St. Boniface (Alsheim)
The Protestant parish church, formerly St. Bonifatius , in Alsheim was built around 1200 as a Romanesque hall building. Reshaped in the Baroque style in the 18th century and the windows changed in 1874. The hall building has a square choir. It is included in the list of monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate as a cultural monument, see also: List of cultural monuments in Alsheim .
The compact west tower belongs to the type of the so-called "Heidenturmkirchen von Rheinhessen" (see also: St. Paul in Worms , St. Viktor in Guntersblum and All Saints in Dittelsheim-Hessloch ), the richly shaped stone crowning of which is a replica of an oriental ( Armenian?) central buildings on a small scale. The tent roof was probably not built until the 18th century.
In the church there are remnants of a cycle of wall painting that originated in the middle of the 14th century. It depicts the adoration of the kings , the legend of the 10,000 martyrs on Mount Ararat (which are closely related to the paintings in Ilbenstadt and Lobenstein ) and scenes from the life of Jesus.
There are gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries and a war memorial from 1914/18 in the cemetery. It is a neo-classical complex from the 1920s.
See also
literature
- Dehio manual for Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland; P. 8; 1972
