Martin Luther Church (Bad Schwalbach)

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Martin Luther Church

The Martin Luther Church in Bad Schwalbach is a Protestant church and has been named after Martin Luther since 1933 .

history

The building history of the church is not documented. It was probably built under Count Philipp von Katzenelnbogen the Elder . The presumed year of construction 1471 is carved over the choir door. The tower cross with lilies indicates that it was consecrated as St. Mary's Church. Before the church was built, Schwalbach belonged to the parish of Bärstadt , after which it became independent.

In 1527 Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous of Hesse - Schwalbach had meanwhile come to Landgraviate Hesse together with the County of Katzenelnbogen - introduced the Reformation . The church became Lutheran .

From 1729 a separate church was built for the Protestant Reformed denomination . With the merger of the Lutherans and the Reformed to form a united Evangelical regional church in Nassau in 1817, there were two Evangelical church buildings in Schwalbach. To distinguish the church from 1471 as the Lower Evangelical Church , the former Reformed Church as the Upper Evangelical Church . In 1933 the Lower Evangelical Church was given the current name Martin Luther Church.

Building description

The church is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Nave

building

The church is a single-nave hall church . Originally the entrance was through the tower gate from 1511. The nave was redesigned in 1826-29. The 5/8 end of the choir is created with buttresses and two-part tracery windows . It is spanned by a star vault, which is closed by two coat of arms keystones (Neu-Katzenelnbogen, alliance coat of arms of Alt-Katzenelnbogen with Württemberg).

Furnishing

Memorial monument to Johann Gottfried von Berlichingen

Next to the choir arch is a memorial for Johann Gottfried von Berlichingen (a grandson of von Götz von Berlichingen ), who died here in 1588. He is buried in Neunstetten . Next to it is the pulpit. The wall tabernacle is decorated with two coats of arms (lion, deer antlers), Saint Veronica with a handkerchief and two angels.

In the southern outer wall, seven grave slabs are set, epitaphs from

  • Rector of the University of Giessen , Professor Johann Gottfried Schupart , † 1736
  • Land captain Anna Wilhelmin née Arnim, † 1704
  • Hesse-Rheinfeld land captain and chief forester of Schwalbach, Antton Christoffel Wilhelmy, † 1719
  • Dr. theol. Paulus Crocius, † 1656
  • Mrs. Anna Katharina Ferberin née Hilchim, † 1730
  • Judge Jost Ferber, † 1716

The organ was manufactured by Stumm in 1846 and replaces an organ from 1770 by Johann Wilhelm Schöler , which was moved to the church in Heidenrod- Kemel .

Tower and bells

The 51-meter-high tower in the west is crowned with a pointed helmet and square corner turrets. There were originally three bells in it. Two of them were melted down during World War II . In 1951 two bells were added. The larger bell, tuned to F sharp, was a donation from an American woman , the smaller one from 1601 comes from the church in Kietzerow .

literature

  • Klare Kluge: 500 years of the Martin Luther Church . In: Heimatjahrbuch des Untertaunuskreis 1971, pp. 105–110.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Martin Luther Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Address: Adolfstrasse 145.
  2. ↑ Address: Adolfstraße 34.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Martin Luther Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '44.8 "  N , 8 ° 4' 36.4"  E