St. Maximin (Koblenz)
The parish church of St. Maximin is a Catholic church in Koblenz . The neo-baroque church building in the Horchheim district was completed in its current form in 1918. It goes back to previous buildings that were first erected in the 12th century. The old Romanesque west tower was integrated into the current structure. The church bears the patronage of St. Maximin of Trier .
history
A chapel , presumably made of wood, was first mentioned in a document in 1130 in Horchheim. A church tower was built and converted into a church at the end of the 12th century. The church received from the Archbishop of Trier in 1213 with papal confirmation from Innocent III. the right of baptism and burial. The patron of this church was Our Lady . Until the final separation in 1583, it was a branch of St. Johannis in Niederlahnstein . Then the patronage changed to St. Maximin of Trier.
After the number of residents increased and the church became dilapidated, the structure was demolished in 1817. Only the tower remained, on which the architect Johann Claudius von Lassaulx built a new church building in 1819. This church was demolished in 1916, again the tower was preserved. The current structure was built between 1916 and 1918 by Richard van Broek from Duisburg , including the old tower. The tower was raised by one floor and equipped with a curved hood .
During the Second World War , all windows and an altar were destroyed in an air raid on Koblenz in 1945 . After the war, the damage was repaired by 1960 and the interior was painted white. The church tower was re-covered with copper in 1972 and the roof of the church in 1974 with copper slate. In 1980/1981 the interior was completely renovated. Most of the frescoes hidden under the white paint were restored. The celebration altar was moved to the area of the crossing .
Construction and equipment
Outside
The parish church of St. Maximin is a neo-baroque three-aisled basilica with a short transept and side choirs . The Romanesque tower from the 12th century is surrounded by pavilion-like extensions with pyramid roofs and an open vestibule. In the basement of the tower there are three round-arched panels , above two floors with two coupled double windows. The high neo-baroque bell storey with an onion dome with a lantern was placed here in the 1910s . The central nave and transept of the same height have a mansard roof . A high bellied ridge turret with a lantern rises above the crossing .
Inside
The central nave, transept and choir have barrel vaults , the low aisles have flat ceilings . The windows are arched closed. In the upper storey there are lunette windows and two high oval windows in the choir. The ornamental painting inside was carried out in the forms of neo-baroque and art nouveau . A fresco of the Adoration of the Holy Lamb , created by Willy Stucke (1880–1952) from Bonn , is in the choir. Painted over white after the war, it was exposed again in 1981.
In the choir there is a high altar from 1677, probably created by the Koblenz sculptor Johann Heinrich Neuss, who was given to the Koblenz Carmelites by the Archbishop of Mainz and was erected in St. Maximin in 1819. A two-storey columned altar made of black marble with a fully sculpted figure of a holy bishop and angel figures on the sides was built on top. The celebration altar was created in 1983 by Josef Welling from Koblenz with eight bronze reliefs. The richly carved side altar (around 1781) in the late Rococo style comes from the chapel of the neighboring Eyßchen house and was erected in the southern arm of the transept in 1860. It was made of wood with gilded ornaments and has a Vesper picture in the middle and sculptural figures of St. Joseph and St. Therese on the sides. The Mendelssohn family donated a copy of the Sistine Madonna from the mid-19th century, which stands on the front wall of the north transept. The pulpit on the north-western crossing pillar from the mid-18th century with gilded profiles, rocaille cartouches and a trombone-blowing angel on the sound cover comes from the Koblenz Barbarakloster .
Baptismal font
High altar
Side altar in the late Rococo style
organ
Above the column-supported gallery on the west side there is an organ , the prospectus of which was built by the organ building company Stumm around 1749 . Behind it, the Hugo Mayer company built a new organ with 35 registers on three manuals and pedal in 1987 . 16 registers were taken over from the previous organ from 1926, which was built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau from Bonn.
Bells
In the church tower there are two old bells with detailed inscriptions :
- Maximinus cast by Johann von Andernach in 1542
- Franciscus cast on Ehrenbreitstein by Johannes Pope in 1740
Parish community
St. Maximin is part of the " Parish Community Koblenz Right Side of the Rhine" founded in October 2005, which also includes the parishes Maria Himmelfahrt on the Asterstein , St. Nikolaus in Arenberg , St. Aldegundis in Arzheim , the Holy Cross Church in Ehrenbreitstein , St Peter and Paul in Pfaffendorf , St. Pankratius in Niederberg and St. Martin on the Pfaffendorfer Höhe belong.
Monument protection
The parish church of St. Maximin 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-Horchheim at Emser Straße 351 .
Since 2002 the parish church of St. Maximin has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .
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
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz, first volume).
- 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 .
- Horchheim 1214-2014. A commemorative publication on the history of the Catholic parish of St. Maximin and the Koblenz-Horchheim district on the occasion of the parish's 800th anniversary. Publisher: Heimatfreunde Horchheim e. V. in connection with the local ring and the parish. Editor: Hans Josef Schmidt. - Koblenz: Heimatfreunde Horchheim e. V. 2014. ISBN 978-3-00-045925-2
Web links
- Catholic parish of St. Maximin in Koblenz-Horchheim
- St. Maximin in: regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ of the St. Maximin Church in Koblenz-Horchheim ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: orgelbau-mayer.de
- ^ Organs in Koblenz
- ^ Parish community Koblenz right side of the Rhine 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 ′ 42 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 51.5" E