St. Kastor (Dausenau)

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St. Castor
The late Gothic winged altar with the three patron saints

The Protestant parish church of St. Kastor is a listed church building in Dausenau in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

After dendrochronological studies, the Romanesque tower was built around 1179, it was part of a previous Romanesque building. During excavations in 1991, the remains of the wall inside the church were uncovered. The community was mentioned in a document in 1244. After dendrochronological studies of the roof structure, the short, three-aisled hall church was built between 1312 and 1319. In a document from 1319 the saints Maria, Maria Magdalena and Castor were mentioned as patron saints. Wall paintings from the 14th century were discovered in the church in 1879 and restored in 1884, 1902 and 1951.

architecture

The aisles are divided by galleries. The late Romanesque tower is included. Each ship ends with a 5/8 choir . An open, cross-vaulted vestibule is located on two slender columns in front of the west portal, a late Gothic vestibule with a star vault is on the south side. One source states that valuable stained glass from the church was "carried away" to the tower of the Steinschen Castle .

Furnishing

  • Late Gothic winged altar around 1470 with panel paintings from the life of the Virgin
  • In the apses wall paintings from the 14th century
  • Wall paintings from the 14th and 16th centuries
  • Fragments of a scallop shell and jewelery were found in excavated graves in the early 1990s.
  • There are old built-in chambers in the attic

organ

The organ was built in 2005 by the organ building company Förster & Nicolaus (Lich) in the existing organ case from 1841. The instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Paddock 4 ′
5. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Super octave 2 ′
7th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
Tremblant gone
II Swell C – g 3
10. Hollow flute 8th'
11. Salizional 8th'
12. Beat 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Transverse flute 4 ′
15th Flageolet 2 ′
16. Plein jeu 2 ′
17th Hautbois 8th'
Tremblant doux
Pedal C – f 1
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Wooden principal 8th'
20th Covered bass 8th'
21st trombone 16 ′

graveyard

There is an old cemetery next to the church , on which, among other things, a classicist tomb from 1824 (mourning genius ) by Johann Baptist Scholl can be seen.

photos

literature

  • Reclams Art Guide, Rhineland and Westphalia, Germany Volume III, Architectural Monuments, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 .

Web links

Commons : St. Kastor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pages of the parish
  2. ↑ Reclams Kunstführer, Rheinlande und Westfalen, Germany Volume III, Baudenkmälder, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , pp. 137 and 138
  3. ^ The church in Dausenau near Ems , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 1, January 3, 1885, p. 7, accessed on January 5, 2013
  4. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 36 ″  E