Evangelical Church Lützellinden

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North side of the church

The Evangelical Church in Lützellinden , a district of Gießen in the district of Gießen in Central Hesse , consists of two structures. The late medieval western part was built in the 14th or 15th century and expanded in 1893 to include a higher eastern part. The church with its distinctive roof turret shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

East extension from 1893

From an ecclesiastical point of view, the place originally belonged to Grossen-Linden , which was the mother church of up to 22 villages in the Hüttenberger Land and the place of the sending court . The beginnings of the Lützellinden Church are only weakly documented. In 1261 a pleban called Anselmus is documented and in 1278 a cemetery is occupied. Already at that time Lützellinden was thus an independent private church of Merenberger on private property. In 1349 the village was pledged to Henrich von Elkershausen, whose house held the right of patronage until 1598, when it died out. At the end of the Middle Ages, the parish was assigned to the Deanery Wetzlar and Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier .

The medieval hall church was given a defensive character by a surrounding, almost square wall, which was secured by at least two defensive corner towers and probably also a ditch. The wall was on average 1.05 meters thick and 2.4 to 4.1 meters high. Remains of the fortifications were preserved until the 19th century. Originally aristocratic free courtyards, located in the south and west around the fortified church, formed an additional safety ring. The Merenberg church building was replaced in the late Middle Ages. While the short western part of the successor building has been preserved, the moved choir later gave way to a new eastern part. The roof turret was probably added to the existing church in the late Gothic period, perhaps in connection with the Wenceslas bell, which was cast in 1473 and consecrated to Wenceslaus of Bohemia .

In the course of the Reformation , which was introduced in the county of Nassau-Weilburg in 1527 by Philip the Magnanimous , Lützellinden switched to the evangelical confession. The first Protestant pastor was Adam Kirchhain, who was installed in Lützellinden on February 22, 1527 and held his office here until 1536. This makes Kirchhain the first known Protestant pastor to be introduced to what is now the Rhenish Church .

After several repairs during the Thirty Years War , the church was comprehensively renovated in 1652. A construction work carried out in 1668 against the sinking east wall was unsuccessful. Due to the growing local population and the dilapidation of the old choir, it was decided in 1724 to expand the church to the east (up to today's altar staircase). The half-timbered extension of 70 m² in 1730/1731 extended the medieval nave and closed off in the east with a gable wall made of quarry stone . In 1743 the church escaped the village fire, which killed 106 houses, including the rectory.

Floor plan by Wilhelm Witte (1892)

From the 1860s onwards, complaints arose that there was insufficient space in the church for communion celebrations and special church services and that the male stage (gallery) was missing, and an expansion of the church was discussed. From 1887, pastor Hugo Schonebohm discussed concrete expansion plans, whether the church could be completely renewed or in what form it could be expanded. The ramshackle staircase was moved to the back of the church in 1889. In 1892/1893 the extension from the Baroque period was demolished and today's eastern section with a transept and choir in front was created. The Wetzlar district builder Wilhelm Witte made the construction drawing. The building materials included "35 m sandstone blocks on the main corners" and 70,000 field-fired bricks, which were formed and burned in the Lützellindener "Lehmekaut". The costs for the extension and renovation of the church, which was inaugurated on December 14, 1893, totaled 26,980 marks. The carpentry work amounted to 3,100 marks and the roofing of the church roof to 1,120 marks. The round leaded glass window in the choir cost 200 marks and the other leaded glass windows 516 marks.

In the early 1960s, the roof turret on the north gable was removed and an interior renovation was carried out. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1993, the chandelier from 1907, which was removed in the 1960s and operated with alcohol at the time, was reinstalled in a replicated form. In 1995 the roof turret was reinforced after the timbers had loosened due to the ringing of bells. A comprehensive tower renovation followed in 2012.

The Protestant parish of Lützellinden has been connected to the parish of the merged parish of Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen since January 2017. It belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Rose window on the east side

The almost east-facing church consists of two structures, the almost unchanged medieval hall church and the modern extension with transept and choir from 1893.

