Seebach Monastery Church

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St. Laurentius Monastery Church

Seebach Monastery Church, Bad Dürkheim

Basic data
Denomination Protestant
place Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Patronage Lawrence of Rome
Building history
start of building around 1200
Building description
Architectural style Romanesque
Construction type Transept, crossing tower, nave
Coordinates 49 ° 27 '3.1 "  N , 8 ° 9' 28"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '3.1 "  N , 8 ° 9' 28"  E
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Stylized representation of the church on the Seebach local coat of arms

The Protestant monastery church of St. Laurentius in Seebach in the Bad Dürkheim district , Rhineland-Palatinate , is a Romanesque building in the Palatinate .

history

It is the convent church of the Benedictine monastery Seebach , which was first mentioned in a document in 1136 and was founded by Knight Siegfried von Seebach and was built around 1200 as a three-aisled, Romanesque pillar basilica with a flat ceiling, which was consecrated to St. Laurentius . In 1210 the monastery was elevated to an abbey . During the siege of Dürkheim by Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz , the nave was badly damaged in 1471 and rebuilt in Gothic style from 1482 to 1488. Around 1500 the convent experienced its last heyday under the educated abbess Richmunde von der Horst († 1520). In 1591, after the introduction of the Reformation , the monastery was abolished. The cloister remained there. This is how the associated village of Seebach, now a district of Bad Dürkheim, came into being .

After 1609 the choir and crossing were separated from the dilapidated transepts and nave by partition walls. The remaining church was used for worship by the small Reformed community. The nave and transepts fell into disrepair; the population used them as a quarry. In 1870–1887 the building was renovated inside and out, and a gallery made of white sandstone was built inside. In 1965 a sacristy was added to the southern choir wall.

The church became the landmark of the Seebach community and is part of the town's coat of arms.

Today's building stock

Spring system under the east wall of the north transept

The Romanesque crossing with the distinctive octagonal crossing tower and the flat concluding choir have been preserved from the historic monastery church, with a Latin cross plan . The outer walls of the choir show a similar style to the eastern parts of the Worms Cathedral . But pilaster strips , arched friezes and the windows with stepped walls have developed a characteristic peculiarity, to which not least the harmony of the ashlar masonry contributes. The vaults of the choir and crossing are Gothic renewed. Pillars and corner services have upholstered capitals . Today's main entrance is on the west side, at the transition from the crossing to the nave; the latter has completely disappeared.

At the side of the crossing are the ruins of the former transepts, of which the northern one still has a facade with a round arch frieze and a Romanesque west portal. In the north wall it has a smaller arched door with a Romanesque tympanum . The ruins of the north transept now serve as a columbarium . The best known person buried there is the former district administrator Sabine Röhl (1957–2012). Two remains of medieval grave slabs are set into the walls and various spoil stones were placed as ornaments. In the ruins of the south transept there are memorial plaques for the dead of both world wars.

Under the north transept a contained spring emerges to the east .

  • Monastery church from the west

  • Today's main entrance on the west side

  • Close up choir

  • Interior shot of the choir

  • Interior, grave slab, 1557

  • West facade north transept (columbarium)

  • Columbarium in the ruins of the north transept

  • North entrance of the north transept (today's columbarium)

  • West facade, south transept

  • Ruin of the south transept (war memorial)

literature

Web links

Commons : Klosterkirche Seebach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Schäfer: Oberrheinische Studien , Volume III (Festschrift for Günther Haselier), Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 177 u. 178, ISBN 3662246120 ; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ PDF document on the Seebach Columbarium