Evangelical Chapel (Bad Salzhausen)

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Chapel from the west
Roof turret

The Evangelical Chapel in Bad Salzhausen , a district of Nidda in the Wetterau district in Central Hesse , is a rectangular building in the classicism style that was erected in 1828 and served as Justus von Liebig's laboratory and hydrochloric acid factory until 1831 . The building has been partially used as a church since 1934 and fully used since 1969. Because of its importance for the local and state history, the chapel is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

The place is first mentioned in a deed of donation in 1187, when a court property was transferred to the Order of St. John . Salt production by boiling has been demonstrable since the Middle Ages. After the acquisition of the saltworks in 1729 by the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , Johann Wilhelm Langsdorf systematically advanced the production of salt by pumps from 1776, which reached its peak in the last quarter of the 18th century. Due to the economic decline, an application was made in 1810 to use the facilities for the construction of a spa, the expansion of which began in 1824. Liebig, who had received an extraordinary professorship in May 1824, was commissioned by the Grand Duke to examine the water quality and possible uses, which he did in December 1824. For further research, a laboratory was built in 1828, in which he operated an Epsom salt and hydrochloric acid factory from 1828 to 1831. Here Liebig unknowingly came across bromide , which he considered to be “sodium hydroiodic acid”. He suggested producing hydrochloric acid and magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt) from the mother liquor by breaking it down with sulfuric acid and after separating out the common salt . The development of the spa ran parallel to the salt production until 1860, for economic reasons, salt production was completely discontinued. The spa business also fell into disrepair, but was revived when the town was connected to the Friedberg-Nidda railway in 1897.

The building known as the “Liebighaus” had been empty since 1831 and was used temporarily as a storage room and later as a fire brigade shed. From 1913, there were regular cure services during the bathing season. The western part of the Liebighaus was used as a chapel by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nidda from 1934, but was also available to Catholics. Since the chapel was too small and the air in the overcrowded room was not conducive to the spa guests, the idea was to build a new building for both denominations. Since no agreement was reached, the Evangelical Church bought the building and the property from the state. The northern part previously used as living space was cleared. Between 1969 and 1971 it was converted into a church. The formation of the parish of Geiß-Nidda and Salzhausen in 1975 marked the end of a ten-year planning period for the community center with the architect Helmut Fiedler. A foundation by Frieda Sachs enabled the extension of a community room in 1992/1993. In 1997 an office of the Kur- u. Clinical pastoral care established.

The parish is connected to Geiß-Nidda through the parish . She is assigned to the Protestant deanery Büdinger Land in the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

The non- east facing , white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built on the southern edge of the village. The simple rectangular hall is covered by a flat hipped roof, on which a small, octagonal roof turret with a Welscher hood and spherical cross is placed in the middle . The interior of the chapel is illuminated in the north-west by four medium-sized and in the south-east by three large rectangular windows that reach down to the floor. The windows are divided into four and have rung structure. Four narrow rectangular windows are let into the southwest wall. A passage leads into the community room built on to the east, the rectangular area of ​​which is cut by the chapel and which is spanned by a tent roof. The window fronts are led around the corners in the north and east.

Furnishing

Interior of the chapel
Coat of arms on the 1st floor

The interior of the chapel is closed off by a sawtooth-shaped ceiling, the floor is covered with brown tiles, and the altar area in the southwest is raised by two steps. In front of the four narrow windows, a glass wall has been erected in a metal frame, the 24 fields of which have colored stained glass windows . The window picture was designed in 1994 and comes from the artist Diether F. Domes (Langenargen / Bodensee), who grew up in Nidda. In the multicolored picture, the artist tried to depict the essential messages of the Christian faith. It shows a colorful fountain that is reminiscent of a cross, it breaks through a thin black line that reminds of death. The color brown stands for the earth and creation, yellow for light, sun and the resurrection of Jesus, red for love and the blood of the pulsating stream of life, blue, next to the healing springs of the place, for health and baptism.

The stone, cup-shaped baptismal font has a square base and an eight-sided wall. The altar table and pulpit are simply designed. The organ is placed on the northeast side of the chapel.

In the summer of 2015, the Chinese artist Yi Zheng Lin exhibited his work in the church as part of the regional project “Art in Churches in the Wetterau”.

Interior view of the community room

In the anteroom on the first floor, four lead glass windows show the coats of arms of personalities who were important for the history of Salzhausen. The windows date from 1934 when part of the building was converted into a chapel. Depicted are the coats of arms of Ludewig Knott, Pfänner on the Soden from 1495 to 1511, Roland Krug von Nidda, who was bailiff and landlord from 1593 to 1617, chamber councilor Johann Wilhelm Langsdorf, who was saline director from 1778 to 1803, and Julius Liebig as scientific sponsor of Bad Salzhausen. From 1997 to 2004 the room served as an office for the spa and clinic pastoral care. In 2015 it was used for a church asylum .

The community room is spanned by a tent roof, the shape of which takes up the wooden beam ceiling inside. A simple lectern and an altar table, individual chairs and an electronic piano make up the equipment. In winter, services are held in the community room. The room was originally designed as an event room for course pastoral care.

organ

Organ from 1981

In 1964 the band received its first organ to replace the harmonium that had been used up to now . The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a small organ with five stops on a manual and an attached pedal . The organ was replaced in 1981 by an instrument from the same company and has been installed in the Hungen cemetery chapel ever since. In 2004 the new instrument was given a new intonation based on the soft timbres of the Baroque. With the new sound, the organ is also used as a concert organ. It has eleven registers on two manuals and pedal with the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II breastwork C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Terzian II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

Peal

In the early 1950s, the roof turret received a bell from the Rincker company .

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 around 1950 Rincker " SINGET " Evangelical chapel (Bad Salzhausen) bell 01.JPG

literature

  • Ernst Berl: Liebig and the Epsom salt and hydrochloric acid factory in Salzhausen (1824–1831). Verl. Chemie, Berlin 1931.
  • Ottfried Dascher (Ed.): Nidda. The history of a city and its surroundings. City of Nidda, Nidda 1992.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 54.
  • Eberhard Hampel: Our churches: Bad Salzhausen. In: Together , Community Letter of the Central Region. March-April-May 2009, pp. 6-7.
  • Manfred H. Klös: Nidda, Bad Salzhausen. Brühl, Giessen 1986, ISBN 3-922300-30-8 .
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , p. 330.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Chapel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II. 1999, p. 330.
  2. ^ Bad Salzhausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 18, 2016 .
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse : Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II. 1999, p. 327.
  4. ↑ Berl: Liebig and the Epsom salt and hydrochloric acid factory in Salzhausen. 1931, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Berl: Liebig and the Epsom salt and hydrochloric acid factory in Salzhausen. 1931, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Dascher (Ed.): Nidda. The history of a city and its surroundings. 1992, pp. 225-226.
  7. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 54.
  8. ↑ a b Presence on kirche.geiss-nidda.de , accessed on November 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ Internet presence of the Evangelical Dean's Office Büdinger Land , accessed on March 18, 2016.
  10. ^ Art in Churches 2015 , Wetteraukreis, Kirchliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Evangelischen Dekanate Büdingen - Nidda - Schotten, Katholische Kirche in der Wetterau, pp. 10-11.
  11. ^ Diakonie Hessen (Ed.): For a good reason. Church asylums in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , pp. 32–37.
  12. ^ 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. 94 .
  13. ↑ Organ of the Ev. Bad Salzhausen Chapel , accessed on November 8, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 52.4 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 50.2"  E