St. Martin (Bad Orb)
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The Church of St. Martin in Bad Orb is one of the two Roman Catholic parish churches in the city. It is located on a hill, right next to the former castle .
history
The oldest mention of a chapel at this point comes from the year 1064. The church probably emerged from the Romanesque castle chapel. Its foundations were discovered in an archaeological excavation in 1937 .
The current church was built between 1335 and 1440 using older components. The church patron St. Martin also appears in the city's coat of arms.
In 1978/79 the church was considerably expanded with modern facilities.
Church fire
On Christmas Day 1983 it burned down almost completely, only the sacrament chapel and the sacristy remained. The building, which was re- consecrated in 1985 , is partly reconstruction and partly redesigned. Both construction measures were designed by the diocesan master builder of the diocese of Würzburg Hans skull . He also wrote the composition of the returning Christ above the celebration altar, which can also be found in a similar form in the Würzburg Cathedral. The parish belongs to the diocese of Fulda . Today a memorial commemorates the fire.
Buildings and equipment
Martinskirche is originally a Gothic hall church with an irregular floor plan and Gothic choirs at the head of the main and side aisles, all of which have a five- eighth end. The oldest part of the church is the choir and the sacrament chapel (formerly sacristy ) from 1445. The tower, which is Romanesque at its core, is inclined in the floor plan and probably comes from the city fortifications. Of the five aisles, the middle one is the oldest, the side aisles were added over time. The Marienkapelle from 1480 is also an extension. In 1978/79 the church was extended to five naves, whereby the old windows of the aisles were re-installed in the new outer naves. The baroque furnishings of the church were already removed during a renovation and regotization between 1936 and 1938, but the baroque high altar was put up again with the renovation in 1979.
In the 1983 fire, all of this equipment, including all art treasures, was almost completely destroyed. A baroque cross corpus, which was housed in the second Catholic church in the town (St. Michael) at that time, and the liturgical implements and vestments, on the other hand, remained intact, as did the Epiphany group of the St. Martin's crib. The most valuable piece of equipment was the Orber Altar , which the master of the Darmstadt Passion , who worked on the Upper Rhine, had created around 1440. Only the middle section of the three-winged composition ( Calvary ) was an original, while the side wings ( Adoration of the Kings and Mercy Seat ) were copies of the panels kept in the State Museums in Berlin . The triptych installed today in the left aisle is a reconstruction, as is the Gothic group of entombments and some baroque sculptures. In addition, the interior of the church has been completely redesigned.
In the tower hall is next epitaphs also a memorial cross to the deceased prisoners of the main camp IX B at the crossroads .
organ
The organ was rebuilt in 1986 by the organ builder Klais (Bonn). The slider chests -instrument has 33 registers on three manual works and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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See also
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt . (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer et al.), 3rd edition, Munich 2008, p. 52.
- Waltraud Friedrich: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse, Main-Kinzig-Kreis I . Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , pp. 88-95.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 45.8 ″ E