St. Martin (Oestrich)
The Catholic, former parish church of St. Martin is a late Gothic , three-aisled hall church in Oestrich in the Rheingau . Today St. Martin is a branch church of the parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau, a new type of parish. Since 2015 St. Peter and Paul in Eltville is also the parish church of Oestrich.
history
Oestrich was the seat of the land dean of the Rheingau. A church was first mentioned under Archbishop Willigis , who gave it to the provost of the Mainz Viktorsstift . Similar to St. Vincentius in Hattenheim , the tower was preserved from a Romanesque previous building from the 1st half of the 12th century and was integrated into a newer building. The current church was started in 1508. The unchanged south hall from this construction phase still exists.
During the Thirty Years War , the church was burned down by the Swedes in 1633 or 1635. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the church was rebuilt in a simple form without the interior vaults.
The current appearance comes mainly from a restoration in 1893/94. The star vault was drawn in and the baroque gallery was replaced by a neo-Gothic one. The sacristy was also expanded and two chapels were added. Thus the appearance of a late Gothic church was complete again.
Furnishing
The main altar dates from the 19th century, five of the six figures come from the Gothic construction phase ( St. Barbara , John the Baptist , St. Catherine, St. Gregory , St. Boniface ) the sixth ( St. Benedict ) was added in the neo-Gothic style . A sandstone depiction of the Holy Sepulcher was made around 1440. The St. Mary's altar from 1500 was heavily restored in the 19th century. The baroque Anna altar in the right aisle dates from the early 18th century. The confessional from the late 18th century and a sun monstrance came from Eberbach Monastery after secularization . The glass paintings from the 1960s and 1970s are by Gustel Stein from Mainz. Among the baroque grave monuments is the grave slab of the abbess of the Gottesthal monastery , Maria Dorothea von Blumencron (abbess from 1686 to 1715), rediscovered in 1992 .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse , German Art Publishing House Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00380-0
- Werner Schäfke : The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne . Dumont Art Guide DuMont Book Publishing 1995, ISBN 3-7701-1142-7
- Reclam's Art Guide , Germany III, Rhineland and Westphalia , 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://peterundpaul-rheingau.de/beitrag/pfarrei-st-peter-und-paul-rheingau/
- ↑ Yvonne Monsees Gottesthal in: Germania Benedictina, Volume IV-1 The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia, p. 866, EOS Verlag Erzabtei St. Ottilien 2011 ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4
Web links
- Parish church of St. Martin in the pastoral area of Oestrich-Winkel
- Parish Church of St. Martin in Oestrich on rheingau.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '17.55 " N , 8 ° 1' 52.51" O