St. Nikolaus (Munzenberg)

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Chapel from the south
View from the east

St. Nikolaus in Munzenberg in the Hessian Wetteraukreis is the former hospital church of the city, built in 1284. It fell into disrepair over time and was restored in the 1960s. The two-aisled building with a retracted rectangular choir is, together with the sandstone draw well to the south, dated 1776, a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

The chapel was first documented in 1284 and was later mentioned as a hospital chapel. According to medieval custom, the chapel was built next to the former hospital at the gates of the city. The hospital was used to care for the sick and the poor and as a hostel for pilgrims. The chapel is structurally comparable to the Komturkirche Nieder-Weisel and was originally divided into two parts. The western area was laid out on two floors and probably had sickrooms that were separated according to sex, while the eastern part served as a choir with the altar.

It can be assumed that the pastors of the Munzenberg parish church provided service to St. Nicholas in the pre-Reformation period . With the introduction of the Reformation , the chapel was given up as a place of worship. in the 19th century it was profaned and served as a school, then as a barn and fell into disrepair.

The Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1946 when numerous refugees of corresponding denominations from Eastern Europe moved to Munzenberg and its surroundings. Those from Munzenberg, Trais and Eberstadt joined forces in 1952 to form the local chaplaincy St. Agatha, which in 1956 was promoted to parish rectorate . A year later the community acquired the dilapidated hospital chapel. After renovations from 1962 to 1966, the chapel was consecrated. Further renovation work followed in 1980.

architecture

Hedwig window in the south

The east - facing two-aisled complex with retracted choir stands in today's city center, but was originally in front of the city wall. An arcade in the short, north aisle with two flat pointed arches from the 14th century rests on a round central column with a square protruding bud capital . The arcade may have led into a transverse wing or into a larger transverse building with additional hospital rooms. The rectangular chapel is covered by a steep gable roof, as is the lower choir. The roof structure is still original. The wooden roof turret is open at the bottom and has a pointed, copper-clad pyramid roof, which is crowned by a cross. The corbels on the western side of the gable and the framework from the 14th century indicate what was originally a two-storey structure inside. The ogival main portal with bevel in the west is closed today. To the right of this is a small Gothic window. Today the chapel is accessed through a south portal to the west under a straight lintel. A small ogival portal to the right of it is walled up.

A wall in the choir separates a narrow area for the sacristy , which is supplied with light through the east window. A large round arch opens the choir, which has been raised by three steps, to the nave. The choir is illuminated on the south and north side through a high arched window with colored lead glass windows, the nave in the south through a high arched window with a representation of St. Hedwig and in the west through three small pointed arch windows. A small ogival twin window is let into the western triangle of the gable. A cross is placed on both gables.

Furnishing

North aisle
Looking east

The interior of the ship is of a flat timber ceiling joist completed, in the middle of the room of two wooden wall supports with two cross beams and Bügen is supported. The half-timbered structure inside still shows the original two-storey structure in the western part. The mortises and bolts indicate where the multi-storey beams lay.

The inventory items are modern. Between the two arches is a bronze sculpture of St. Nicholas attached. In the narrow aisle there is a large, roughly hewn, round baptismal font made of stone and a crowned Madonna and Child. The block altar is bricked up; a slope conveys to the massive cafeteria plate . A wooden crucifix with a bronze body hangs on the east wall . The organ is set up on the opposite west wall, in front of the portal. Wooden church stalls form a block in the middle of the main nave.

organ

Organ positive

In 1984 the community inaugurated a positive organ that Bernhard Schmidt from Gelnhausen had built in 1983. The instrument has three registers on one manual; the pedal is attached.

I Manual C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
attached

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, p. 216 ( online ).
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 600.
  • Karl Gruber, Waldemar Küther : Minzinberg. Castle, town, church. 2nd Edition. Walltor-Verlag, Giessen 1973.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , pp. 781-782.
  • Petra Müller, Uwe Müller (ed.): Munzenberg, home in the shadow of the castle. 750 years of Munzenberg town charter, 1245–1995. 2nd Edition. Magistrate of the City of Munzenberg, Munzenberg 1996, ISBN 3-9804269-0-4 .

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1999, p. 782.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1999, p. 781.
  3. ↑ a b muenzenberg.de: Hospital , accessed on March 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Gruber, Küther: Minzinberg. Castle, town, church. 1973, p. 57.
  5. ^ Manfred Knodt: The Munzenberger Pastor. In: Petra Müller, Uwe Müller (Hrsg.): Münzenberg, home in the shadow of the castle. 750 years of Munzenberg town charter, 1245–1995. 2nd Edition. Magistrat der Stadt Munzenberg , Munzenberg 1996, ISBN 3-9804269-0-4 , pp. 195–206, here: p. 195.
  6. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands. 1935, p. 600.
  7. ^ Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 216 ( online ).
  8. ↑ History of the Church , accessed March 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ Catalog of works by Bernhard Schmidt , accessed on March 19, 2016.

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '16.56 "  N , 8 ° 46' 35.13"  O