this day.

Simultaneous church from 1658

  • Langenlonsheim (Bad Kreuznach), simultaneous church from 1658 to 1907, floor plan of the simultaneous church after the new building in 1777, before 1907 (from 1907 to 1908 the Catholics built their parish church of St. John the Baptist elsewhere) .jpg
  • Langenlonsheim (Bad Kreuznach), simultaneous church from 1658 to 1907, view of the choir with the Catholic Baroque high altar, before 1907 (from 1907 to 1908 the Catholics built their parish church of St. John the Baptist elsewhere) .jpg

After the Thirty Years' War , the community was divided into Protestant and Catholic denominations. However, since a Catholic line of princes had ruled the Electoral Palatinate since 1658, the Catholics received the right to use the sacred building alongside the Reformed from 1685. They were allowed to set up their altar in the church choir. In addition to the high altar, there is evidence of a Marghareth and a Lady of Our Lady.

The Reformed service had to end at 10 a.m. so that the Catholics could use the church building. Thus the Simultaneum was introduced in the formerly reformed churches. The evangel. The church nave was available to the parish and the choir room with the baroque high altar was available to the Catholic parish. In 1777 the church was rebuilt, with the nave and the tower being renewed. The nave, built in 1777, consisted of a hall-like room with three window axes, with the main entrance in the third window axis on the side facing the market square. Windows and doors had arched ends . On the west side there was a square, wedge-shaped church tower made of rubble stones. In 1868 the wedge-shaped church tower was demolished according to plans by the building inspector Conradi, while the nave from 1777 was extended by two window axes facing the main street. The new church tower with entrance in neo-Gothic style was built directly on the street. The arched ends of the windows were given neo-Gothic pointed arches . The building was inaugurated on November 15, 1868.

Again Protestant parish church from 1905

In 1905 the Simultaneum was ended. The building became the property of the Protestant parish, for which they had to pay the Catholic parish 24,000 marks to build the Catholic parish church in Langenlonsheim. The due date for the sum was September 23, 1906, which meant that Catholics must also move out of the church building.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Kreuznach district. Mainz 2020, p. 70 (PDF; 8.1 MB).
  2. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 174
  3. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (edited by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 308 f.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 45.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 317.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 319.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 320.
  8. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 331.
  9. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 334.

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 2 ″  E