Wilhelmskirche (Bad Kreuznach)

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Tower of the former Lutheran Wilhelmskirche (2013)

The Wilhelmskirche or St. Wilhelmskirche , also St. Wilhelm-Kirche , was a church building in Bad Kreuznach , Rhineland-Palatinate, built between 1698 and 1700 . It was in the Kreuznach old town. All that remains of the church is the tower with a neo-Gothic bell storey from 1862 and a door panel from 1561 as a spoiler .

history

First Lutheran Congregation

In 1557 the Lutheran Reformation was introduced in Kreuznach by Elector Ottheinrich and Christoph Stollberger installed as pastor. The community used the old town church on the Wörth . However, as early as 1563, Friedrich III. from the Palatinate to Calvinism . Under Ludwig VI. the community became Lutheran again for a short time in 1576. Superintendent Mag. Christian Kolkwitz (* before 1539; † after 1585) and 32 church and school servants in the Kreuznach office signed the concord formula in 1581 . In 1585 the Lutheran Kolkwitz was deposed under Johann Kasimir . The pastor Lorenz Scheuerlin (1558–1613), who was appointed by the Baden Oberamt in 1586 (there was a condominium in Kreuznach ), was expelled in 1587 by Johann Kasimir. In 1592 an anonymous pamphlet appeared in Oberursel , dedicated to the Lutheran Duke Reichard von Pfalz-Simmern (1521–1598), in which the Reformed were sharply attacked. A celestial phenomenon in which a wood-colored cross appeared over the city of Kreuznach (probably a halo phenomenon ), means the court over the " Zwingler Rott".

New founding of the Lutheran congregation

Baroque portal, allegedly from the former Lutheran church, in fact probably from Oranienhof Palace in Hochstraße

In 1631 the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf (1594–1632) re-established the Lutheran congregation in the middle of the Thirty Years' War . 1632 appointed Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna (1583-1654) the Rhine Count's court chaplain Gebhard Dolbier († after 1637) to their first pastor. The Lutheran congregation existed alongside the larger Reformed congregation until the two evangelical congregations united in 1817.

After the Lutheran congregation initially owned the church of St. Nicholas as a house of worship in 1632 , it had to give way again around 1635. Ludwig Philipp von Pfalz-Simmern (1602–1655, ruled 1632–1649), the reformed administrator of the Electoral Palatinate , had their pastor Dolbier carried away in 1637 as a prisoner. However, with the support of the Lutheran Rhine Counts, the community received the old Rhine Count's tithe barn next to the Simmerner Hof, the city palace of the Count Palatine in Kreuznach (today: Jahnhallenparkplatz Hochstraße 27 ). Wild and Rhine Count Adolf Heinrich von Salm-Dhaun (1557–1606) had built a new “Rheingräflichen Hof” (later: Municipal Hospital) in Mühlenstrasse in 1575 . The baroque portal of the old Lutheran church, which was in use for a little more than 60 years, was later installed in a courtyard at Hochstraße 25 and is still preserved.

Margrave Wilhelm von Baden (1593–1677) initiated the appointment of the Lutheran pastor Justus Wilhelm Nigrinus (1599–1676) in 1637. On the occasion of the Kreuznach comparison of religions from December 4th jul. / December 14,  1652 greg. , in which the Lutherans are not mentioned, although they made up almost half of the population at that time, Margrave Wilhelm guaranteed them the freedom to practice their religion in accordance with the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia ( Instrumentum Pacis Osnabrugensis IV § 19). In 1657, however, Pastor Nigrinus was banned from preaching at the open grave by Countess Palatine Maria Eleonora (1607–1675) and Truchseß Johann Karl Tolner († around 1665) - presumably at the instigation of the Reformed inspector Friedrich Zaan (1592–1659). In 1681, the Lutherans were formally forbidden from baptisms and marital blessings, and in 1682 the practice of religion in public.

