Evangelical Reformed Church Dorf-Güll

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Church from the southeast
East Side

The Evangelical Reformed Church of Dorf-Güll was built in 1737 in Dorf-Güll , a district of Pohlheim in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), as a replacement for a previous chapel. With its three-storey tower spire, it shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the year 1210 a chapel with the patronage of St. Michael , to whom an altar was dedicated. Hartmut von Trohe , whose family belonged to the von Güll family, was the patron saint of the village of Güll and of the chapel in Rodenscheid at that time . In 1274 Adolf von Nordeck sold his share of the patronage rights to the Arnsburg monastery , to which Dorf-Güll was completely subordinate from the beginning of the 16th century. It is not known when the Dorf-Güller chapel became an independent parish. In 1421, Dorf-Güll was still incorporated into the Grüningen mother church . In particular, three chaplains from the pre-Reformation period are known who worked as second pastors in Grüningen and performed church services in Dorf-Güll: Chaplain Konrad (1421), Chaplain Rudolf Schadecker (1486) and Johann Doner (1505).

In the course of the Reformation , the parish initially accepted the Lutheran creed, but switched to the Reformed creed in 1582 when the area fell to Solms-Braunfels . Johann Beull, who became the first schoolmaster when the Holzheim School was founded in 1581, was at the same time pastor of Dorf-Güll and is the first evangelical pastor of the village to be reached. From 1594 the schoolmaster of Holzheim, the theologian Christoph Schiller, looked after Dorf-Güll again. His successor Peter Archa also held this dual function from 1599 to 1624. When Dorf-Güll fell to Hessen-Butzbach in 1624 during the Thirty Years War , the congregation became Lutheran, and in 1643 it changed back to the Reformed Confession when the town fell back to Solms-Braunfels. During the 60 years from 1708 to 1768 Dorf-Güll had its own pastor. Dorf-Güll then formed a parish together with Holzheim and was parish there in 1900.

The chapel, the roof of which collapsed on a Sunday morning in 1731 shortly before the service began and which gave way to the new church in 1737, was possibly the chapel from the Romanesque period. Apart from the east , nothing is known about its architecture. The new church was also built on the cemetery, but it stood "zwerch", that is, across from north to south. The foundation stone was laid on May 31, 1737. The first baptism in the new church took place on October 20 of that year. The interior, like the church stalls, was not completed until 1738.

The outer walls remained unplastered for almost 250 years. After initially only a north and east gallery had been installed, the southern organ gallery was added and the parapet renewed in the 19th century, probably as a result of the new organ in 1839. In 1854, as part of a church renovation, a wooden communion table was purchased, an oven was installed in 1889 and a chandelier was hung in 1900.

In 1926 the interior of the church was painted without a permit. The interior was renovated in 1973/74. In the course of the last renovation, the electric floor heating installed in the 1950s was replaced by a bench heater and the outer walls were plastered white. On the 275th anniversary of the church, the renovation of the church roof, the beams of which had been damaged by moisture, and the church tower, as well as the renovation of the interior, were completed. After a year and a half of renovation, the church was ceremoniously put back into use on August 26, 2012.

architecture

North portal with building inscription

The small aisle church made of quarry stone on a rectangular floor plan was built on the highest point of the built-up area of ​​the place. It is oriented north-south and has a 3/8 choir closure in the south. The baroque church draws on medieval design elements through the Gothic choir. The corner cuboids are made of Londorfer basalt lava (lung stone). The main entrance in the north and the side entrance in the east are framed by sandstone. In the lintel of the north portal is the inscription: “ THE VILLAGE GILO HAS BEEN BUILT IN 1737 THE CHURCH HAS BEEN BUILT FOR A TIME H. PRIOR KRAUS H. SCHULTEIS CONRAD SAMES JOHAN HENRICH WEIL AND OTHER BENDER BAUMEISTER ”. The interior receives light through large windows with segmental arches on the long sides and in the apse. In contrast, the very small central choir window is now covered by the organ. The steep gable roof is slate and is structured by the original dormers .

A three-storey slate tower spire rises above the north portal. The lower cube-shaped part merges into the eight-sided belfry, which has four acoustic arcades and houses three bronze bells. Above this, the eight-sided lantern is attached to a curved monopitch roof , which is closed off by a pointed roof. The tower is crowned by a tower ball, a cross and a weathercock.

The church is surrounded by a walled churchyard.

Furnishing

Bernhard organ from 1839

The simple, flat-roofed interior is dominated by green and red tones. A circumferential, coffered gallery is built in on three sides, which is supported by a total of seven marbled wooden posts. While the older angled galleries rest on support beams in the masonry, the south pore, which was added later, is constructed on wall supports. The flat ceiling is structured by geometric stucco. The wooden church stalls and the galleries offer space for 200 visitors.

The choir area is increased by one level. The altar is simply bricked up and plastered white. It is closed off by a profiled plate painted red. Two rows of pews are set up at the end of the choir. The floor is made of red sandstone slabs, and parquet is laid under the benches in the ship .

