St. Martin (Hillesheim)

View from the south of St. Martin's Church, Hillesheim

Look at the choir

War window as a war memorial

St. Martin is a Catholic parish church in Hillesheim , a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate , which was built in 1852/53. The church is centrally located on Graf-Mirbach-Platz and is protected as a cultural monument.

description

Since the church to St. Martin of Tours ordained is, one can assume that the parish will be over one thousand years. The Archangel Michael is the second patron saint of the church. St. Martin was created as a classical hall building in the years 1852/53. From 1971 to 1973 the church was completely renovated and repainted in 2001.

Furnishing

• Large forked cross from 1661
• Sacrament house from 1602 with chronogram of the Trier Elector Lothar von Metternich
• Pulpit with figures of the four evangelists
• Easter candlestick from 1662
• Tabernacle with bronze grille from 1971
• Pieta , late 17th century
• Epitaph for Matthias Dechler and Anna Brog from 1609
• Baptismal font by Ulrich Henn from 1972
• Madonna in the Rosary, loosely based on the eponymous Madonna in Maria im Weingarten by Tilmann Riemenschneider .

window

Most of the lead glass windows in the church were created in the Trier glass painting workshop in Binsfeld after 1945 . A war window was built in after the First World War to commemorate the fallen.

organ

View of the historic Stumm organ

The church has a baroque organ from 1772 from the workshop of the well-known Stumm family from the Hunsrück .

I main work C– Principal 8th' Gamba 8th' Slack travers 8th' Drone 8th' Dull dous 4 ′ octave 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Cornett IV 4 ′ Mixture IV 1' Krummhon-Hautbois 8th' Vox humana 8th' Trumpet 8th'

II substation C– Salicional 8th' Dumped 8th' Reed flute 4 ′ Principal 4 ′ Gemshorn 2 ′ octave 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture III 1' Krummhorn Trumpet 8th'

Pedals C– Sub-bass 16 ′ Violon 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Pointed flute 4 ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Parish church of St. Martin in Hillesheim / Eifel . Published by the Catholic parish of St. Martin in Hillesheim (leaflet in the church)

Web links

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

• Hillesheim parish community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the organ ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 14 ″  E