Former evangelical vicarage
Until the beginning of the 1950s, the Lutheran parsonage was located at Bahnhofstraße 3. The present building was erected in 1836/37.
However, the late Baroque archway in the courtyard wall dates from an earlier construction period.
The predecessor building of the current courtyard is said to date back to the Middle Ages. Since the introduction of the Reformation in Harxheim in the middle of the 16th century, it was used as a Protestant parsonage and was repaired and also rebuilt several times in the following centuries.
By the early 1830s, the building was obviously in a miserable condition.
Former Lutheran parsonage in 1963 with grocery store owned by Helene Wenderoth, sign could read: Groceries, delicatessen (postcard cutout).
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The then Mainz district architect Schuknecht reported on this in 1833:
“The parsonage at Harxheim is […] 46 shoes long and 27.5 shoes wide [about 14 m long and a good 8 m wide] and all outer and inner walls are of fir wood. In order to better protect the outer walls against the influence of the weather, the same were used up several years ago. All the windows are in a very bad condition and […] have hexagonal panes and are of different sizes in one and the same room. Most are 27 inches [about 70 cm] wide and three and four shoes [about 90 cm and 120 cm] high, others even smaller. The sills run through the doorways or are so bulky and bad that they would rather fit in a stable than in a parlor. [Of the floors, only those in rooms a, b, and c can be maintained at best; all the rest are eaten away by worms. […] The stairs fit into a hay barn and especially the one on the lower floor is so worn out that it must be rebuilt in any case.”
An initially considered sale of the house and a new construction elsewhere proved to be unfeasible. In 1836 it was therefore decided to demolish the old rectory and build a new one. This was built in 1836/37 as a late classicist type building according to the plans of the architect and building contractor Philipp Elbert (Philipp Elbert also designed the new building of the Protestant church in 1873). The late Baroque archway in the courtyard wall from 1764 was preserved during the new construction (archway listed in the monument register of the Mainz-Bingen district). In addition to the residential building on the left, the new complex also included buildings used for agricultural purposes, such as stables for pigs and horses and a barn. At that time, the parish priests were dependent on farm income from agriculture.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the Protestant congregation exchanged the vicarage for the Krone house (Gaustraße 19), as there was more space available for congregation rooms. Today, the Protestant parish hall is located at Bahnhofstraße 11.
former evangelic vicarage 1983 with branch of Volksbank Mommenheim
Image source: Willi Buchert
The new owner of the former vicarage, Mrs. Wenderoth, ran a grocery store here for a few more years. Later, the Volksbank Mommenheim established a branch.
Since the mid-1980s, the farm has been privately owned.
References:
Diehl, Wilhelm (1932): Baubuch für die evangelischen Pfarreien der Provinz Rheinhessen und die kurpfälzischen Pfarreien der Provinz Starkenburg. Darmstadt.
Krienke, Dieter (2011): Verbandsgemeinden Bodenheim, Guntersblum and Nieder-Olm. In: Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Landesdenkmalpflege 18, Kreis Mainz-Bingen (Hrsg.): Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Worms.
Reßler, Tanja (2017): Economic Center “Alt Hashem”. In: Ortgemeinde Harxheim (Hrsg.): Festbuch 2017. Harxheim. Eintausendzweihundertfünfzig. Selzen. S. 129 – 143.
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