St. Sebastian and Laurentius (Martinsthal)

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St. Sebastian and Laurentius in Martinsthal

The Church of St. Sebastian and Laurentius , also known as the Old Church of Martinsthal , is the historic, former parish church of Martinsthal , a district of Eltville am Rhein in the Limburg diocese . A renewed altar and parish consecration of the formerly profane church took place on June 25, 2017 by Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Löhr . St. Sebastian and Laurentius is now 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 has also been the parish church of Martinsthal.

history

Martinsthal, the then Neudorf, initially belonged to Eltville in terms of the church. From the beginning of the 15th century, the village tried to get its own church with its own pastor. The newly built church was consecrated in 1429, but initially received no baptism rights. This was granted to the community in 1511 with the erection of a baptismal font . The vaulting of the church took place in 1512. A new ridge turret , which with 1561 should include designated by Hemmerich and Gregory from Trier cast Sebastian Bell, made it necessary to use a choir arch move into the vault to the weight load for this trap.

According to a memorial plaque above the south portal, the church was expanded in 1717 by a yoke to the west and a stair tower on the south side. The extension can be recognized by its small, oval windows. "Jacobus Fuchs" is named on the board as the founder. For a small measuring bell, which was commissioned by Georg Christoph Roth in Mainz in 1727, a small open roof turret was erected, the large one was renewed in 1858. Two other bells (Laurentius and Mother of God bell ), which were supposed to complement the ringing of the Sebastian bell, were also cast by Roth in 1771. Both were victims of the First World War in 1917 .

In the course of the neo-Gothic style , the baroque furnishings, including three baroque altars, were removed in 1905. The sacristy was enlarged in 1932, with the upper floor being converted into an organ gallery. In 1940 the large ridge turret had to be put down because of the risk of collapse; today's one dates from 1948.

After the construction of the new and larger parish church of St. Martin in 1964 on the opposite side of the street, the remaining equipment was removed from the now unused church. A renovation took place between 1987 and 2004, then in 2004 the church was profaned and then used as a cultural church.

Since 2015, the old church has been renovated again for 1.4 million euros and is now the parish church again. The only 50 years old, badly in need of renovation, St. Martin's Church has become too big due to the declining number of parishioners and will be demolished.

architecture

The plastered hall church made of quarry stone with a stair tower on the south side has a facing gable facing west . The ogival tracery windows are predominantly two-lane. The roof is crowned by a slim roof turret. There is also an open bell ridge above the choir. A clock hood closes the roof off to the east. The small nave with three bays and the single bay choir with a 5/8 end has a continuous star vault , which was cut through by the subsequent installation of a choir wall.

Furnishing

A keystone in the middle is marked 1512 , another keystone above the choir shows the oldest depiction of the Martinsthaler (then Neudorf) coat of arms, two crossed silver arrows on a red field, the attributes of St. Sebastian. Two late Gothic sandstone holy water basins with tracery, a valuable Renaissance pulpit from the end of the 16th century and the wooden west gallery are the only remnants of the historical furnishings, along with Gothic floor tiles made of clay.

The left and right choir windows from the 1950s were made by the glass painter Walter Benner , and were renovated in 2015 in the Derix glass studio in Taunusstein . The middle choir window was donated anonymously in 2010 by a citizen of Martinsthal. The artistic design and execution was carried out by the glass artists Franz and Felix Hulbert from Eltville, the stone carvings by Robert Frank Schmidt.

A marble baptismal font from the 18th century is now in the new St. Martin Church, the Sebastian bell and two other bells were removed and re-installed in the old church in August 2015. In January 2017, the organ pipes of the St. Martin organ were removed and installed in a new organ, which has found its place on the gallery above the sacristy of St. Sebastian. Four saints from around 1905 by the Eltville sculptor Hans Steinlein were restored, as was a Pietà from the 18th century.

In the choir of the old church, during the renovation work, the burial place of an unknown woman with a grave crown was discovered and recovered. The remains of bones and skulls are said to be reburied in the church.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Return to the other side of the street in FAZ of June 21, 2017. Page 44
  2. ↑ https://peterundpaul-rheingau.de/beitrag/pfarrei-st-peter-und-paul-rheingau/
  3. ↑ Construction work in the old Martinsthaler Church is on schedule Bernd Minges, Wiesbadener Kurier, August 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ News from the parish  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Diocese of Limburg on the page Pastoral Area Oestrich-Winkel / Eltville / Wallufthal .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wallufthal.bistumlimburg.de  
  5. ↑ The art assets of the Martinsthal parish. Diocese of Limburg on the side of the parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau . ( Memento from August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Was the mysterious dead woman a princess? Rheingau-Echo from December 10, 2015 ( Memento from May 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Investigation report grave place. Restorer Angelika Ulbrich on the Parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau page . ( Memento from February 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian und Laurentius (Martinsthal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  E