Protestant Church (Friedelsheim)

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Protestant parish church

Protestant Church Friedelsheim from the southeast

Basic data
Denomination Protestant
place Friedelsheim, Germany
Building history
construction time 1074-1826
Building description
Architectural style Gothic
Furnishing style Erbärmdebild, baptismal bowl
Construction type Hall construction
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '44.4 "  N , 8 ° 13' 18.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '44.4 "  N , 8 ° 13' 18.5"  E
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The Protestant Church is the oldest building in the Palatinate village of Friedelsheim in the Bad Dürkheim district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).

history

The village is first mentioned in a document in 770 in the Lorsch Codex . The first verifiable mention of the church took place in 1116 after the noblewoman Richenza (or Richezza) had given her church to the bishop of Speyer , who ceded the patronage to the Limburg monastery . The identity of the donor is still unclear, some local historians see in her the Empress Richenza von Northeim , who lived at the time in question. The church was dedicated to St. Mary . The Reformation was introduced in Friedelsheim at the latest in 1577 and the interior of the church was redesigned in a Calvinist manner, with valuable paintings being whitewashed. In 1771 the local ruler, Countess Elisabeth Dorothea von Wiser, née. von Degenfeld-Schomberg, daughter of General Christoph Martin von Degenfeld-Schomberg and great-granddaughter of Elector Karl I. Ludwig von der Pfalz . As a benefactress of the community, she was buried in a crypt under the choir. In 1826 the Gothic nave was widened to the north and south.

Building stock

The church is east and stands at the highest point of the village. South of the choir, in the corner of the ship , is the three-story church tower as the oldest preserved part of the building. Its two lower floors are still Romanesque , the top floor with a pointed spire dates from the 18th century. In it hang u. a. two of the oldest Palatine bells from around 1430.

The church itself is Gothic . The retracted choir has a five-eighth end with external buttresses and four large, narrow, pointed arched windows.

Medieval soil image, 14th century

There is a wide, pointed arched choir arch facing the nave . To the south of the chancel arch, on the front wall of the ship, there is a "Erbärmdebild" (image of the suffering Christ) that dates back to the 14th century, was whitewashed and rediscovered in 1935. The almost 700 year old, original colors have a considerable luminosity and the work of art is one of the special sights of Friedelsheim today. The originally Gothic nave still has the old pointed arch entrance on the west side, but was widened to the north and south in 1826. A new, classicistic portal was created on the north side of the nave and windows were made from separate round-arched upper and rectangular lower parts. The areas in between are walled up, as a circumferential gallery was built inside at their height. The nave has a coffered flat ceiling and has several grave slabs from the 16th and 17th centuries embedded in the walls. Special treasures are a silver baptismal jug and a baptismal bowl with a dedication by the aforementioned Countess Elisabeth Dorothea von Wiser. Today you can see them in an openwork metal shrine mounted on a sandstone stele. This modern "font" is the work of the Palatinate artist Gernot Rumpf .

There is a green area around the church that used to be a cemetery. A found stone coffin is attached to the outer church wall. To the east of it is the so-called Kirchenwingert, a vineyard that has been part of the church estate since ancient times.

literature

  • Helmut Meinhardt: The church district Bad Dürkheim. Evangelischer Presseverlag Pfalz GmbH, Speyer 2002, ISBN 3-925536-85-X , p. 34 u. 35.
  • Wilhelm Henning Spindler: The Evangelical (Protestant) Church in Friedelsheim. Protestant parish Friedelsheim, 1986.

  • The church from the west

  • Choir of the church

  • The church from the northeast

  • The church from the southwest

  • Interior with choir arch and herbal image

  • Gothic west portal

  • Classicist north portal

  • Stone coffin on the outer wall

  • Baptismal decoration of the Countess von Wiser, 1770

  • Baptismal bowl of the Countess von Wiser, dedication inscription

Web links

Commons : Protestant Church Friedelsheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedelsheim Chronicle. In: friedelsheim.de. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Website on the historic bells of Friedelsheim
  3. ↑ Website on the medieval image of Christ in the Friedelsheim church