Protestant Church (Obersülzen)
 The church from the south |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| place | Obersülzen, Germany |
| Building history | |
| start of building | early 13th century |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Romanesque, baroque |
| Construction type | Saalbau, quarry stone tower |
| 49 ° 34 '4.9 " N , 8 ° 12' 49.4" E | |
The Protestant Church is the oldest building in the Palatinate village of Obersülzen ( Verbandsgemeinde Leiningerland ) and is located on the eastern edge of the village.
history
It is assumed that Obersülzen was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex , 767 or in the Liber Possessionum of Weissenburg Abbey , 773. Further evidence from this period is also available, although due to the imprecise spelling of all early mentions it is not entirely clear whether it is Obersülzen, Hohen-Sülzen or Sulzheim , all of which are close together. The Weißenburg entries are most likely to relate to Obersülzen. A church was not named.
In 1141 the Bishop of Worms Burchard II confirmed his possession in Sulcze to the Nonnenmünster monastery , including six courtyards and the patronage or tithe right to the parish church (without name). The rights are said to date back to 1025. These are almost certainly upper aspirates.
In the 8th century no church at all and in 1141 no name of the church that already existed at that time is mentioned. The historian Johann Friedrich Schannat (1683–1739) speaks for the first time in his diocese history of Worms about an alleged church of St. Mauritius in Obersülzen, which Johann Goswin Widder 1787, in his work "Attempt at a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral Palatinate on the Rhine" ( Volume 3, p. 234) took over unchecked. It has been widely circulated ever since. However, as early as 1836, pastor Michael Frey pointed out that there was probably never a Mauritius church in Obersülzen, but that there was a simple confusion with the still existing Mauritius church in Hohensülzen.
The first reliable news of the name of the Obersülz church comes from the Worms synod of 1496. According to this, the church was consecrated to St. John the Baptist and belonged to the Neuleiningen regional chapter of the Worms diocese . The church patronage at that time was owned by the Cyriakus pen in Neuhausen . In the middle of the 16th century , the Reformation was introduced in Obersülzen as part of the Electoral Palatinate . When the Palatinate church was divided up in 1705, the Obersülzer church fell to the Reformed. The bell tower of this old building still exists today, a handsome defensive tower from the early 13th century. In 1760 the Reformed community had the desolate nave rebuilt on the old square, for which the Catholic Cyriakus Foundation (or the diocese of Worms), as the holder of the church patronage, had to pay for. Deriving from its old patronage , the church is sometimes still called St. John's Church today.
Building stock
The church and its choir are east facing, the Romanesque tower adjoins the nave to the west. The latter is the oldest and most important part of the church and is dated to the early 13th century. It is a three-storey, rectangular defense tower with a gable roof and shield gables. At the western corners of the ground floor there are two massive buttresses facing the west, and another is located on the north wall there. The entire tower consists of unplastered sand rubble , the corner blocks are processed in the upper area. The storeys were separated by chamfered ledges, on the third storey there are round-arched sound openings, coupled to the north, west and south, with brackets made of slab and slope, as well as a central column each.
The nave, which was added in 1760, is plastered and has a flat ceiling, three window axes with large baroque arched windows, as well as a portal with an arched arch and crown stone on the north side. The end of the choir is three-sided. A medieval sarcophagus burial was found in the nave, in front of the entrance to the tower .
Church tower from the northwest
Church tower from the southwest
Church tower taken from the cemetery
Church from the north
Church from the northeast
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , Administrative Region Palatinate, VIII. City and District Frankenthal, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1939, pages 440–442.
Web links
- Obersülzen in the portal of the Bad Dürkheim district administration
- Obersülzen in the portal of the community of Grünstadt-Land
- Information on the website of the Protestant Church of the Palatinate, Deanery Frankenthal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Fesser: Early Medieval Settlements in the Northern Front Palatinate , University Dissertation, University of Mannheim, 2005, pp. 687–690, PDF; 14 MB
- ↑ ibid, p. 688
- ↑ (digital scan of p. 234)
- ^ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, p. 379, FC Neidhard, Speyer, 1836 (digital scan)
- ↑ Jörg Fesser: Early Medieval Settlements in the Northern Front Palatinate , University Dissertation , University of Mannheim, 2005, p. 690