Nunkirche (Sargenroth)
The Protestant Nunkirche ( Nuwe Church , new church) is a Romanesque pilgrimage church and one of the distinctive landmarks of the Hunsrück heights.
geography
The Nunkirche is located on a hill between the Simmerbachtal and the Soonwald directly on the outskirts of Sargenroth . Directly to the east, the Rochusfeld overgrown with orchids and the Bismarck Tower border the Nunkirche.
history
The original church was built around the turn of the millennium by order of Archbishop Willigis from Mainz, in order to manifest the Mainz claims in the area of the Hunsrück towards the Trier electors . The first mention is found in 1072 as a private church of Gaugrafengeschlechts the Bertholde.
The Nunkirche is considered the mother church of the nearby Ravengiersburg monastery . In the Middle Ages under the stars found hundred dishes ( Hundgedinge ) instead, the church itself became the Sanctuary with a Rochus - patron saint . Already in the Middle Ages it received the status of a parish church.
With the Reformation of July 16, 1557, the Lutheran, and finally in 1598 the Reformed worship was introduced. In 1626 the Counter-Reformation drove out the evangelical pastor. It was not until 1688 that Y. Kirchhoffer was found to be a Protestant pastor again. However, in the context of the Orléans Wars , the Catholics achieved the introduction of a Simultaneum . Only since 1706 has the church continuously been the parish church of the Sargenroth parish belonging to the evangelical parish of Simmern-Trarbach .
The 12-register organ was made in 1886 by the Stumm family of organ builders from Hunsrück .
The traditional Nunkircher market ( Ungerischer Maard ) takes place on the first Tuesday and Wednesday in September on the Rochusfeld, which is overgrown with rare orchids between Nunkirche and Bismarck Tower . The annual Gauberg Festival of the Turngau Hunsrück is held on the Sunday before the market . The market still taking place today is considered the oldest fair in the Hunsrück.
construction
The Romanesque choir tower is laid out on two floors. The ground floor used to be the church's choir. Window openings on the ground floor are already Gothic . In 1896 frescoes from the 13th and 14th centuries were discovered on the ground floor and in 1935 in the choir arch . The earliest fresco shows Christ enthroned in the vault. The other paintings depict the Last Judgment with the blessed and the damned. A sandstone-carved water basin from the Romanesque period is located in the south wall of the tower floor. During renovations, a clay slab floor was exposed, which shows signs and images.
The church was damaged in the Orléans wars. It was rebuilt from 1745. The 20.9 m × 9 m long nave and the vestibule date from the Baroque period , while two capitals on the vestibule are from the Romanesque period. The pulpit on the front wall of the nave was made in the 18th century. The gallery on the opposite side was given its current size in 1898/1899.
Tilmann von Hachenburg cast at least one bell for the Nunkirche in 1460. She was one of the two who were carried away by French soldiers in an attack on St. Goar in 1693. When in 1840 a bell at the mourning peal for the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. shattered, it was poured over. In 1917, the bells were finally melted down for war purposes. Since 1924 the bell has consisted of three steel bells cast by the Bochumer Verein .
literature
- Dieter Diether: The houses of worship in the Evangelical Church District Simmern-Trarbach ; Kirchberg (Hunsrück): Simmern-Trarbach church district, 1998; P. 106f
Web links
- Hans H. Stassen: The Nunkirche in the Hunsrück. In: maasberg.ch.
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 4.1 ″ E