Parish Church of St. Margaretha (Hasselbach)

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Catholic parish church St. Margaretha
Catholic parish church St. Margaretha
place Hasselbach , Weilrod , Hochtaunuskreis , Hesse
religion Roman Catholic
Diocese Diocese of Limburg
Church building
design type Hall church
Construction year 1751-1752
builder Johann Martin Ulrich
Steeple West tower, approx. 36 m

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Margaretha is a listed church building in Hasselbach im Taunus ( Hochtaunuskreis ).

prehistory

A church in Hasselbach as a branch of Rod an der Weil has been mentioned in a document since 1317. In a document from 1486, St. Michael is named as the church patron. In 1545 Hasselbach received its own parish. The patronage rights came from Heinrich von Isenburg and Gerlach von Limburg via the Marienborn monastery (1279, 1289) to Nassau-Weilburg (1544). Church registers have been available since 1700.

History and architecture

On October 22nd, 1749 at 3 p.m. the dwelling behind the church caught fire due to the neglect of the very parched flax stored there . With the strong north-east wind blowing in the back alley and around the church, 33 houses, 21 barns with fruits, as well as the church with 3 altars, organ, all paraments, church box with the judicial letters stored in it, two bells fell , victim to a devastating fire. Construction began on May 11, 1751 at the old location: on a rock in the middle of the village. "Anno 1752 the 25th of June the tap was put on the Thurn, in this year the Thurn was also covered with Leyen , but the ship von der Kirch was covered in the previous year 1751", noted the pastor at the time Nicolaus Ternes in the Hasselbach church register. On July 13, 1752, the newly built church was blessed together with the three new bells in a solemn ceremony.

The opinion has long persisted in official writings and publications that the builder of the churches in Hasselbach and Haintchen was the architect Appel. But Ludwig Baron Döry names Johann Martin Ulrich (1697–1768) as the builder of the two churches. Johann Martin Ulrich was a builder and geometer ; from his father-in-law Forth he took over the Limburg cellar office for the von Hohenfeld family . His activity as a master builder is documented in addition to secular buildings for various monasteries and churches, such as that of the baroque church of Hasselbach.

The church is a baroque hall church facing from west to east , with a retracted choir, hollow vault and tower in the west. Four high arched windows in each long side give the room the necessary brightness to see details of the interior. In the long history of the church it had to be renovated and renovated again and again. Today the church shines again in the original color scheme. The original baroque furnishings have also been preserved over the years.

Furnishing

Choir room with high altar

The imposing two-story high altar dominates the entire rear wall of the choir. The figural furnishings come from the Hadamar school, which was well known at the time . The central altar painting shows the coronation and admission of the Mother of God into heaven. On a pile of clouds carried by angels you can see the "Queen of Heaven" sunk in prayer, who is crowned by God the Father and the risen Savior. A dove hovers above it as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. In the upper part of the high altar, Saint Margaretha , the patron saint of the church, is depicted with a cross staff, which she thrusts into the throat of the devil in the form of a dragon at her feet. The two side altars are also two-story like the high altar and are located where the choir widens to the nave. The right-hand cross altar shows the crucified Savior in a flat arch, his mother on the left and John on the right. The Mother of God altar on the left-hand side of the choir is a donation by Fraulein von Hohenfeld zu Hof Hausen from 1751. In the center of the main floor there is a crowned Madonna in a round arch niche. On the opposite side of the choir is the two-story west gallery. On the upper gallery, the baroque organ from around 1780, built by the workshop of the organ builder Stumm from Rhaunensulzbach , is built into the front part of the parapet.

organ

Mute baroque organ

The Stumm organ, built around 1780, is located on the upper of the two rear west galleries . As is often the case at this time, the entire organ is built into the parapet . The prospectus shows a high pipe tower in the middle, flat fields sloping outwards on both sides and laterally closing harp fields curved forward in the ground plan. At the top the prospectus ends with baroque curved shapes, at the bottom the protruding parts are richly decorated, the closing side parts show ornaments depicting wind instruments. The organ includes a manual and pedal with 17 registers and 1032 pipes .

