Zionskirche (Allendorf / Lumda)

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Zion Church from the southwest

The Zionskirche of the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is in Allendorf , a town in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ). The early post-war building was built in 1949/1950 and is a Hessian cultural monument for historical, scientific and urban planning reasons .

history

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1527/28, the place changed to the Evangelical Lutheran creed.

Under the influence of the revival movement , from the 1860s onwards, Christians who did not agree with the rationalistic orientation of the Evangelical Church in Hesse gathered in private houses to immerse themselves in Lutheran teaching. Pastor Friedrich Brunn had founded his own Lutheran church in Steeden and encouraged other congregations in the wider area to take this step during his preaching services. In 1869, a new agenda that recorded rationalist and unionist-reformed influences replaced the traditional Württemberg church book . The objection of 18 Allendorfer parishioners to the Darmstadt senior consistory under Karl von Starck on June 15, 1869 was rejected on August 24 of that year. In addition, pastors and teachers had introduced new textbooks in biblical history in the school on their own initiative. Against the protest of 114 Lutheran pastors, the Evangelical Church of the Grand Duchy of Hesse introduced a new constitution on January 6, 1874, which officially sealed the union that had actually existed since July 6, 1832. Against this background, 15 of the 18 " unruly " Allendorf residents left the regional church in the spring of 1875 and founded the "Evangelical Lutheran Zionsgemeinde Allendorf-Klein-Linden" in 1875. In a statement to the Ministry in Darmstadt it was said: "We hereby reject the confession of the Hessian regional church which now comprises various denominations, renounce it and set up a new religious and denominational community separate from the Hessian regional church." In July 1875 Pastor Albin Wagner was introduced to his office. The meeting place was initially private apartments and a hall on Treiser Straße. In 1877 the congregation built its own prayer room on upper Marktstrasse. The construction was financed primarily through donations from American relatives. In 1878 the congregation was accepted into the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hesse and subsequently grew to more than 200 people due to the influx of families from Allertshausen, which is why a larger building was required. The first church building was built in 1882 in the style of the mission churches of the 19th century, an elongated hall building with a gable roof and a small roof turret placed in the middle . A pastor's apartment was attached under one roof. The property was an acre in Friedhofstrasse that a Jewish citizen had sold. A congregation member who emigrated to America donated a white marble baptismal font. In 1907 the simple interior was renovated, the chancel was given an arch. The parsonage was replaced by the construction of a new parsonage in 1936/1937 and has since been used as a confirmation hall. After the Second World War, a displaced family was housed here until 1956. During these years, the bourgeois community made a classroom available for church lessons.

Architect and senior building officer Martin Stallmann had the new church built around the old one in 1949/1950. In this way, the previous building could be used until the shell of the new Zion Church was completed and was only then demolished. The inauguration took place on July 9, 1950. In the meantime, the community used a youth home in Climbach as a meeting place. In 1962 the interior of the Zionskirche was redesigned. The community bought three bells in 1962 and a new organ in 1966.

In 1970 the community had about 350 members, 250 of whom came from Allendorf and 100 from the surrounding area. In 1972 various Lutheran free churches merged to form the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church. From 1973 to 1975 a two-storey parish hall was added to the eastern long side and the church was widened by three meters and renovated. This was made possible through extraordinary donations of 130,000 DM and through our own work. At the end of the 1970s the community, whose visitors came from 16 localities, had 585 members. In 2017 the church had about 330 members. The Zionsgemeinde is parishally connected with the Bethlehem Community in Grünberg and together with it forms a common parish within the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.

architecture

Zion window

The church is not geosted , but oriented on Londorfer Straße from south to north. The white plastered church is located east of the old town center and southwest of a new development area. The simple hall building is covered by a steep gable roof and illuminated on the west side by four narrow, high-rectangular lead glass windows. The interior is oriented towards an apse-like niche with a flat pointed arch in the north wall, which receives light from the east and west through two small round windows. The eastern north wall is dominated by the Zion window , a leaded glass window which, based on a design by Karl Faulstich , shows the city of Zion above a red rose . In the southern gable wall there are three small rectangular windows on two levels; the gable triangle has two very small windows.

The bell tower is integrated into the church on the south west side and also serves as the main entrance. The two-winged portal has a flat arch, above which a small round window is let. The lower tower floor is not plastered, but shows, like the base of the church and the entrance area with its staircase and the surrounding walls, red and gray ashlar stones made of basalt and lung stone . Above the gable roof of the church, the four-sided shaft is continued from an upper floor and finished off by a pyramid roof with a Luther rose and a simple cross. Characteristic are the sound openings that protrude on the sides, break through the eaves and have small roofs. The bell storey houses three bronze bells of the company Rincker with the pitches dis 2 , F # 2 and gis 2 that the Te Deum form motif.

Furnishing

Altar and baptismal font
View of the altar area

The interior is closed off by a flat beamed ceiling. A gallery is built in to the south as a place for the organ. The simple, wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free and face north to the altar area, which is two steps higher than the nave. While the floor in the church is covered with red-brown square tiles, the altar area stands out with large, light-colored stones. The pulpit, altar and baptismal font were made of red marble in 1962. The pulpit on the right of the apse is rectangular in plan and has beveled corners at the front. In the apse the altar table rests on a large marble plinth, on the sides of which two padded knee benches are attached. A crucifix is hung on ropes above the altar . The body of the three-nail type is shown under the inscription INRI on the cross . To the left of the apse stands the cup-shaped baptismal font, which shows a stylized dove at the front and is covered by a brass dome on top.

organ

Rückpositiv in the gallery parapet
Böttner organ

The congregation bought a first, used organ behind an early baroque front for the old church in 1883. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built in 1921 a new internal plant with pneumatic pocket drawers and four registers . Wolfgang Böttner replaced the instrument in 1966 and moved the historic prospectus to the Butzkirche in Hommershausen . The new organ with mechanical slide chests has 14 registers, which are distributed over two manuals and a pedal and were made by a pipe manufacturer from the Stuttgart area. The Rückpositiv is embedded in the gallery parapet. The disposition is as follows:

I Rückpositiv C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zymbel II 2 ⁄ 3 ′
II Hauptwerk C – f 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Capstan whistle 2 ′
Sesquialter II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedals C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Revelation 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Octave Cornet II 2 ′ + 1 ′

literature

  • Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. The middle of the valley. Deissmann, Allendorf 1987, pp. 227-231.
  • 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. 36 f.
  • Ernst Schneider: Allendorf on the Lumda. Chronicle of an old city. Stadt Verlag, Allendorf an der Lumda 1970, p. 291.
  • City of Allendorf an der Lumda (Ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. Chronicle for the 1200th anniversary. Allendorf an der Lumda 1988, p. 351 f.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 12 f.

Web links

Commons : Zionskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Old Lutheran Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 227.
  3. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 12.
  4. ^ City of Allendorf an der Lumda (ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1988, p. 351.
  5. ↑ a b c d website of the community: History of the community , accessed on December 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 228.
  7. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 229.
  8. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 212.
  9. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 13.
  10. ^ Schneider: Allendorf an der Lumda. 1970, p. 291.
  11. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) eV (Hrsg.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 231.
  12. ↑ The Butzkirche to Hommershausen , accessed on 17 December 2016th
  13. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 31 .
  14. ↑ orgel-information.de: Organ in Allendorf , accessed on March 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '41.05 "  N , 8 ° 49' 34.41"  O