The oldest piece of furniture is the pulpit on the west wall from the second half of the 17th century. The square pulpit has profiled fields and is completed by a small sounding board, that of carving with quatrefoil is crowned -Ornamenten.

organ

The church was initially without an organ . In 1804 the used organ of the Braunfels Castle Church was offered to the Dorf-Güller parish, which, however, did not accept the offer. Instead, Johann Hartmann Bernhard from Romrod created a new organ in 1839. Compared to the contract, which provided for nine stops on a manual and pedal , it has been reduced by one stop (Solitional 8 ′) or was later rebuilt. Except for the prospectus pipes , the work has been completely preserved. In the prospectus , four pilasters subdivide three large round arch fields. The disposition is:

Manual C – f 3
Drone 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Flute travers 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III
Pedal C-f 0
Sub bass 16 ′

Bells

In 1861 there were two bells to which a third was added by the Bach bell foundry. The two largest had to be ceded to the armaments industry in 1917 and were later replaced by new ones from the Rincker bell foundry . The two largest bells were handed in at the beginning of the Second World War and were replaced by new ones by the Rincker company in 1950.

Today the church has a three-way ring with bells from 1931 and 1950. The tone combination of the three bells is called "Te Deum".

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 1950 Rincker brothers h 1
2 1950 Rincker brothers d 2
3 1931 FW Rincker e 2

Parish

The parish has around 660 members and shares a parish with Holzheim . In the Deanery Hungen she belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . A parish hall has been available since 1998.

Pastor

From 1708 to 1768 Dorf-Güll had its own pastor, from 1633 to 1708 and after 1768 the parish shared a common pastor with Holzheim. The following evangelical pastors have been recorded since the Reformation.

  • 1581–1584: Johann Beull
  • 1594–1599: Christoph Schiller
  • 1599-1624: Peter Archa
  • 1624–1626: Hermann Hubert
  • 1626–1633: Sebastian Heyland
  • 1633–1635: Hermann Holwegk
  • 1635 : Heinrich Ebert00000
  • 1635–1647: Johannes Runckel
  • 1647–1670: Konrad Bröder
  • 1671–1706: Johannes Bröder (son of Konrad Bröder)
  • 1706–1708: Johann Kaspar Müller
  • 1708–1712: Johann Georg Graf
  • 1712–1717: Gottfried Brickel
  • 1717–1749: Kaspar Krausch
  • 1749–1750: Johann Konrad Krausch (son of Kaspar Krausch)
  • 1750–1768: Johann Peter Schauß
  • 1768–1787: Theodor Christoph Müller
  • 1788–1802: Johann Siebert
  • 1802–1805: Franz Ludwig Carriere (Vicar von Griedel)
  • 1805–1815: Ludwig Christian Gifhorn
  • 1815-1853: Martin Heidolph
  • 1852–1853: Friedrich Helwig (assistant)
  • 1853–1859: Otto Heinrichs (vicar)
  • 1859–1861: Karl Ferdinand Bingmann
  • 1861–1874: Ludwig Friedrich Hofmann
  • 1874–1876: Pastor Berwig (administration from Eberstadt)
  • 1876–1879: Hermann Seipp (vicar)
  • 1879–1882: Hermann Wilhelm Seibel
  • 1882–1885: Pastor Walz (administration from Eberstadt)
  • 1885–1896: Wilhelm Veller
  • 1896–1897: Adam Heussel
  • 1897–1924: Ludwig Freitag
  • 1925–1930: Emil Karl Theodor Weber
  • 1930–1934: Wilhelm Schmidt (missionary)
  • 1947–1954: Karl Launhardt
  • 1955–1959: Johann Schär-Conradi
  • 1959–1970: Erich Conradi
  • 1970–1983: Ernst-Walter Theiß
  • 1985–1995: Hans Theo and Petra Daum
  • 1996 : Jörg Stähler00000
  • 1997-2005: Stefan Schneider
  • 2006–2008: Gisela Ottstadt
  • 2009–2014: Mirjam Welsch
  • 2015-today: Matthias Bubel

literature

  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 184 f.
  • Karl-Heinrich Jung; Evangelical Parish Office Holzheim and Parish Council Dorf-Güll (Ed.): 250 Years Evangelical Reformed Church Dorf-Güll. Dietz Druck, Langgöns 1987.
  • 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. 396.
  • City of Pohlheim (ed.): Dorf-Güll 799–1999. 1200 years of Pohlheim-Dorf-Güll. Pohlheim 1999.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 42 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Reformed Church Dorf-Güll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 396.
  2. ↑ a b Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 9.
  3. ^ Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 10.
  4. ^ Heinrich Steitz, Helmut Baier: History of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Trautvetter & Fischer, 1961, p. 100.
  5. ↑ "Dorf-Güll, District of Gießen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 17.
  7. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 42.
  8. ↑ a b Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 18.
  9. ↑ a b Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 19.
  10. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 185.
  11. ↑ Homepage of the parish: Renovation of the Dorf-Güller Church ( memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 10, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b Gießener Anzeiger of August 27, 2012: “Church is a sign that God lives in the middle of the village” , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  13. ↑ a b c d Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 43.
  14. ^ 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. 236 .
  15. ↑ giessenerland-evangelisch.ekhn.de: Evangelical parishes of Dorf-Güll and Holzheim , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  16. ^ Jung: 250 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Dorf-Güll. 1987, p. 11 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 23 ″  E