The Lutheran congregation was led by the pastor and chiefs, who had been assigned a "sixth" committee since 1687.

school

In addition to the small church, the Lutheran congregation also had an elementary school . From 1632 to 1635, Nikolaus Beusser (* before 1605/10; † after 1669), who had family ties to the city (he was a “ Burgers son ”), was a schoolmaster and arithmetician at this school. Since Beusser had already worked in Kreuznach before 1628 (" former rake schoolmaster of Creutznach "), the school could have existed before the official re-establishment of the community. Beusser sought Frankfurt citizenship in 1635; His successors were Johann Weigand Senderlin († after 1641) from Wörrstadt and from 1644 to 1648 the Lutheran school wife Maria Salome Schmidt. After her successor had married in Waldlaubersheim and the position was vacant, Maria Salome Schmidt was to be employed again as a widow in 1663; However, under pressure from the reformed inspector Johann Achenbach, it had to give way again, and the school was closed for two years. In 1665 a Lutheran schoolgirl was employed again and in 1686 the "school servant" Michel Heusner († 1696). He was followed by the schoolmaster Johann Georg Müntz from Herborn (1677–1739), who also served as pastor for Norheim .

In the 18th century the Lutheran school house was at Roßstraße 13 . It was later used as a sexton's house.

Construction of the St. Wilhelm's Church

Elector Philipp Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1615–1690) approved the Lutheran congregation on March 15, 1687 to build a new church. Shortly afterwards, in the Palatinate War of Succession (1688–1697) on October 18, 1689, all Kreuznach churches were burned down.

In 1697, the Lutherans bought a building site for a new church in St. Petersgasse (later: Turmstrasse , today: Kornmarkt 5 ) from the Tolner family for 650 guilders , and ownership of the Rheingräfliche Zehntscheuer, previously used by the community, went to the the following year Kurpfalz over. In 1698 the foundation stone of the new church was laid by the pharmacist Johann Hermann Webel. Stones from the Oranienhof estate or its predecessor, the Augustinian women's choir monastery of St. Peter , seem to have been used for the construction . The new Wilhelmskirche was consecrated on October 5th, 1700. The construction costs of 3828 guilders were raised from own funds and through collections in Baden , the Electoral Palatinate, Sweden (Province of Bremen-Verden , Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken ), Prussia , Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Lübeck and Württemberg . The Danzig spiritual ministry also granted the collector Wilhelm Winkelhaus a grant of 32 guilders.

The building was a baroque, vaulted hall church with galleries on three sides. The main front was directed towards the Nahe in the west. The tower connected to the choir in the south. A still-preserved door jamb, which is dated to 1561 in the keystone, was built into the tower as a spoil .

The church was named St. Wilhelm's Church by pastor Johann Georg Keifflin (1672–1728), who came from Strasbourg , in memory of the local St. Wilhelm's Church ( Église Saint-Guillaume ). The name was also an allusion to the two Catholic rulers, Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658-1716), who preferred the Lutherans over the Reformed in the period between the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 and the Electoral Palatinate Declaration of Religion in 1705, and Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden (1655-1707). Countess Marie Elisabeth von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1648–1724), the widow of the Danish Grand Chancellor Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (1623–1686), donated a pulpit for the equivalent of 150 guilders and antependums for the new church. Keifflin had worked as private tutor and court preacher for the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg family in 1698/99.

In 1705/06 a rectory was built next to the church on Roßstrasse for 1733 guilders and 46 cruisers .

The Baden council and general provisions director of the Swabian Empire, Johann Philipp von Schell zu Bauschlott (1689–1733), donated the first bell in 1705 when he was told during a visit to Kreuznach that the church lacked a "bell". The little bell of the former Lutheran church in the Simmerner Hof, which Marie von Oranien-Nassau bequeathed to Brandenburg in 1688 , was given to the Reformed Paulus Church by King Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia in 1717 .

Altar and organ

In 1705/06 the church received an altar and an organ for a total of 734 guilders from the organ builder Jacob Irrlacher (1672–1762) from St. Pölten . The original disposition has been handed down through a cost estimate from Waldlaubersheim organ builder Johannes Schlaad (1822–1892) from Kestert from 1858:

I main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. flute 8 ′ open, wood
3. Drone 8 ′ wood
4th Sollicional 4 ′
5. Quint 3 ′
6th Cornett (Discant) IV
7th Mixture III 1'
8th. Trumpet 8th'
Cymbel bell
pedal
attached

For the inauguration of the organ on November 3, 1706, Keifflin wrote a cantata ("Organ Carmen"), the printing of which was commissioned by Johannes Mayer († 1746) in 400 copies for 6 guilders and 4 Albus from the Mainz court and university printing works was performed with vocalists and instrumentalists. Around 1715/20, the composer and teacher at the Reformed Gymnasium Kreuznach Johann Martin Spieß (1691–1772) from Hanau worked at the church that was temporarily used by the Reformed community, whose own Wörthkirche was not available.

