Michaelskirche (Bensheim)

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The Michaelskirche in Bensheim (east side). On the left the apse.
The main portal on the west side (Darmstädter Straße)

The Protestant Michael Church in Bensheim on the mountain road is a 1863 finished and under monument protection standing cultural monument .

Planning and construction

Plans for the construction of the first Protestant church in Bensheim already existed in 1846. The then district architect Michael Mittermayer had made them. The construction of the church did not begin until the plans were revised in 1860. The plan was to have a cross-shaped central building with an octagon as a dome and a side church tower . During the construction of the church on October 14, 1860 the crossing vault collapsed. Fortunately, since that day fell on a Sunday, none of the construction workers were injured by the collapse.

Further construction was interrupted for 18 months. In the meantime, Mittermayer's successor, district builder Christian Horst, had fundamentally changed the plans. It was the first church building by Christian Horst, who was a student of Georg Moller and Heinrich Hübsch . Later he built the churches of Lampertheim , Biblis and Langen . Michaelskirche was inaugurated on November 10, 1863.

construction

The Michaelskirche is built in the late classicistic round arch style, which is based on the Karlsruhe building school . The construction is made of yellow sandstones with red sandstone structure. The church consists of a short nave with a flat gable roof . The semicircular apse is drawn in to the east. On the sides there are lower, short extensions, which are also provided with gable roofs. The four-storey tower on the northwest side has a square floor plan and has a pointed helmet .

organ

In 1965 the church received a new organ . It was built by Werner Bosch Orgelbau ( Kassel ) and expanded in 1998 by the Bensheim organ builder Andreas Ott. It has an electrical register and mechanical action mechanism.

I main work C – a 3
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Coupling flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI 2 ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – a 3
10. Wooden dacked 8th'
11. Hollow flute 4 ′
12. Principal 2 ′
13. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Zimbel III 1'
16. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
17th Wooden flute 8th'
18th Viol 8th'
19th Beat 8th'
20th Principal 4 ′
21st Reed flute 4 ′
22nd Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Forest flute 2 ′
24. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
25th Scharff IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Basson 16 ′
27. oboe 8th'
28. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Quint subset (32 ′) 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Sub-bass 16 ′
31. Principal bass 8th'
32. Gemshorn 8th'
33. Chorale bass 4 ′
34. Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. trombone 16 ′
36. Trumpet 8th'

The pews were replaced by chairs in 1974/75. A new peal of bronze was put into operation 1980th The old steel bells were placed in a green area near the main portal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Congregation , accessed November 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ Headlines from Bensheim on the 1175th anniversary of the "Bergsträßer Anzeiger" 2007. (PDF 8.61 MB) The dome of the church collapsed. (No longer available online.) P. 33 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: Ev. Michaelskirche , accessed May 16, 2008
  4. ↑ More information about the Bosch organ on the website of the parish

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Bensheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 6.3 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 19 ″  E