Evangelical Church of Niederkleen

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Southeast side of the church (2020)
Church from the northwest

The Evangelical Church of Niederkleen in the Hessian community of Langgöns was built in 1728 using parts of a previous medieval building. It shapes the townscape of Niederkleen and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Document No. 3724d of October 9, 804 of the Lorsch Codex reports that a presbyter Randolf donated two churches and a manor to the Lorsch monastery. The current village church stands on the foundations of the larger of these two churches, while the smaller one was sold for demolition in 1569.

A document from 1299 names a knight Conrad von Cleen . This purchases a yard near the churchyard, which suggests the existence of a church. A parish church is documented for the year 1378 , which was under the patronage of the Junkers von Frankenstein . Ecclesiastically, Niederkleen belonged to the parish of Großen-Linden , which exercised the right to broadcast in the Hüttenberger Land and used plebans . In the 15th century, Niederkleen was assigned to the Archipresbyterate Wetzlar in the Archdiocese of Trier .

In the course of the Reformation , the parish changed to the evangelical confession. Heinrich was the first Protestant pastor until 1551. Parts of the medieval predecessor building were used for the new church in 1728. The church builder was Johann Henrich Diel. The pastor's son was first baptized in the new church on September 6, 1728. On September 29th, the church stalls were distributed; the raffle for the "women stand" took place on October 17, 1728. In July 1729 the official inauguration of the building took place. A dispute dragged on from 1728 to 1733 when Gregor Michel demanded that the community build a stately chair for him at their expense. The Frankensteiners exercised the right of patronage until 1779, which then passed to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In 1833 the church was renovated. The term of office of Pastor Wilhelm Stein , who worked in the community from 1836 to 1849 and shaped the entire Hüttenberger Land as a revival preacher, was influential .

In 1933/1934 a renovation took place, during which the remains of the medieval predecessor building were identified. An exterior renovation followed from 1962 to 1967. The baroque sand-lime plaster was replaced by a cement plaster, which caused consequential damage. During an exterior renovation between 2018 and 2020, the portals were refurbished, the slate roof repaired, the baroque plaster restored and the church repainted.

The parish of Niederkleen is today connected to the parish of Dornholzhausen. The parishes belong to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Interior to the east

The almost east-facing hall church has a slightly indented 5/8 choir end, which at least partially goes back to the Romanesque period. In 1933/1934, during renovation work under the external plaster on the eastern choir wall, remnants of the previous building were discovered, including a small round-arched double window that was walled up secondarily. From the church seat regulations it can be concluded that the new building was larger than the old church. 164 seats in the old church are compared to 235 in the new one.

The church is covered by a slate gable roof . The three-storey roof turret in the west is completely slated and tapers upwards: Above a cube, the octagonal hood merges into an open lantern , which is crowned by a tower button, cross and weather valve. After three years of restoration, the spire was put back in 2014; The button and weathercock are newly gilded and the year 1728 in the wrought-iron cross is aligned with the village. The bell chamber houses a triple bell with the notes f 1 , a flat 1 and c 2 , i.e. a minor chord.

The long sides of the hall church are divided by three large round-arched windows, two further windows illuminate the choir. A low, high rectangular portal is built into the windowless west side, two more are in the long sides. The south portal is marked with the year 1728.

Furnishing

Interior to the west

The interior is closed off by a mirror ceiling with stucco work. On the east side the eye of providence is shown in a triangle with a halo in a small medallion , in the middle of the ceiling in a large oval medallion an angel blowing trumpets in a wreath of clouds, who in his right hand holds a Gospel book with the Bible passage Lk 2, 9  LUT holds.

The uniformly designed interior is largely from the time the church was built. The galleries in the north and west rest on Tuscan columns. The parapet paintings depict the apostles with their symbols, which are supplemented by Paul and Martin Luther in front of the south wall . The higher east gallery shows six New Testament scenes. It rests on two tiered black columns with gilded capitals . A crucifix is attached over a round arch . In front of it is the block-shaped altar bar .

On the north side of the choir, a Gothic sacrament niche is embedded in sandstone walls. Above it is the Niederkleen coat of arms with a three-leaf clover, which probably refers to the knight Conrad von Cleen. On the south side there is a piscina , which also points to the medieval origins of the choir. A kind of basin near the floor could have served as a holy water font. The large Romanesque baptismal font with a horseshoe frieze , which is now in the parish garden, also comes from the previous building . Remnants of an old inscription on the north side of the choir could not be deciphered.