Conflict with the Sickingen-Ebernburg rule

From Kreuznach, Keifflin also looked after the Evangelicals in the towns of Ebernburg , Feil and Bingert in Sickingen , which had become Catholic again during the Thirty Years War , and in 1710 published a protest to the Corpus Protestantium at the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg against their oppression. He also criticized the sicking behavior in the villages of Norheim and Traisen . In 1715, the Electoral Palatinate imposed a fine of 100 Reichstalers on Keifflin for the publication of this publication and the assumption of legal costs of 100 Reichstalers, of which the Lutheran congregation in Kreuznach paid half. 200 Reichstalers correspond to 300 guilders, Keifflin's annual salary was 100 guilders, 1 load of wine and 20 malter grain. Keifflin was forbidden from further contact with the Sickingen subjects, the protest pamphlet was torn up by the bailiff in his presence, and his transfer to a lower-paid post was threatened.

18th to 20th century

In 1726, Pastor Keifflin and the head of the congregation asked the City Council of Frankfurt am Main to grant support for the Lutheran congregation, which was in distress due to the thunderstorm and the hail of May 13, 1725.

In 1727 a second parsonage was purchased in the Neustadt next to the Reformed High School in Klappergasse .

Because the wall on the tower gave way after a flood in 1739, the choir and tower of the church had to be renewed in 1740. In 1764 a second bell was cast for the church. In 1777 the Wilhelmskirche was renovated. In 1793 the organ was repaired by Friedrich Carl Stumm (1744–1823). In 1795, during the fighting for Kreuznach in the First Coalition War, a bullet hit the Wilhelmskirche and smashed the pulpit and some pews.

Ernst Fries : Wilhelmskirche (left) and Pauluskirche (right), around 1825, copper engraving by Ludwig Hess (detail)

On the occasion of the union of the Reformed and Lutheran parishes, which were held in Kreuz after King Friedrich Wilhelm III's call for union . were enthusiastically followed by Prussia (1770–1840), in 1817 a rope wrapped in leaves was stretched from the tower of the Wilhelmskirche over the Nahe to the tower of the Pauluskirche . In 1838, the new United Parish ensured that the former Lutheran parish had the right to freely choose a parish, which the former Reformed parish in the Electoral Palatinate had not granted.

In 1843 Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen married in the Protestant parish in Kreuznach, presumably in the Wilhelmskirche (the Pauluskirche was closed at the time for construction work).

In the second half of the 1840s , the German Catholic parish founded in Kreuznach on March 10, 1845 after the Trier rock pilgrimage of 1844 under the former dean Pastor Adam Winter († 1857) from Alzey, with the approval of the Upper President of the Rhine Province, used the church for their services . Until the reconstruction and inauguration of the choir of the Pauluskirche on June 14, 1863, English spa guests also used the Wilhelmskirche for Anglican church services.

In 1862 the church was renovated after a fire in the tower, the choir was lengthened and a new portal was installed. The tower was raised and received an octagonal bell storey made of sandstone blocks, into which a new third bell was built in addition to the two old bells. The church received gas lighting . In 1903 a parish hall was inaugurated at Roßstraße 11 on the site of the old rectory next to the church, which had cost 125,703.68  .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Wilhelmskirche also served as a garrison church. The bronze bells had to be delivered in 1917 and were replaced by steel bells after the First World War , which were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1921 . In 1924 the church received electrical lighting . In 1946 the organ was restored.

Dedication and demolition

The church has not been used as a place of worship since 1953. The two steel bells were dismantled, overhauled and installed in the tower of the new Johanneskirche in Lessingstrasse 16 in 1966. In the 1950s, an appraisal was commissioned to determine whether the church could be reused as a community hall; this project was not pursued further. In 1968 the church was sold to the Stadtsparkasse Bad Kreuznach (today: Sparkasse Rhein-Nahe) and demolished except for the tower due to its dilapidation.

