Jakobikirche (Rotenburg an der Fulda)
The Jakobikirche is a late Gothic two-aisled hall church in Rotenburg an der Fulda .
Building history
The parish church of St. Jakobi in the old town stands on the foundations of a smaller previous church. It was already recognizable on the first city seal from 1248. Some of its foundations have been preserved to this day.
After the great fire of 1478 the church was rebuilt. The first news about this church is from 1495 when the consecration took place. At this time, the oldest part, the sacristy (which leans against the choir to the south) and the vaulted choir were probably finished. The choir has two yokes with cross vaults and ends with a polygonal apse with 5/8 closing .
Then the new church hall was added to the west in front of the choir. The hall was not added symmetrically to the choir. The southern wall of the hall protrudes only about one meter from the line of the southern choir wall, while the northern wall of the hall protrudes about four meters from the line of the northern choir wall. The external buttresses and some console approaches in the church indicate that the church hall was also to be vaulted. Whether this happened is no longer verifiable, the flat wooden ceiling was in any case finished in 1595.
The church tower was built on the northern side of the church, between the choir and the eastern wall of the hall, which protrudes far from here. Construction is said to have started around 1500 and ended in 1548 when a fourth half-timbered storey was added to the tower. The tower is also shown in the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian from 1655. This half-timbered structure was torn down in 1788 and in 1819 its classical tower was added to the tower. This is how the tower can be seen today.
In the tracery of all eleven windows in the church, the ornament of the fish bladder dominates , in different manifestations.
On the west portal are still engraved old Dimensions ( fathoms , Mesgert) where Mesgert but is not a measure, but means "scale" and points to the "fathom" as amtl. Measure. There are old stonemason's marks on the buttresses of the south wall .
inner space
The interior is characterized by the numerous fixtures, the single-storey gallery in the aisle , the two-storey gallery in the west of the nave and the choir gallery in the east with the organ from 1556. It was an organ with 15 voices that was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . Therefore it was rebuilt in 1682 by Jost Friedrich Schäffer from Langensalza. In 1962 the organ was expanded to 25 registers by Dieter Noeske . The slider chest instrument today has 32 stops on three manual works and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / II, I / P, II / P
The altar , supported by six Corinthian columns, was built from alabaster in 1581 for the chapel of Rotenburg Palace . It was built by the court sculptor Wilhelm Vernukken , who was commissioned by Landgrave Wilhelm IV . When the castle chapel was demolished in 1790, the altar was placed in the church. The pulpit , which is held in the Renaissance style (partly with baroque echoes), came into the church in 1663 as a donation from the princely Hessian-Rheinfelsian chief pensioner Michael Dölle.
Five bells ring in the tower of the Jakobikirche, the oldest of which dates from 1482.
Pastors
The theologian Wilhelm Vilmar (born June 4, 1804 in the rectory in Solz ; † December 7, 1884 in Melsungen ), a brother of the conservative Lutheran theologian August Vilmar and with him one of the leaders of the so-called renitents in Hesse , was in the years 1830 to 1850 pastor at the Jakobikirche.
literature
- Heinrich Nuhn : The Jakobikirche in Rotenburg . In: Barbara Händler-Lachmann (Ed.): Kulturgeschichte. Historical sites, monuments, forgotten places and museums in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district , Hessian Institute for Teacher Training Branch Bad Hersfeld, 1995, pp. 243–244. ISBN 3-9804841-0-6
Footnotes
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ Another brother, Ferdinand Vilmar (1811–1836), was rector of the city school in Rotenburg.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 41.46 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 38.54" E