tower

The parish church has a peculiarity: From a distance, the impression arises as if there is a fully extended bell tower in front of the nave. In reality, only the front wall and two thirds of the two side walls are made of solid masonry from the ground. The rear third of the side walls and the rear wall only begin halfway up the church roof and rest on wooden beams. As a result of this construction, the tower has leaned towards the nave over time, and not insignificantly. Measured from the top of the helmet to the bell tower, it was 65 cm out of plumb. But there was no danger of collapse. However, this inclination was a hindrance to the removal of the bells when their delivery was requested during World War I in 1917. The district authority in Usingen shared the concerns raised by the church council until the end of the war. So the bells were preserved. These fears were no longer sufficient in World War II . Despite objections from the pastor, mayor and district building office manager at an on-site meeting of an expert commission, the large and small bells were confiscated, transported away on May 8, 1942, and two concrete blocks were installed in their place, which should make full use of the tower. In the following years the upper third of the tower inclined more and more to the east, so that in 1949 the deviation from the vertical was almost 90 cm. Since it was feared that it would collapse, the timbers were renewed and lifted. Nevertheless, the top of the tower is still about 40 cm off the perpendicular.

Bells

There are no more records of the original bells from when the parish church was built. The Johannis bell was cast in 1826 by Ewald Schott from Eltville . In 1901 the parish bought two new bells from the Schilling bell foundry in Apolda , with a diameter of 96 cm and 62 cm. These two bells were confiscated for armaments purposes during World War II.

Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the parish church, in 1951, the civil parish was able to order two new bells from the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen near Bremen . Since the existing former "middle" bell has now become the brightest, a so-called "Te-Deum bell" has become (gbc). When the bell rang for the first time on July 7, 1951 at ½ 7 o'clock in the evening, people were standing on the street on the church steps and listening.

No. Surname Casting year Foundry,
casting location 		Nominal
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		Weight
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		inscription
1 Margarethen 1951 Karl (III) Otto ,

F. Otto,
Hemelingen

g 1 +8 700 1017 I praise God the Triune and One. St. Dedicated to Margarethe Jungfrau and Martyrin, the patroness of Hasselbach. Pope Pius XII Bishop Wilhelm Kempf. The Christian citizens gave me as a present in 1951. Mayor Philipp Später.
2 Marien 1951 b 1 +12 400 858 In honor of the Most Holy Mother of God Mary. I ring the angels of the Lord every day, always announcing you anew, near and far. The Lord is born of the Eternal Son. O live for him and win the crown. Pope Pius XII Bishop Wilhelm Kempf. The Christian citizens gave me as a present in 1951. Mayor Philipp Später.
3 John 1826 Schott
Eltville 		b 1 +9 230 751 Far Miller. U. (S) Chultheiss Maurer. All there. - In 1826 Ewald Schott von Eltville cast me.

Pastor

  • 1825–1830: Bernhard Müller
  • 1830–1831 Jakob Wagner (parish administrator)
  • 1831–1839: Johann Muth
  • 1839: Jakob Schunk (parish administrator)
  • 1839–1843: Johann Georg Lang
  • 1843–1863: Peter Weyer
  • 1863–1864: Georg Horn (parish administrator)
  • 1864–1885: Jakob Rosenbach
  • 1886–1903: Gustav Albertz
  • 1903–1906: Jakob Wagner
  • 1906–1909: Paul Becker
  • 1909–1930: Ludwig Schramm
  • 1930–1946: Josef Dinkel
  • 1946–1951: Adolf Ameke
  • 1951–1952: Alfons Arthen
  • 1952– at least 1956: Friedrich Morschheuser

Web links

Commons : Saint Margaret of Antioch Church (Hasselbach, Taunus)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Handbook of the Diocese of Limburg, 1956, pp. 75–76
  • Limburg Bell Book. Bells and chimes in the Diocese of Limburg, Foersch, Hubert, Limburg 1997.
  • Church leader Catholic parish church St. Margaretha Hasselbach / Ts., Wolfring Offsetdruck GmbH, Usingen 2002
  • 700 years of Hasselbach… a village tells a story, 1306–2006, Seltersdruck & Verlag
  • Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2012, Rüdiger Fluck: "About builders, masons and painters of the St. Nikolauskirche in Haintchen",

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Fluck: Yearbook 2012 Limburg-Weilburg district - About builders, masons and painters of the St. Nikolauskirche in Haintchen
  2. ↑ Berthold Menningen: 700 years of Hasselbach ... a village tells a story - Stumm organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Margaretha
  3. ^ Limburg Bell Book: Bells in the Diocese of Limburg - Parish Church of St. Margaretha in Weilrod-Hasselbach, page 921 u. 922
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 549 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 506 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 41.4 ″  E