In 1983 the tower was included in the new building of the Sparkasse and now houses technical facilities.

swell

  • Johann Philipp Schlosser, Georg Debus: Truth, innocence and honor rescue against all kinds of irresponsible so well against the highest head of the country, Ihro Chur-Fuerstl. Pass. To Pfaltz etc., our most gracious country lord etc., as final reports from unscrupulous, disobedient people, lies and blasphemies blown out to us ..., prepared by M. Joh. Philippo Schlossern, and Georgio Debus, Chur-Pfaltz Lutheran Consistorial- Räthen and Preacher zu Heydelberg and Creutzenach the unaltered Augspurgischen Confession dedicated communities, Weinheim: Johann Mayer 1699, esp. Pp. 39-42 u. ö. ( Google Books )
  • Justus Wilhelm Wissenbach: A send letter. Sampt neccessary comments, about the from the Chur-Palatinate Evangelical-Lutheran Consistorial Councils and respective preachers to Heydelberg and Creutzen to Mr. Schlossern and Mr. Debus ... published ... little book , Bonaventura de Launoy, Offenbach 1700 ( Google Books )
  • Johann Georg Keifflin: Gemitus Pressorum In Baronia Sickingensi Evangelico-Lutheranorum. Or: Sighing of those oppressed and persecuted Evangelical Lutheran subjects of the rulership Sickingen-Ebernburg , a highly praised Corpori Protestantium zu Regenspurg presented by Johann Georg Keifflin, Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the parish of St. Wilhelm in the Chur-Pfältzische Ober-Amt -Stadt Creutzenach, as authorized representative of this matter, o. O. [Kreuznach] 1710 ( Google Books )
  • Letter from Johann Georg Keifflin from 1709 to Church Councilor Christian Ludwig Mieg (1668–1740). In: Carl August Heinrich Höffelein: Latest history of the Reformed Church in the Lower Palatinate , explained from genuine sources, Appendix: Document book on the latest history of the Reformed Church in the Lower Palatinate , Dessau: Heinrich Heybruch 1791, pp. 17-20 ( Google- Books )
  • Excerpts from letters from Johann Georg Keifflin and the "Heads and Sixths of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation to St. Wilhelm in Kreuznach" to Johann Ludwig Creutz (1708 to 1711), Secretary of the Church Council of the Electoral Palatinate. In: (anonymous) Johann Friedrich Ribstein: About Protestant church property in general and the claims of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lower Palatinate on the existing in the country in particular, o. O. 1801, Beylagen pp. 21-23 and 26-28 ( Google- Books )
  • Various files in: Burkhard Gotthelf Struve : Detailed report from the Palatinate Church History , Frankfurt am Main: Johann Bernhard Hartung 1721, pp. 677f, 734, 736, 749–752, 757–760, 884, 1172f, 1210 and 1235 ( Google Books )
  • History of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Kreuznach 1556-1730 written either by the pastor Johann Nikolaus Brach († 1740) and supplemented until 1746 or rather by the church attendant Johann Conrad Morsaeus (* around 1678; † after 1746) (archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Inventory 4 KG 065 B, official registers 12.1); printed ed. by Johannes Polke : The Chronicle of the Lutheran Congregation 1556-1730 . In: Hans-Christian Brandenburg, Johannes Polke (ed.): 425 years of Reformation An Nahe and Glan (series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 74), Cologne: Rheinland Verlag 1983, pp. 26–63

literature

  • Albert Rosenkranz: History of the Evangelical Community of Kreuznach , Bad Kreuznach 1951.
  • Walter Zimmermann (arrangement): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Kreuznach (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 18/1), Düsseldorf: L. Schwann 1935, p. 89 (Reprint Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1972 ISBN 3-422-00540-4 ) .
  • Christoph Flegel: The Lutheran Church in the Electoral Palatinate from 1648 to 1716 (publications of the Institute for European History 175). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999

