St. Gereon (Nackenheim)

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St. Gereon from the northwest

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gereon in Nackenheim in Rhineland-Hesse ( Mainz-Bingen district ) is a church building belonging to the Mainz diocese . Due to its location and its church tower, the baroque hall building has an impressive impact on the townscape and landscape and its furnishings are of great importance for regional art history. The church building is registered as an architectural monument in the list of cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

Neck home with St. Gereon's Church

The church is located at 110  m above sea level. NHN , visible from afar on the spur of a loess-covered limestone plateau, around 30 meters above the Rhine Valley.

history

Franconian traces

The village of Nackenheim emerged in its present form during the Frankish period. The Franks advancing from the Middle and Lower Rhine ended the Roman period in the 2nd half of the 5th century, for which four Roman country estates ( villae rusticae ) were found in the Nackenheim district. If the Romans still preferred the hills above the valley, the pagan immigrants established their settlement in the valley and buried their dead on the upper exit road of the village (finds of burials in the area of An der Heidenpforte in the direction of Lörzweiler ).

The settlement that arose during the Frankish conquest of the country was initially very small. In the 6th century, Nackenheim may only have consisted of two to three farms, with perhaps a maximum of 20 inhabitants. However, these courtyards formed the starting point for a continuous development of settlement areas in the Eichelsbachtal and the beginning of a rural settlement structure along the Obergasse, which could almost be seen as a street village. In terms of location, this early medieval rural group settlement is in a flood-free location, outside the floodplain. The influence of natural spatial factors such as soil, climate, vegetation, hydrology and relief should generally not be underestimated in rural-agrarian societies.

Today's Nackenheim parish church stands, as is typical for Franconian church foundations in the early Middle Ages, on an elevation above a stream, in this case the Eichelsbach. On the banks of the Eichelsbach in the valley, below the Franconian chapel, was the associated old mansion (site of today's Stephanshof), because as a Franconian church , the chapel was owned by the family, and at the same time it was a burial place and refuge in armed conflicts for the population who converted to Christianity served.

Nackenheim under Cologne rule

Around the year 650 AD the Nackenheimer Herrenhof ( Fronhof ) with all its possessions and thus also its chapel by King Sigibert III. given away to the Cologne bishop Kunibert . At the beginning of the 9th century, this donation came into the possession of the St. Gereonstift in Cologne as a gift from the Cologne local bishop for the re-establishment of the Cologne monastery. As the local lord of Nackenheim, the Gereonsstift in Cologne set about building a new Romanesque church and transferred the patronage of St. Gereon to the Nackenheim church. Under canon law, the parish was subordinate to the Archdeaconate of St. Viktor in Mainz and the subordinate Presbyterate ( Dean's Office ) of Nierstein . So it came about that the priests from Mainz were also appointed, who received a third of the fruit and wine tithe as maintenance. Two thirds, however, went to the monastery in Cologne (source from 1234).

One thesis on the sources assumes that the village became more and more unprofitable for the Cologne monastery over time, so that Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. was moved to assign the income of the parish (after the pastor's care) to the Cologne monastery. In 1255 Probst Ludwig zu St. Victor finally gave permission to withhold the income from the pastor's position and to fill the position of pastor himself (first mention of a pastor from Nackenheim: Walter, Scholaster von St. Viktor). In the end, however, there was no appointment of a Cologne priest, as the Cologne monastery ceded its possessions in Nackenheim just three years later.

Nackenheim owned by the St. Stephen's Foundation in Mainz

On November 26, 1258, the entire Cologne property was sold to the dean of St. Stephen's in Mainz for 750 Cologne denarii . In order to secure all income for the Stephansstift in Nackenheim, in 1262 the Archbishop of Mainz Werner von Eppstein once again incorporated the parish with its income and assets into the property of the Stephansstift.

From now on, the pastor's position was appointed by the Mainz monastery, which meant that many vicars and former pastors of St. Stephan occupied this position. The monastery soon began building a Gothic church (completed in 1341) under the dual patronage of St. Gereon and St. Stephan . The monastery received support in the construction of the new church from the von Nackenheim knight family. Alheid von Nackenheim bequeathed all her goods for the building of the new church (1307). The fortified church that had been erected was provided with an elegant roof turret and bells. They surrounded a curtain wall and a double moat. A map by Gottfried Mascop from 1575 shows a church surrounded by tall trees with a simple nave and three windows, with a graceful roof turret in the middle . The defensive character of the cemetery and church can still be proven from around 1700.

