St. Martin (Bad Ems)
The Protestant Church of St. Martin is a Romanesque gallery basilica in Bad Ems in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Protestant parish Bad Ems in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
History and architecture
Around 1000 the church was owned by the St. Kastor monastery in Koblenz . In 1181 there was a parish. There are no data on the existing structure; it was restored after a fire in 1720 and restored in 1957. The building is a pillar basilica with galleries above the side aisles without a transept, which was probably built in the middle or third quarter of the 12th century and is a direct successor to the church of Niederlahnstein , which, like the present church, belongs to the St. Kastor monastery in Koblenz belonged to. It is provided with a built-in, presumably somewhat older tower, which is slightly shifted from the axis of the church to the north and is closed with a baroque dome with a lantern . The corners of the side aisles are accentuated by pilaster strips , the rectangular choir is divided into three parts on all sides by pilaster strips with arched friezes. On the south side, a simple round arched step portal with a blind arch opens up the building.
The nave consists of a flat-roofed central nave with five arcades, the side aisles continue with a sixth yoke on both sides of the tower. The pillars, which are square in floor plan and with sturdy spiers, appear more compact, as the floor was originally lower. The gallery openings are similar to the arcade arches on the ground floor. In the side aisles, groin vaults with belt arches are built in, and in the galleries, flat wooden barrel vaults that rise inwards are installed as a closure. The upper facade windows, which were enlarged in the 18th century, were made smaller again in 1957; Only the two small east windows above the choir roof are original from the Romanesque period.
Stairs to the galleries can only be found in the west wall on both sides of the tower and on the east yoke in the slightly protruding south wall. The choir is designed as a stretched, rectangular, groin-vaulted yoke with an apse sunk into the east wall as a niche . The similarities with the church in Niederlahnstein continue with the proportions. The nave and choir are of the same width, the width of the central to the aisle is 2: 1, the height of the central to the width is 2: 1; The present church is further developed in the individual forms.
Furnishing
The liturgical furnishings are simple and modern. One tombstone dates from 1684, others in front of the church from the 16th to 19th centuries. Century. The benches were made in the 18th century. The organ is a work of the company Eule Orgelbau Bautzen from 2014 with 18 stops on two manuals and pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Special edition for the Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1985, p. 64.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 10.3 " N , 7 ° 42 ′ 46.5" E