St. Anna (Bacharach-Steeg)
The Protestant parish church of St. Anna is a high Gothic hall church in the Steeg district of Bacharach in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Evangelical Parish Vierthäler of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
History and architecture
The unevenly two-aisled hall church, which dates from the early 14th century and the following period, is a markedly unadorned building, which, like the two parish churches in Oberwesel, only has a cubic architectural shape. However, the different components give the room its own charm.
The structure consists of the southern main nave and the northern side nave, each with four bays. The main choir is formed as a five- eighth section, the side choir closes in four sides of a hexagon. The tracery of the two and three-lane windows is simple with circles, only the east window is more richly designed. The walls are mostly completely flat on the outside, only on the choirs are double-stepped buttresses. The west wall is placed at an angle to the axis of the nave and beveled again at the south-west corner.
The top of the three-storey north-east tower with four angular corner turrets and eight-sided helmet, which was renewed in 1968, is typical of architecture in the Middle Rhine region. It connects to the steep, irregularly divided roofs of the nave (the south aisle has its own roof, the ridge of the three west bays is higher than that of the east bays) to form an impressive silhouette .
The interior is closed off with ribbed vaults over consoles, the wide-spanning vaults of the main nave are transversely rectangular, those of the northern nave are approximately square. The buttresses are drawn far inwards, especially in the south aisle, and form deep niches there. The single beveled pillars are walled, especially in the east bays, as the tower rests on them. A polygonal stair tower jutting into the interior accompanies the tower on the northwest corner. In the west yoke there is a late-Gothic gallery with net vaults and a wide arch each to both naves, which, according to a painted date, dates from 1558 and is accessed through side staircases.
Furnishing
Remains of late Gothic wall paintings were probably made in the second half of the 15th century and show the Last Judgment and the so-called Host Mill . The painting of the ribs, keystones and consoles apparently dates from the construction period and was uncovered and supplemented in 1968. Two doors date from the second half of the 18th century. The organ is a work of the organ builder Brothers Stumm from 1802 with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . It was re-inaugurated in 2006 after extensive restoration by Rainer Müller.
Four steel bells from the Bochum Association , cast ais ° -cis'-e'-fis' in the lower septum rib, date from the 1920s.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Special edition for the Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1985, p. 998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 14.2 ″ N , 7 ° 44 ′ 46.2 ″ E