St. Martin (Medelsheim)

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The parish church of St. Martin in Medelsheim
View inside the church
Gothic altarpiece , probably created around 1430
View from the chancel towards the gallery and organ prospect

The Church of St. Martin is a Catholic parish church in Medelsheim , a district of the municipality of Gersheim . The church building is the landmark and namesake of the " Parr " ("parish") landscape in which Medelsheim is located. Saint Martin is the church patron .

history

The predecessor building of today's church was a Gothic house of God, which was built around 1350, and was a replacement for an older sacral building that went back to Franconian times.

The Gothic church building survived the Thirty Years War , in which Medelsheim was devastated, but had to make way for a new building in the Baroque style in 1772 due to its dilapidation and rapid population growth . With the exception of the choir , which now served as a sacristy , the Gothic church was demolished. On April 24, 1774, the foundation stone was laid for the new church in Medelsheim, which had belonged to the Leyens rule of Blieskastel since 1656 . It was carried out by Philipp von der Leyen , the seven-year-old son of the ruling Count Franz Karl von der Leyen . In the course of the construction work, the former choir was raised by two floors to form a tower . The new church was consecrated on August 5, 1776.

On September 13, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , the church burned down completely due to German artillery fire. The valuable baroque inventory from the time it was built was destroyed. Only the enclosing walls of the nave and the tower remained. The ruins suffered further damage in the winter fighting in 1944/45.

In 1947, preparations began to rebuild the destroyed church. The tower was provided with an emergency roof and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 9, 1948 . On October 16, 1949, the rebuilt church was consecrated by the Speyer bishop Joseph Wendel . In 1951 the exterior masonry, which was strewn with innumerable splinter holes, received a new exterior plaster . In 1953 an increase of the tower by an additional 2.50 meters and the emergency roof of the tower was a copper spire replaced. On March 27, 1955, the church's four new bells were consecrated, cast by the French bell foundry Paccard in Annecy .

In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

The inside of the church

In the sacristy, the choir of the former Gothic church, layers of limestone had loosened during the Second World War due to the weather. Gothic frescoes from the 14th century came to light. In 1954 conservation work was carried out on the frescoes, during which the Gothic tabernacle with a small vault and an oculus window were uncovered. Another fundamental restoration and conservation took place in 2001 and 2002. In the course of this work, a new sacristy was built on the north side of the church to protect the wall and vault paintings from further damage.

The Gothic altarpiece , probably created around 1430, is a specialty , a work of great importance in the entire south-west of Germany. The reredos were discovered in the Medelsheimer Kreuzkapelle in 1956 and placed on the high altar of the church after the original colored version was exposed during the restoration.

organ

The organ of the church was built by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and consecrated on October 5, 1985. The instrument, which is set up on a gallery and has a free-standing console , has 21 registers spread over 2 manuals and pedal . The wind chests are mechanical sliding chests with an electrical play and stop action.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Coupling flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Duplicate 2 ′
7th Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
9. Wooden flute 8th'
10. Salicional 8th'
11. Capstan whistle 4 ′
12. Sesquialter II
13. Principal 2 ′
14th Sifflet 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Sharp III 1'
16. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Principal 8th'
19th Covered 8th'
20th Chorale bass 4 ′
21st bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : two free combinations, tutti, individual tongue storage

literature

  • Weyandt, Barbara: The parish church of St. Martin in Gersheim-Medelsheim in Bliesgau . Neusser Dr. u. Verl., Neuss 1990, ISBN 978-3-88094-663-7 , pp. 16 .

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Medelsheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Catholic parish church "St. Martin" Medelsheim On: www.gersheim.de, accessed on June 23, 2012
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on June 23, 2012
  3. ↑ Organ of the Church of St. Martin (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saar-orgelland.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 1.4 ″  E