Evangelical Church (Flensungen)

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Church from the west
View from the east

The Protestant church is a listed church building in Flensungen , a district of Mücke in the Vogelsbergkreis ( Hesse ). The hall church from the 14th century in the Gothic style was enlarged on the south side in 1932. It has a roof turret in the middle and a three-eighth closure in the east.

history

During the church renovation in 1931, the altar was torn off and an ivory-like reliquary from the Franconian period (8th – 10th centuries) was discovered in a cavity . The box is decorated with line and dot circle patterns on the sides and on the lid. It is on loan in the Darmstadt State Museum.

In the pre-Reformation period, the subsidiary villages of Stangenrod and Lehnheim were parish near Flensungen, and in the 15th century near Grünberg . Flensungen was assigned to the Archdeaconate St. Johann in the Archdiocese of Mainz . The fact that the church was built in the 14th century is suggested not least by the preserved door fittings from this time and the Marienglocke (around 1325).

With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant confession, presumably under Johannes Mengel, who was pastor in Grünberg from 1526. A “choir priest” from Grünberg, who had become Lutheran, provided spiritual care to Flensungen together with Ilsdorf and Stockhausen. In 1553 Flensungen was parish off to Merlau.

In 1738 parts of the masonry and the church roof were renewed, in 1879 a piece of the wall at the north portal and the ceiling that was lowered above the organ and altar. At the beginning of the 20th century the church fell into disrepair, so new building plans were considered. Due to dilapidation, the church was closed by the police on November 27, 1927. The services have since taken place in a school hall.

In 1931/1932 the church was extended to the south. The mighty wooden post that had previously supported the girder was moved to the south between the annex and the old nave and the pulpit was moved from the south to the north. During the interior renovation, inventory items were renewed in the style of Expressionism .

From 1970 to 1974 the cemetery was abandoned and converted into a green area. The outer walls of the church were using drainage drained, insulated and plastered, the church roof restored, electrified the bells and west created an access road with a small parking lot. A stone cross from the 13th or 14th century, which has a small cross in a disc-shaped recess, originally stood on an embankment of the old road to Stockhausen and was moved in 1973 to the green areas west of the church.

A renovation followed in 2011/2012, in which the damaged roof structure was repaired and the roof surfaces were re-boarded and slated. The outer facade was renewed with lime plaster.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Flensungen has a parish relationship with Merlau and belongs to the Evangelical Deanery Grünberg to the provost of Upper Hesse within the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

West portal with original fittings
Medieval bell

The east- facing and white plastered church is raised in the old town center on Lutherweg 1521 . It is covered with a steep, sloped gable roof. The roof turret in the middle and the top of the west gable are also slated. The foundation walls, choir windows, roof trusses and roof turrets date from the time the church was built. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached to the cube-shaped shaft in the south and north of the roof ridge, in the east and west there are two small, rectangular sound holes each for the triple bell. In addition to two bells from the post-war period, the old Marienglocke from around 1325 has been preserved. They carry the inscriptions left-handed, partly laterally reversed and upside-down capital letters the names of the four evangelists and the condensed greeting Ave Maria : "X + SƎMHAhOhI VSETAW + SACVL + + AΛƎ Sacram". The eight-sided pointed helmet is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock.

Identical flat-pointed arched portals made of Lungstein with chamfers in the north and west lead into the church . They later have renewed wooden doors, the iron fittings of which date from the 14th century. A small, upright rectangular window is let in above the west portal. The interior is illuminated on the north side through three high rectangular windows that were broken into in the 19th century. The southern extension, which is covered by two hipped roofs, has four small rectangular windows with lattice structure on two levels. The three-sided end of the choir has late Gothic pointed arched windows with lung stone walls . The east side has no windows.

Interior

17th century pulpit
View of the altar area
Church stalls and galleries (on the left the southern extension)

The flat ceiling in the interior is lower in the choir than in the nave. Ceiling strips divide the ceiling into square fields with individual rhombuses in the center of the choir. Wooden angular galleries are built in to the west and south, while the west rests on two four-sided wooden posts. The coffered parapet fields are painted with floral garlands. A staircase in the southwest corner leads to the gallery. The interior renovation in 1931/1932 gave the interior an expressionist character thanks to the dark blue color scheme, the open pipe prospect of the organ and the ceiling moldings .

Two square sacrament niches in the north choir wall date from the pre-Reformation period and are secured with iron-studded doors and an old padlock .

The wooden support between the two naves, on which the girder rested until 1931, dates from the 16th century, perhaps from 1563, when the gallery sleepers were installed.

The carved pulpit in cartilage style on a square floor plan basically dates from the 17th century. In the pulpit fields, the round arches rest on capitals over pilasters .

A grave monument made of red sandstone from 1773 is built into the wall between the pulpit and the north portal, reminding of drowned women and children in a flood disaster on July 23, 1773. The Seenbach had swelled into a raging torrent when a horse with a cart and seven people fell into the water near the Flensunger Bridge. The relief shows four women on the left under the cross above water waves and on the right a single woman. When the cemetery was closed (1970–1974), the tombstone was moved to the church to protect it from weathering.

The baptismal font with the existing brass baptismal bowl was made in 2016 by an Oberammergau wood carver. The four-sided foot and the wall of the pool are richly carved. A finely carved crucifix of the three-nail type is attached to the wooden lid . The bowl bears the Bible verse "LET THE CHILD COME TO ME" on the edge ( Mk 10.14  LUT ).

organ

Organ from 1934

Already in 1673 the church received a small positive . In 1803, however, there was no longer an organ . In 1863 a new organ was approved and in 1864 the widow of Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard bought a used but completely overhauled organ from Rendel with five manual and one pedal stops. The builder is unknown, but Johann Friedrich Macrander is suspected .

Today's organ was built in 1934 as part of the church expansion by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau with pneumatic cone shutters behind a free pipe prospect in the style of Expressionism. It stands behind the altar and has ten stops on two manuals and pedal. The free-standing gaming table , which was initially located at the transition to the side aisle, was later moved behind the altar in order to reduce the delay in the action . The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
II Manual C-g 3
Singing dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
recorder 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

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. 233.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 474–475.
  • Georg Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart / Aalen 1972, ISBN 3-8062-0112-9 .

Web links

Commons : Church (Flensungen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 101.
  2. ^ Willi Pfeffer: The Lehnheimer and Stangenröder church history. In: Arbeitskreis Dorf, Helmut Grün (Hrsg.): Then - today. Story (s) of a village. Lauterbach printing house, Grünberg-Lehnheim 1998, p. 55.
  3. ↑ Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the large community Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, p. 58.
  4. ↑ Solutions. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Diehl: Hessen-Darmstädtisches Pastor and Schoolmaster Book. (= Hassia sacra; 1 ). Self-published, Friedberg 1921, p. 419.
  6. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 475.
  7. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 107.
  8. ↑ Architects Seidel + Muskau , accessed on January 23, 2017.
  9. ↑ giessenerland-evangelisch.de: Evangelisch im Gießenerland , accessed on January 22, 2017.
  10. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 123.
  11. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 233.
  12. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 794 .
  13. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 110.
  14. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 3: Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A – L (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 29.1 ). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 939-940 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 32.3 "  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 34.1"  E