Evangelical Church (Hoch-Weisel)

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North side of the church
Well-fortified tower

The Evangelical Church in Hoch-Weisel , a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district in Central Hesse , is a Gothic choir tower church , the nave of which was renovated in 1684. The well-fortified east tower with its four characteristic wich houses probably goes back to the 13th to 15th centuries. The church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

The origin of the church may be in the 13th century, as a Romanesque baptismal font has been preserved from this time. The Gothic church was consecrated to St. Peter and Marcellinus and had three altars of Beatae Maria Virginis , St. Catherine and St. George. In 1366 there is evidence of a cemetery, which suggests an independent parish, which is first mentioned in 1406. In the Middle Ages, Hoch-Weisel was assigned to the parish of Münster , which belonged to the Friedberg dean's office in the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. The first Protestant pastor was Gebhard in 1540.

In 1684 the nave, which previously only had the width of the tower, was renewed and extended to the south. A sacristy was demolished after 1780.

An interior renovation took place in 1864, when the baroque hall church was transformed into a three-aisled complex. In addition, the gable wall was redesigned. In 1896 an exterior renovation followed, during which a southern buttress was demolished. In 1903 the medieval paintings in the choir were exposed.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish has parish offices with Hausen-Oes . She is assigned to the deanery Wetterau in the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Tower hall with late Gothic paintings (around 1400)
View from the west

The roughly east-facing , irregularly bricked and white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built in the center of the village. Due to the southward expansion of the ship in 1684, the choir tower no longer stands on its central axis in the east, but a little further north.

The lower part of the solidly walled-up choir tower from the Gothic period is round and 9 meters in diameter. The tower hall is vaulted by a groin vault and illuminated by three flat-pointed arched windows. The two-lane tracery made of red sandstone ends in nuns' heads and has a quatrefoil at the top . A simple pointed arched choir arch opens the hall to the central nave. Above the choir, the tower continues in an octagonal shape and is closed off by a slated helmet structure. Four wichhouses flank the squat pointed helmet, which is crowned by a tower knob, a wrought-iron cross, a weather vane in the shape of a dragon's head, marked with the year 2001, and a weathercock.

The baroque long nave on a rectangular floor plan (17.5 × 11.5 meters) with a crooked roof in the west is illuminated on the long sides through three high arched windows. The north wall appears to be younger than the south wall, which is supported by three buttresses . The church is accessed through the rectangular main entrance in the west, which has a canopy in the form of a small pent roof over two wooden struts, and through the north entrance under an arched arch. In the west side there are two high windows with arches and a semicircular lunette window in the slanted gable area . The gable triangle of the epitaph of Johann Daemon made of red sandstone is set into the south wall. He died in 1623 at the age of 62 and was pastor in Hoch-Weisel and Heuchelheim : "EPITAPHIUM REVERENDI ET DOCTISSIMI VIRI, D (OMI) NI · IOANNIS DAEMO / NIS PASTORIS APUD HOHEVUEISSELLANOS ET HEUCHELHEIMEN / SES FIDELISSIMI (19, QUI OBII) NN) O · 1623 · AETATIS 62 ".

Furnishing

Interior to the east

The tripartite division of the interior gives the impression of a three-aisled complex. The central part is spanned by a wooden cross ribbed vault, the apex pieces of which hang down. On the other hand, low flat ceilings are drawn in over the side galleries, which rest on six slender wooden columns with headbands . The three-sided gallery from 1864 or later with simple square panels is included by the columns.

The oldest inventory item from around 1200 is the Romanesque baptismal font made of Lungstein , the wall of which is decorated with a round arch frieze. It used to stand in the rectory courtyard and is now in the former choir room.

The polygonal, wooden pulpit was created in 1684. The pulpit fields are structured by free pillars, the sound cover is crowned by flat-carved structures and a cross.

