Antonius Chapel (Wölfersheim)

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The former Antonius Chapel in Wölfersheim was built in the 15th century and was dedicated to Saint Anthony .

location

The chapel was located directly on the western wall of the town. The eastern Black Tower , first documented in 1596, served as the bell tower . Between the tower and the chapel was the weed . In 1594 the "Kirchgaßen" was mentioned for the first time. The first school building stood opposite the chapel . Since the introduction of the Reformed denomination in the county of Solms-Braunfels in 1588, Wölfersheim had its own teacher. This school building became a parsonage in 1611 when it was separated from the mother church in Södel .

history

Saint Anthony was supposed to help against the Antonius fire. The Antonite Order devoted itself to caring for the people who fell ill from the Antonius fire . The Wölfersheimer Antoniuskapelle was in the collecting area of ​​the Antoniterkloster Grünberg . A preceptor of the Grünberg Antoniterkloster, Conrad von Angersbach, is attested for Wölfersheim in the 15th century. The Antonite monastery in Grünberg was dissolved during the Reformation .

Originally, the church served as the castle chapel of the northeastern castle Wölfersheim . The lords of Falkenstein owned the castle fief and the church bailiwick . Philipp von Falkenstein installed two Antonite monks as clergymen in his Munzenberg Castle since 1289 .

The chapel was mentioned for the first time in 1466. In Wölfersheim , the Mainz monastery of St. Peter received, in addition to the dues from nine farms, seven Heller from the "buhemeister sanct Anthonii."

Since the Reformation, the chapel has served as a branch church of the Södeler Martinskirche.

construction

The appearance of the church can be reconstructed based on the invoices and records of the renovation work from 1595 and 1650/51. The chapel had a semicircular choir in the east, which was entered through the "rearmost door". There "a chair ... was built in front of the musicians," after the Thirty Years' War it served "in front of the singers and child middlemen." The choir ceiling is described as "a high vaulted, divided sky".

Opposite on the west side in the direction of the castle was the large double-winged door, while a small door towards the village served as an entrance for the local residents. On either side of the aisle were the women's chairs.

The curtain wall was used as the western side wall. So in 1650 the carpenter had to "border the thiel behind the curtain wall."

Even before the Thirty Years War, a “men's bower” was built. The lack of space for representative chairs in front of the choir led to conflicts between the village honorary officials. a. the family of the natural scientist Georg Eberhard Rumpf left the place in an argument after their return from Hanau . All seats in the church had to be bought with the exception of the seats on the men's stage .

Bells

The black tower was expanded into a bell tower in 1611 , "when Wölfersheim reformed and Södell became Lutheran." To do this, the roof of the tower had to be changed: "Make the high roof off the top and a low one with brick on it."

  • The oldest bell , which came from this time, was cast in 1725 by the bell founder Philipp Schweitzer from Werdorf because it had cracked. The bell tower of today's church was not completed until 1735. It is the oldest still preserved bell in Wölfersheim. It was hung on a bell beam with the year 1669. The entire belfry was built into the bell tower of the new church.
  • In 1649 the chapel was given a roof turret as a bell cage for a newly donated bell. The brother of the pastor, “The noble honored and high-booming Mr. Johann Raimundt Jäger Licher Fürstl. Hess. Darmstadt War Commisarius zu Wilffersheim "had a bell poured for his deceased first wife in Gießen ".
  • In 1651, at the suggestion of Pastor Georg Venator, a bell was cast when a bell founder, Georg Schernbein from Marburg , was making bells for Dorn-Assenheim , Wehrheim , Weckesheim and Langsdorf (Lich) in Reichelsheim (Wetterau) . As early as 1655, the bell had to be brought to Greifenstein on the orders of Count Wilhelm II , so that an Italian bell caster enlarged it "uf der gemain ohncosten".
  • One bell dates from 1690, but nothing more is known about it.

The bell ringer of the Antoniuskapelle was connected with the office of the community baker and was awarded for a time (one to three years) by the May or autumn court in Wölfersheim. The community bakery and flour scales were housed in the black tower. In the service contract of the bell-ringer from the year 1693 states: "... has ... been ahngenommen to a common baker him wobey connected that he should läuthen hearing to church and school bells, the clock item to order and clean on the other hand, he receives ten small florins annually as a wage from the Herdenschilling and ten Albus at Baumöhl. ”165 the contract was extended so that the bell ringer now also had to open and close the chapel for the service, clean the building every four weeks and had to provide fresh water for baptisms .

Burial place

Pastors and relatives of high officials were buried in the Antonius Chapel.

  • In February 1612 the first pastor in Wölfersheim, Simon Leureilius, was buried in the church, who had been pastor in Södel until 1611 , but was expelled there because he was a Calvinist.
  • In 1635, two sons of the Princely Hessian Rentmeister zu Bingenheim and Graeflich Solms bailiff Justus Opholzer were buried in front of the stairs of the preaching chair .
  • In 1651 Anna Maria Jäger was buried in the church, and a bell was donated in memory of her.
  • On April 18, 1676, Pastor Georg Venator, who had died at the old age of 96, was buried in the Antonius Chapel.
  • Simon Wilhelm Zuckerstetter, the second pastor of Wölfersheim, who was responsible for the branch in Weckesheim, was "buried Christianly in the local church in the corridor between the two doors" on January 24th, 1731. This was the last burial in the Antonius Chapel.

After the inauguration of the new church on May 22, 1741, the chapel was deprived of its function, but remained in place until 1774. The then senior pastor Müller finally had it demolished and the proceeds from the sale of the wooden elements were transferred to the church box. Only the wall section of the fortifications remained, which was finally torn down in 1801 and the stones of which were used to build the road .

literature

  • Christian Aledter, The historic Wölfersheim. Vol. 1: 1128-1900. Wölfersheim 1976.
  • Friedrich Clotz, three lectures on local history. Friedberg (Hesse) 1927
  • Herbert Meyer, family book Wölfersheim. Family book of the evangelical-reformed parish from 1637. (Ed. Zentralstelle für Personen- und Familiengeschichte, Frankfurt a. M.) German local clan books for personal and family history. Row B Volume 233.Darmstadt 2001.
  • Eugen Rieß, Brief historical outline of Wölfersheim. in: Herbert Meyer, Familienbuch Wölfersheim, pp. 4–14.
  • Eugen Rieß, 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Wölfersheim. (Ed.) Ev. Ref. Wölfersheim parish, 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waldemar Küther , The Order of Antoniter zu Grünberg. In: Grünberg. History and face of a city in eight centuries, Gießen 1972, p. 163 ff.
  2. ↑ Waldemar Küther, Antoniterkloster, p. 178.
  3. ↑ Red Book, Archive Solms-Braunfels, quoted. after Eugen Rieß, 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Wölfersheim. (Ed.) Ev.-ref. Parish Wölfersheim, 1991, p. 65.
  4. ↑ Eugen Rieß, Protestant Church Community, p. 59 ff.
  5. ↑ Letter from the high school teacher Georg from 1735, cited above. n. Eugen Rieß, 250 years ev.-ref. Parish, p. 69.
  6. ↑ Eugen Rieß, 250 years ev.-ref. Parish, pp. 67–71.
  7. ↑ cit. after Friedrich Clotz, three lectures on local history. Friedberg (Hessen) 1927. The old church, p. 11.
  8. ↑ Eugen Rieß, ev.-ref. Parish, p. 57.
  9. ↑ Christian Aledter, The historic Wölfersheim. Vol. 1: 1128-1900, pp. 61 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 47.7 ″  E