Evangelical Church Königsberg (Biebertal)

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Koenigsberg Church from the northwest
Southwest side

The Evangelical Church in Königsberg in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ) is a baroque hall church from 1654. The church is built on the outer ring wall of Königsberg Castle. The Hessian cultural monument made of slated half-timbering has an octagonal roof turret over the south-western gable side.

history

Königsberg was Christianized from Dillheim and provided pastoral care from there. Ecclesiastically the place belonged to the deanery Wetzlar and archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . In the 15th century, Königsberg already had its own parish. Altenstädten was a branch. Königsberg has been the main town of the surrounding villages and the residence of the Counts of Solms -Königsberg since earlier times . In 1500 Königsberg was raised to the status of a city. The pastors were designated as inspectors until 1827, who were assisted by a chaplain as an assistant chaplain , who was responsible for school lessons. Ecclesiastically, Königsberg was assigned to the Wetzlar Archipresbyterate, which was subordinate to the Archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Trier diocese. With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. The first Lutheran pastor was Hilarius Crato von Marburg (1565 and 1575).

During the Thirty Years' War , the city of Königsberg, which had belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt since September 24, 1624, was shelled by the Swedes because Landgrave Georg II was one of the imperialists. As a result of the conquest of the city on June 6, 1647, the castle, tower, church and rectory were burned. At that time the crypt still existed from the church ; the rising upper church had already been destroyed beforehand. At that time, a covered corridor led from the rectory below the retaining wall into the crypt.

Although the Königsberg citizens were obliged by the Landgrave to erect ramparts in the Marburg area from 1651 onwards, they built a new church on the old foundation walls at the same time. It was completed and inaugurated on February 3, 1654. The old crypt was filled with earth much later.

Behind the old parsonage built in 1763, a new parsonage with an integrated parish hall was built in 1953, which was considerably enlarged in 1979/1980. At the end of the 1950s, the church was sold and its continued existence uncertain: "The ravages of time have gnawed it and soon the little church will fall into ruins." After much back and forth, the community decided to undertake a thorough renovation. In 1961, the north-western longitudinal wall was rebuilt in massive construction. During the renovation in 1994 the original color was replaced by the church restored.

The parishes of Königsberg and Fellingshausen have been parishioners since 2007.

architecture

Southeast side
Entrance in the southwest

The non geostete but oriented to the northeast hall building from verschiefertem truss is built visible increases in the north to the old town well. The church is built on the outer ring-shaped castle wall southeast of the castle below the castle.

The small aisle church on a rectangular floor plan has received its half-timbering except for the northwest side. A small covered porch with an entrance area on the south-western gable side serves as a vestibule and opens up the church. Three very small rectangular windows in the south-west, high rectangular windows in the renewed north-west wall and ten square windows on the south-east long wall illuminate the church.

Small dormers are attached to the high, slated gable roof . The roof turret, which is also slated, is flush with the south-west wall and has the clock face of the tower clock in the top of the gable. The octagonal bell chamber with square sound holes is closed off by a Welschen hood , which is crowned by a wrought iron cross and weathercock. Before the First World War, the roof turret housed a double bell. A bell was delivered to the armaments industry during the First World War. After the war, the community had two new bells cast and now it rang for three. The two big bells were melted down during World War II. The oldest from 1615 (300 kg, 0.78 meters in diameter) escaped melting and came back again. It bears the inscription "Anno MDCXV gos mich Melchior Balthasar Moeninck zu Erffurdt in the name of God VDMIAE".

Gravestones on the churchyard wall

In the churchyard, four gravestones are built into the wall of Schlossstrasse southwest of the church. Three tombs made of red sandstone date from the Baroque . The left, upright rectangular epitaph from 1705 has a large writing field, which is closed on the sides by garlands of flowers and bows and on top with acanthus and volutes . In the middle tombstone from 1741 a coat of arms can be seen under a round arch, which is held by two angels. The writing field is framed by flowers and tendrils. The third epitaph for Johannes Zisler (1602–1664), mayor of Königsberg, shows the deceased as a half-figure over two inscription fields. The gray tombstone for Wilhelm Ernst Fri (e) drich Schulz (1737–1814), Grand Ducal Hessian councilor and bailiff in Königsberg, with an urn under the crowning arch, is characterized by classicism .

Furnishing

Interior to the east
Baroque pulpit

A three-sided, circumferential, wooden gallery is built into the church, which only takes up half on the south side, leaving the space in front of the pulpit free. Octagonal wooden posts with bows support two longitudinal beams and include the gallery. The gallery has rectangular panels that are painted with stylized flowers and tendrils. The parapet paintings date from the 1760s. The organ gallery in the east is similar, but designed differently in detail. The interior is closed in the middle by a semicircular wooden barrel, while a flat beamed ceiling has been drawn in over the galleries, the spaces between which are plastered.

The original furnishings from the time of construction include the simple, wooden, polygonal pulpit with rectangular panels in the pulpit and a square base. The cuboid altar is made of wood. The black painting with white veining imitates marble. On the altar there is a crucifix of the three-nail type . Behind the altar there is a nativity scene with the same width, the pieces of wood taking up the shape of the cross. The nativity scene opens at Christmas time and shows scenes of the birth of Christ. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free and, like the galleries, have an olive green frame.

organ

Organ brochure from 1751

Organ builder Dreuth from Griedel built a new organ in 1751 . It was replaced in 1921 by a new building by W. Sauer Orgelbau with nine stops on two manuals and pedal and a pneumatic action . A renovation by Friedrich Weigle took place in 1938. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus reconstructed the original disposition behind the historic Dreuth prospectus with the addition of a Pomeranian on the pedal.

I Manual C–
Gedackt B / D 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gamba D 8th'
Dumped 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Sesquialtera II D
Mixture III
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Pommer 8th'

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 513.
  • Dünsberg Association Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 3. Edition. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei Gießen 1989, ISBN 3-9800654-1-3 .
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Karlheinz Lang (Ed.): Kirchstrasse 6, Ev. Church In: Cultural monuments in Hessen. 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. 104.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Königsberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 104.
  2. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 301.
  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. 198.
  4. ↑ a b Deanery Gießen: Parish Königsberg , accessed on November 25, 2014.
  5. ^ "Königsberg, District of Giessen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 24, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 297.
  7. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 299.
  8. ↑ a b c Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 300.
  9. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 513.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ^ "Johannes Zisler 1664, Königsberg". Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650 (as of June 13, 2008). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  12. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former administrative district Wiesbaden (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.1. Part 1 (A – K)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 515.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '40.2 "  N , 8 ° 32' 9.3"  E