Peterskirche (Sausenheim)

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Protestant parish church

Peterskirche Sausenheim

Basic data
Denomination Protestant
place Grünstadt, Germany
Building history
Client Diocese of Worms
construction time 1725-1726
Building description
Architectural style Baroque, Gothic
Construction type Hall construction
Coordinates 49 ° 32 '49.6 "  N , 8 ° 9' 24.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '49.6 "  N , 8 ° 9' 24.5"  E
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Church from the northeast, with buttresses on the nave
Choir from inside (chancel and organ gallery)

The Peterskirche is the Protestant parish church in the Palatinate village of Sausenheim (a district of Grünstadt ) in the Bad Dürkheim district .

history

The church was consecrated to the apostle Peter and, according to an inscription plaque installed by the city of Grünstadt, was founded around 800 by the Weißenburg monastery . It is first mentioned in a document in 1253. It belonged to the diocese of Worms , Landkapitel Neuleiningen . In the Worms Synodal of 1496, besides the main altar of St. Peter, a side altar of St. Ottilia is mentioned. The patronage lay with the Worms cathedral chapter . In the middle of the 16th century, the Counts of Leiningen introduced the Lutheran faith and the church became a Lutheran parish church. In a letter from Count Georg Hermann von Leiningen-Westerburg to the cathedral chapter of Worms, he describes the old building as "extremely dilapidated" , which is why the current church was built in 1725/26, which the diocese of Worms, as the old patronage, had to finance. The Wormer cathedral vicar , official cellar and storage master Martin Augsthaler († 1749) - who also donated the high altar in Sausenheim's St. Stephen's Church in 1728 - laid the foundation stone on April 21, 1725. In 1836 a free-standing church tower was built east of the building.

Building stock

The church is located in the south-western area of ​​the village (Kirchgasse 11), is easted with the choir and is probably on the foundation walls of the previous building, of which the masonry was apparently also integrated. It is a simple plastered building with a three-sided choir closure. It has baroque arched windows with house framing. On the north side, the nave has three massive, unadorned buttresses . The main portal on the west side is arched with a basket, with framed pilasters and a crown stone. Above it sits a transverse oval window and the year "1725" in large metal digits.

Inside the church has a barrel vault made of wooden boards, which rests on a stone cornice and is designed as a starry sky. The interior furnishings from 1726 have largely been preserved true to the original. The dominant colors are white and gold. To the east is the altar in the choir, over which an organ gallery spans. The organ front is decorated in baroque style and provided with figures. The west gallery has 12 high-quality oil paintings of the apostles on its parapet , created by a hitherto unknown painter around 1725. The most valuable piece of furniture is an octagonal Gothic font from the Worms school, of outstanding quality. Four lions sit at the foot and the basin is decorated all around with scrollwork and figures of saints. It is dated around 1510 and, according to uncertain records, is said to come from the monastery church in Höningen . In fact, it is an extraordinary piece that should not have been created for a simple village church.

To the east of the choir stands the neo-Gothic bell tower from 1836, made of red exposed sandstone. Around the church is the old cemetery in which there are still various grave slabs and tombstones from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

  • Peterskirche Sausenheim, from the west

  • Choir from the east

  • Organ loft

  • West gallery with baroque images of the apostles

  • Images of the apostles on the west gallery

  • Pictures of the apostles, west gallery

  • Gothic font

  • Baptismal font

  • Baroque tombstones by the church

  • Grave slab, Adam Fischer, Neuleiningen, 1594

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation: The Art Monuments of Bavaria. Administrative district Pfalz, VIII. City and district Frankenthal. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1939, pp. 460-464.
  • Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district. Volume 2, p. 383 and 384, FC Neidhard, Speyer 1836, (digital scan) .
  • Hans Caspary: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland , Volume 8 of: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1984, p. 934, (detail scan) .

Web links

Commons : Peterskirche (Sausenheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Schmitt: The Catholic Church of St. Stephanus Sausenheim , Sommer Verlag, Grünstadt, 1999, p. 21