The parish itself was much larger than the current one. The hamlets Sunsweiler and Aluisheim (former Roman estates), which were later submerged, belonged to it , as well as twelve Rhine meadows from the northern part of the Kornsand to the Bleiaue before Weisenau (partly no longer existent due to the straightening of the Rhine). With a new division of the archdiocese into land chapters in the 16th century, the parish was assigned to the Olm land chapter. There were close connections through prayer communities
with the parishes in Lörzweiler , Nierstein and Bodenheim . The Mariacron nunnery in Oppenheim had a Marian altar in the church, for which an early knife ( chaplain ) was paid.

Gothic tracery fragments, St. Gereon (Nackenheim)

In 1341 a description of the church made reference to a rood screen. A new altar of Mary was erected in front of the rood screen in 1478. Today's remains of this Gothic fortified church (tracery struts with remains of paint) are exhibited in the church porch and also stored in the church tower. A figure of Christ on the former Gothic main altar survived the turmoil of the following centuries and was used liturgically for Easter until the 1970s and is unfortunately no longer on public display today.

Nackenheim owned by the Archbishop of Mainz

In 1615 the Archbishop of Mainz became the hereditary lord and supreme court lord of the village. Constantly flaring up disputes with Palatine officials from Nierstein worried the Stephansstift and gave rise to a change of jurisdiction over the village. The disputes had already begun with the extinction of the knight dynasty of Nackenheim (1498), when the bailiwick rights were transferred to Nierstein via Nackenheim. The situation was only exacerbated by the Reformation, because the Reformation itself had no effect on Nackenheim as the southern outer border of Kurmainz, but Nierstein was an Electorate of the Palatinate and thus came to the Protestant faith.

The Nackenheim parish itself remained subject to the St. Stephen's Foundation despite the new jurisdiction of the archbishop. This connection also found expression in the shared areas of responsibility for the church: the village had to take care of the maintenance of the nave and the ridge turret, while the choir with the altar had to be maintained by St. Stephen's monastery. The dean of St. Stephan, Sebastian Loth, drafted church regulations for the parish in 1690. This regulated the community life and the administration through the appointment of six church jurats who stood by the pastor's side. Usually it was the same men who also appointed lay judges at the local court .

During the Thirty Years War the church was looted and devastated by the Swedes in December 1632. Buildings and courtyards on the Oberfeld, immediately behind the church, were destroyed. To this day there are no more buildings on this site. The altars were not consecrated again until 1678 (until then they were used as support altars).

In 1689, during the War of the Palatinate Succession, French troops invaded Nackenheim and set fire to it. Until 1692 the population of the village fled from the French troops four times. The village was completely destroyed, the church was robbed and badly damaged. Those war damage was probably the reason for the reconstruction of the parish church in baroque form, which began in 1716 . The rising population of the village after the end of the chaos of war also triggered brisk construction activity. (The oldest farmhouses in Nackenheim all date from this post-war period. Older buildings can no longer be found.)

With the transfer of their Nackenheim property to the parish, two Mainz collegiate vicars laid the financial basis for the new building (value of 300 guilders compared to total costs of 5000 guilders). The monastery itself refused to make any further donations for the construction, as it had resisted a total demolition and was surprised by the demolition of the choir. There is a bitter reaction in the sources. As a result, a lot had to be done by the villagers themselves. In 1731 the inauguration of the new building took place on the Sunday after St. Stephen was found (August 3). This was also set as the Kirchweihtag (a postponement of today's Kirchweihtag to late September cannot be explained). Like the parish, the baroque hall building again received the dual patronage of St. Gereon and St. Stephan .

Survey on the doctoral parish and the French Revolution

On July 1, 1779, the community was raised to a doctoral parish, d. In other words, her pastoral position could from now on only be filled with a doctor of theology . The reason for this was a property transfer to the University of Mainz in favor of its renovation, which made the university the largest landowner in Nackenheim.

In 1793, pastor Karl Melchior Arand, who was also the governor of the Mainz seminary, got the citizens to take the French national oath. Arand was soon to Maire (mayor) of the village. The Peace of Lunéville in 1801 was much more decisive for the parish than the French Revolution . The parish lost its 12 islands on the right bank of the Rhine. And after joining the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816, the parish school, which had existed since 1210, was handed over to the state, thus depriving the pastor of an important opportunity to influence. The employed teacher had traditionally been sexton, bell ringer and cantor at the same time for centuries.

Church changes in the 19th and 20th centuries

In 1869 the baroque high altar made of wood was replaced by an altar from the Mainz Cathedral (see section on furnishings ). After a lightning strike in the roof turret in the week of Pentecost in 1900, a neo-baroque extension to the west took place under the direction of Pastor Franz Otto, whereby the baroque ceiling shell was also replaced. Instead of an imposing new roof turret from 1901, which turned out to be too unstable for the new bells, the current bell tower was added in 1911 (construction of the western main entrance).

