Assumption of Mary (Zella / Rhön)
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The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a baroque hall church in the Zella / Rhön district of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It belongs to the parish of the Assumption of Mary Zella in the diocese of Fulda .
History and architecture
The exposed baroque hall church, not facing east, is made of red sandstone with a memorable facade. After the previous church of the monastery was destroyed by fire in 1669, the uniform new building was built from 1715 to 1732 according to a design by Andrea Gallasini , who also designed the churches in Schleid , Dermbach and Bremen . The church was restored in 1966/1967. The splendid, two-storey east facade with pilasters , which is designed with Tuscan capitals at the bottom and shed capitals at the top, is characteristic. The gable storey is provided with an attic , a cornice extends around the whole church. A blasted gable and volute sides accentuate the façade, which is sculpted with the protruding trapezoidal central section and a lively floor plan. The main portal bears the coat of arms of Prince Abbot Adolph von Dalberg . The figures of Saints Benedict , Sturmius , Bonifatius and Bishop Valentin stand in niches on the slopes . In the gable there is a relief depicting the Assumption of Mary, the cornice continues on the roof tower with a slate-covered onion dome. The nave shows a structure with a circumferential base, cornice and flat window niches, the drawn-in, three-sided closing choir with corner pilasters.
The inside is a pilasted church, which is closed with a barrel vault with stitch caps ; Pilasters with entablature and belt arches are placed in front of the pillars. The architrave is continued in the deep, grooved window niches. The choir wall is provided with hollows, the choir arch bears a stucco coat of arms of the Prince Abbot of Dalberg with the year 1732. The choir is accentuated by a front yoke with four placed stucco marble columns. The free-standing pair of pillars with pilasters behind it carries another choir arch with a stucco marble cartridge. This gives the choir rhythm and directs the viewer's gaze to the high altar. In the choir there are grooved window niches and pilasters with pieces of entablature, the cornice of which continues over the niches. All pilasters and columns are provided with capitals in a modification of the Ionic order and flower hangings.
Furnishing
The high altar is made of stucco marble with four staggered columns and a white volute canopy . Adolph von Dalberg's coat of arms is attached to the entablature. In the middle there is a crucifix, in the altar extract the Assumption of Mary is depicted. Saints Louis of France and Catherine are depicted above the passageways. In the niches on the choir arch, smaller columned altars with putti on the entablature are set up. The altarpieces with depictions of Saints Boniface and Valentin were painted by Emanuel Wohlhaupter . The stucco marble pulpit bears the coat of arms of provost Wolfgang von Harstall (1729–1739). The organ gallery was built under Provost Wolfgang von Blittersdorf (1761–1772). The seating is decorated with the coat of arms of the Prince Abbot von Dalberg. A wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ from around 1500 has been preserved, as well as a depiction of St. Christopher .
The organ in a prospectus from 1715 from the Thalbürgel monastery church is a work by Otto Reinhold Markert from 1912 with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 1415-1416.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 23.9 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 33 ″ E