Simultaneous Church Worms-Pfeddersheim

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Simultaneous Church Worms-Pfeddersheim

The interdenominational church "Assumption" in Worms-Pfeddersheim is a by Protestants and Catholics shared interdenominational church in Worms district Pfeddersheim whose steeple of the Pfeddersheimer fortification was and therefore belongs to the city of Worms as the legal successor of the city Pfeddersheim. The church is a protected cultural monument .

history

View of Pfeddersheim from Merian's Topographia Germaniae with the late Gothic previous church (1655).

The oldest known documentary mention of the church in Pfeddersheim comes from May 25, 754, when Bishop Chrodegang of Metz awarded it to the Gorze Abbey . Another mention of 793 proves the consecration to Mary . The building of the church was described for the first time in the “ Worms Synodale ” of 1496: The church had three aisles with a choir, sacristy and chapel. The church tower belonged to the city of Pfeddersheim, as it was part of the northern city fortifications and was manned by a tower guard .

In 1525, after the battle of Pfeddersheim , 180 leaders of the rebellious peasants were imprisoned in the church. 24 of them were executed in the churchyard. A peace stele erected in 2000 by the Pfeddersheim artist Horst Rettig commemorates them.

The church was burned down in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, like the rest of the city of Pfeddersheim, only a tower stump remained. When the Palatinate church was divided in 1705, it was still ruinous. Nevertheless, the Reformed congregation received the nave, while the catholic congregation was given the chancel. The church tower remained the property of the city.

As part of the “Palatinate Declaration of Religion” of November 21, 1705, a commission decision was drawn up on November 20, 1706 about the church ruins. In it the following was determined: “The Pfeddershemer Stattkirch is completely burned and in a rowing bus. Has one therefore compared the fact that the rudera of the church should remain with the Reformed, and against the Catholics either the Crucis altar or choir, which is still in good walls ”. The division list therefore says in the 3rd class of the Neuhausen inspection: "Pfeddersheimer Rudera seynd Beeden religions remained together". Catholics and Reformed people each rebuilt their part of the church with their own entrances, so that two churches were built next to each other, only separated from each other by a wall.

This state of the weakened simultaneum has been confirmed by parish visits reports of October 3, 1741 and May 27, 1754. The latter report states: Nihil in praeiudicium Catholicae Religionis intenditur . Despite the simultaneum, there were no interdenominational difficulties. According to the first report of October 3, 1741, the Lutherans had meanwhile built their own church (1714).

The Reformed needed the period from 1708 to 1721 to build their church. On August 17, 1721, the Reformed pastor Johann Erhard Stückrath made the following entry in the baptismal register: “This is the first child who was baptized in the church, which had been deserted after 33 years , the repair of which has been worked on since 1708, which comes about after much effort and hardship ”.

During the reconstruction from 1708 to 1721 (Reformed part) and until 1789 (Catholic part), the two parts of the church were separated by a wall without a passage. Both parts of the church received their own entrances, the previous entrance through the church tower was walled up. The reformed church interior was inaugurated on August 17, 1721 with a baptismal service.

From 1798 to 1801, when it belonged to France after the French Revolution , the church served as the temple of the decade for the canton of Pfeddersheim .

Since the church union of 1822, the nave has been used by the now uniate evangelical congregation, the Lutheran church from 1714 , whose bells were placed in the simultaneous church in 1839, has served as the parish hall since the 1970s. In 1931 the nave was extended to include a choir.

description

Simultankirche Worms-Pfeddersheim, high altar from the monastery Maria Münster

The Protestant part of the church is a rectangular hall that was built between 1708 and 1721 on the medieval foundation walls; on the west side there is a transverse rectangular choir extension from 1931 with a stained glass window of the risen Christ. Most of the rest of the furnishings date from the 18th century.

The Catholic part was rebuilt by 1789; Due to the use of the foundation walls of the former choir, it has a five-eighth closure . The furnishings are classical , the baroque Maria-Himmelfahrt altar was only added to the church in 1992. It originally comes from the Maria Münster monastery in Worms . The miraculous image of Maria Schutz zu Pfeddersheim , which survived a fire in Elmpt on the Lower Rhine in 1869, is also located here . It came here by gift and was a well-known pilgrimage destination in the 1930s .

The three lower floors of the tower date from the late Middle Ages; its Gothic shape was changed in the Renaissance . The fourth floor of the tower with the bell chamber and the pointed helmet with a surrounding balcony are an addition to the 19th century.

There are gravestones from the 16th to 18th centuries on the church tower and in both parts of the church. The dividing wall between the church parts is crowned by a roof turret with an onion dome.