The late Gothic paintings in the choir are dated around 1400. They imitate rib vaults on consoles , under which the coats of arms of Falkenstein-Munzenberg and Eppstein can be seen. In the vaulted areas the four evangelists with their symbols, prophet symbols and singing angels are depicted in twelve medallions , the crucifixion on the north wall, the Annunciation on the south wall and two saints on the east wall, some in poor condition. The late Gothic sacrament niche with tympanum from the end of the 15th century is richly decorated.

organ

Syer organ from 1755

The church received its first organ from 1752 to 1755 from Johann Friedrich Syer . According to the contract, the organ comprised 12 stops on a manual and pedal . The five-axis prospect follows the typical structure of a Syer organ. A large round central tower is flanked by two low flat fields, followed by two medium-sized pointed towers on the outside. Wood-carved, gilded tendrils close the pipe fields at the top, crown the case and form the lateral blind wings that surround two angels.

In 1846 Johann Georg Förster repaired and changed the third and cymbal registers . A major repair was carried out in 1888 by Gustav Raßmann and a restoration by Andreas M. Ott in 1975/1976. Today the organ has 583 pewter and 104 wooden pipes . The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – c 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Tercian II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III 1'
Pedal C – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

Peal

The bell tower houses a triple bell, including two bells from 1455. There was once a bell here from the town hall, which was used as a school bell and is said to have rung for executions. The latter was poured over because of a jump by Otto in 1866, but at first there was no agreement on the terms (Otto wanted to cast a much larger (and more expensive) bell, which would then have become the third largest), then the community quarreled - above all the School teacher who always wanted to ring the bell at the beginning of school - and the caster for the actual tone. The parish saw itself right, since the (half) tone as 2 of the new cast, heavier than the old bell and only slightly lighter than the third largest bell, did not go with the ringing, while Otto insisted on b 2 . The community would have liked a "Quartseptenaccord" with e 2 . The entry in the chronicle ends with the remark that the future of the bell is not yet clear. The big bell was confiscated during the Second World War, but returned unscathed from Hamburg in 1947.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Height
(mm) 		Chime
 inscription
  		image
 
1 1788 Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, Giessen 800 1,050 g 1 “[Names of Officials] IN GOD'S NAME I FLOODED. FRIEDR. WILHELM OTTO FROM GIESSEN GOS MICH ANO 1788 " Evangelical parish church (Hoch-Weisel) bells 05.JPG
2 1455 680 810 c 2 " Tonitruum * rumpo * mortuorum * defleo * sacrilegium * voca [saint relief ] st. marcellinus et petrus [knight relief ] anno dni m ° * ccccc ° * lv [relief: Mary with the child] " Evangelical parish church (Hoch-Weisel) bells 04.JPG
3 1455 460 580 g 3 "[Relief: Maria with the child] Jhesus * Maria * [Relief of Johannes] Johannes * Anno [Relief of St. George] dni m ° * ccccc ° * lv " Evangelical parish church (Hoch-Weisel) bells 03.JPG

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, pp. 133-134 ( online ).
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 462.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 291–292.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , p. 411.
  • Ulrich Schütte (Ed.): Churches and synagogues in the villages of the Wetterau. (= Wetterau history sheets 53 ). Verlag der Bindernagelschen Buchhandlung, Friedberg (Hessen) 2004, ISBN 3-87076-098-2 , pp. 420-421.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Parish Church (Hoch-Weisel)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on February 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 291.
  3. ↑ a b Schütte (Ed.): Churches and synagogues in the villages of the Wetterau. 2004, p. 421.
  4. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area (= writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 26.
  5. ^ Hoch-Weisel, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b c Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 133 ( online ).
  7. ↑ a b c d Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 462.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Internet presence of the Evangelical Dean's Office Wetterau , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  9. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II. 1999, p. 411.
  10. ↑ Johannes Daemon 1623, Hoch-Weisel. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. (As of April 22, 2009). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  11. ^ A b Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 134 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , pp. 90–91.
  13. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 484 .
  14. ↑ De Kirchturmgickel No. 8/2006, community letter of the Protestant parishes of Hausen-Oes, Hoch-Weisel and Ostheim

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 11.05 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 5.43"  E