Evangelical Church (Kinzenbach)

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South side of the church in Kinzenbach

The Evangelical Church in the Kinzenbach district of Heuchelheim an der Lahn in the Gießen district was built in 1863 in the neo-Gothic style. The hall church made of red sandstone with an upstream, slender west tower characterizes the townscape. The Hessian cultural monument is a "rare example of a pre- Wilhelminian , historicist sacred building in the country".

history

West tower
West portal in the church tower

Knight Rycholf von Kinzenbach and his wife Elisabeth founded a small stone chapel in Kinzenbach around 1300, which initially had no tower. Heinrich von Rechtenbach was the first clergyman to work here. The mention of a cemetery in 1316 presupposes the existence of a parish church. Kinzenbach had separated from the mother church, the Martinskirche in Heuchelheim , at the beginning of the 14th century and was raised to an independent parish. In the previous building there were three altars dedicated to St. Mary, St. Nicholas and all saints. Kinzenbach belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar of the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier in the late Middle Ages . With the introduction of the Reformation around 1527/1528, the parish changed to the Protestant confession; The first Protestant pastor was Johann Wirt from 1527 to 1536. When Kinzenbach became Nassau in 1585, Kinzenbach came to Krofdorf-Gleiberg and remained a branch of the Margarethenkirche Krofdorf until 1968 .

As early as 1836, the church, which was essentially medieval, was described as "old and frail". After the church had become increasingly dilapidated and too small in the middle of the 19th century, it was closed by the police on April 4, 1857 because of dilapidation. Major a. D. Naumann was commissioned on May 6, 1858 to submit designs, of which the neo-Gothic style was selected on January 31, 1859. District architect Schneider from Wetzlar drafted the plans for the new building. For about six years the services took place temporarily in the school hall, which was much too small. The old church was demolished in 1862 and the new church was consecrated on November 18, 1863. The two bells and the altar crucifix were taken from the old church. The bourgeois community had the obligation to build and bore the construction costs accordingly. They supplied the timber and took over the construction costs of 11,320 thalers.

In 1888 coal stoves were installed in the church, and in 1913 the church roof and spire were re-slated. The parish changed in 1968 from the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . After the interior renovation in 1931, when the interior was given a new color, the original condition was restored in 1974/1975. In addition, a warm air heating system was installed, the electrics were replaced and the organ was restored. The old crucifix that was discovered in the attic was restored and erected as an altar cross in 1979. The rectory was completed in 1980 and the parish hall in 1982, and the choir room was redesigned in 1985.

The Kinzenbach parish comprised around 1300 parishioners in the 2010s. On January 1, 2020 it merged with Heuchelheim to form the "Evangelical Martinsgemeinde Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach".

architecture

Eastern choir closure
Tower from the southwest

The hall church made of red sandstone is built in the center of the village at the intersection of the main street. It has a slim, pre-built west tower, a wide nave and a 5/10 east end. The sandstone comes from regional quarries.

The multi-storey church tower on a square floor plan reaches a height of 31.10 meters. The stepped buttresses have a decorative function. Over the two-leaf West Portal with shoulder bow is in the tympanum a wheel cross to see. Everything is flat pointed arch of a profiled jambs enclosed. At the level of the second floor there is a large round window with a diamond structure, above it on each of the three free-standing sides two round arched acoustic arcades. The clock faces of the tower clock are mounted above the arcades. The two octagonal upper floors are smaller than the square tower shaft. The first floor has a round window on three sides, the upper floor has a round arched window with wooden blinds on all four sides. The eight-sided pointed helmet is crowned by a tower button and a cross. Two slim, three-sided annex towers flanking the tower with two small arched windows serve as stairways and lead to the nave.

Stepped buttresses divide the three-axis nave and the choir into fields, which are divided into two zones by a continuous cornice . In the lower zone of the long sides there are small windows and a portal in the middle of the south side, the upper zone has windows with flat pointed arches and divided tracery that ends in a three-pass . The lower zone of the choir and the east wall of the choir are windowless. The nave has a gable roof . The choir takes up the entire width of the ship. The church is accessed through the representative west portal in the tower and the ogival south portal.

