Martinskirche (Michelbach)
The Martinskirche is a Protestant church in the village center of Michelbach (City of Marburg).
location
The Martinskirche is located in the center of Michelbach in the Kirchgasse. The formerly independent community has been a district of the university town of Marburg since 1974 .
history
The Martinskirche was built around the year 1200 and is therefore the oldest church in the city of Marburg. It is dedicated to St. Martin of Tours . The noble family of Schencken zu Schweinsberg from the Old Hessen family has held the patronage of the church since the pre-Reformation period . At its current location, one suspects a spring sanctuary of the Celts, which was once surrounded by trees. The symbolism of the tree of life is still recognizable today in the vault paintings of the choir room. As the oldest church used spiritually, the Martinskirche had the baptismal privilege for the region on the right of the Lahn. The whereabouts of the old baptismal font is uncertain. In 1950, a new one was donated from the Michelbach quarry. The old brass baptismal font from 1642 is still preserved. There are traces of all ages in the church. From 1906 to 1910 there was a first thorough renovation. Among other things, the choir gallery was dismantled and a new organ was built on the west gallery. During this renovation, the original Romanesque paintings were exposed, which were carefully documented on this occasion. The second renovation took place between 1962 and 1965. Almost all of the Romanesque paintings were whitewashed in the process. Another interior renovation followed in 1987. During this renovation, the baroque pulpit with its Renaissance ornaments was restored to the original. As part of the village renewal program , which started in Michelbach in 1995, the masonry and the facade were renovated and the rooster on the top of the tower was newly gilded.
Architecture and equipment
It is a Romanesque hall church . A high, square tower rises above the choir, the top of which is adorned with a weathercock. The corner blocks of the outer walls are still exposed today. On the upper floor of the tower there are the typical Romanesque twin windows above slit windows. Chalice block capitals are set on their central columns.
The simple hall structure is divided into three unequally large bays. These make up the distance between the simple wall pillars. A round-arched panel is located above the pointed arch of the choir. The Romanesque groin vault defines the ceiling of the entire church. The ribs are repainted, the gussets decorated with tendril ornaments. Inside the church there are also various capitals, such as B. in the east cube capitals with shield and leaf ornament, in the north-west with mask.
When it was built, the church ceiling was covered with colorful paintings. Of the Romanesque frescoes whitewashed in 1965, the lion can still be seen on the ceiling above the pulpit as a symbol for the evangelist Mark. In 1987, the decision was made to paint the columns in dark red, as there is evidence that this color was used in the Gothic period. The two windows in the apse were made in 1910–13 and show (left) Christ as ruler of the world and (right) St. Martin on a horse, sharing his cloak for a beggar and the good shepherd.
organ
The organ was built in 1910 by the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . It has twelve registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedals, and an electric pocket drawer . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / I 16 ′, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations 2 ′, Organo Pleno, hand register off
opening hours
The Martinskirche is open on the weekends between Good Friday and Thanksgiving Day from Friday from 10 a.m. to Sunday at 5 p.m.
literature
- Felicitas Janson: Romanesque church buildings in the Rhine-Main area and in Upper Hesse - a contribution to Upper Rhine architecture. (= Series: sources and research on Hessian history 97 ). Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt and Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-88443-186-2 .
Web links
- Presence on michelbach.de ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ in Michelbach , accessed on August 12, 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 45.3 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 39" E