Evangelical Church (Bersrod)

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South side of the church in Bersrod
View of the east gallery

The Evangelical Church in Bersrod , a district of Reiskirchen ( Hesse ), is a hall church with Gothic core , which was given an upper floor made of half-timbered timber in 1634 and its classicist south facade in 1763 . The Hessian cultural heritage has on the saddle roof an octagonal ridge turret with welscher hood .

history

A chapel in Bersrod was built in the 13th or 14th century, which belonged to the parish of Winnerod from the beginning . A square altar plate made of basalt lava with five consecration crosses in front of the entrance door has been preserved from this period . In the 15th century, Bersrod was assigned to the sending district Winnerod. With the Reformation , the parish changed to the evangelical confession and was initially looked after by Wirberg and then by Beuern (Buseck) . From 1575 the parish was a branch of Winnerod and in 1577 was raised to an independent parish. Winnerod has been supplying Bersrod again at least since 1717; Efforts to join Beuern are unsuccessful.

After the entire site had been raised in 1634 and the floor of the church was raised by about 1.40 meters, the three-meter-high massive walls were raised by two meters with half-timbering. In 1742 two bells and an organ are mentioned for the first time. A renovation took place in 1763 when the south side was redesigned with larger windows and a choir arch and galleries were built on three sides. In this context, the church received a gable roof with a ridge turret . The church received a new organ in 1890, was renovated in 1893 and painted by Hermann Velte in 1922. Extensive interior and exterior renovations were carried out from 1966 to 1968.

Between 2009 and 2011, the ailing roof and ceiling were renovated. According to a dendrochronological report, the oldest wooden beam dates from 1584 and the youngest from 1775.

architecture

Classicist south side

The roughly east-facing hall building made of plastered quarry stone masonry on a rectangular floor plan is built in the center of the village. The square choir occupies the eastern third. The south facade was designed symmetrically in the classicism style in 1763 and has a small arched window above a centrally mounted, rectangular portal and a large arched window on each side. The west side is almost completely slated. The walls of the portal and the two large windows are made of sandstone in the area of ​​the substructure and of wood in the half-timbered floor. The eight-sided slated roof turret is placed on the slated gable roof, which has square sound holes and the dial for the clock and is closed by a French hood.

In the east, as an extension of the central axis, a community center with a gable roof is built, with a flat porch in front of it in the south.

Furnishing

Hardt organ

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. The three-sided galleries in the west, north and east with coffered parapets rest on square wooden pillars. They also include the choir, which is separated by a round, wooden choir arch.

The church stalls leave a central aisle free. The colored pulpit with profiled panels was created in the late 18th century.

Günther Hardt built a small organ with six registers in 1991 , which are divided between a manual and a pedal.

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture II-III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 102.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 281.
  • Gustav Ernst Koehler: Bersrod. History of an Upper Hessian village. Local History Association, Reiskirchen 1994.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 568 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 36 f.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 28 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 569.
  2. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Bersrod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b Koehler: Bersrod. History of an Upper Hessian village. 1994, p. 17.
  5. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 102.
  6. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 281.
  7. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 29.
  8. ^ Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung of August 5, 2011: Church renovation in Bersrod found numerous supporters , accessed on April 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 36.
  10. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 37.
  11. ^ Organ in Bersrod , accessed on September 8, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 7.8 ″  E