St. Martinus (Koblenz)
The parish church of St. Martinus is a Catholic church in Koblenz . The parish church in the Lay district was built in the first half of the 13th century and has undergone some renovations and additions over time. It bears the patronage of St. Martin of Tours .
history
The northern part including the tower of the parish church of St. Martinus was built in the first half of the 13th century. The crypt under the east choir tower is the oldest part of the church and suggests that there must have been an even older church at this point. The church patron St. Mauritius also indicates the existence of a very old parish . The right of patronage had the monasteries Kaufungen and Siegburg held. The first written mention of St. Martinus was in 1241 during a dispute between the two monasteries. Nikolaus von Kues managed to incorporate the parish into the Münstermaifeld monastery in 1440 , where it remained until the secularization of 1802. Some renovations took place in the 15th and 17th centuries. In 1456 the church was renovated and a new altar was added. In 1680 the windows in the nave were lengthened and the church was renovated again. A sacristy was added in 1855.
With the growing population at the beginning of the 20th century, the old church building was no longer sufficient for the faithful. The architect Peter Marx added an extension to the existing nave from 1928–1929. The old crypt under the tower was uncovered. It was consecrated on April 25, 1932 by Bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser of Trier . The high altar was on the south side of the new building . With the Second Vatican Council it was abandoned in 1973 and the altar was placed in the midst of the faithful. An organ was built in place of the high altar in 1984 . In 1987 a large hand-made tapestry by the artist Maria Benatzky-Tillmann from Kail was hung on the north wall . The last interior renovation took place in 2004.
Construction and equipment
Outside
St. Martinus is a late Romanesque single-nave hall church from the 13th century with a three-aisled annex built across the nave from the 1920s. The medieval church building with a gable roof was originally geosted . The extension has pent roofs , the new choir a flat pyramid roof with round windows in the upper aisles . The three-story church tower with a rhombic roof stands at the old choir and dominates the silhouette of Lay. It has two-arched windows and is structured by clover-leaf and round-arch friezes . In the tower there are two bells from 1377 and 1440. The main entrance, which is now on the side wall of the annex, was originally built into the asymmetrical west facade of the old church building. Above that, the six-pass window, the three slotted windows in arched panels with corner pillars and bulges, and a round panel with six-pass windows at the top have been preserved.
Inside
The old choir behind the east tower has a ribbed vault . Below is a barrel-vaulted crypt with an old St. Nicholas altar made of black marble and a bright St. Nicholas window. The nave has a flat wooden beam ceiling in the lower old and higher new part . In the new central nave, four arcades lead on both sides to the lower aisles, which have a barrel vault. The former choir of the new central nave, in which the organ stands today, is set off by a flying buttress and is illuminated from above through a round window. The center of the old nave is the altar island with a Gothic forked cross from the 14th century hanging from the ceiling . The wreath of medallions attached to the fork cross was designed in 1974 by Cologne artist Egino Weinert . He also made the altar, tabernacle, and ambo . The Romanesque font originates from the time it was built. On the north wall there is a large hand-made tapestry with the motif of a vine with a multitude of grapes and leaves. The most precious decoration of the church is a Gothic monstrance from the 15th century. There are also oil paintings and sculptures from several centuries in the church, as well as a neo-Gothic confessional (late 19th century) with tracery by the Koblenz sculptor Ernst.
Interior with the organ
Romanesque font
crypt
Interior with a view towards the altar island
Statue of St. Martinus
Parish community
St. Martinus is part of the " Koblenz (Moselweiß) parish community ", which also includes St. Beatus and St. Hedwig auf der Karthaus , St. Elisabeth in Rauental , St. Franziskus in der Goldgrube and St. Laurentius in Moselweiß .
Monument protection
The parish church of St. Martinus is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Lay at Pastor-Simon-Straße 6 .
In addition, it has been a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention since 1988 and is marked with the blue and white trademark.
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- The art monuments of the district of Koblenz , arr. by Hans-Erich Kubach, Fritz Michel and Hermann Schnitzler (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Volume 16, Section 3), Düsseldorf 1944
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish community Koblenz (Moselweiß) in: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 18.7 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 32.9 ″ E