Assumption of Mary (Hallgarten)

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Assumption of Mary in Hallgarten

The Church of the Assumption of Mary is a Catholic, former parish church in Hallgarten in the Rheingau that was built in the 12th century . In 1345 the patronage of the Assumption was mentioned for the first time. Today the church is a branch church of the parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau, a new type of parish. Since 2015 St. Peter and Paul in Eltville is also the parish church of Hallgarten.

history

In the 12th century, a Romanesque predecessor of today's church was built in Hallgarten , from which the square tower and the northern nave wall have been preserved. The sacrament niche and the ribbed Gothic choir with a 5/8 end with tracery windows date from the 14th century. At this time the tower also got its Gothic dome.

In 1733 the nave was extended to the south to form a baroque hall church with mirror vaults , and in 1895 the church was extended to the west. 1/3 of the interior was spanned with a neo-Gothic cast iron gallery. A new sacristy and a porch were added 1,962th The glass paintings of the three choir windows were made in the same year according to a design by G. Stein from Mainz.

Furnishing

Hallgarten Madonna
  • Black marble baptismal font with a carved wooden lid, marked 1688
  • Oak choir stalls from 1725 (signed 1726), confessional on the south wall and the gentlemen's stalls under the gallery, all created by Martin Hell (Martinus Höll).
  • Wooden offering box with the year 1525 with Hallgarten coat of arms
  • Our Lady with a wood-carved group of 14 helpers in need . Largest part of the group from 1718, signed by Martin Biterich . Two figures (St. Aegidius and St. Rochus) were newly made. The final crucifix is ​​from 1700.
  • in the churchyard remains of a crucifixion group made of tufa from the early 16th century. The three remaining figures come from the environment of the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen .

"Madonna with the Shard", "Schröter Muttergottes" or "Schöne Hallgartenerin"

The figure of the Hallgarten Madonna was created around 1415, also known as the “Madonna with the Shard” because of a little wine jug (dialect “shard”) in her right hand. Venerated as the patron saint of the Weinschröter , who may also have been the founder of the figure, she is often called the "Schröter Mother of God". The Madonna, crowned with vine leaves, carries the baby Jesus with grapes and grape leaves on her left arm. It rests on an upwardly curved crescent moon with a human face. The flowing folds of her belted robe emerge from under her wide-open coat. The crown and grape as well as the right hand with the mug were added later. The delicate clay sculpture is one of the most important creations of the Soft Style on the Middle Rhine , whose Madonna figures have gone down in art history as "Beautiful Madonnas". The baroque frame that surrounds the Madonna today dates from the beginning of the 18th century.

A figure created from the same model as the Hallgarten Madonna can be found today in the Louvre in Paris . It was a long time erroneously called - until 1908, the art historian "Belle Alsacienne Beautiful Alsatian" Wilhelm Vöge the Kloster Eberbach has identified as its true origin. From there it was brought to Paris in the 17th century during the predatory wars of Louis XIV .

The "Schöne Dromersheimerin" (created around 1420), which was probably destroyed in a bunker in the Berlin Kaiser Friedrich Museum in 1945, and the figures of St. Barbara and St. Catherine in the St. Martin Basilica in Bingen also come from the same workshop in the Middle Rhine region.

The Leonhardskirche in Frankfurt has a copy of the Hallgarten Madonna from the end of the 19th century.

Replicas of the Hallgarten Madonna from the workshop of the sculptor Adam Winter from Mainz-Kastel are also in the parish church of St. Laurentius, the so-called "Spessart Cathedral", in Sommerau and in the parish church of St. Josef in Neu-Isenburg . Another copy of Winter can be found in the Brömserburg Museum in Rüdesheim am Rhein .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://peterundpaul-rheingau.de/beitrag/pfarrei-st-peter-und-paul-rheingau/
  2. ↑ Werner Schäfke: The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne , DuMont Kunstverlag, Cologne 1999, p. 288.
  3. ↑ Paul Claus: Images of the Virgin Mary in the Rheingau , Georg August Walter's Druckerei & Verlag GmbH, Eltville im Rheingau 1995, ISBN 978-3921865064 , p. 31.
  4. ↑ Josef Roßkopf: "The beautiful Hallgarten girl" - A clay sculpture from the Middle Rhine , United Winzergenossenschaft 1991, special edition, p. 9.
  5. ↑ The beautiful woman from Dromersheim , parish of St. Peter and Paul, Bingen-Dromersheim
  6. ↑ The basilica of Sankt Martin zu Bingen (PDF; 1.5 MB) Franz Josef Spang, bulletin on Rheinhessische Landeskunde, year 1959, issue 3, p. 186. On: Regionalgeschichte.net
  7. ^ Paul Claus: Sculptors and their work in the Rheingau. Episode 3: Adam Winter - Mainz-Kastel - 1903–1978 . In: Rheingau-Forum 4/2006, ISSN 0942-4474

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '38 "  N , 8 ° 1' 51.7"  E