St. Cyriakus (Frankenthal-Eppstein)
 St. Cyriakus Church, facade with tower |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| place | Frankenthal (Palatinate), Germany |
| Patronage | Cyriacus |
| Building history | |
| construction time | 1509-1511 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Furnishing style | Altars, Pietà, organ, coats of arms |
| Construction type | Hall construction |
| 49 ° 30 '32.4 " N , 8 ° 19' 56.5" E | |
The St. Cyriakus Church in Frankenthal-Eppstein is the local Catholic church and was built between 1760 and 1765 as a baroque building , including the medieval tower of the previous church.
location
The church, consecrated to St. Cyriacus , is located in the center of Eppstein (Dürkheimer Straße 27), opposite the Protestant Christ Church.
history
The medieval construction
In 1293, the Bishop of Worms Eberhard von Strahlberg (1291–1293) incorporated the church into the Neuhausen Cyriakus monastery . In the Worms synod of 1496 it was said that the tower was dilapidated. According to an inscription that still exists today, a new tower was completed in 1511. It is integrated into the current building. Its main portal bears the year 1509. The front inscription reads: Anno dmi mccccXI debalt steyn schulthes zew ebsteyn (transferred approximately: In the year of the Lord in 1511 under Mayor Theobald Stein zu Eppstein ).
The baroque building
During the Reformation the church became Protestant, but fell back to the Catholics when the Palatinate church was divided in 1705. On behalf of the parish, the Eppstein lay judges Hans Jakob Wetzel and Hans Jakob Kohl made a request to the Prince-Bishop of Worms in 1708, asking for repairs. According to the letter, the Cyriakus Church was missing the roof at the time. The subsequent renovation can only have been an emergency solution, because the Eppstein community soon asked for an expansion of the church building. In 1761, the threat of confiscating the church tithing finally led the prince-bishop's court chamber to Worms to commission the baroque builder Hartweck to plan a renovation. Because the predecessor church was determined to be in a state of disrepair, a new building was realized instead of a reconstruction, while maintaining the tower substructure from the years 1509 to 1511. The dimensions of the baroque building were increased by Hartweck to 29.7 meters in length and 13.2 meters in width (93 by 44 Schuh ). Several pilasters divide the side walls into even fields, the transition from the side walls to the ceiling is arched. The choir is a shortened oval in plan .
Conversions of the Cyriakuskirche
In 1925 a small oratory was added to the church opposite the sacristy in order to expand the capacity of the church. In the oratory, the children mostly followed the services. On September 23, 1943, the church burned to the ground due to a bombardment of Frankenthal by the Allied forces. The interior was saved from the burning church that night by volunteers. On October 9, 1949, the Bishop of Speyer, Joseph Wendel , consecrated the Cyriakus Church after it was rebuilt. In 1953/54 the historic tower was given a baroque hood instead of the pointed hood that was destroyed in the war. The interior and exterior renovation of the church from 1975/76 has continued to this day.
Altars
The high altar has a baroque structure above the cafeteria with putti on the tabernacle , this is accompanied on each side by an angel of worship. A wood-carved crucifixion group with life-size figures of Mary and the apostle John in baroque white and gold framing form the coronation of the high altar . The high altar is considered to be the foundation of the Worms Bishop Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff , who held the office of bishop from 1763. The front of the altar is decorated with his coat of arms. The side altars are dedicated to Saint Mary and the martyr Saint Cyriacus. The Marien Altar on the left was originally a foundation of the Hund von Saulheim family , the Baroque Madonna is a foundation of the Eppsteiner family. It replaced the painting “ The Annunciation ”, once a foundation of the local Bunn family. The gilded figure of the church patron Cyriakus on the right was added to the altar in 1812.