Web links

Remarks

  1. From "Finsterwaldt", Freiberg area, in the margraviate of Meißen, also Colloquiz, Kolquitz, Colquiss and others. Ä., 1554/55 enrolled in Basel ( Misnensis ), 1557 pastor in Tiengen , 1561 in Printzheim , 1562 in Pfaffenhoffen , 1565 in Neuweiler bei Zabern , 1566 to 1577 pastor and superintendent in Bergzabern , 1569 field preacher of Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1526–1569) in France.
  2. From Ulm, Master of Philosophy, Deacon in Pforzheim, then in Kreuznach. Scheuerlin (Scheuerle, Schyrius) then became court preacher and general superintendent in Baden-Durlach, 1590 participant in the religious discussion in Emmendingen Castle , from 1592 or 1594 professor of Hebrew in Helmstedt .
  3. From Saarbrücken , also Dollbier or Dalbier, 1616 to 1621 pastor in Dehlingen , 1621 in Malstatt , 1629 in Schauren .
  4. Built in 1526, rebuilt in 1669/70, destroyed in 1689, rebuilt in 1745, demolished in 1976.
  5. The term was also used in magistrate and guild regulations.
  6. ^ Johann Georg Debus (1649–1722) from Speyer, studied in Strasbourg, 1677–1682 deacon in Lauterecken, 1682 in Veldenz, 1682–1686 senior pastor in Lauterecken, expelled by French troops, 1686/87 in Worms, 1687–1699 pastor in Kreuznach, consistorial councilor in Heidelberg from 1699, died in Bacharach.

