Protestant Church (Heuchelheim near Frankenthal)
The Protestant Church of Heuchelheim is one of the oldest buildings in the Palatinate village of Heuchelheim near Frankenthal in the Rhein-Palatinate district .
history
The church was consecrated to St. Peter and Paul and belonged to the diocese of Worms ; according to the Worms Synodale of 1496 to the Landkapitel Dirmstein . As early as 1318, the parish record was incorporated into the Episcopal See of Worms. The house of God seems to go back to the Lorsch Monastery , which had early and extensive possessions in Heuchelheim. Due to an existing grave slab and spoil stonesThere must have been a Romanesque predecessor to today's church, which is dated to the 12th century; after a remnant of a window on today's back of the choir, it was possibly later Gothicised. For this old church, knight Jakob Schrimpf von Heuchelheim donated an eternal mass at the altar of Our Lady in 1322 . In 1420 Heinrich Kämmerer von Worms, mayor of Oppenheim and bailiff of the Landskron Castle there , had the altar of Our Lady rebuilt and also endowed a new benefice. He was the great grandfather of the later Bishop of Worms Johann III. from Dalberg . Heinrich Kämmerer von Worms owned the village and castle Heuchelheim in 1398 as a fiefdom. In 1417 it fell through the Palatinate to the Palatinate-Zweibrücken line , which gave the place as a fief to the Eckbrecht von Dürckheim family .
From 1532 at the latest, the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken joined the Reformation, which should also have made the Heuchelheim Church Protestant.
The medieval church was replaced by a new building in 1566, which Friedrich Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg had carried out. A coat of arms on the south side of the nave reminds of this. He was the grandson of the Palatine court marshal Wolf von Dalberg , the nephew of the aforementioned Worms Bishop Johann von Dalberg and the father of the Archbishop of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg . This inscription is evidence that the Heuchelheim church patronage at that time was apparently still with the Dalbergers , who - although Catholic themselves - had the Protestant church rebuilt as patron saints, as was the case, for example, with the Peterskirche in Sausenheim . In 1605 the noble local mistress Agatha von Helmstatt, born in Eckbrecht von Dürkheim is buried, of which a splendid coat of arms epitaph has been preserved.
In 1738 this second church was rebuilt and enlarged, as it still exists today. Since 1818 it has been subordinate to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate , the parish seat is in Großniedesheim .
Building stock
The church is located in the northeastern area of the village on the road to Großniedesheim, is easted with the choir and still contains essential parts of the previous building. It is a simple plastered building with a three-sided choir closure. The nave has three window axes with baroque arched windows. The corners on the west side of the nave consist of large corner blocks and come from the previous church. You can clearly see there that the nave was raised in 1738. The choir is slightly drawn in and at the transition to the nave on its south side the lower corner cuboid of the previous building can also be seen. There is an added Gothic tracery window in the east wall of the choir . The core of the choir also has the old masonry, possibly even from the first church. During the baroque renovation in the 18th century, the tower was built on the west side of the nave in the middle, which has a round-arched entrance portal through which the church can be entered. It bears the year 1738 in the apex. The tower consists of three floors and also has corner cubes that are visible on the west side. In the upper west window of the tower, a Romanesque ornament was a windowsill fries the old church built, which dates from the 12th century. On the south side of the nave is a stone with the Dalberg coat of arms, which bears the inscription: "Friedrich Kemerer von Worms called von Dalberg builds me Ano 1566." It is the building inscription of the second church. Below that on the outer wall is a Romanesque grave slab with illegible capitals and a large ribbon cross. It comes from the original church and is attributed to the 12th century.
The interior is furnished in a baroque style, with a pulpit, gallery and original benches. There are two high quality early baroque paintings, one of the Last Supper and one with the Holy Family . In the passage of the tower to the nave is the epitaph of the coat of arms of Agatha von Helmstatt born. Eckbrecht von Dürkheim († 1605).
There used to be a cemetery around the church, today a green area with an ornamental fountain.
South side of the nave with corner blocks at the transition to the choir
Northwest corner of the nave, corner cuboid with bricked elevation
South-west corner of the nave, corner cuboid with bricked elevation
Main portal, 1738
Gothic window fragment on the choir
Tower window with Romanesque spoil
Epitaph Agatha von Helmstatt, 1605
Detail from the Helmstatt epitaph
Baroque painting, Holy Family
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation: The Art Monuments of Bavaria. Administrative district Pfalz, VIII. City and district Frankenthal. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1939, pp. 289-292
- Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district. Volume 2, pp. 255–257, FC Neidhard, Speyer 1836, (digital scan)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genealogical website about the person ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Genealogical website about the person ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 50.3 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 32.2" E