Evangelical Church Dornholzhausen
The Evangelical Church in Dornholzhausen in the Hessian community of Langgöns was built in 1717 from an older building from the end of the 12th century. A chancel was built onto the medieval nave in the east and a half-timbered porch in the west. The church was Paul Schneider's place of work from 1926 to 1934 . It shapes the appearance of Dornholzhausen and is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical, artistic and urban development importance .
history
The current church goes back to a Romanesque predecessor chapel on a square floor plan, which was built towards the end of the 12th century. In the pre-Reformation period, the church was connected to Niederkleen through the parish. The collation was with the Lords of Falkenstein, who had donated 45 acres as parish property. With the introduction of the Reformation in 1530, Dornholzhausen switched to the Protestant creed. From an ecclesiastical point of view, the place belonged to Großen-Linden until the 16th century and formed a parish with Hochelheim since 1578. In 1717, the small chapel was extended to the east by an attached chancel and to the west by a half-timbered porch .
During the extensive renovation of the church between 1967 and 1968, the floor was lowered and new panels were added. A few pillars under the galleries were removed, an electric footstool heating installed and the bells and the church clock electrified. In addition, the fillings of the galleries and the pulpit fields, which had been painted over in one color in several layers, were exposed. In memory of Paul Schneider , who worked as a pastor in Dornholzhausen and Hochelheim from 1926 to 1934 and died on July 18, 1939 in Buchenwald concentration camp , a commemorative plaque was attached to the right of the entrance door. It was designed by Wolfgang Öster from Uckersdorf and unveiled in 1997 by Schneider's widow.
Today Dornholzhausen and Niederkleen are again connected in the parish. The parishes belong to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
architecture
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The nave and the chancel are united under a common, steep gable roof . The long sides of the hall church are divided by three large arched windows each. The two-storey half-timbered porch is not attached in the middle, but ends asymmetrically with the north side. A staircase in the open entrance area leads in the middle zone to a row of five small windows with segmental arches. There are two more small windows under the crooked roof . North of the church are two baroque tombstones from 1666 made of red sandstone and 1744 for Johann Henrich Reitz (18 August 1700 baptized; † 8 January 1744) made of gray limestone.
The slate roof turret has a cube-shaped shaft with four triangular gables that lead into an eight-sided pointed tower. The roof turret houses a three-way bell and is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock.
Furnishing
The flat-roofed interior lies on a cross-shaped girder , which rests on the long sides on half-columns and on the west side on a crossbeam, which is supported by two round columns that also include the west gallery. The three-sided galleries date from around 1720. The panels of the coffered parapet are alternately painted with images of the apostles and Bible verses and were exposed again in 1967/1968. All columns are painted in marble.
The preserved wooden beam and next to it the predella of a medieval carved altar are attached to the east wall . The predella shows Veronica's handkerchief . The remains of the wall paintings depicting St. Christopher date from the Romanesque construction period of the previous chapel. The high Gothic Altarmensa , which lies on a walled up, painted altar, was adopted. A simple wooden cross and two brass candle holders stand on it.
On the south side , the pulpit is accessible via a wide parish chair with openwork latticework in the upper part. The wooden, polygonal pulpit without a sound cover rests on a wooden round column, is painted with ornamental tendrils and decorated with openwork, relief-like carvings. The round-arched panels are painted with figurative representations that show the crucified Christ in the middle and Martin Luther with a swan on the right . In the east and north of the choir there are stalls for the presbytery and the sexton. In the hall, which can pews in blue version free of a center aisle.
organ
The allocation of the organ delivered in 1736 is not clear. It is attributed to the organ builder Grieb or Dreuth . The small instrument had seven stops on a manual and an attached pedal . In the three-axis prospect , the elevated, round central tower is flanked by two flat fields, from which small corner towers protrude at the sides without being separated by pilaster strips .
Organ builder Friedrich Weigle created the organ in 1930, the nine registers of which are divided into two manuals and pedal. The work is set up in a large box that extends to the ceiling and has a diamond-shaped latticework at the front. In front of it, the baroque prospectus of the previous organ is attached as a dummy. Today's instrument has the following disposition :
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Couple
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: II / II, II / I 4 ′
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I 16 ′
Bells
Bells from 1785 (Otto, Gießen), 1814 and 1827, which were delivered and melted down during the First World War, were hung in the roof turret. After they were replaced, in late 1941 two out of three bells for the defense industry were confiscated. Two new bells were purchased in 1950, one bell from 1859 has been preserved. The chime sounds in the Te Deum motif.
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No. |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (mm) |
Chime |
inscription |
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| 1 | 1950 | Gebr. Rincker , Sinn | g sharp 1 | " REFUGE IS WITH THE OLD GOD AND UNDER THE ETERNAL POOR " [relief with open Bible, alpha and omega and cross] " 1950 GOSSEN MICH GEBRUEDER RINCKER SINN 7119 " |
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| 2 | 1859 | Georg Otto, Giessen | h 1 | [Frieze with two angels each holding a laurel wreath] “ CAST FOR DORNHOLZHAUSEN BY GEORG OTTO AS. IN GIESSEN " [two angels holding a laurel wreath] " SOLI DEO GLORIA " |
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| 3 | 1950 | Gebr. Rincker, Sinn | c sharp 2 | " He is our peace " [relief with cross] |
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literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 183.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 307.
- Otfried Hankel: Family book of the evangelical parish Dornholzhausen (Langgöns, Hessen) 1771–1874. Verl.-Haus Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2011.
Web links
- Homepage of the parish
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Dornholzhausen, district of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 307.
- ↑ a b Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 183.
- ↑ Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 3. Wetzlar 1837, p. 384 ( online ).
- ^ Dornholzhausen, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 63 ( online )
- ↑ a b Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: Memorial plaque for Paul Schneider , accessed on August 17, 2020.
- ^ Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 27.
- ^ A b 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. 137 .
- ↑ 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. 134.
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 47 ″ E