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Franz Falk : As Elector Friedrich III. wanted to introduce Calvinism in the front county of Sponheim . In: Historisches Jahrbuch 12 (1891), pp. 37–55 and 492–504 ( Google Books , limited preview) with reference to 31 documents from 1566 to 1578 in the Copeyen holdings, for example between the Churpfalz, the Margrave Philibert, the officials , Truchseß and Landschreiber zu Creuznach, for reasons of religion, issued in the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich (today: holdings of Kurbayern External Archives 4546 - 39.18 Badische Korrespondenz).
  2. On December 7th, 1539 Albinus Kolkwitz from Cottbus, schoolmaster of Finsterwald, probably his father, was ordained to the priesthood in Kirchhain in Wittenberg . He signed the concord formula of 1577 as pastor in Peitz.
  3. ^ Letter from Christian Kolckwitz to Bonifacius Amerbach of April 18, 1555 from Basel; Alfred Hartmann, Beat Rudolf Jenny (arrangement): The Amerbach correspondence , Vol. IX / 2. No. 3881, Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, Basel 1983, pp. 556–558 ( PDF of the University of Basel).
  4. top v .: Newe Zeittung Unnd Abcontrafactur der Stadt Creutzennach, sampt a miraculous sign, as it was already seen in the sky, the 15th of March in the year 1592 . Item Newe made up prophecy, from years 90th bit into 99th Item A Newes song of the Calvinists' secret practices and evil plans . Nikolaus Henrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1592 (partly contained in Google Books ; the copper engraving is not preserved on this copy).
  5. ^ A b Jörg Julius Reisek: Countess Palatine Marie of Orange-Nassau-Simmern and the Palatinate-Simmersche Fürstenhof zu Kreuznach . In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter. Supplement to public gazette, issue 4, April (2020), pp. 15–19 ( PDF ; 7.93 MB, the Rhein-Zeitung ).
  6. See Hans Borst, Fritz Kirchner, Karl Rug: The Protestant clergy in and from the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken from the beginning of the Reformation movement up to 1635 . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region 23/24 (1975/76), pp. 39–93, esp. P. 50.
  7. Cf. Georg Heinrich Götze , Johann Hermann Siricius : Dissertatio historico-theologica, De mensis Pontificiorum venenatis . Moritz Valentin Schmalherz, Lübeck 1715, p. 28f ( Google Books ).
  8. ^ Letter of recommendation from Axel Oxenstierna for Gebhard Dolbier to his son Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna dated December 9, 1641, issued in Tidö Castle near Västerås; Svenska Riksarkivet (Oxenstiernska samlingen Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna av Södermöre, E 978, No. 705).
  9. a b c cf. Gotthelf Huyssen: The Heidenmauer and the Christian Kreuznach . In: On Christian antiquity in their relationship to the heathen , Kreuznach: J. H. Maurer / Fr. Wohlleben 1870, pp. 317-356, especially pp. 347 and 351f ( Google Books ).
  10. Cf. Eberhard J. Nikitsch: Bad Kreuznach, Rheingräflicher Hof (1575) / 1588? . In: Deutsche Insschriften Online , Vol. 34 Bad Kreuznach (1993) , No. 370 † ( Online at www.inschriften.net).
  11. ^ Text by Johann Jacob Moser : Additions to his new Teutschen Staats-Recht , Vol. II. S. n., Frankfurt and Main / Leipzig 1782, pp. 696-700 ( Google-Boolks ).
  12. Cf. Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution . Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, p. 332.
  13. Cf. Jörg Julius Reisek: Nikolaus Beuser “been a rake schoolmaster of Creutznach” . In: Naheland-Kalender (1995), pp. 153-155; Rainer Gebhardt : To Nikolaus Beusser's arithmetic books . In: Visor and arithmetic books of the early modern times , Annaberg-Buchholz: Adam-Ries-Bund 2008, pp. 141–162.
  14. Cf. Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main (inventory of council supplements, 1635).
  15. ^ Johann Vigand Senderlin was a teacher in Graubünden in 1641; see. State Archives Graubünden (A Sp III / 8h1 Family Archives Simonett and v. Marchion, Schams).
  16. a b cf. Christoph Flegel: The Lutheran Church in the Electoral Palatinate from 1648 to 1716 (publications of the Institute for European History 175). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, p. 79f.
  17. a b c d e f Cf. Nelli Schmithals , Albert Rosenkranz: The Protestant parish Kreuznach in picture and history . Scheffel, Bad Kreuznach 1926, unpaginated; with photography of the parish hall and church ( digital copy from the State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate Koblenz).
  18. Cf. comparison between Chur-Pfaltz and Fürstlichen Salmischen also Wild- and Rheingräflichen home, the wild-caught-Gerechtiges, the religious essence also regarding mutual succession, de anno 1698 . In: Johann Christian Lünig (Ed.): Das deutsche Reichs-Archiv , Bd. XXIV Supplenda . Friedrich Lanckisch Erben, Leipzig 1722, pp. 925–927, esp. No. 2 ( Google Books ).
  19. Cf. Eduard Schnaase: History of the Evangelical Church in Danzig , Danzig: Theodor Bertling 1863, p. 177f; Johann Friedrich Ribstein: About Protestant church property in general and the claims of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lower Palatinate on those in the country in particular, 1801, p. 25f.
  20. See Edith Ruser, Herbert Dellwing: Bad Kreuznach district. City of Bad Kreuznach (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate V / 1), Düsseldorf: Schwann 1988, p. 44 ISBN 3-491-31035-0 .
  21. Cf. Christoph Flegel: The Lutheran Church in the Electoral Palatinate from 1648 to 1716 (publications of the Institute for European History 175). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, p. 457.
  22. See Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Palatine Bell Book . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2008, p. 65.
  23. Cf. Rudolf Scholz: Organa Austriaca (publications of the Institute for Organological Research and Documentation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna), Vol. I, Vienna: W. Braumüller 1976, p. 54.
  24. ^ Cf. Franz Bösken : The organs of Kirchberg. A contribution to the organ history of the Middle Rhine . In: Mainz magazine. Middle Rhine yearbook for archeology, art and history. 67-68, 1972/73, pp. 234-239, esp. P. 238.
  25. See Dorothea Schelkes: Johann Martin Spieß. A composer from the Electoral Palatinate in the service of the Reformed Church (Mannheimer Hochschulschriften 7), Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Peter Lang 2009, pp. 21 and 285 [original organ disposition] ISBN 978-3-631-58622-8 .
  26. Cf. Eberhard Christian Wilhelm von Schauroth (Ed.): Complete collection of all conclusorum, letters and other other negotiations of the Hochpreißlicher Corporis Evangelicorum . From 1663 to 1752, Vol. III, Regensburg: Heinrich Georg Neubauer 1752, esp. Pp. 29, 99 and 587-591 ( Google Books ).
  27. Cf. Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main (inventory of council supplements, 1726).
  28. ^ Christian Carl Ludwig Hess (1776–1853) from Weißenfels, copper and steel engraver, died in Jena.
  29. Cf. Didaskalia. Leaves for Mind, Mind and Publicity , No. 171/172 of June 23, 1863 ( Google Books ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 35.8 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 29.2 ″  E