St. Wigbert (Schornsheim)
St. Wigbert is a Roman Catholic branch church in Schornsheim in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
In 782, Charlemagne donated a church in Schornsheim to the Hersfeld Abbey . The deed of donation mentions that the church was previously in the possession of St. Lioba von Tauberbischofsheim . Today's church of St. Wigbert, which is Romanesque in its core , probably goes back to this earlier Carolingian sacred building.
After the introduction of the Reformation , the church was initially Lutheran, from 1702 it was a simultaneous church . The Lutherans use the nave , the Catholics the choir for their services. In 1846 the Catholics acquired the choir and tower, while the Lutherans demolished the nave and used the stones to build the new Ludwigskirche.
Therefore, St. Wigbert today only consists of the earlier Romanesque choir tower from 1107, which was provided with a diamond roof in 1850; from the Gothic choir , which was added to the east in the 14th century , which is formed from a yoke with a five- eighth end, and the remains of a side aisle added to the north , which today serves as a sacristy .
The St. Wigbert Church is best known for the detailed representations of musical instruments from the 14th century, which are carved into the vaulted consoles of the choir, and for the extensive wall paintings that were restored from 1912 to 1914. The carpet painting in the base area of the choir, a cycle of apostles and several female saints in the window area above, as well as rich tendril paintings in the choir vault date from around 1420. The angels with musical instruments and instruments of passion were painted between the tendrils of the choir vault in the 16th century and revised in the Baroque era .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments ; Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1984.
- Joachim Glatz: Medieval wall painting in the Palatinate and in Rheinhessen . Self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Mainz 1981.
Web links
- Rudolf Post : The Catholic Church of St Wigbert in Schornsheim. In: regionalgeschichte.net. January 24, 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 10 ′ 30 ″ E