The white plastered western part receives light through arched windows. It has not yet been possible to determine when the old Gothic windows were replaced by the current ones. The slated gable roof is closed by an octagonal, also slated roof turret with a pointed helmet, on which a forged cross and a gold-plated weathercock are attached. A tower is built on the north side between the old, low nave and the significantly higher transverse annex, which mediates between the two structures and serves as a staircase to the north gallery. It is crowned by an octagonal, slated pointed helmet, which corresponds to the larger roof turret.

The higher church annex is also plastered white, but stands out due to the red sandstone corner blocks and the sandstone frames, which give the eastern part a historicizing character. In the upper area there are slightly ogival windows, in the lower area small rectangular double windows. The middle two upper windows on the north and south sides protrude into a gable. Red segmental arches with slightly protruding keystones are walled in over the lintels in the lower zone . A segmental arch of this type is also located above the rectangular entrance door on the west side of the stair tower. On the east side there is a large seven-part rose window in a square field, which ends with a frieze. The pointed arch north portal on the central axis with sandstone walls and a small flight of stairs has a wooden canopy that is slated.

Furnishing

Looking west

In the western part, the interior is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on octagonal wooden posts. Four wooden cross struts with central and lower beams absorb the vibrations emanating from the roof turret with its bells. The west gallery is provided with coffered panels. The room opens up to the church annex. The low ceiling turns into an organ gallery in the middle of the church. In the eastern part, the ceiling rests on a wooden beam construction, which also supports the three-sided gallery.

The church furnishings essentially go back to the time the annex was built. Portraits of the pastors go back to the year 1527, the pictures of the first pastors on the west gallery are stylized. In the 1970s, the interior painting was renewed in a modified form.

The altar area on the east wall of the extension, which has been raised by two steps, is dominated by a large pointed arch made of tuff stone with a large round window. Steinmetz A. Dominick from Gießen created the altar from light sandstone with a black marble top. Empress Auguste Viktoria donated the altar Bible for the consecration of the church and provided it with a dedication.

The polygonal wooden pulpit stands on the south side of the eastern part. The three ink drawings on the pulpit by Wilhelm Großhaus from Lützellinden show scenes from the life of Jesus. The church stalls are made of fir wood.

The baptism dates from 1640 and the baptismal bowl from the 15th century. The brass bowl bears the inscription: “LUCKY, ALWAYS, HONORABLE, BENEDIC. CHRISTO ET MARIAE ”. The old Romanesque baptismal font made of basalt lava was converted into a fountain in front of the town hall. The chandelier in the crossing was purchased in 1993.

organ

Organ prospectus around 1900

In 1680 the church did not have an organ . In the further course of the 17th century there is evidence of an organ. Johann Peter Rühl, organ builder from Gießen, submitted a cost estimate for a renovation of the organ in 1799. A voting contract with Carl Landolt is proven for 1843. One year after the completion of the church, the Bernhard brothers from Gambach built a new organ with 14 registers in 1894 , which were divided into two manuals and a pedal . The prospectus is structured by three round-arched pipe fields. The previous organ was sold to Sichertshausen in 1893 .

Günter Hardt created today's organ in 1970 in a historic case. In the course of this, the instrument was moved back to its original location in the gallery parapet. In 1999 the bassoon 16 ′ register was added to the pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II subsidiary work C – g 3
Covered 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Zimbel II 1'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
bassoon 16 ′

Bells

The church has a triple bell. A Wenzelaus bell was cast by Tilman von Hachenburg in 1473 . Another large bell was cast in 1507 by master Hans from Frankfurt am Main, which was damaged when hanging and had to be repaired. For the first time there was talk of two bells in 1609, and for the first time three in 1616. In 1888 a big bell fell and was placed on a new bed. When the medieval bells were to be melted down for war purposes in 1917, the parish successfully defended itself. The two large bells were cast over in 1919, as one was already damaged by the fall. During the Second World War, the two larger bells were given to the armaments industry and refilled by Gebr. Rincker in 1949 , while the smallest was preserved. The bell has been electrified since the 1970s and radio-controlled since 2011.