1936–1937 the gallery of the church received a comprehensive renovation, whereby it was extended towards the front, received new wooden cladding and lost its lateral arches underneath. The colored church windows fell victim to a renovation in the 1950s, the interior was also repainted from pink to gray, and the Way of the Cross was re-framed and a new sacristy was added. Between 1978 and 1988 the church underwent a thorough renovation, including replacing the original sandstone slabs from the time of construction with Veronese marble (see fittings) and enlarging the altar island. Baroque paintings also came to light, which give an impression of the lost baroque ceiling painting.

Building description

The yellow-framed church has a length of 37.70 m (without tower) and a width of 16.60 m at the transept (extension from 1901). The church tower itself has a height of 46.08 m and the weathercock sits above the tower cross at a height of around 48 m.

In 1716, Johanns Vordörffer from Gonsenheim designed the east-facing , baroque hall building with a retracted rectangular choir (today it is surrounded by the old and new sacristy). A picturesque assembly was created through neo-baroque additions: In 1901/02, the west transverse building was carried out according to designs by August Greifzu , Mainz, and the church tower in the west was built in 1911 according to designs by the Oppenheim district building authority .

Corner cuboid with building inscription (1716)

The exterior building is accentuated by slightly protruding, monumentally curved tail gables with large, two-part round windows and a round-arched sandstone structure. The corners of the church are highlighted by colored sandstone pilasters. The four-storey tower with a double onion dome replaces the third, western gable facade from 1902 (walled-up round window and tail gable). The tower and the hipped gable roofs on the east side are covered with slate. Above the choir there is a small roof turret with a small confessional bell (cannot be rung). Attached to the outside of the choir is a corner cuboid with a fragment of a building inscription from 1716. The ox eye in the choir wall is blocked. The 14 large arched windows are provided with lead glazing made of antique glass in a baroque honeycomb format (1988).

The main portal of the church is in the tower hall, above it is a baroque niche figure of St. Florian with a church model attached. The cast (around 1911) is a reference to the lightning strike of 1900, which initiated the major renovations in its successor. The upper tower portal, the entrance to the gallery and the tower can be reached through an external staircase with an artistically forged railing, which formerly served as a barrier to the choir inside the church (see picture).

The interior of the nave is covered flat over a throat. The ceiling bowl from 1901 is provided with geometric, new-baroque frame decoration. The wall is divided by triple pilasters and a compact triumphal arch leads to the choir. The chancel is domed. The extension to the west from 1903 has double blind arcades with deep niches.

Furnishing

The baroque high altar from 1698 (perhaps a work by Arnold Harnisch or Wolfgang Fröhlicher) comes from the east apse of Mainz Cathedral . This altar was erected as a foundation by the cathedral dean Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths from 1697 in honor of St. Martinus . His patronage is considered a transfer from the Gothic Martinschörlein, which was demolished in 1683. The altar was sold to Nackenheim in 1869 for 800 guilders. Its transport and reconstruction alone cost a further 770 guilders.

The retable made of black Schupbach marble shows a classic baroque structure with stage-like drapery and instead of a painting an embedded crucifix , although this is not the original marble cross, which has unfortunately been stolen since the renovation of the church in 1988 and temporarily stored in a private household . In its place, stylistically wrong, is an old, wooden mission cross from the entrance area of ​​the church with a baroque body. It is flanked by the figures of St. Crescens (according to legend, first bishop of Mainz) and St. Boniface (first Archbishop of Mainz). As an equestrian figure, St. Martin with beggar building. Both figures are probably of an older date and of different provenance ). Below the gable is the donor coat of arms of Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau as well as the coat of arms of his maternal and paternal line of ancestors. Two geniuses hold the episcopal insignia. The drama of the altar is created by the light-dark contrasts of the partially gilded alabaster figures and the black marble. The altar was given its old, prominent position in the middle of the east apse of Mainz Cathedral, as the tabernacle of the east choir stood in front of it. This fact is also made clear by the two-part dedicatory inscription, which was not engraved lengthways, but rather falls into two separate sections. The middle structure with tabernacle (this one in a different form since the renovation in 1987, original parts still in the sacristy and church tower) seems to be part of the original. A former altarpiece has repeatedly been suspected, but cannot be traced back in the sources.

