St. Martin (Linz on the Rhine)

West facade

View from the northeast

Aerial view of Linz on the Rhine with Sankt Martin

The parish church of St. Martin is a Catholic church in Linz on the Rhine . It is a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention .

history

Most of the west tower and the lower part of the central nave of the parish church of St. Martin were built from 1206 to 1214 in the Rhenish transition style. The galleries with their pointed arches, the side aisles, the upper floor of the tower and the choir were added after a change of plan around 1230/1240 in the early Gothic style .

Construction and equipment

Monumental wall paintings from 1240/1250 are applied to the yoke walls of the central nave. On the northern side there are female saints like St. Ursula , St. Margareta, St. Catherine and St. Barbara pictured. On the southern side are the male saints - St. Jacobus the Elder / Coronation of the Pilgrims, St. Peter and St. Martin . The wall painting in the western organ gallery depicts the Christmas story, and other wall paintings in the Nicholas gallery depict scenes from the life of St. Nicholas. Two valuable paintings in Cologne's panel painting can be attributed to St. Martin. On the one hand the "mercy seat" from 1461 in the south aisle, on the other hand the triptych of the Marien altar from 1463 (today in the new parish church St. Marien). Both works of art were commissioned for the council chapel in Linz, which was consecrated on October 10, 1462, by the canon of the Electorate of Cologne , legal scholar and papal legate Tilman Joel († 1461).

literature

• Denise Steger: 800 years of the Catholic parish church St. Martin in the mirror of art , Ed. Förderverein St. Martin-Kirche Linz / Rhein eV, Linz 2006
• Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuwied ( The Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 16, Section II), Düsseldorf, Schwann, 1940, page 217 ff

Web links

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

• Pictures and information about the history of St. Martin
• Information and pictures about St. Martin, website of the city of Linz am Rhein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Old Parish Church of St. Martin, accessed on August 27, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '57.2 "  N , 7 ° 17' 0.7"  E