City Church of Rhodes
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The Stadtkirche Rhoden is a Protestant church in the Diemelstadt district of Rhoden and belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .
history
When the residents moved from Alt-Rhoden to the castle around 1250 , the first town church in Rhodes was built in the 13th century. The Lutheran church, which has been Lutheran since 1525, was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries in repeated city fires, for example in 1540 and 1735. Today's church was built in 1736 according to plans by Waldeck's building director Julius Ludwig Rothweilas well as his son Franz Friedrich, who also led the reconstruction of the city. The church tower from 1592 and part of the east wall with a Gothic window were used. From 1750 to 1754, in connection with work on the roof structure, the tower was given a single-storey tower tower in an octagonal shape with pointed arched windows and a flat-domed roof. The east gable above the choir is designed as a half-timbered structure. The interior was redesigned after a snowfall in 1753, which also severely damaged the organ at the time .
Furnishing
The hall building with barrel vault from 1736 has two three-sided galleries open to the choir , the upper one of which carries the organ. The floor of the church slopes down towards the choir, adapted to the terrain. The center of the church furnishings is the altar with a simple stone table together with the baptismal font, surrounded by a low fence and a knee bench. Above that is a raised sermon pulpit with a pulpit cover , to the right of which is the lectern. To the left of the altar area are the former stalls for the church council, on the right the stalls for the counts as princes with the Waldeck coat of arms.
The tympanum of the church of Alt-Rhoden is hung in the entrance area .
The east wall in the choir was designed in a modern color by church artist Tobias Kammerer in 2002 , and three round windows were also included in the design.
organ
After the previous organs from 1657 and 1811, a new, mechanical slider- drawer organ was built in 1852 by the Korbach organ builder Jacob Vogt . This organ has been restored several times, most recently in 1988 and 2017. It has two manuals and 22 registers with 1282 pipes in a five-part prospectus that was still designed in late classicist forms.
Bells
The parish bought the smallest of the three bells in 1924 . It was cast by Junker and Edelbrock in Brilon and bears the name Maria . This bell was the only one to survive the Second World War.
In 1950 the parish procured the middle bell Katharina and in 1958 the largest one called Susanne . This bell strikes the hour for the church tower clock, whose clockwork dates back to 1906.
Pastor
- Albert Osterhold (1815–1868), pastor from 1845 to 1863
Web links
- Homepage of the parish
- Tabular history of the church at posaunenchor-rhoden.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 33.1 ″ E