Interior view of St. Gereon (Nackenheim) before 1978
Interior view of St. Gereon (Nackenheim) 2018

Under the organ gallery hangs an almost fully plastic oval relief of the Coronation of Mary (around 1729/30), which hung for a long time in the mountain chapel. The splendid wooden sculpture comes from the first high altar in the baroque parish church (built in 1730), which was made of walnut and decorated with larger-than-life figures of the evangelists (used as fuel in 1910). The baroque, wooden side altars come from the circle of the Mainz sculptor Nikolaus Binterim (around 1770) and were greatly reduced in size in 1897 by Joseph Landmann, Mainz. Until then, they stood across the corner until, for reasons of space, Pastor Franz Otto had them narrowed and placed straight and close to the wall. The left side altar is consecrated to the Virgin Mary (portrait of a Maria Immaculata ), the right side altar to St. Anthony. However, this was always called St. Josephaltar because of his statue of Joseph . Both altars are crowned by blown column gables over an oil painting. The substructure of the Joseph Altar contains a holy grave with a figure of the body of Jesus (in 1988 lined with old foundation stones and provided with a glass pane).

The wooden pulpit with a polygonal basket is covered by a sound cover with a silver spirit dove . In the nave there is a figure of St. Gereon as a knight with a lance (around 1770) and sword (reference to his beheading) and neo-Gothic figures of saints ( St. Valentin , St. Wendelin , St. Margaretha , St. Katharina ). The Way of the Cross consists of late Nazarene oil paintings, the frame being greatly simplified.

Entombment of Christ, Station of the Cross St. Gereon

In the west transverse building there are two neo-baroque wooden side altars with oil paintings: on the left Brother Konrad , painted by Albert Figel (Munich, 1935) in place of the removed picture "Maria im Rosenkranz" from 1902, on the right a Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1902 (for the strong veneration of St. Brother Konrad in Nackenheim see bells). The baroque, marble holy water font with the donor's coat of arms was walled up halfway into the west wall until 1988. The celebration altar and ambo are the work of the local stonemason Rainer Knußmann.

Murals

During restoration work in 1983, ornamental paintings in the form of acanthus leaves from the time the baroque church was built (1731) and consecration crosses (supplemented to twelve consecration crosses in 1988 ) were discovered around the windows . They come from the first color version of the church and are applied using a secco technique . For the diocese of Mainz they are the only preserved secco paintings from the 18th century.

In the choir there is a ceiling painting by Hans Thumann , Mainz, from 1936: the four evangelists and the book with the seven seals . His illustrations of the four evangelists were reduced in size in 1988 in order not to make them appear too bulky on the borrowed ornaments. In the same year it was decided to only preserve the three baroque depictions of the evangelists in the arched niches, which had been exposed in fragments, in order to avoid duplicating the evangelists in a confined space.

More colorful flower tendrils, a frame and figural motifs like a boot from the 18th century were exposed on the eastern choir wall in 1983, but painted over again. From a former colored baroque ceiling painting in 1988 only plaster residues could be secured on the fighting line of the triple pilasters.

organ

In 1739 the church received an organ from the organ builder Johannes Kohlhaas . After it was damaged by lightning in the week of Pentecost in 1900, Martin Joseph Schlimbach built a new organ in 1904, taking over the baroque Kohlhaas prospect with its rich figural decorations. Nikolaus Binterim , who created the two trumpet angels on the outside prospectuses, King David with harp and the two decorative vases, can be regarded
as the sculptor of the baroque figurative decoration . The organ has the following disposition :

I main work C – f 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Mixture Cornett IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II substation C – f 3
Flute Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Lovely covered 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Transverse flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Flute bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
cello 8th'

Bells and tower clock

Historical bells

No. Surname Casting year Caster Mass
(kg) 		Chime inscription Year of loss
1 Maria 1902 Andreas Hamm , Frankenthal 700 We flee under your protection and protection, St. Theotokos 1942
2 Joseph 1902 Andreas Hamm, Frankenthal 550 St. Joseph, pray for us 1942
3 Gereon 1902 Andreas Hamm, Frankenthal 450 St. Gereon, pray for us 1942
4th Confession bell 40 Regina Coeli ora pro nobis remained

Today's peal

After the bells were confiscated, the Nackenheimer bells for the Te Deum were played on high feasts. The renewal of the bells after the war was celebrated with gratitude, whereby it was left to the following generation to add a fourth, additional bell to the overall sound. From experience of their loss in the Second World War, all bells are labeled: "PROPERTY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH NACKENHEIM".

