St. Markus (Wittlich)
St. Markus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the city center of Wittlich in the Eifel .
Building history
The church was started in 1707/09 under the Archbishops of Trier, Johann VIII. Hugo von Orsbeck , and completed under Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg in 1722/24. The first architect was the court architect Philipp Honorius von Ravensteyn , who began construction in 1707. The unusually long construction period can be explained by the death of the archbishop in 1711, who was the sponsor of the construction. The archbishops owned a farm in Wittlich. His colleague and later successor Johann Georg Judas completed the construction, raised the church tower and was responsible for the construction of the ridge turret. The church was only consecrated in 1727.
Building description
The church is a four - bay, three - aisled pillar basilica in a mixture of late or post-Gothic ( choir above the floor plan of the previous church, which burned down in 1707) and simple early Baroque forms. The windows in the tower, side aisles and upper cladding are designed in simple round arches. In the west is a square, three-storey, slate-roofed tower with a curved dome, which houses the bell and a tower clock on the third storey. Above the hood, an eight-sided open lantern with a curved helmet, tower ball , cross and weathercock crowns the tower. Also in the rectangular transversely attached roof turret hang bells in the eight-window bell room with a lantern closure. Entrances are possible through the tower and from both aisles.
Furnishing
The high altar was acquired from the Dominican Church in Koblenz in 1749 and added in 1927 by the sculptor Heiwegen. The choir stalls on the south wall were created around 1770, those on the north wall were recreated around 1820 and both were expanded again in 1927. The side altars from 1747 were made by the court carpenter Conrad Fischer. The baptismal font was created in 1727 by the Koblenz sculptor Lorenz Staudacher. The wooden figure of St. John the Baptist comes from the 15th century. Three grave slabs from the 17th century from the former cemetery have been preserved. On the south side of the tower, a figure of Saint Sebastian by Hanns Scherl was installed as a war memorial in 1935/1936 . The free-standing altar table (1971) and the ambo (1976) with their tree of life symbolism are also works by the Wittlich sculptor Scherl. The church windows had to be recreated after the war. They were created between 1949 and 1952 as coordinated cycles. In the north aisle they show scenes from the Old Testament ( Alois Stettner and Heinrich Dieckmann ) and in the south aisle they depict New Testament saints (Dieckmann and Maurice Rocher ). Georg Meistermann's choir windows are dedicated to the solemn festivals of the church year Christmas , Easter , Ascension and Whitsun . They are Meistermann's first church commissions after the war.
The organ prospect in the North German style - unique here - from 1769, which was made by Peter and Nikel Schreiber from Dusemont , nephew of the organ builder Johann Matthias Schreiber , has been preserved. The organ was completely rebuilt in 1848 by Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld from Trier and again in 1958 by the organ builder Johannes Klais from Bonn, using eleven registers from Breidenfeld. It now has 38 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The last renovation was carried out by the organ building company Sandtner from Dillingen / Donau in 2000/01.
Choir stalls
Organ prospectus from 1769 with Rückpositiv from 1958; right figure of John
High altar
Choir view with high altar and Meistermann windows
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literature
- Festschrift 300 years of the parish church of Sankt Markus, Wittlich. Edited by the parish council of Sankt Markus Wittlich. Wittlich 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ at Pfg.Wittlich ( Memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '7.6 " N , 6 ° 53" 17.9 " E