Evangelical Reformed Church Langsdorf

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East side on the street front
South-west side with the choir tower

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Langsdorf , a district of Lich in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), is a transverse church that was built from 1780 to 1782 in the Rococo style. The choir tower from the 13th century has been preserved. The church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

A chapel in Langsdorf is first documented around 1435, the choir tower of which dates from the 13th century. The church was Maria consecrated. From an ecclesiastical point of view, at the end of the Middle Ages the place belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Hungen district. It was a branch of Hungen, was raised to an independent parish in 1465, but was again a branch at the time of the introduction of the Reformation . In the middle of the 16th century Langsdorf changed to the Lutheran, in 1582 to the Reformed creed. Since 1553 the church has been an independent parish again and has a parish office with the Evangelical Reformed Church in Bettenhausen .

In the village fire in 1641, the old spire was destroyed and replaced in 1645/46. The church nave on the west side, which was lost in the 18th century, was demolished and a new nave was built on the east side between 1780 and 1782 according to plans by the Solms-Braunfels master builder Bock and consecrated on August 11, 1782. On the west side of the tower, an extension was built from the remains of the old church, which temporarily served as a prison.

architecture

Eastern face
Gravestone of Johann Jacob von Zwierlein

Taking up a reformed tradition of the Netherlands, the hall church in the center of the village is transverse and designed as a preaching church. The eastern front facing the street is more richly designed and has a gabled risalit in the middle . The square pilaster strips and the walls are made of red sandstone. Ten high windows with segmented arches supply the interior with light. Smaller windows are attached above the three central portals on the free sides. The inscription above the main portal reads: “This evangelical reformed church was built in the year of Christ 1780”. The church is closed by a slated mansard roof with gabled dormers.

The architecture of the 13th century choir tower is at the transition from Romanesque to Gothic and is now used as the west tower. It is divided by a cornice. On the west side, the passage to the former nave and the old sloping roof can still be seen in the plaster. On the east side there used to be a semicircular apse , the transom profile of which has been preserved. The round-arched south portal in a large niche served as an entrance for the priests in the pre-Reformation period. The enlargement of the arched window above the south portal probably goes back to the 16th century. On the upper floor there are two-part pointed arched windows with tracery panels , on the west side a two-part window with a straight lintel. Above the tower shaft, the bell storey is made in half-timbered construction, which is closed by a pyramid helmet. The tower and nave are connected by an intermediate building, in which the sacristy , the patronage boxes and the pulpit are located. At the southwest corner of the church is the grave of Johann Jacob von Zwierlein with a broken column and a flat relief.

Furnishing

Curved Rococo pulpit
View to the southwest

The interior is closed off by a flat, grooved ceiling with stucco, in the center of which the eye of providence is depicted in a halo. According to the Reformed tradition, the church is simply furnished.

Altar, pulpit and organ are staggered axially in height and arranged strictly symmetrically. The organ is installed in the large arched niche on the west wall in front of the sacristy. The side panels are completely closed by wooden lozenges. In the five parapet areas of the organ loft, the middle of which is slightly elevated, inscriptions are painted that keep the sermon text on the occasion of the inauguration of the new church in mind: "Text of the consecration sermon on August 11, 1782 / How lovely are your apartments, Mr. Zebaoth / Psalm 84, 1.2 / My soul longs and longs for the courts of the Lord / My body and soul rejoice in the living God ”. The octagonal sound cover of the pulpit on the middle parapet field is decorated with flourishes. The polygonal-curved Rococo pulpit with white and gold ornaments is built far in front. The lower part of the arch is completely filled by a two-storey wooden wall, into each of which four rectangular windows with bars are inserted. In the center under the pulpit is the rectangular door to the sacristy.

The three-sided gallery with flower garlands in the parapet fields rests on square wooden pillars that are decorated with Ionic capitals . The brass chandeliers were taken over by the Johanneskirche in Gießen in 1965 . The simple wooden church stalls face the pulpit and altar from three sides.

organ

Wagner organ from 1669
Organ from 1925

In 1705, a new gallery for an organ was built into the previous church . The people of Langsdorf bought the organ from Hungen, which the Lich organ builder Georg Henrich Wagner had built there in 1669. The small organ with six registers was replaced in 1756 by a new work by Johann Georg Dreuth , which gave way to a new organ by Johann Georg Förster in 1872 . Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau created today's organ in 1925, which has 19 stops , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The organ is built in the late romantic style with pneumatic cone chests. The prospectus is structured in five axes. The high, round side towers and the middle flat field do not have a housing closure at the top. Two-story flat fields mediate between them. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dolce 8th'
octave 4 ′
Mixture III-IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Violin principal 8th'
Flauto dolce 8th'
violin 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Vox celeste 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Piccolo 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
violoncello 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : free combination, fixed combinations (piano, mezzoforte, forte, tutti), piano pedal, roller, blind for II

Bells

The tower houses a four-way bell. Before the Second World War, there were two bells by Guido Monginot from 1657 and two by the Rincker brothers from 1931. When it was delivered to the armaments industry in 1942, only one Monginot bell remained. In 1949 Rincker cast three new bells, the second in the Monginot style.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location Diameter
(mm) 		inscription
  		image
 
1 1949 Rincker brothers " I ALWAYS WAIT FOR THE DAY AND STAND ON MY HAT EVERY NIGHT " Evangelical Church Langsdorf (Lich) bell 06.JPG
2 1949 Rincker brothers “ FROHLOCKET WITH HANDS VND JAVCHZET GOTT WITH MERRY SOUND PSALM 47 2
P O KAPSIVS PASTOR IB FEY PRAETOR H ROTH MAYOR I HEIL BUILDING MASTER LANGSTORF THE 14th MARTY AO 1657
GUIDO MONGINOTCH AROUND INBREGFECIT. RINCKER SENSE "		 Evangelical Church Langsdorf (Lich) bell 07.JPG
3 1657 Guido Monginot 710 " RVFE GETROST VND RAISE YOUR VOICE. WIDE ONE POSAVN P. KAPSIVS PASTOR ⋄ IB FEY PRAETOR ⋄ H ROTH BVRGEMEINSTER ⋄ I HEIL BAWMEINSTER ⋄ LANGSTORF DIE 14 MARTY A ° 1657
GUIDO MONGINOT MET FECIT “		 Evangelical Church Langsdorf (Lich) bell 03.JPG
4th 1949 Rincker brothers “ IF I TALKED TO MENSCHEN- VND MIT MIT ENGELZVNGEN AND DIDN'T HAVE LOVE, I WOULD BE A SOUNDING ORE OR A CLINGING BELL. " Evangelical Church Langsdorf (Lich) Bell 01.JPG

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Langsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 508.
  2. ↑ Langsdorf. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 106.
  4. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 507.
  5. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 107.
  6. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 193.
  7. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 196.
  8. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 197.
  9. ^ 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. 551 f .
  10. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 198.

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 15.8 ″  E