No. Surname image Casting year Caster Mass
(kg) 		Chime inscription comment
1 St. Maria - festa decora
(I glorify the festivals)
St. Maria bell in St. Gereon, Nackenheim.jpg
1950 Andreas Hamm and son , Frankenthal 730 f 1 HL. MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY FOR US! (Front)
VIVOS VOCO (back)
MEISTER HERMANN HAMM FRANKENTHAL GOSS ME IN THE HOLY YEAR 1950 (mark of origin)		 Consecrated on January 14, 1950
2 Holy Brother Konrad -
mortuos plango
(I lament the dead)
Holy Brother Konrad-Glocke, St. Gereon (Nackenheim) .jpg
1950 Andreas Hamm and son, Frankenthal 510 g 1 HL. BROTHER KONRAD, PLEASE FOR US! (Front)
MORTUOS PLANGO (back)
MEISTER HERMANN HAMM FRANKENTHAL GOSS MICH (sign of origin without year)		 Consecration on April 10, 1950, Easter Monday
3 St. Josef - vivos voco
(I call the living)
St. Josef bell, St. Gereon (Nackenheim) .jpg
1949 Andreas Hamm and son, Frankenthal 360 a 1 HL. JOSEF, PLEASE FOR US! (Front)
FESTA DECORA (back)
MEISTER HERMANN HAMM FRANKENTHAL GOSS MICH 1949 (mark of origin)		 Consecration on April 8, 1949, Easter Monday
4th Confession bell 40 REGINA COELI ORA PRO NOBIS in the roof turret, not ringable, donated by the Ark family from Nackenheim, year unknown

Tower clock

Historical clockwork, St. Gereon (Nackenheim)

Outside area and cemetery

Wegekapelle St. Gereon, Nackenheim

The church can be reached from the village via a steep stepped path that forks at a path chapel . This arched clinker brick building from 1900 with a slated tail roof contains a crucifixion group with colored clay figures from the same year. The base of the crucifixion group from 1747 (currently installed) serves as the substructure: OH YOU ALL WHO YOU CLIMB / HERE ZV THIS MOUNTAIN HINAVFF / IESVS AT THE CREVTZ EVCH SHOWS / HOW THE PATH VND SAFE LAVFF / HERE BE TIMELY CREVTZ VND LEITER / THERE TO COME IN DIE FREVDEN / LVC 24C / 174. After the transfer and renewal of the crucifixion group in 1900 the following inscription now appears: Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ, that you died for me. Oh, don't let your blood and pain be lost in me.

Towards the Rhine, on the east gable of the church, there has been a mount of olives from 1875 since 1906 (previously covered with a clinker brick building similar to the wayside chapel). Formerly placed in a niche in the vestibule to the church, larger-than-life figures of the evangelists Luke and John from the first baroque high altar stood on both sides. Today, deprived of its figures (kneeling Jesus with angel) and roofing, the Mount of Olives scene with its empty plinth is still waiting to be restored.

Orphaned Mount of Olives Group, St. Gereon (Nackenheim)
Jesus figure of the Mount of Olives Group, St. Gereon (Nackenheim)

The church itself is bordered to the north and west by the cemetery, which has been greatly expanded in recent times and takes up almost the entire spur of the Kirchberg. At the church tower there is a wrought-iron gate grille in the Art Nouveau style . The cemetery cross with its body made of red sandstone was restored and renewed in 1939. Only the middle part of the Christ body remained of the old cross, which was still well preserved. Formerly, the figures of Our Lady and St. John. It bore the inscription: A cross for the comfort of poor souls should be set up here PMM-CM

Cemetery cross, Nackenheim am Rhein

Pastor

Only a few names are still known for the pastors of the medieval Nackenheim.

  • Walter, Scholaster of St. Viktor (1255)
  • Cleric John (1326)
  • Pastor Gernod and Chaplain Antz (1341)
  • Priest Hermann von Wagenbach (1343)
  • Pastor Heinrich von Siegen (1378)

The following pastors worked in Nackenheim from 1600 on:

