Protestant Church (Rüssingen)
 Protestant Church |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| place | Rüssingen, Germany |
| Building history | |
| construction time | Late 11th century - 1757 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Late Romanesque, Baroque |
| Construction type | Hall construction |
| 49 ° 37 '0.8 " N , 8 ° 5' 26.2" E | |
The Protestant Church is located in the Rüssingen parish in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Its core consists of a Romanesque , baroque- shaped building from the 11th century.
Around it is the cemetery with old trees, two war memorials and gravestones from several centuries.
history
The originally Catholic church was dedicated to St. Martin . After the Reformation it was given to the Protestants. A Simultaneum existed from the Peace of Rijswijk to the construction of its own Catholic church in 1972 .
architecture
With the exception of the apse , which was demolished and rebuilt around 1700, and the windows that were enlarged around 1770, the church has largely been preserved in its Romanesque form. The three lower floors of the west tower with corner blocks date back to the Romanesque period, the fourth with sundial, including the tower hood, were also renewed in the Baroque era.
During security measures in the 1970s, the bottom storey was faced with sandstone on the outside, and arched double niches on the inside were bricked up on the walls; the second is structured with pilaster strips and double -layer blind arches, the third has double windows with central columns and cube capitals. The keystones of the baroque windows of the ship are marked with "SXA", which indicates the affiliation with and the maintenance by the Andreasstift in Worms .
You enter the church from the south. The Romanesque lintel (with a cross around which pigeons flock, surrounded by a lion and a dragon and a man with a spear, as well as additional knot ornaments on the left side) is still a mystery today. Above it is a relief arch with a ram's head as a keystone. The original lintel was removed in 1937 due to severe weathering and replaced by a copy; the original is in the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer .
Today the interior is a simply designed room. During the renovation in 1973–1975, the direction of use was reversed from east to west. The altar was then set up in the basement of the tower and the stalls facing west. This measure was reversed during the last renovation after 2010. The original, liturgical use of this lowest room in the tower is unknown. A Romanesque choir arch separates the apse, in which the organ gallery is due to lack of space, from the short nave . The massive masonry sacristy to the north can be reached through an ogival door with original fittings.
Furnishing
The altar stone of the transportable Catholic altar came to Göllheim after the end of the Simultaneum and is now in the celebration altar of the Göllheim Catholic Church .
The art-historically significant baptismal font from the late Gothic found its new place after an eventful history in the chapter house of the Carthusian Church ( Germanic National Museum ) in Nuremberg.
Look into the choir
View into the nave
Tomb of the Lutheran pastor Johannes Streubers (1694–1757)
Romanesque lintel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ S. Altmayer; M. Ries: 1686-1986. 300 years of the Catholic parish of Göllheim after its re-establishment.
- ↑ The Rüssinger baptismal font at www.heimat-pfalz.de ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 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.