The pulpit consists of the pulpit staircase, the polygonal pulpit with painted representations of the four evangelists in the fields between the winding corner pillars and the richly profiled sound cover on which a gilded dove hangs. It is adorned with flat-carved white attachments and tips and crowned by a partly gilded pelican who feeds his three cubs with his blood. The pulpit fields show the four evangelists with their symbols and the back wall shows the calling of the prophet Isaiah ( Isa 6,1  LUT ). Golden bells hang on the basket and lid. The baroque font with a silver baptismal bowl is marked with the year 1729 and rests on a stone column decorated with stone carvings.

An epitaph made of red sandstone for the church donor Conrad von Cleen was originally set into the floor of the church and was cut up in 1729 and built to support the south portal. Today the half epitaph showing the knight in his armor is placed on the walled-up north portal.

organ

Organ from 1910

In 1736, an unknown organ builder created a single-manual organ with nine registers that had no or only an attached pedal. The plant was renovated in 1881 by Ludwig Eichhorn from Weilmünster, rearranged and equipped with an independent pedal. In 1910 Hugo Böhm from Gotha built today's organ with ten registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal. The prospectus is divided into four round-arched pipe fields by pilasters. The plant was overhauled by Werner Bosch . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C – f 3
Lovelydacked 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

Bells

The roof turret housed a triple bell in 1836 with an old, undated bell and two more, which were cast by Rincker in Leun in 1815 . One of these two bells had already cracked and was cast in 1835. Today there is only one older bell that was cast by PH Rincker in Sinn in 1852 , the other two were re-cast by the Rincker brothers in 1950 - most likely after losses in the two world wars .

No. Casting year Foundry, casting location Chime inscription image
1 1852 PH Rincker , Sinn f ′ "ALONE ON GOD 'BE HONOR' / AND THANKS FOR HIS MERCY / HE WILL ALWAYS CARE FOR US / DANGER AND ACCIDENT DAMAGE / FOR US WELL-BEING, HE IS READY / HIS ADVICE IS OUR BEATENESS / RAISES HIM WITH JOY"
Back: "THE / MUNICIPALITY OF NIEDERKLEEN / GEGOSSEN / AT HOF = SENSE IN HERBORN / IN 1852 / VON / PH RINCKER "		 Evangelical Church Niederkleen bell 1.jpg
2 1950 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn as ′ "GLORY TO GOD IN HEIGHT AND PEACE ON EARTH" Evangelical Church Niederkleen Glocke 2.jpg
3 1950 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn c ′ ′ "OUR FAITH IS THE VICTORY THAT HAS SURROUNDED THE WORLD" Evangelical Church Niederkleen Glocke 3.jpg

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 65-75 ( online ).
  • Helga Block: Stories about the Niederkleener Church. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 40, February 10, 1988, pp. 1-4; No. 41, March 23, 1988, pp. 1-4.
  • 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. 694.
  • Ulrich Kulke: From the history of the church in Niederkleen. In: Monthly for Protestant Church History of the Rhineland. Volume 27, Issue 26, 1978, pp. 1–53.
  • 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. 323 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Niederkleen  - 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. 324.
  2. ^ Block: Stories about the Niederkleener Church. March 23, 1988, p. 1.
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 314.
  4. ^ Block: Stories about the Niederkleener Church. February 10, 1988, p. 2.
  5. ^ 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. 202.
  6. ↑ Niederkleen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 21, 2013 .
  7. ↑ a b Abicht: The Wetzlar district. Volume 2. 1836, p. 66 ( online )
  8. ↑ Kulke: From the history of the church in Niederkleen. 1978, p. 30.
  9. ↑ a b c Kulke: From the history of the church in Niederkleen. 1978, p. 29.
  10. ↑ Imme Rieger: The original plaster should be on it again , accessed on May 15, 2020.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 323.
  13. ^ Block: Stories about the Niederkleener Church. 1988, p. 3.
  14. ↑ Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: Holy Spirit comes down as a dove , accessed on May 25, 2020.
  15. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former government district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.2 . Part 2 (L – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 655 f .
  16. ↑ 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.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '35.3 "  N , 8 ° 36' 48.9"  E