Union Church (Idstein)
The Union Church in Idstein at Martin-Luther-Straße 1 is a Protestant parish church with an outstanding baroque interior. It was the first major church building in the Duchy of Nassau after the Thirty Years' War and, like the nearby Killingerhaus and Höerhof , bears the international trademark for cultural property according to the Hague Convention .
history
A Romanesque church must have existed on the site of the Union Church before 1287, as remains to be seen in the tower. No details are known about this church. In their place was from 1330 to 1350 under Count Gerlach the Gothic Collegiate Church of St. Martin in the form of a basilica built. The 1333 established canons belonged to six canons. It existed until 1553 and was then converted into a Lutheran foundation, which was incorporated into the Nassau Central Study Fund in 1817 . From the Gothic church a crypt with groin vault from the beginning of the 15th century under the choir and the former Sebastian chapel with star vault, which was used as a crypt from 1509, as well as some tombs of the Counts of Nassau-Idstein in the "Reiterchörlein" have been preserved.
From 1665 to 1677 the church was converted into a sermon and court church by Count Johann . The nave was extended, the Gothic vault removed and the marble arcades and galleries pulled in. The parapets are inscribed with verses from the Bible. The ceiling of the main nave was completely covered with large-format oil paintings from the Rubens School . The 38 large pictures are painted with oil on canvas. They show scenes from the New Testament . Most of the pictures were painted by Michael Angelo Immenraedt and his student Johannes Melchior Bencard from Antwerp; Joachim von Sandrart designed three pictures , five were executed by his nephew Johann von Sandrart. The church received a new marble altar by Arnold Harnisch and a new baptismal font. Johann himself did not see the completion of the work because he died shortly before.
During further renovations in the 18th century, the remaining Gothic architectural features were largely removed. The choir was expanded in 1725 as a memorial for the Counts of Nassau-Idstein. The sculptor Franz Matthias Hiernle erected a grave monument to Prince Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein , his wife Henriette Dorothea and their children to the left of the altar based on a design by Maximilian von Welsch . Until 1917, today's Union Church was called the city church . It is in contrast to the chapel in Idstein Castle , in 1806 the Catholic community celebrated their worship, as well as to the sky church called Chapel St. Mary before Himmeltor that stood near the present-day town square, a Protestant-Uniate Church . The name Union Church was given on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the union of the Lutheran and Reformed Church in the Duchy of Nassau to form the Evangelical Church in Nassau . Unlike the union in Prussia, which was concluded in the same year under pressure from the authorities, the Nassau Union was based on a free decision by the pastors involved.
The Union Church was extensively renovated with a view to the 200th anniversary of the Nassau Union in 2017. The festive service for the reopening after three and a half years of restoration work took place on June 25, 2017.
Choir
Ceiling painting
Ceiling painting
Riding choir
organ
The organ was built by Walcker in 1912 and integrated into the historic prospectus of the Stumm organ from 1783. In 1990 the instrument was restored by the builder company. The instrument with pocket drawer has 30 stops on two manual works and a pedal . The performance and stop actions are pneumatic.
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- Coupling II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), II / II (super-octave coupling), I / P, II / P, general coupling
- Playing aids: 3 fixed combinations (p - mf - tutti), 3 free combinations, automatic piano pedal, roller, calcant.
Others
Church music
The church choir, led by Edwin Müller, named itself Idsteiner Kantorei in 1972 and began to regularly perform two choir concerts a year, in addition to participating in church services and concerts in the smaller churches of the deanery, for example in the Johanneskirche in Niederseelbach or the church in Booklet . Since 2003 Carsten Koch has been cantor of the Union Church, who also teaches at the Frankfurt University of Music . He also selected lesser-known works for choral concerts, for example Schumann's Missa sacra on November 9, 2008. In 2011 Mendelssohn's Lobgesang was performed with Christiane Kohl as the soloist.
Concerts
The Union Church was a venue for the Rheingau Music Festival , especially for vocal ensembles such as Chanticleer , ensemble amarcord and Die Singphoniker .
In 2004, Carsten Koch began a series of symphony concerts on the Open Monument Day , which included all of Beethoven's symphonies . It ended on September 9, 2012 with the 9th Symphony . The concert concluded an anniversary week of church music, 100 years of the Walcker organ and 40 years of the Idsteiner Kantorei.
literature
sorted alphabetically
- Georg Ulrich Großmann : Central and South Hesse: Lahntal, Taunus, Rheingau, Wetterau, Frankfurt and Maintal, Kinzig, Vogelsberg, Rhön, Bergstrasse and Odenwald. ( DuMont art travel guide ). DuMont, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-2957-1 , p. 91f.
- Elena Mittelfarwick called Osthues: The restoration of the Union Church in Idstein . In: Denkmalpflege & Kulturgeschichte 1/2017, pp. 2–8.
- Rouven Pons: Aestheticism and Religion. Aspects of Protestant art of the late 17th century using the example of the Idstein “Union Church”. In: Nassauische Annalen, 128 (2017), pp. 327–354.
- Rouven Pons: For art and belief. The painting of the Martinskirche in Idstein under Count Johannes von Nassau-Idstein (1603-1677). Historic Commission for Nassau . Wiesbaden 2012 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau, 83).
- An extraordinary church. The Protestant Union Church Idstein . Evangelical Church Community Idstein (Ed.), Idstein 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-064379-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Germania Sacra
- ↑ a b c Union Church on denkmalpflege-hessen.de
- ↑ Idstein Church gets her paintings back. In: FAZ of July 8, 2016, p. 49.
- ↑ A Reformation monument is being renovated. In: FAZ of November 20, 2015, page 44.
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ^ Idsteiner Kantorei website
- ↑ Missa sacra performances Schott
- ↑ Richard Hörnicke: Hymn of Praise to Koch's Stay . Wiesbadener Tagblatt . February 8, 2011. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ Concert in the Union Church ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Wiesbadener Kurier , September 11, 2010
- ↑ Manuel Wenda: Beethoven cycle finished in Idstein , Wiesbadener Kurier . September 11, 2012. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 13, 2017.
Web links
- Union Church on the side of the Evangelical Church Community Idstein
- Evangelical Parish Church (Union Church) Monument Preservation Hessen
- Union Church alt-idstein.info
- Archives about the Idstein Canons in the Hessian Main State Archives, Wiesbaden
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 14.8 " N , 8 ° 16 ′ 11.1" E