St. John Evangelist (Niederweis)

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St. John Evangelist at Niederweis
St. John, interior
St. Johannes Evangelist, view of the organ gallery

St. Johannes Evangelist is a Roman Catholic branch church in Niederweis ( Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm ) in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The chapel in Niederweis was donated to Echternach Abbey in 798/99 together with an estate by Harduwin and his wife . In the 12th century a Romanesque chapel with a choir tower was built in the east. Around 1300 the choir tower, which has three storeys and, on the upper storey, column-coupled round windows with architrave capitals, was vaulted.

After the old chapel was laid down except for the choir tower, a new, larger church in neo-Gothic style was added to it in a north-south orientation in 1846, thus giving up the traditional east-facing of the choir. The first floor of the tower has served as an entrance porch with the open (former) choir arch to the cemetery since 1896. In 1991 the old choir tower was completely restored and given a new color scheme.

In the tower hall there is a grave slab and an epitaph fragment of the Cob von Nüdingen family († 1671 and † 1699). The core of the cemetery wall is probably still medieval; Tomb of Clemens Wenceslaus († 1840).

organ

The organ was built around 1863 by Balthasar Schlimbach (1807-1896). It stood in the old Sommerau parish church “St. Laurentius ”, then until 1939 in the New Parish Church“ St. Laurentius ”, the so-called Spessart Cathedral, in Sommerau im Spessart ( Diocese of Würzburg ). From Sommerau it came to Mespelbrunn in the Spessart, also belonging to the diocese of Würzburg. After the construction of the new church in Mespelbrunn, it was acquired by the Diocese of Trier in 1976 and stored in a warehouse. The organ was exemplary repaired in 1985 by the Trier company Rudolf Oehms, painted in color by restorer Herbert Schmittay and set up on a specially built gallery in the western part of the small neo-Gothic church. In 2018 the instrument was overhauled by the organ builder Hubert Fasen from Oberbettingen and changes were made to the playing and stop action.

  • Organ loft

  • Schlimbach organ

  • Manual register

  • Organ prospectus

  • historical gaming table

literature

  • Joseph Hoster : Choir towers in the Rhineland. In: Colonia Sacra 1 (1947), pp. 99-162.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district. Düsseldorf 1927.
  • Hermann Fischer : Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. Aschaffenburg History and Art Association, 2004
  • Hiltrud Herrmann, Helga and Theo Blitsch: 25 years Schlimbach organ Niederweis - St. Johannes d. Baptist, Niederweis. Festival brochure, 2011.
  • Otto Pfeifer: The history of the parish and the churches of St. Laurentius Sommerau. Hinckel-Druck, Wertheim, ed. Markt Eschau, self-published, 2012.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Evangelist (Niederweis)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 18.4 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 56.1"  E