Mennonite Church Ibersheim

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The Mennonite Church in Worms-Ibersheim

The Mennonite Church Ibersheim was built in 1836 in the classical style. Like other Mennonite churches, it was designed as a sermon church with a central pulpit.

building

Rare: a tower on a Mennonite church

Today it is the only Mennonite church in southern Germany that has a church tower and church bells . However, the church bells were not consecrated until 1866. The church tower consists of a square roof turret. The church building is kept relatively simple. The two long sides are defined by two large arched windows . In the eastern part of the church there are two rooms on top of each other, which are now used as youth and community rooms, but previously also provided space for the town hall and a kindergarten. The organ dates from 1822 and thus from the previous church in the same place. The original church stalls are from 1836.

The building is a listed building .

Before the church was erected, the services of the Mennonite congregation took place in the Schäfer courtyard. There in today's living room, formerly called Sälchen, there is a six-pointed star with split tips in the middle of the ceiling, which is considered a Mennonite star. The historic stucco ceiling, like the entire building, should have been built in 1717 (in the Baroque era).

local community

The first Mennonites were settled in the Electoral Palatinate immediately after the Thirty Years' War in order to rebuild the devastated land as tenants. The first settler in Ibersheim in Rhineland-Hesse (then still called Ibersheimer Hof) was Heinrich von Mauderich. The first Mennonite community in Ibersheim consisted of Swiss Anabaptists who were expelled from the Zurich area and later from the area around Bern .

The theological and historical development of the Anabaptists / Mennonites is the task of the Mennonite History Association with the collection of documents. In addition, two lineages of an Ibersheim family are known: Weber - Ritscher and Hagmann / Hackmann - Ritscher. On a map of the diocese of Worms from 1752 the place was marked as an Anabaptist farm.

Today the community of Worms-Ibersheim consists of around 120 members, some of whom also live outside the city of Worms. The congregation sees itself as an ecumenical congregation and from the 19th century until 2009 shared a pastoral position with the neighboring Mennonite congregations in Ludwigshafen and Frankenthal-Eppstein. It belongs to the working group of Southwest German Mennonite Congregations within the working group of Mennonite Congregations in Germany . The Mennonite Church in the center of Ibersheim is now also used by the community of the Protestant regional church.

Elders, preachers, pastors, pastors

  • Daniel Stauffer 1739 – around 1768
  • Jacob Wels
  • Jacob Hiestand
  • Heinrich Seitz
  • Heinrich Stauffer
  • Jacob Muller
  • Daniel Stauffer
  • Daniel Hirschler
  • Heinrich Christoph
  • Johann Stauffer
  • Daniel Stauffer
  • Bernhard Thiessen 1843–1855
  • Heinrich Neufeld 1856–1869
  • Jakob Ellenberger II. 1869–1871
  • Hinrich van der Smissen 1872–1882
  • Thomas Löwenberg 1883–1917
  • Emil Händiges 1917–1923
  • Erich Göttner 1923–1927
  • Abraham Braun 1928–1953
  • Daniel Habegger 1953–1986
  • Andreas Kohrn 2010–

literature

  • Mennonite community Ibersheim (ed.): 325 years Mennonite community Ibersheim 1661–1986. 150 years of the Mennonite Church in Ibersheim 1836 - 1986. The history of the Mennonite community in Ibersheim. 2., unchanged. Edition. 2004. (1st edition 1986, OCLC 16014317 )
  • Mennonite Lexicon . Volume II, Weierhof 1937, pp. 397-400.
  • Alexander Prior: Anabaptists and Mennonites in the Worms area . In: Alexander Ludwig Maria Mushake (Red.): Worms district. Monograph of a Landscape . Mushake, Trautheim on Darmstadt 1963, pp. 44–47.
  • Hans Ulrich Pfister: The emigration of the Zurich Anabaptists in the middle of the 17th century . In: Die Zürcher Täufer 1525–1700 , Zürich 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2 , pp. 247-276.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments: Kreisfrei Stadt Worms, p. 18. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Rhineland-Palatinate, General Directorate for Cultural Heritage, accessed on September 28, 2012 .
  2. ↑ https://www.worms.de/de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/wektiven-sie-es/liste/2013-01_Hof_Schaefer_Ibersheim.php
  3. ↑ https://www.worms.de/de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/wuchten-sie-es/liste/2012-05_ibersheim-raubritter-mauderich.php
  4. ↑ http://www.e-ritscher.de/downloads/stammführung-weber-ritscher.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.e-ritscher.de/downloads/stammführung-hagmann.pdf
  6. ^ Homann heirs in Nuremberg: Territorium Seculare Episcopatus Wormatiensis Tabula Geographica delineatum, cui accedit Praefectura Palatinatus Alzey, 1752
  7. ↑ http://www.mennlex.de/doku.php?id=loc:arbeitsgemeinschaft_suedwestdeutscher_mennonitengemeinden
  8. ↑ http://www.gameo.org/index.php?title=Ibersheim_(Rheinland-Pfalz,_Germany)

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '15.8 "  N , 8 ° 24' 2.5"  E