Rheingau Cathedral
Rheingau Cathedral is the name of the Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Geisenheim in the Rheingau (Bischof-Blum-Platz 1, 65366 Geisenheim).
history
The late Gothic hall church was largely built between 1510 and 1518, under the Mainz cathedral master builder Johann von Hattstein , as a successor to a Romanesque church first mentioned in 1146 . After the west towers from the Romanesque era were demolished in 1829 due to disrepair, the builder Philipp Hoffmann, who was born in Geisenheim, carried out a neo-Gothic renovation from 1834 to 1838. In addition to the new construction of the now 46-meter-high towers, the arching of the nave was changed. The building was named cathedral due to its size and importance compared to other churches in the region. It was never the seat of a bishop . Since 2015, the Rheingau Cathedral has been the parish church of the newly founded Heilig-Kreuz-Rheingau parish, a so-called parish of a new type. In addition to Geisenheim, it includes the following local churches with their respective church locations:
- Holy Cross in Assmannshausen
- St. Petronilla in Aulhausen
- St. Hildegard in Eibingen
- St. John the Baptist in Johannisberg
- St. Martin in Lorch
- St. Boniface in Lorchhausen
- St. Laurentius in Presberg
- St. Catherine in Ransel
- St. Jakobus in Rudesheim
- St. Anna in Sauerthal
- St. Michael in Stephanshausen
- St. Antonius in Wollmanders .
Furnishing
The reticulated vault of the choir and the so-called three king altar are still preserved from the late Gothic period . In 1886 the neo-Gothic high altar was added.
organ
The organ was built in 1842 by the Stumm brothers . The instrument has 33 stops on two manuals and a pedal . As part of a fundamental restoration, modifications were reversed and the organ returned to its original state. Many of Stumm's stops have been preserved in their original form.
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- Remarks
- (S) = Originally preserved register from Stumm
Bells
The four-part ringing of the “Rheingau Cathedral” consists of three historical and one modern bells. They hang in the wooden bell chairs of the two towers, on wooden yokes that were renewed in 2011.
- Bell disposition : cis 1 - d 1 - e 1 - f 1
No. |
Surname |
Mass (kg) |
Ø (mm) |
Strike tone (16th note) |
Casting year |
Bell caster |
Location |
1 | Christ | approx. 2500 | 1570 | cis 1 -9 | 1401 | unknown | North tower |
2 | St. Martin | approx. 1300 | 1300 | d 1 -11 | 1631 | Thomas Simon from Mainz | South tower |
3 | St. Joseph | 1231 | 1230 | e 1 -8 | 1960 | Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling | North tower |
4th | Sta. Maria | about 800 | 1080 | f 1 +2 | 1484 | Heinrich Moller / Frankfurt | South tower |
Graves
Friedrich von Stockheim (1462–1528) and his wife are buried in the Rheingau Cathedral .
More pictures
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Gottron : Hattstein, Johann von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 8, 1969, p. 61, online view
- ↑ www.schau-mal-einer-an.com ( Memento from November 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Baedeker Wiesbaden Rheingau, 2001, ISBN 3-87954-076-4 , p. 115.
- ↑ https://heilig-kreuz-rheingau.de/beitrag/die-13-kirchorte-der-pfarrei-heilig-kreuz-rheingau/
- ↑ More information on the historic Stumm organ ( Memento from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ [1] Geisenheim [D] - Parish Church of the Holy Cross - special bells (tower mount) - description
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the parish of the Holy Cross
- Rheingau Cathedral in Geisenheim on rheingau.de
- Tower recording of the special bells in the Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Geisenheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '57.7 " N , 7 ° 58' 2.6" E