St. Stephan (Mainz-Marienborn)
St. Stephan in the Mainz-Marienborn district is a Catholic parish and pilgrimage church . It is recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Mainz-Marienborn .
The church was built from 1729 to 1739 as a baroque hall with a three-sided closed choir, gable facade and roof turret. It replaced a chapel consecrated to Saint Stephen around 1000 , which had become dilapidated after the Thirty Years' War. The roof turret is marked 1738. The building is located on a hill in the district and is thus built to characterize the townscape.
Together with the St. Bernhard , St. Georg and St. Achatius churches in the neighboring Mainz-Bretzenheim district , it is one of four places of worship in the Zaybachtal parish group .
Furnishing
The rich furnishings include a pompous triumphal-gate-like high altar by the Mainz court carpenter Franz Anton Hermann from 1748 with figures by Peter Heinrich Hencke. The miraculous image in the middle shows a small created around 1420 Mother of God , which was revised in the 17th century. The pulpit (1748) and the communion bench (1759/1760) are also the work of Franz Anton Hermann.
The two side altars were probably built between 1768 and 1770 based on designs by Johann Peter Jäger and were brought here from Gernsheim in 1881 . The parapet of the two-storey west gallery is decorated with rural paintings with scenes from the life of Jesus and angels making music. Among the sculptures are to be emphasized:
- Saint Anna Selbdritt , first half of the 14th century
- Saint Bilhildis von Altmünster , around 1700, late Gothic type
- Saint Mary Magdalene , mid 18th century
Your original version has been uncovered and partially supplemented. The church treasure houses a monstrance by Emanuel Drentwett from Augsburg from around 1755–57, a ciborium by Johannes Ledent from Mainz from 1708 and a nicely engraved Johannis wine cup by Jeremias Zobel from Frankfurt, around 1725.
The organ front from the mid-18th century is the work of Laurentius Ripple from 1817.
Churchyard
In the churchyard there is a Lourdes chapel and the " Seven Sorrows " which are executed in Art Nouveau .
Pilgrimage
The main day of pilgrimage is the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the festive mass always takes place on the following Sunday.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments , Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1972, p. 529
Web links
- Parish Mainz-Marienborn St. Stephan
- History of the church on bistummainz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotteslob , diocesan edition Mainz , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag , Mainz, first edition 1975, p. 1088
Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 35 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 42 ″ E