Madonna (Dirmstein)

The baroque Madonna statuette in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein is installed in the building of the Hotel-Restaurant-Café Kempf. It dates from the time the local Laurentius Church was built and is a listed building .

location

Café Kempf is located in the historic town center on Marktstrasse opposite Sturmfeder Castle and the St. Michael pharmacy . In the latest in 1850, built several times rebuilt in the following years and 2003/04 visually to the surrounding conservation area harmonized building cafes Kempf was 1895 Eux stick born, the town of Dirmstein 1976, the honorary citizenship bestowed.

history

Replica of the Madonna at the St. Michael Pharmacy

In the front guest room, a listed baroque Madonna figure was installed on a stone plinth at a height of about 1.50 m in a kind of Herrgottswinkel . The statuette, carved out of sandstone , was made in the 18th century and shows the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus in her arms. Originally, the figure did not belong to Café Kempf, but was placed in a shell niche at the corner of the St. Michael pharmacy opposite; there is now a replica carved from wood. The original, which comes from the construction phase of the nearby Laurentiuskirche (1742–46), was acquired after the Second World War , probably in the 1960s, by Luitpold Kempf, the then owner of the café, and integrated into the dining room.

literature

• Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate (see  literature )