No.
  		Chime
  		Casting year
  		Caster
  		inscription
 
1 f sharp 1 1949 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn † OUT OF ERRORS AND MUDDLES, I HAVE CREATED NOW I PRIZE GOD'S GOOD AND TRUE
2 a 1 1949 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn CHRIST OUR PEACE, relief: Combination of Christ monogram as well as Alpha and Omega
3 g sharp 2 approx. 14th century unmarked no inscriptions, only decorative rings

The following inscriptions from earlier bells have survived:

Wenzelausglocke:
I'm all called Wenßelaus,
neither do I piss off .
Teylmann von Hachenberck poured me
a. D. 1473
School or community
bell : Franckfort In
church service I am MH [= Master Hans] poured me
St. Johannes Evangelista my name is
M V II [instead of MDVII = 1507]
[crucifixion scene]
stabat mater dolorosa
iuxta crucem lacrimosa
dum pendebat filius cuius animam
gementem
contristatam ac dolentam
pertransivit gladius.

Pastor

The evangelical pastors have been consistently documented since the Reformation. Between 1703 and 1970 Hörnsheim was cared for by Lützellinden as a parish priest.

  • 1527–1536: Adam Kirchhain
  • 1538–1541: Bernhard Potentian
  • 1541–1553: Georg Ebel
  • 1553–1597: Jost Hoffmann
  • 1598–1620: Johannes Mercator
  • 1621– around 1635: Justus Hien
  • 1636–1640: Gerhard zur Avest
  • 1640–1641: Philipp Richard Walther
  • 1641–1698: Johann Conrad Clemm
  • 1698–1727: Johann Gottfried Pampo
  • 1727–1769: Johann Conrad Creuzer (with Pampo since 1708)
  • 1769–1772: Justus Bernherd Creuzer
  • 1772–1828: Georg Conrad Matthias Stein
  • 1828–1836: Valentin Bruno Castendyk
  • 1836–1875: Peter Friedrich Schonebohm
  • 1876–1881: Gustav Lenhartz
  • 1881–1897: Hugo Schonebohm
  • 1897–1936: Adolf Koch
  • 1936–1945: Representation by foreign pastors
  • 1945–1969: Hans Peltner
  • 1970–1981: Werner Högner
  • 1982–2016: Ute Kannemann
  • 1988–2006: Horst Kannemann (position shared with Ute Kannemann)
  • since 2010 : Horst Daniel (second pastorate until 2016, first pastorate since 2017)00

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 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 373–374.
  • Günter Hans (Ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1200 years. 790-1990. Magistrate of the university town of Gießen, Gießen 1990.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. University town of Giessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlagsgesellschaft Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 .
  • Marie-Luise Westermann, parish council of the Evangelical parish in Großen-Linden: Romanesque Church in Großen-Linden . Evangelical parish, Fernwald-Steinbach 1998.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Lützellinden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 530.
  2. ↑ Westermann: Romanesque Church Grossen-Linden . 1998, p. 5.
  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. 200.
  4. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, p. 89.
  5. ↑ a b c d Homepage of the parish: The story of Lützellinden , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Lützellinden. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 21, 2013 .
  7. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, p. 56.
  8. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, p. 65.
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 514 f.
  10. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, p. 58.
  11. ↑ 125 years of consecration of the Evangelical Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , pp. 12–17, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  12. ↑ a b 125 years of consecration of the Protestant Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 18, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  13. ↑ 125 years of consecration of the Evangelical Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 9, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  14. ↑ 125 years of consecration of the Evangelical Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 28, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Dehio, Cremer: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 599.
  17. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, p. 67.
  18. ↑ 125 years of consecration of the Evangelical Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 23, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  19. ↑ 125 years of consecration of the Evangelical Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 10, accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  20. ^ Dehio, Cremer: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 600.
  21. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 601 f .
  22. ↑ a b 125 years of consecration of the Protestant Church in Lützellinden. Festschrift 1893–2018 , p. 21, accessed on August 28, 2018 (PDF).
  23. ↑ Organ in Lützellinden , seen July 29, 2016.
  24. ↑ 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. 139.
  25. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, pp. 58-60.
  26. ^ Hans (ed.): Contributions to the geography, history and culture of Lützellinden. 1990, pp. 95-103.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 26 ″  E