Evangelical Church (Fauerbach vor der Höhe)

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Church in Fauerbach vor der Höhe , a district of Butzbach in the Wetteraukreis in Central Hesse , is a baroque hall church from the years 1740/41 with a canopy and a three-sided east end. It shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the late Middle Ages, Fauerbach vor der Höhe had a chapel that was built on Ostheimer Straße at the end of the village, as the old field name "Hinter der Kirch" indicates. In the Middle Ages, the place was assigned to the parish of Münster , which belonged to the dean's office Friedberg in the archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Evangelical Confession and remained connected to Münster.

The current church was built between 1740 and 1741. In 1891 an interior renovation took place.

The parish of Fauerbach, together with the parish of Münster, forms the parish of Münster, which has around 1350 members. She is assigned to the deanery Wetterau in the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

View from the north

The east-facing hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built on the southern outskirts. The white plastered, single-nave building has corner blocks in the west. Portals and windows are clad in red sandstone. The church is accessed through two profiled rectangular portals in the north and west. The west portal, which is marked with the year 1740, has a slate, triangular canopy. Large arched windows illuminate the interior, three each on the two long sides and three in the east end. In the west wall there are two high-seated oval windows.

The slated gable roof has two dormers in the north and five dormers in the south. In the west there is a fully slated, eight-sided roof turret with two storeys, which develops from a cube-shaped shaft. An open lantern rises above the bell chamber with its arched sound openings , which is covered by a curved hood and crowned by a tower knob, wrought-iron cross, weather vane and weather cock.

The roof turret houses a triple bell. The big bell from the Bachert bell foundry bears the inscription: "I JUBLE FRIED AND FREUD, I LOESE LUST AND SORRY", the small Bachert bell the inscription: "O, LAND, LAND, LAND, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD". The middle bell from 1470 (0.79 meters high and 0.46 meters wide) has the inscription in Gothic minuscule : "Maria gottes cell has what I do above bell anno m ° cccc ° lxx °". Based on the first words, it was mistakenly assumed that the bell came from the former pilgrimage church of Mariazell near Bodenrod .

Furnishing

Interior to the east
Looking west

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling with wide valleys on the long sides . A gallery running around three sides is built into the church, which is supported by round columns painted in marble. The fillings are painted with tendril ornaments. The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ and was added later. Two longitudinal beams in the western ceiling area, which absorb the weight of the ridge turret, rest on two round pillars that continue the gallery supports above the western gallery. In the center of the ceiling, the eye of providence is surrounded by a triangle, the name of God JEHOVAH and a halo of rays. The gilded representation on a blue background is framed by a polygon made of stucco profile, which in turn is surrounded by a yellow, even more complex polygon.

The polygonal, wooden pulpit on the south wall was probably created in the 17th century. It rests on a square foot that turns into a round column. Five Bügen support the pulpit basket, whose fields are divided at the corners by winding up in spirals. The sound cover is crowned by a crown volute with gold-plated tips. Access to the pulpit is provided by a parsonage , which has coffered panels at the bottom and openwork latticework at the top.

On a flat platform is a wooden altar table with a small crucifix of the three-nail type . The floor of the choir and nave is covered with red sandstone slabs, the choir is raised by one step. A wall unit is installed under the stairs on the north wall that leads to the organ gallery.

organ

Neo-Gothic organ prospect

In the previous chapel there is said to have been an organ around 1700 . Wilhelm August Ratzmann built a new instrument with twelve registers in 1870 , which are distributed over a manual and pedal . The five-axis prospect is designed in a neo-Gothic style and is crowned by pinnacles and gilded finials . The middle three ogival flat fields are united under a flat gable and flanked on the outside by two large ogival flat fields in a keel-arched housing. The pilaster strips end in crabs . The wood below the pipe fields is decorated with quatrefoils , the lower case with tracery . The disposition is as follows:

Manual C–
Quintatön 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Viol 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
violoncello 8th'

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, p. 61 ( online ).
  • 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 .
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 298.
  • 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 , pp. 381-388.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on November 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 298.
  3. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. (= Writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Fauerbach vd Höhe. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 14, 2015 .
  5. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008.
  6. ↑ Internet presence in the Evangelical Dean's Office Wetterau , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 61 ( online ), accessed November 15, 2015.
  8. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 301 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '10.82 "  N , 8 ° 38' 21.65"  O