Organs

A silent organ with 25 registers was installed in the Protestant church around 1770 . In 1913 it was exchanged for a two-manual Walcker organ with 22 sounding registers with Organola , the organ prospectus was retained. The organ and organola were restored in 2000, another restoration of the organola was completed in 2011. The Protestant community still has around 60 piano rolls from the time the Organola was created, including recordings by Albert Schweitzer . The Organola enjoys special protection as a technical monument , as it is the only surviving instrument of this type in Germany. The organ has the following disposition:

I main work C–
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Viola da gamba 8th'
Dolce 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Cornett mixture III – IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C–
Violin principal 8th'
Flauto amabile 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Vox coelestis 8th'
Pseudooboe
(from Flauto amabile + Quintatön)		 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Piccolo 2 ′
Harmonia aethera II-III
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Covered bass
(from HW Bourdon)		 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Flute bass
(from HW concert flute)		 8th'
Violoncello
(from HW viola da gamba)		 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling II / I
    • Super octave coupling II / I
  • Playing aids : tremulant, free combination, fixed combinations (piano, mezzoforte, forte, tutti), crescendo roller, calcant call

In the Catholic part of the church, a Stumm organ was also installed behind a plait style prospect in 1792 , designed by Friedrich Carl Stumm and comprising 14 stops. It has largely been preserved and was restored in 1998 by Förster & Nicolaus .

Manual C – d 3
Principal 4 ′
Hohlpfeif B / D 8th'
Flaut traver D 4 ′
Viol di gamb B / D 8th'
Solicinal 4 ′
Rohrfloet B / D 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
mixture 1'
Trumpet B / D 8th'
Vox humana B / D 8th'
Pedal C – g 0
Sub bass 16 ′
Octav bass 8th'
Violon bass 8th'

Bells

The ringing of the simultaneous church includes six bells, two of which each belong to the Protestant and Catholic parishes and the city of Worms. Protestant and city bells are rung for Protestant services, and Catholic and city bells for Catholic services; on ecumenical occasions the bells ring out loud. The Luther bell of the evangelical community also strikes the hour.

The right to ring all bells was regulated in 1910 in a contract between the two parishes and the political community. According to this, the parishes decide on the bell in all ritual matters, while the political community is only allowed to ring the bell on secular occasions, including for noon, evening, storm and fire bell. When in 1956 the Protestant parish refused to ring the bell for a non-denominational Pfeddersheimer, the political community decided to build its own bell tower on the communal cemetery.

Surname owner Casting year Caster Weight (kg) Nominal inscription
Christ ev. community 846 f 1 "Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever" (Heb 13, 8)
Memorial bell City of Worms 1952 Rincker , Sinn 587 g 1 "In memory of the victims of both world wars"
Christ the King rk. local community 1953 Hermann Hamm, Frankenthal 468 a 1 "You King of Glory, Sanctus, help us"
Peace bell City of Worms 1952 Rincker, Sinn 364 b 1 "Peace be always your bell"
Maria rk. local community 1953 Hermann Hamm, Frankenthal 268 c 2 "Queen of Heaven, Mary, pray for us"
Luther ev. community 1769 Johann Zimmermann, Mannheim 154 d 2 "Haec campana comparata est in honorem dei et usum Lutheranorum Pedderheniensum Anno Christi 1769"
"This bell was cast in honor of God and for use by Pfeddersheim Lutherans in 1769"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the province of Rheinhessen and for the parishes of the Electoral Palatinate of the province of Starkenburg. (Hassia sacra, 6th vol.), Darmstadt, 1932, Bb, p. 165
  2. ↑ Cathedral and Diocesan Archives Mainz, K 54, fasc. III, 10, f, 5, E, fol. 154-162
  3. ^ Karl Johann Brilmayer: Rheinhessen in the past and present. 1904, p. 391.
  4. ^ Kurt Rosendorn: The Rhine-Hessian simultaneous churches up to the beginning of the 18th century. 1958, p. 93.
  5. ↑ Cathedral and Diocesan Archive Mainz, K. 93, Deanery Worms, No. 7; Status Ecclesiae interior.
  6. ↑ Cathedral and Diocesan Archives Mainz: Circa personam parochi et ipsam parochiam, qu.33.
  7. ↑ Cathedral and Diocesan Archives Mainz: K. 50, No. 14, c: Parishes in the Diocese of Worms, parishes with French salaries; The full title is: List des Lieux et paroisses de la Dioecese de Wormbs, comprises par la dernière clause du quatrième article de Traité de Risswick, dans les quels au préiudice de article la religion Catholique a été troublée par toutes Sortes d'innovations de ceux de la Confession d'augsbourg ; a date is not given; it seems to have been written during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), probably shortly before 1714.
  8. ^ Karl Goebel: The Evangelical Congregation Pfeddersheim. In: 1200 years Pfeddersheim. 1954, p. 67
  9. ^ Website on the high altar in Pfeddersheim
  10. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture: Pfeddersheimer Organola is being restored ; News from March 3, 2011. ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs . Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 , p. 430 (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 6).
  12. ^ Förster & Nikolaus Orgelbau GmbH & Co. KG: Restoration - project description: Worms-Pfeddersheim, Catholic Church ; Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  13. ↑ Sandra Dörr: The bell belongs to three gentlemen. In: Wormser Zeitung of October 8, 2011 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wormser-zeitung.de  
  14. ↑ We'll just jingle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1956, pp. 22 ( online ).

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