Furnishing

View into the chancel
Coffered ceiling

The interior of the ship is closed off by a wooden, coffered flat ceiling. The star-shaped ceiling beams in the choir are reminiscent of a Gothic vault . The west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The old interior is largely preserved.

The broad pulpit structure on the east side behind the axially aligned altar corresponds to the importance of the sermon in the Protestant church. The polygonal, wooden pulpit has panels that suggest tracery. The pulpit is included in a wide wooden structure that fills the eastern corner of the choir and serves as a parish chair in the north . In front of the pulpit is the altar made of black marble from Lahn . The altar crucifix dates from the 15th century. The simple seating leaves a central aisle free. A large ceramic mural has been hung behind the pulpit since 1985. The artist couple Lies and Heinz Ebinger designed the wall ceramics with rich symbolism in a synthesis of ancient Near Eastern and modern elements. Under the title “God loves this world” the tree of life, the ark, a gate with the water of life and a shining sun are presented. Two batik pictures by Helga Hein Guardian, which flank the pulpit and take up the brown tones of the ceramic picture, show the baptism of Jesus and the last supper.

organ

Weller organ from 1863

The old church already had an organ in 1835 . For the new church, the organ builder Friedrich Weller from Wetzlar created an unusual work on the west gallery in 1863. Since he incorporated two votes less than originally recommended, the costs were reduced from the estimated 785 to 530 thalers. The pewter prospect pipes were melted down in 1917 for the war industry. In 1975 new prospect pipes were installed. By Förster & Nicolaus organ building were made in 2003, overhaul and maintenance. The organ has ten registers, distributed on a manual and pedal . The neo-Gothic prospect is five-axis. The elevated middle flat field has a triangular gable with pinnacles and a quatrefoil . Two low flat fields have small battlements, as do the polygonal side towers. With the exception of the prospect pipes, which were renewed in 1975, the instrument has been completely preserved, making it the only original Weller organ. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

Bells

Johann and Andreas Schneidewind from Frankfurt am Main cast two bells in 1717. One bell was replaced in 1836, both bells were then taken over for the new church building and a large donated bell was added in 1863. The two small bells were delivered for armament purposes in 1917 and replaced by two new bronze bells in 1925/1926. In 1942 the large and medium bells were sold and replaced in 1957.

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 Death knell 1957 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn 600 g 1 " Donated by the widow Franz in 1863, melted down in the war in 1942, re-poured in 1957 through donations from the citizens "
2 1957 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn 350 h 1 " Love, peace, joy heralds the bell "
3 1925 268 c sharp 2

literature

  • Otto Bepler: From the history of the village from 788 to the present. Kulturring Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach, Heuchelheim 1991.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 502.
  • Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863–2013. Beer, Kinzenbach [2013].
  • Werner Franzen: Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss . Part 3. Düsseldorf 2002, p. 33 f . ( duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on April 18, 2020]).
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 175 f.
  • Jürgen Leib: Krofdorf-Gleiberg between tradition and progress. Home book for the 1200th anniversary of the community of Krofdorf-Gleiberg. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei, Gießen 1974, pp. 294–382.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 94 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Kinzenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 176.
  2. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 3.
  3. ^ 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. 197 f.
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 94.
  5. ↑ Kinzenbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 4.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 32 ( online ).
  8. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 95.
  9. ↑ a b c Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss . Part 3. Düsseldorf 2002, p. 33 ( duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on April 18, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 12.
  11. ↑ Deanery Gießen: Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung of September 6, 2013: 150 years of Kinzenbach Church ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 175.
  14. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 502.
  15. ↑ Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss . Part 3. Düsseldorf 2002, p. 34 ( duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on April 18, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 22 f.
  17. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 23 f.
  18. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 508 .
  19. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 26: Another Weller organ in Altenkirchen (Hohenahr) has been rebuilt several times.
  20. ^ Organ in Kinzenbach , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  21. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 137.
  22. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Kinzenbach (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Kinzenbach 1863-2013. P. 11 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 42 ″  E