St. Michael (Lörzweiler)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael in Lörzweiler , a church belonging to the Lörzweiler / Gau-Bischofsheim parish group in the Mainz-Süd deanery of the Mainz diocese , was built in 1790.
architecture
The church, consecrated to the Archangel Michael , is a successful example of the combination of a late baroque church with a modern extension. The single-nave east-facing old building was spatially supplemented from 1968 to 1972 by a south-facing three-gabled modern extension, a wide hall with high window walls and a light spruce roof. (Architect Römer, Darmstadt) There is a roof turret with the bell near the entrance in the west. The term "1790" can be found between two scrollwork elements . The entrance facade is provided with four ox eyes of a clock, as well as a figure of a saint above the classical entrance door. In the north there are still the three large arched windows from the time of origin.
A Gothic sacrament house , which comes from a previous building, was integrated into the church's outer wall in 1790. This shows the coat of arms of the Knight Hundt von Saulheim (three crescent moons around a star). It recalls the investiture Lörzweilers by the family Hundt in the 16th century. When Georg Adolf von Hettersdorf married Anna Dorothea Hundt von Saulheim, the rulership of the village passed to the Barons von Hettersdorf in the 17th century , whose coat of arms was also embedded in the outer wall.
Interior
- Marble altar created by Arnold Harnisch in 1683 , from the east choir of Mainz Cathedral. The gray marble altar was erected as a high altar in 1868 after it had to give way to a reconstruction of the east choir in Mainz . The altar is decorated with a picture by Johann Baptist Ruel showing the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . Above the picture is the coat of arms of the cathedral dean Johann Wilhelm Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1624–1694), the donor of the altar.
- Two altar additions with the archangels Michael and Raphael over the side passages were made in 1895.
- wooden pulpit from the beginning of the 18th century
- Baptismal font from 1663.
- Wall sculpture of Clare of Assisi in the middle of the 18th century on a grape console
- Rococo consoles marked with the years 1760 and 1750
literature
- Rüdiger Gottwald, Wolfgang Gauer: Parish St. Michael / Lörzweiler: 200 years of St. Michael Lörzweiler, published by the Catholic parish of St. Michael, Lörzweiler, conception 1991.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d On the historical traces of Lörzweiler
- ↑ a b The Catholic Church of St. Michael in Lörzweiler
- ^ To the Hundt von Saulheim family
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '59.2 " N , 8 ° 17' 56.1" E