St. Martin (Ober-Erlenbach)

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Parish Church of St. Martin

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Ober-Erlenbach is the oldest church in Bad Homburg . The baroque church is under the patronage of Martin von Tours and is a listed building.

Building history

The first Martinskirche was built in 1160. It was sold in 1691 by the Archdiocese of Mainz to the Counts of Ingelheim , who ruled Ober-Erlenbach until 1803.

The current church was built in 1763–1765 under Count Johann Philipp von Ingelheim and his wife Clara Philippina Freiin von Dalberg .

In 1911 the gallery was redesigned and expanded, and the church windows were donated in 1913. During the fundamental renovation in 1926, baroque wall and ceiling paintings were added and in the following year the side entrance on the north side with a war memorial (outside) and a Pietà (inside) were added. The redesign of the churchyard and the construction of the large staircase to the main entrance took place in 1951. The sacristy was expanded and the heating system installed in 1961/62. Some of the baroque pictures were painted over in the course of the renovation in 1965/66 and a new sacrificial altar made of Jura marble was consecrated. The sand-colored walls under the sky-blue ceiling are from the interior renovation in 1985. The last major renovation of the church took place in 2014.

architecture

The baroque sacred building is a rectangular, single-nave hall church with a crooked hip . The roof of the eight-sided tower is slate. The semicircular choir is closed on three sides.

Furnishing

Many pieces of the church furnishings were acquired in 1808 by Count Friedrich I. zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen , the new owner of the Church of St. John the Baptist (built in 1712, secularized in 1803 and demolished in 1815) of the Premonstratensian monastery in Nieder-Ilbenstadt :

  • the baroque high altar (1697–1700),
  • the side altar of the Holy Cross, St. Anna (1691–1694) based on an altarpiece by Peter Paul Rubens ,
  • the side altar Education of Mary (1691–1694) after a copperplate engraving by PP Rubens,
  • several wooden figures,
  • twelve pictures of the 14 stations of the Cross (Anton Flachner, approx. 1740–1769),
  • oak pews in the nave,
  • the oil paintings Christ on the Scourge Column and St. Norbert .

The baptismal font , made in 1697 from black Schupbach marble , with a base and basin made of Villmar marble , was taken over from the previous church and is the oldest piece of the church.

The Würzburg Eulogius Böhler decorated the churches in 1926 with seven wall and ceiling paintings (Assumption of the Virgin, St. Martin, The Last Supper and the four Evangelists).

Bells

In 1890 the Weber brothers donated three bells. The two largest bells had to be melted down as part of the metal donation by the German people in both world wars. They could be replaced in 1922 and 1951 respectively.

organ

The early romantic organ was built by the Mainz organ builder Bernhard Dreymann in 1839/1840. This makes it Bad Homburg's oldest original organ. It was electrified in 1911 (or 1914). The tin pipes in the prospectus were supplied as raw material for the armaments industry during the First World War and replaced by cheaper pipes made of zinc. The organ was rebuilt in 1948 by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau by adding lighter-sounding registers, which, according to the organ movement , were necessary for baroque works. A thorough restoration was carried out for the 150th anniversary in 1990. Tin pipes were reinstalled in the prospectus and the organ was restored to the condition originally intended by the builder. The organ was also completed by installing the three reed stops, which have been missing since the inauguration on April 5, 1840 for cost reasons . It largely corresponds to the original and has retained its early romantic character. The mechanical grinding loading -instrument now has 24 registers (1.400 pipe), on two manual works are distributed and pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Granddact 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Salcional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Small edact 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
Trumpet 8th
II Positive C-g 3
Granddact 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Small edact 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Sifflet 1'
Sesquialtera II (from c)
Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Octavbass 4 ′
Trombone bass 16 ′

Footnotes

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Catholic Church of St. Martin In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse . Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Muriel Larissa Frank: Renovation of St. Martin: last beautification . In: Taunus Zeitung . September 11, 2015 ( [1] [accessed June 21, 2016]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: Dreymann organ (1840), St. Martin Church, Ober-Erlenbach. In: Organ landscape. Kur- und Kongreß-GmbH Bad Homburg vd Höhe, accessed on June 24, 2016 .
  4. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/2 (M-Z). 1988, pp. 704-706.
  5. ↑ a b o. V .: Catholic Church of St. Martin Ober-Erlenbach. In: Culture & History / Churches. Taunus Touristik Service eV, archived from the original on July 9, 2016 ; accessed on June 22, 2016 .

Web links

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

literature

  • Thomas Wetter: Little Church Guide St. Martin Ober-Erlenbach . 2014 ( [2] [accessed June 20, 2016]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 33.9 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 49.3"  E