St. Walburgis (Leubsdorf)
The parish church of St. Walburgis in Leubsdorf in the district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate is a three-aisled basilica that was built in neo-Gothic form in 1905 by Theo Hermann from Neuwied in place of a previous church from the second half of the 13th century . The Catholic Church belongs to the dean's office Rhein-Wied in the diocese of Trier .
The church is also called the “White Church of the Rhine” because of its white facade.
history
Due to a donation from Mechthild von Sayn to the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden in 1250, Leubsdorf belonged securely to Kurköln . On the other hand, ecclesiastical responsibility already existed at the time with the Archbishop of Trier . Leubsdorf belonged to the parish of Linz and to the Linz office .
In the Taxa generalis , a kind of inventory of the Archdiocese of Trier , a chapel and a chaplain in "Lupzstorf" in the years 1349 and 1386 were named. The massive part of the tower and the right choir are still preserved from this first building.
The efforts of the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann V von Wied, to reform in the 1540s also had an impact on the Electoral Cologne city of Linz on the Rhine and the parish. From the year 1543 it is reported from Leubsdorf that the village was haunted by “fanatical advocates” of the Reformation , who removed and destroyed all religious representations during an “ iconoclasm ” from the church. The situation lasted until 1548, during which time some residents of the village fled to the heights of the Westerwald . They built a few houses and put up a large cross on a clearing on the other side of the watershed between the Rhine and Wied , which formed the border between the Electoral Cologne offices of Linz and Altenwied . They called the place "Rothe Kreuz" (cross on the clearing), today a district of Leubsdorf.
The first reconstruction of the church in Leubsdorf is reported in 1587, the second took place in 1685, when the nave was doubled. After that, the church was partially destroyed at the beginning of the 18th century, because the year 1720 above the western tower door shows that it was restored in that year.
After the fourth renovation in 1887, a new church building association was founded in Leubsdorf in 1892. After more than 500 years, the church was rebuilt in 1905. On May 8, 1908, the new church was solemnly consecrated by the Trier Bishop Korum .
construction
The three-aisled basilica, built in neo-Gothic form, was built in 1905/06 by Theo Hermann from Neuwied in place of a Romanesque predecessor church from the second half of the 13th century. On the south side aisle, the undivided west tower of the former single-nave church and four sides of a decagon have been preserved from the choir .
Furnishing
The sculptures inside the church from the previous church are:
- a seated Mother of God with a standing child ("Cologne Madonna") from the first half of the 14th century in the old version , which was uncovered in 1960
- a crucifixion group from the middle of the Rhine from the first half of the 16th century
- the essay by a Sebastian altar from around 1700
- a figure of St. Walburga from the middle of the 18th century
- a figure of St. Joseph with child from the second half of the 18th century
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
- District Neuwied (Hrsg.): Home Calendar 1968 District Neuwied
- Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: The art monuments of the district of Neuwied ( The art monuments of the Rhine Province, Volume 16, Section II), Düsseldorf, Schwann, 1940, pp. 195–197
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '50.4 " N , 7 ° 17' 18.8" E