Martinskirche (Waldlaubersheim)

The Martinskirche

The Martinskirche is a Protestant parish and motorway church in Waldlaubersheim in the Bad Kreuznach district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). It belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

history

Martinskirche was built around 1190 as a fortified church; the Romanesque choir tower with the choir yoke in the tower basement with adjoining semicircular apse still dates from this time . Around 1500 the tower received its late Gothic helmet with four slender corner turrets and mesh-vaulted extensions on both sides. In 1862/63 the three-aisled nave of the Romanesque church had to be put down due to dilapidation and was rebuilt with the choir apse as a simple hall church while retaining the tower. As a result of the new building, the choir tower was lowered. This had to be removed in 1963. It was then reconstructed in the old forms.

Since 1991 the Martinskirche has also been a motorway church.

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built by the organ builder Johann Michael Stumm (Rhaunen-Sulzbach), probably in 1742. The original instrument had 12  registers on a manual with an attached pedal , without its own register. When the nave and apse were rebuilt in the years 1862–1863 , the organ was revised by the organ builder Johann Schlaad, whereby three registers were removed and two pedal registers were added. In 1929 the Oberlinger organ building company replaced the prospectus pipes delivered for war purposes in 1917 and equipped the instrument with an electrically powered magazine bellows . Between 1986 and 1987, the Oberlinger organ building company restored the instrument and returned the manual to its original condition from 1742. The addition of a pedal unit remained unaffected.

Manuals C, D – c 3 Principal 8th' Big Dacked (B / D) 16 ′ Hollow pipe 8th' Violdigamb 8th'

(Continuation) Octav 4 ′ Flute 4 ′ Salicional 4 ′ Quint 3 ′

(Continuation) Super octave 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Mixture IV 1' Trumpet (B / D) 8th'

Pedal C, D – c 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Octavbass 8th'

• Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 1986 reconstructed register that was removed by Schlaad in 1862/1863.
2. ↑ In 1986 the 4th principal choir, which was removed from Schlaad in 1862/1863, was reconstructed.

literature

• Georg Dehio: Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry at autobahnkirche.info ( memento of the original from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (current link used March 9, 2016) 
2. ↑ More information about the organ (PDF; 399 kB)

Web links

Commons : Martinskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '43.6 "  N , 7 ° 50' 0.4"  E