Pietà
The Pietà on the left wall of the Cyriakus Church is attributed by art historians to the time of the previous church from 1708. On a plaque under the Pietà are the names of the fallen and missing Catholics of Eppstein and Flomersheim of both world wars.
organ
The organ built for the church by Johann Ignaz Seuffert in 1771 was sold to Einselthum at the end of the 19th century . It was in operation there until 1971, before the idea of bringing this organ back to its place of origin Eppstein matured in the mid-1990s. After its renovation in 1997 by the Vleugels organ manufacture in Hardheim , it was returned to the Sankt-Cyriakuskirche Eppstein. In 2008 the organist Felix Hell gave a concert on this organ and in 2014 there was a concert with Sebastian Knebel (organ) and Anne Erdmann-Schiegnitz (violin) as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural summer .
coat of arms
Above the door of the former sacristy is a sign from the Hund von Saulheim family , the former patron saints of the church. The front of the altar is decorated with the coat of arms of Worms Bishop Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff . Above the doors to the aisles, to the right and left of the tower, there is also the coat of arms of this Worms bishop and elector of Trier, flanked by lions.
Patronage
In the 1494 inventory of the churches in the diocese of Worms , the Neuhausen monastery near Worms is named as the patronage of the St. Cyriakus Church in Eppstein. The incorporation by the Bishop of Worms is given as 1293. In 1494, Philipp Allendorfer von Niederflörsheim was named as patron saint. The Neuhausen Abbey was liable for maintenance for the church, the choir, regalia and the rectory.
In the year 841 Abbot Samuel von Lorsch , later Bishop of Worms, brought the bones of Saint Cyriacus, who died a martyr in Rome in 309, to Worms. When the Cyriakus monastery was founded in neighboring Neuhausen, the relics came there in 847. In 1293, the right of patronage of the Eppsteiner Church was assigned to the Cyriakus Foundation in Neuhausen by Bishop Eberhard II of Worms. In the centuries that followed, the monastery received a large part of its income from places that had been in Palatinate territories since the middle of the 14th century , such as Eppstein, and it was at this point that the struggle for the monastery’s independence began.
gallery
Cyriakus Church from the northwest
Tower and aisle
Main portal tower
Apex stone "1509", on the tower portal
Coat of arms of Bishop Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff
Window, nave
View of the altar, view before 1960
Pietà with a plaque for the victims of both world wars
literature
- Martin Armgart: From the outbreak of the Thirty Years War to the destruction of the city . In: Frankenthal - The history of a city, Frankenthal 2013, ISBN 978-3-87707-886-0 , p. 67 ff
- Philipp Walter Fabry: Contributions to the history of the St. Cyriakusstiftes zu Neuhausen in Worms . In: Der Wormsgau, supplement 17, Worms 1958
- Paul Habermehl, Anna Maus: Eppstein , Frankenthal 1970
- Anna Maus: The renovation of the Eppstein Catholic Church . In: Frankenthal - once and now, issue 2, Frankenthal 1976
- Carl JH Villinger: The St. Cyriacusstift zu Neuhausen near Worms . In: Der Wormsgau, supplement 15, Worms 1955
- Paul Warmbrunn: Frankenthal, Eppstein, Flomersheim, Mörsch and Studernheim from the first written mentions to the end of the Middle Ages . In: Frankenthal - The history of a city, Frankenthal 2013, ISBN 978-3-87707-886-0 , p. 305 ff
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna Maus: The renovation of the Eppsteiner Catholic Church. In: Frankenthal - once and now, issue 2, 1976, p. 47 ff.
- ↑ Habermehl / Maus: The church conditions in the Middle Ages . In: Eppstein, Geschichte einer Vorderpfälzischen Dorfes, Frankenthal 1970, p. 110
- ^ Habermehl / Maus: St. Cyriakus and other parishes. In: Eppstein, Geschichte einer Vorderpfälzischen Dorfes, Frankenthal 1970, p. 122 ff
- ↑ St. Ludwig Frankenthal: Church of St. Cyriakus , accessed on December 28, 2015
- ^ Paul Warmbrunn: From the outbreak of the Thirty Years War to the destruction of the city . In: Frankenthal - Die Geschichte einer Stadt, Frankenthal 2013, p. 509 ff
- ^ Philipp Walter Fabry: The St. Cyriacusstift zu Neuhausen near Worms . In: Der Wormsgau, supplement 17, Worms 1958, p. 18 and p. 23