  • Hermanus Gümpelius, Vicar to St. Stephan (1600–1601)
  • Zacharias Hiltmann, Vicar to St. Stephan (1617)
  • Sebastianus Witterhold, Vicar to St. Stephan (1618–1620)
  • Reinhardus Schwartz from Wetzlar (1622–1627)
  • Zacharias Hiltmann, Vicar to St. Stephan (1626)
  • Adolphus Hermanns from Lauterbach (1627–1629)
  • Nikolaus Fremonius from Lorraine (1629–1630)
  • Michael Lutz from Würzburg (1630–1637)
  • Casparus Mott, Vicar to St. Stephan (1637–1641)
  • Martinus Metzger from Mainz, vicar to St. Stephan (1641–1646)
  • Johannes Ely (later pastor at St. Quintin (Mainz) ) (1644)
  • Cuno Heilmann (1646–1661)
  • Arnoldus Droten (1652)
  • Johann Sebastian Weber (1657)
  • Andreas Fuchsius (1661–1676)
  • Joannes Henricus Hippelius (later pastor in Lörzweiler ) (1669–1676)
  • Father Wilhelm Mülheim, Premonstratensian , died in Nackenheim on April 20, 1681 (1669–1670)
  • Father Wilhelm, Franciscan , parish administrator (1681–1682)
  • Johanns Friedrich Holthauser, Vicar of St. Stephan, died January 2, 1683 in Nackenheim, buried in the cloister of St. Stephan (1682–1682)
  • Theodores Wilhelm, Vicar of St. Stephan, died on September 7th and buried in St. Gereon (1683–1689)
  • Johann Adam Köhler from Eichsfeld , vicar of St. Stephan, died February 2, 1710 (1689–1710)
  • Engelbert Maubeuge (Maubeye) from Trier , 1694 pastor to St. Christoph in Mainz, since 1695 vicar to St. Stephan, from 1696 to 1707 pastor there, until 1710 pastor in Münster-Liederbach, builder of the current parish church in Nackenheim, died on Buried there and in the parish church in front of the Joseph Altar on January 24, 1728 (1710–1728)
  • Johannes Philipp Boltz from Wicker , vicar to St. Viktor. He equipped the new church, Vicar Johannes Adam Sartorius was subordinate to him (1728–1732)
  • Johannes Adam Sartorius from Mainz, Vicar to St. Viktor (1732–1737)
  • Johannes Philipp Boltz, Vicar to St. Viktor. He took over the parish office for the second time, died April 30, 1760 and was buried in the parish church (1737–1760)
  • Anton Franz Brandmüller from Rüdesheim , died December 30, 1782 and buried in the Nackenheimer Friedhof (1760–1782)
  • Johann Baptiste Kerz, Dr. theol. from Mainz (1783–1791)
  • Karl Melchior Arand, Dr. theol. from Heiligenstadt , b. on June 2, 1754, studied in Erfurt, Mainz and Vienna, chaplain in Kella / Eichsfeld , assessor in Erfurt, 1783–1789 professor of dogmatics and patrology in Mainz, 1789–1791 pastor at the church in Amorbach and assessor of the Archbishop's Commissariat in Aschaffenburg. 1791–1793 pastor in Nackenheim, 1792–1793 clubist and mayor in Nackenheim, 1793 reigning the Mainz seminary, accused of clubbing in Mainz, taken to Königstein fortress for two years , then forced residency in Fritzlar until 1805, then pastor in Naumburg (Saale ) until his death November 9, 1823 (1791–1793)
  • Johannes Emil, b. 23 November 1766 in Bensheim , parish administrator in Nackenheim, died as pastor of Lorsch 1835 (1793)
  • Christoph Scherf, b. February 2, 1750 in Straßbessenbach (1794–1811)
  • David Walz, former Augustinian monk, died September 19, 1815 (1811–1815)
  • Georg Keck, b. September 13, 1751 in Mainz, died as pastor of Budenheim on June 1, 1842 (1816–1822)
  • Johannes Ludwig Schick from Rüdigheim , ex-canon of Amöneburg , vicar at Worms Cathedral , Austrian field chaplain, cooperator in Austria. Pastor in Weinolsheim and Nierstein (1822–1830)
