St. Martin (Waldsee)

Catholic Church of St. Martin

St. Martin is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Palatinate village of Waldsee and the center of the parish of the same name . The building stands on the edge of the Hochgestades above the Rhine lowlands .

The church at Kirchstrasse 16 was built in 1842/43 according to plans by architect August von Voit as a neo-Romanesque red sandstone hall building and is a listed building .

Surroundings

In front of the building there is a statue of the patron saint of the church, St. Martin of Tour , in a small green area , who is represented with his attribute, a goose. There a plaque commemorates the priests of the parish. The bronze statue of the saint was created by Franz Müller-Steinfurth.

To the south of the statue is the Elisabethenhaus for Catholic women, the front of which is decorated with a statue of St. Elisabeth.

To the south of the church are the rectory and parish center.

In the east below the church, already in the Rhine valley, is the St. Martin kindergarten belonging to the parish.

A small Lourdes grotto was built on the lawn behind the east side of the church .

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Dellwing , Rolf Mertzenich (Editor): cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 7: Ludwigshafen district. Werner, Worms 1989. ISBN 3-491-31038-5 ; General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (publisher): Informational directory of cultural monuments in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.4 MB). Koblenz 2010.

Statue of St. Martin; in the background the Elisabethenhaus
Statue of St. Martin - close-up
Statue of St. Martin, back, clearly showing his tribute the goose
Memorial plaque to the parish priests since 1901
Apse on the east side of the church
small Lourdes grotto
Kindergarten St. Martin, east, below the Church of St. Martin
Relief image of St. Martin on the horse, who shares the coat for the beggar, on the west side of the kindergarten
The church seen from the Rhine valley