Evangelical Reformed Church (Burbach)

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The Evangelical Reformed Church is a listed church building in Burbach , a municipality in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The simple building stands on the Roman rock. The local parish belongs to the parish of Siegen in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .

History and architecture

Originally the old Burbach church bore the patronage of St. Marien. The parish was mentioned in a document in 1219. The successor building was built between 1774 and 1776, the sacristy is housed in the risalit in the middle. The west tower comes from a previous building from the late Middle Ages. When the larger nave was built, access to the tower was created and the old, dilapidated spiral staircase made of stone was replaced by a wooden staircase to provide access to the bells and the tower clock. The walls are divided on one side by high arched windows, on the other by arched over square windows. A mirror vault was drawn into the interior. The three-sided gallery, like the chairs, faces north. The natural stone floor laid in a herringbone pattern probably dates from the construction period. A column foot is still preserved from the old, demolished nave. It stands upside down as a table in front of the old bailiwick nearby.

Furnishing

The restrained furnishings appear uniform, through them the bright hall is clearly structured and shows the ideal typical required design of Protestant churches of the 18th century.

  • The pulpit altar organ structure
  • Two cast grave slabs are attached to the outer wall; they are labeled 1783 and 1787.

Bells

In the previous church there were three bells in the tower.

The year the bell was cast has not been passed down, and the slogan is no longer legible. It weighed 1,131 pounds and broke in 1760. After repairs, it served until 1810 and then broke again. The Rincker in Leun poured it over, but no longer achieved the old sound. The middle bell was cast in 1447, according to its inscription it served to drive away thunderstorms. It was used at funerals and on Sundays. The little bell from 1452 sounded bright, it served as a school bell.

The Schipping bell foundry from Neuwied delivered a new bell on November 13, 1857. These bells had to be delivered during the First World War, they were replaced in 1921 by three new bells from the Rincker bell foundry in Leun. The two largest bells had to be given in during the Second World War, the smaller one, tuned to tone b, was retained. The Rincker bell foundry from Sinn delivered two new bells in 1952, the large one was tuned to f and the smaller one, now the middle one in the ring, was set to as. Both bells were cast from bronze. The large bell, weighing 699.5 kg and having a diameter of 1070 mm, bears the inscription Glory to God in height and the smaller one, weighing 433 kg and having a diameter of 904 mm, bears the inscription Peace on Earth . The bell cage was renewed and an electric bell was installed.

Tower clock

Today's tower clock had at least two predecessors, which presumably did not have a dial, but instead indicated the time by striking the bell. In a protocol from 1884 it is mentioned that it has now also been decided to attach a clock face to the outside of the tower . The clock, which was housed in the tower when the nave was rebuilt in 1776, had suffered badly from a major fire and had become unusable. The watchmaker Johann Heinrich Spieß from Siegen took it over and delivered a new watch for 20 Reichstaler. This watch stopped working in the 1880s. A new clock with a dial facing the street was purchased in 1884. The mighty clockwork shows the inscription Bockenem 1884 on the cast iron frame. A hidden company sign reads AFWeule, Turm-, Hof- und Eisenbahnuhren Bockenem .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ parish
  2. ↑ exact location ( memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burbach-siegerland.de
  3. ↑ Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 203
  4. ↑ Late medieval west tower
  5. ↑ Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 203
  6. ↑ preserved column base ( memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burbach-siegerland.de
  7. ↑ Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 203
  8. ↑ Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 203
  9. ↑ The different bells
  10. ↑ Tower clocks

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 50.6 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 45.4"  E