  • Johann Baptist Englert, b. October 21, 1799 in Viernheim , parish administrator in Nackenheim, died as pastor in Groß-Steinheim on July 6, 1860 (1830–1831)
  • Johannes Seitz, b. August 2, 1788 in Wald-Michelbach , pastor in Heßloch , died as pastor of Astheim on November 19, 1868 (1831–1834)
  • Petrus Joseph Castello, b. August 22, 1806 in Mainz, parish administrator in Nackenheim, died as pastor of Bingen on July 17, 1850 (1834–1835)
  • Georg Joseph Suder, b. on July 28, 1805 in Mainz, died as pastor of Klein-Winternheim on December 14, 1882, builder of the Nackenheim rectory (1835–1837)
  • Peter Thron, b. on December 6th, 1799 in Osthofen, pastor in Flonheim , died in Nackenheim on March 24th and buried there (1837–1839)
  • Heinrich Jacqueré, b. July 28, 1808 in Bingen, parish administrator in Nackenheim, died August 12, 1884 as pastor of Haßloch (1839)
  • Richard Metzger, b. on February 3, 1803 in Bingen, died on March 12, 1863, buried in the priest's grave in Nackenheim (1839–1863)
  • Andreas Auer, b. on August 6, 1832 in Mainz, parish administrator in Nackenheim, died as pastor of Guntersblum on September 27, 1886 (1863)
  • Johann Baptist Desaga, b. on December 8, 1824 in Bensheim , pastor in Vilbel , died on June 23, 1864 in Nackenheim (1863–1864)
  • Anton Kuhn, b. May 20, 1837 in Bensheim, parish administrator in Nackenheim, died as pastor of Bürstadt on September 8, 1916 (1864)
  • Franz Anton Steindecker, b. on November 13, 1822 in Mainz, died in Mainz on December 16, 1902 (1864–1896)
  • Franz Otto, b. on November 8, 1851 in Dieburg , chaplaincy in Gau-Bickelheim and St. Emmeran (Mainz) , pastor in Armsheim , clerical council , died on May 27, 1936 in Dieburg. He had the church expanded in 1901 and the tower built in 1911 (1896–1920)
  • Johann Adam Winkler, b. on February 13, 1886 in Viernheim , chaplain positions in St. Emmeran (Mainz) and Offenbach , St. Peter and Paul. Parish offices in Heppenheim , Gießen , Mainz-Kastel , parish administrators in Mainz-Weisenau in 1919 and 1920 parish administrators in Nackenheim, from August 1921 also local pastors, clergymen, honorary citizens of Nackenheim, buried in the priestly grave of Nackenheim next to his brother, Nackenheim has a street after him named (1920–1952)
  • Friedrich Denner, b. on March 26, 1914 in Lampertheim , died on April 14, 1980 in Nackenheim and buried in the priest's grave there, a street in Nackenheim was named in his honor (1952–1980)
  • Parish administrator Chaplain Bruno Schalk (1980)
  • Parish administrator Chaplain Bruno Knapp (1980)
  • Wolfgang Traut, b. on August 14, 1939 in Mainz, chaplain positions in Niederroden and Friedberg , military chaplain in Kassel , as pastor led major renovation work in Nackenheim, pastor in Dreieich - Sprendlingen , vicar of the Mainz cathedral parish St. Martin and St. Quintin, clergyman, died on 3 January 2018 in Mainz, buried in Nackenheim (1980–1989)
  • Josef Hermann Grimm, b. on August 20, 1934, ordained a priest on July 31, 1960, pastor in Schwabenheim an der Selz 1979–1989, died on September 27, 2007 (1989–1995)
  • Reinhold Martin Ricker, ordained a priest on July 9, 1988 in Mainz, retired from October 14, 2018 (1995-2018)
  • Paul Kollar, also pastor of the parish of St. Alban, Bodenheim
  • Christian Kaschub (as parish administrator), ordained a priest on July 2, 2016 in Mainz, previously chaplain in St. Johannes XXIII. (Viernheim) and St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Friedberg), also pastors of the parish of St. Alban, Bodenheim (since August 1, 2020)

