St. Veit (Twiste)

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The Protestant village church of St. Vitus is a Romanesque basilica in the district Twiste the municipality Twistetal in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . It belongs to the parish Twiste in the parish of Twiste-Eisenberg of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

History and architecture

Corvey Monastery had owned and influenced Twiste since around 860 . The patronage of St. Vitus (Veit) shared with the monastery church confirms this connection.

The church, picturesquely situated above the village, is the largest and most important village church in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. The three-nave vaulted basilica with transept, an adjoining semicircular apse and provided small apse niches in the eastern wall of the transept. In the west there is a compact, massive tower substructure. which is completed with a smaller bell-shaped chamber and a pointed helmet from the Baroque period. The nave is part of a smaller, formerly flat-roofed building from the late 11th century, which was provided with a vault, transept and choir in the second half of the 12th century . The tower is older than the vault, but not built at the same time as the nave. A round-arched portal on the south side is provided with a round-arched template and has preserved the original iron fittings. The nave is divided into two square main bays of different sizes with strong belts and groin vaults , the side aisles are vaulted lengthways with lancet barrels. The shapes are simple. A late Romanesque painting dates from around 1200 and shows painted arcade frames with columns on the apse windows; on the crossing vault four trees of life can be seen as a symbol of paradise .

Furnishing

A late Gothic sacrament niche is provided with tracery arches and an originally preserved grille. In the apse is the block-like altar with a wooden crucifix. A richly carved, colored pulpit was created in 1602 by Jost Schilling . Between the corner pillars there are blind panels on which Christ and the four evangelists are depicted. The scrollwork cartouches on the protruding base are provided with inscriptions about the creation and the artists who performed it. The font dates from 1661. The church has an organ from the workshop of Jacob Vogt and Wilhelm Rühle from 1862. It was restored in 2006 by Orgelbau Waltershausen . An epitaph with a painting from around 1600 commemorates the pastor's wife Margarete Gertrud Stuven, who died early and is shown with children in front of the heavenly Jerusalem. Two cast-iron tombstones date from the 18th century.

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Web links

Commons : St. Veit Twiste  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of St. Veit (Twiste) on a private website by Elise and Theodor Semmler. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 14.7 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  E