St. Anna (Sauerthal)

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Church of St. Anna in Sauerthal

The Catholic Church of St. Anna is a listed church building in Sauerthal , a community in the Loreley community . Today it is a branch church of the parish Heilig Kreuz Rheingau, a new type of parish. The so-called Rheingau Cathedral in Geisenheim has also been the parish church of Sauerthal since 2015 .

history

Until the Reformation , Sauerthal belonged to the Electoral Trier Land Chapter Marienfels , then to the Land Chapter Cunostein- Engers and was temporarily looked after by the parish of Kaub . For residents services were mostly in the castle chapel above the small hamlet lying Sauerburg held. In the village itself there was only a small wooden chapel. The Sauerburg, with Sauerthal the courts of Oders and Fronborn (today Sauerberger Hof), was sold as a separate bailiwick in 1505 by the Count Palatine Philipp the Sincere to the Knight Philipp von Cronberg . In 1617 the Brömser von Rüdesheim acquired the bailiwick. After it died out in 1668, it was inherited by the Metternich and finally passed to the later imperial counts Sickingen zu Sickingen . In 1689 the Sauerburg and its chapel were captured by the troops of Louis XIV in the Palatinate War of Succession and destroyed when they withdrew. Sauerthal was almost extinct except for six residents. The small town only gradually recovered from the turmoil of war in the 17th century, the population returned to normal with the arrival of people. When the Palatinate church was divided, Sauerthal was added to the Reformed community of Weisel as a branch, but the persistent boycott of services by the Catholic population caused Weisel to relinquish the small branch chapel. In 1709, the feudal owner von Sickingen and the Ranseler pastor signed a contract for pastoral care.

In 1748/1750, the present church was built in place of the wooden chapel through corvette, donations and money from the patron saint of Sickingen. The attempts of the patron saints in Sauerthal to found an independent parish failed. Despite the existing rectory, it was not possible to find a pastor on a permanent basis because of the poor funding. While the Sickingers lost sovereignty over the Vogtei Sauerthal to the newly created Duchy of Nassau through the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 , the residents gained exemption from serfdom, which had been in effect until then . In 1824 Franz von Sickingen also renounced the family-related patronage rights and on August 25 of the same year the Church of St. Anna in Sauerthal became a branch church of the parish of St. Katharina (Ransel) .

The Ransel parish had its own pastor until 1980, after which the one from Lorch took over his duties. Ransel, with its branches Wollmanders and Sauerthal, remained an independent parish. On January 1, 2010, the parishes of St. Martin (Lorch) , St. Bonifatius (Lorchhausen) and St. Katharina (Ransel) with their two branches St. Anna (Sauerthal) and St. Antonius (Wollmanders) merged to form the expanded parish of St. Martin (Lorch) together. In 2015, the Heilig Kreuz Rheingau parish was founded, and the Sauerthal branch is now one of its 13 parishes.

architecture

The Church of St. Anna is a simple hall building with a three-sided choir closure . The flat ceiling is provided with a haunch . The slate-covered hip roof is crowned by a baroque eight-sided bell ridge with a hood and lantern . The outer walls of the rectangular building made of broken slate stones are plastered. The side walls are pierced by six arched window openings. The windows are light-glass with modern Christian symbols (mid-20th century) in the middle. A round window is located in the end wall of the choir and in the opposite facade with the entrance portal. There is an organ loft above the entrance. A more recent sacristy is attached to the outside of the choir .

  • The church around 1900, after a drawing by Ferdinand Luthmer

  • The church as it is today

  • Bell ridge

  • Fallen memorial with crucifixion group

Furnishing

The arrangement of the furnishings in the chancel was adapted to the needs of today's liturgy . The artistically valuable altarpiece of the high altar was separated from its canteen and attached to the side of the sloping wall of the choir. The cafeteria was converted into a people's altar . At the former location of the high altar, above a stalls for priests and acolytes, the central motif is the church patron St. Anna , depicted as an Anna-Selbdritt sculpture.

Bells

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Sauerthal parish donated a bell from the Lorch parish for the Kreuzkapelle . One bell was traded in to the Junker bell foundry in 1952 and a third was given to the city of Kaub for the cemetery hall.

In 1952, today's three bells were handed over to their destination. The bell inspector Hubert Foersch describes the Sauerthal Junker chimes as disappointing. The inadequate development of the sound, the rapid fading and the warped striking note line suggested a lack of caution when casting.

No.
  		Surname
  		Mass (kg) Ø
(mm) 		Strike tone
(16th note) 		Decay time
(sec.) 		Sound progression
  		Casting year
  		Bell caster
  		inscription
 
1 Maria 110 590 e 2 +5 40 calm 1952 Albert Junker On the shoulder: "A. JUNKER BRILON 1952. "On the flank:" HOLY MOTHER OF GOD / PLEASE THAT GOD INCREASE THE FAITH IN US. "
2 Anna 76 494 g 2 -4 23 calm 1952 Albert Junker On the shoulder: "A. JUNKER BRILON 1952. "On the flank:" HOLY ANNA, MOTHER OF MARIEN / PLEASE THAT GOD STRENGTHENS IN US / HOPE. "
3 Elisabeth 50 440 a 2 -3 14th wavy 1952 Albert Junker On the shoulder: "A. JUNKER BRILON 1952. "On the flank:" HOLY ELISABETH, MOTHER OF THE POOR / PLEASE THAT GOD LIGHT IN US / LOVE. "

Sources and literature

  • Rev. Albert Zell: Booklet Ransel. Copies: Chronicle of the Dernbacher Sisters in Ransel , Agende of the parish Ransel , church and parish Ransel .
  • Rev. Johannes Zaun: Contributions to the history of the country chapter Rheingau and its twenty-four parishes. Molzberger Verlag, 1879.
  • Hubert Foersch: Limburger bell book - bells and chimes in the diocese of Limburg. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariates, Limburg 1997.
  • The churches in the Middle Rhine Valley - guide to the buildings of the UNESCO World Heritage Middle Rhine. Michael Imhof Verlag, ISBN 3-935590-64-4 .

Web links

Commons : St. Anna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 13 church locations in the parish Heilig Kreuz Rheingau. On heilig-kreuz-rheingau.de
  2. ^ Pastor Johannes Zaun: Contributions to the history of the Rheingau country chapter and its twenty-four parishes. Molzberger, 1879, pp. 372-375-

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 16 ″  E