Trivia

The painter-poet Hermann also created a literary monument for the church in the 20th century. Under his painting of St. Gereon it is written:

As if you wanted to
send greetings and blessings out into the country,
So you stand on high places,
you dear place of God.

Like children in the mother's arms
So sleep around you
Many hearts in sweet peace,
The sufferings once weighed down.

And softly the flowers that
stand on the graves whisper ,
The blessed dream of the dead:
Up there - see you again.

The parish was awarded the "Church Tower Habitat" badge by the German Nature Conservation Union for its efforts to offer kestrels breeding opportunities in the roof structure of the nave .

Web links

Commons : St. Gereon (Nackenheim)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate: Mainz-Bingen district. Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 18.2 (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Arranged by Dieter Krienke. Edited on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms, p. 140.
  2. ↑ https://www.kulturlandschaft.org/publikationen/siedlungsforschung/sf17-1999.pdf
  3. ↑ Hellmuth Gensicke: The property of the St. Gereon monastery in Cologne in Nackenheim. In: Nackenheimer local history writings. Vol. 8. Nackenheim 1956, p. 15.
  4. ↑ http://www.pfarrei-st-gereon-nackenheim.homepage.t-online.de/Kirchengeschichte.pdf .
  5. ↑ Werner Lang: Overview of the history of the parish St. Gereon in Nackenheim. In: Materials on the history of the parish of St. Gereon Nackenheim (= Nackenheimer Heimatkundliche Schriften, issue 3). Nackenheim 1952, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Hellmuth Gensicke: The property of the St. Gereon monastery in Cologne in Nackenheim. In: Nackenheimer local history writings. Vol. 8. Nackenheim 1956, p. 14.
  7. ^ Alois Gerlich: Nackenheim under Cologne and Mainz rule. In: Nackenheimer Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe. Issue 4. Nackenheim 1952, p. 11.
  8. ↑ Werner Lang: Overview of the history of the parish St. Gereon in Nackenheim. Nackenheimer Heimatkundliche Schriften (Issue 3). 1952, p. 4.
  9. ^ Rev. A. Winkler: The history of the parish church of St. Gereon. In: Contributions to the local knowledge of Nackenheim. Issue 1. Nackenheim 1951, p. 28.
  10. ^ Werner Lang: Nackenheim in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Nackenheimer local history writings. Issue 1. Nackenheim 1951, p. 18.
  11. ↑ Karl Johann Brilmeyer: Rheinhessen, past and present. Emil Roth, Giessen 1905.
  12. ^ Magda Dörr: An unknown church book in Nackenheim (1387 to 1708). In: Nackenheimer local history writings. Issue 11. Ed. By the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein. Nackenheim am Rhein 1958, p. 5.
  13. ↑ Brilmeyer: Rheinhessen, past and present. 1905, p. 321.
  14. ↑ Reinhold Ricker: The parish of St. Gereon. In: Festschrift. 100 years of MVG happiness. Edited by Male choir Frohsinn 1904 e. V. Nackenheim 2004, p. 21.
  15. ^ Walter Lang: Nackenheim in the Middle Ages. 1951, p. 16.
  16. ^ Sigrid Schmitt: Rural legal sources from the Electoral Mainz offices of Olm and Algesheim ( Geschichtliche Landeskunde, Volume 44). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, p. 423.
  17. ^ Walter Lang: Nackenheim in the Middle Ages. In: Contributions to the local knowledge of Nackenheim. Nackenheim 1951, p. 16.
  18. ↑ Wilhelm Christoph Heckelsmüller: Sankt Gereon. Catholic parish church in Nackenheim. Renovation 1978-88. Mainz 1990, p. 5.
  19. ^ Walter Lang: Nackenheim in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Contributions to the local knowledge of Nackenheim. Issue 1. 1951, p. 21.
  20. ↑ See Heckelsmüller 1990, p. 54.
  21. ^ Pastor A. Winkler: The history of the parish church of St. Gereon. 1951, p. 29.
  22. ↑ See Ricker, p. 21.
  23. ^ Werner Lang: Nackenheim in the 17th and 18th centuries. 1951, p. 21.
  24. ↑ See Heckelsmüller, p. 38.
  25. ^ Rev. A. Winkler: The history of the parish church of St. Gereon. 1951, p. 30.
  26. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Gereon (ed.): I want to praise the Lord at all times. Festschrift for the consecration of the renovated Schlimbach organ at St. Gereon in Nackenheim. Nackenheim 1994, p. 11.
  27. ↑ See Heckelsmüller 1990, p. 42.
  28. ↑ Wilhelm Christoph Heckelsmüller: Sankt Gereon. Catholic parish church in Nackenheim. Renovation 1978-88. Mainz 1990, p. 7.
  29. ↑ a b c Monument topography Mainz-Bingen February 18, 2011, p. 138.
  30. ↑ Heckelsmüller: Renovation 1978-88, p. 32.
  31. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kotzur, Kartin Kreuzpaintner: How baroque was the cathedral? In: The missing cathedral. Perception and change of the Mainz cathedral over the centuries. Edited by Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz. Mainz 2011, p. 318.
  32. ↑ Wilhelm Christoph Heckelsmüller: Sankt Gereon. Catholic parish church in Nackenheim. Renovation 1978-88. Mainz 1990, p. 46.
  33. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kotzur, Kartin Kreuzpaintner: How baroque was the cathedral? In: The missing cathedral. Perception and change of the Mainz cathedral over the centuries. Edited by Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz. Mainz 2011, p. 318.
  34. ^ Rev. A. Winkler: The Greifenclau high altar. In: Materials on the history of the parish of St. Gereon Nackenheim ( Nackenheimer Heimatkundlich series of publications, volume 3). Nackenheim 1952, p. 14.
  35. ↑ A. Winkler: The small sanctuaries in neck home. 1952, p. 27.
  36. ↑ Heckelsmüller: Renovation 1978-88, p. 36f.
  37. ↑ Heckelsmüller: Renovation 1978-88. P. 39.
  38. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Gereon: I want to praise the Lord at all times. Festschrift for the consecration of the renovated Schlimbach organ at St. Gereon in Nackenheim. Nackenheim 1994, p. 6.
  39. ↑ https://dcms.bistummainz.de/bm/dcms/sites/einrichtungen/kirchenmusik/orgeln_bistum/nackenheim.html
  40. ^ Protocol of the church council 1950.
  41. ↑ Monument topography district Mainz-Bingen, p. 140.
  42. ↑ A. Winkler: The small sanctuaries in neck home. In: Materials on the history of the parish of St. Gereon ( Nackenheimer Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe, Book 3). Nackenheim 1953, p. 26.
  43. ↑ Monument topography district Mainz-Bingen, p. 140.
  44. ↑ A. Winkler: Small sanctuaries, p. 27.
  45. ^ Rev. A. Winkler: The history of the parish church of St. Gereon. 1951, p. 30f.
  46. ↑ http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/vg-bodenheim/nackenheim/in-gauben-von-st-gereon-in-nackenheim-nzte-falkenfamilie-mit-fuenf-jungen_18823359.htm General newspaper Mainz

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