Protestant Parish Church (Gauersheim)

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Protestant parish church

Protestant Church Gauersheim

Basic data
Denomination Protestant
place Gauersheim, Germany
Building history
construction time 13th century - around 1751
Building description
Architectural style Romanesque, Gothic, Late Baroque
Furnishing style Tombs
Construction type Fortified church
Coordinates 49 ° 39 '36.2 "  N , 8 ° 4' 20.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '36.2 "  N , 8 ° 4' 20.3"  E
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The Protestant parish church Gauersheim is a former fortified church in Gauersheim , a local parish in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The parish church is located in the old cemetery, which was abandoned around 1800.

history

The choir tower was built in the 13th century. The barons of Wallbrunn had the nave from the 15th century extended to the north in 1751. Among the gravestones from the 18th century in the old cemetery, the one of the royal Prussian lieutenant Johann Franz Ludwig von Löwenhaupt († 1786) deserves special mention because of its elaborate design ( segmented gable , trophies ).

architecture

The oldest part of the building is the three-storey choir tower, which was built around 1300 and has a baroque tower. The chancel is spanned by a ribbed vault. The nave is partly still Gothic and was extended in 1751 (inscription in the portal) to the north to a rectangular church. In the choir there is a Gothic sacrament niche from the 15th century.

Furnishing

In the choir tower of the church there are artistically significant tombs:

  • Epitaph of Friedrich Steben von Einselthum († March 12, 1549), life-size, detailed armor figure in half relief, ins. with 1555 and the signature CF, whichis resolvedin the older literature with Conrad Forster, in the more recent with "Meister des Hutten-Epitaphs in Steinheim / Hessen ".
  • Double epitaph of Wolf von Oberstein († 1602) and his wife Maria († 1606), b. Horneck von Weinheim , life-size, almost three-dimensional figures of the deceased in detailed armor and impressive widow's costume (attributed to Michel Henckhell from Bergzabern, color version strongly renewed, partly heraldically incorrect) and
  • the grave slab of Anna Sophia von Wallbrunn, b. Vogtin von Hunolstein († 1666 in Kirchheimbolanden).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gauersheimer Kirche , Verbandsgemeinde Kirchheimbolanden, accessed on June 29, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland . Edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, Deutscher Kunstbuch Verlag, Munich 1984, p. 303