Evangelical Church (Kleinseelheim)

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Church from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Kleinseelheim in the municipality of Kirchhain in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district ( Hesse ) is a listed church building. The baroque hall church with eight-sided roof turret , three-sided choir in the east and neo-baroque west facade was built in 1665 with the inclusion of remains of the late medieval predecessor church and expanded by a third in 1905.

history

Building inscription from 1665

The existence of a church ( ecclesia ) in Kleinseelheim can be inferred from a document from 1296 in which the von Bicken transferred the right of patronage to the Marburg Teutonic Order , which they themselves had probably not exercised. A pastorei is only attested for 1350. The church was dedicated to James the Elder , the patron saint of pilgrims . Kleinseelheim was close to Brabanter Strasse , an old street that connected the trade fair cities of Cologne and Leipzig. In the late Middle Ages, Kleinseelheim was a branch of Großseelheim and was subordinate to the Sendkirche and the Amöneburg deanery in the Archdiocese of Mainz . In addition to Kleinseelheim, Schönbach also belonged to the parish of Großseelbach.

In 1524 Johan von Fleckenbühl was pastor. With the introduction of the Reformation in 1527, the parish changed to the Evangelical Lutheran creed. Since the Teutonic Order claimed the extensive parish, the community committed itself in 1532 to employ a clergyman who was to read a mass every two weeks. 1577 the place is a branch of Großseelheim. In 1605 the congregation was reformed to become Lutheran again in 1624.

The medieval church was largely renovated in 1665. Older remains of the wall in the central area were included, and the choir and the western part were rebuilt. The old cafeteria plate was built into the cemetery wall behind the church and has been preserved. It is possible that the choir was added in 1691/1692.

The church was expanded by a third in a western direction and the interior was redesigned in 1905 under the architect August Dauber. In 1962 the interior of the church was painted gray. A six-year interior and exterior renovation was completed on October 2, 1988. They included the rehabilitation of damaged roof beams and the exterior facade of Neueinschieferung tower and church roof, a heating installation and an interior renovation that the color version restored by the 1905th

The parish consisted of the villages Großseelheim, Kleinseelheim and Schönbach until 2011. Kleinseelheim has been part of the Großseelheim parish since 2012.

architecture

View from the south

The east- facing hall church is built on the southeast edge of the village. Three small dormers in the south and four in the north are attached to the saddle roof. To the east of the center it bears a high, octagonal, slated roof turret, which still has late Gothic shapes. On the eight sides of the shaft there are two small rectangular sound openings for the bells. The two dials of the tower clock point in a westerly direction. The pointed helmet develops from eight steep little gables with small tips, which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and gold-plated weathercock made of copper sheet. The masonry is plastered white on the outside, with walls , corner blocks and the end of the west gable made of red sandstone. The baroque church received a neo-baroque character from the expansion at the beginning of the 20th century, which is particularly visible in the curved west gable. Three windows with stained glass date from this time of the renovation in 1905. One window in the altar area shows the baptism of Jesus , the other shows the Ascension of Christ . The round window above the west portal shows Christ as the good shepherd with a shepherd's staff and raised hand in a blessing.

The church is accessed through a west portal from around 1720 and illuminated on the long sides by four high rectangular windows with arched arches. The historical fitting on the door lock is artfully decorated with angels and rocailles . In the western gable area, two small oval windows are let in above the round window. On the south wall, round-arched Romanesque windows have been preserved under the plaster. A round arched north portal with a double dew bar is walled up, as is the east window. Otherwise the three-sided choir has no windows. A large, brown-and-white marbled painted round arch with a protruding fighter plate opens the choir to the ship.

A covered sandstone plaque on the western window in the north wall bears a building inscription: “ANNO 1665 BY DN LUDOWIG MARSCHAL PARISHIANS AS WELL AS THE HONORABLE BOX MASTERED HENN LAUER ANDT CURT DEUFEL ALHIE, GLORIA DEO SIT HAS BEEN BUILT”.

In the cemetery, the portals of which were renewed in the quarry stone wall in 1722 and 1726, there are baroque tombstones with some remarkable old symbols. A red sandstone tombstone from 1665 bears a six-pointed star, a nail heart and a life spiral above a large paw cross .

Furnishing

Interior to the east
Baroque pulpit from 1679, on the right a bell rope

The interior of the ship is closed off by a flat wooden beam ceiling that rests on a longitudinal girder. Two slender columns with Bügen before the chancel arch supporting the roof turret. The wooden flat ceiling in the choir is painted with stars. The floor is covered with slabs of red sandstone. There are wooden floorboards in the area of ​​the church stalls. A wooden angled gallery with coffered panels is built into the west and north sides of the ship. It rests on square posts with bevels and bevels . The organ has found its place of installation on the convex east gallery in the choir.

The oldest inventory item is the Gothic baptismal font from the 15th century, which was put back in the church as part of the renovation in the 1980s after it had stood long in front of the church. The eight-sided, cup-shaped basin is made of red sandstone.

Pulpit, altar cross and most of the church stalls date from 1679. The wooden, polygonal pulpit has rotated free columns at the corners. The pulpit on the south pillar of the choir arch rests on an octagonal post with a cube-shaped base. The sound cover is decorated with gold-plated tips. The wooden stalls have curved cheeks and leave a central aisle free. The two parish chairs in the choir were made in 1679 and 1905.

A special feature is that the bell is still operated by hand. For static reasons, it is not possible to operate the three-part bell electrically using a motor. The three bells are rung twice a day using long bell ropes that hang down to the floor of the church. The middle bell, the so-called time bell, was cast in 1550. The large and small bells were delivered during World War II. As a replacement, the community received a bell from the bell cemetery in Hamburg-Veddel. The little Our Father bell was cast by Rincker in 1953.

organ

Heinemann organ from 1758

Johann Andreas Heinemann built an organ with ten registers in 1758 , distributed over a manual and pedal . In 1846 Peter Dickel rebuilt it . The gamba 8 ′ has been preserved from him. The prospect pipes were delivered for war purposes in 1917. Around 1950 Werner Bosch carried out organ building work and replaced the mixture. Gerald Woehl restored the instrument and reconstructed the lost prospect pipes, the fifth and the mixture. Seven Heinemann registers have been preserved.

I Manual C – c 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
flute 2 ′
Mixture IV
Pedal C – c 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, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 511-512.
  • Waldemar Küther (arrangement): Kirchhain. City of Ohm and Wohra in words and pictures. Kirchhain 1977.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Helmuth K. Stoffers u. a. (Red.): District of Marburg-Biedenkopf I (communities Amöneburg, Kirchhain, Neustadt and Stadtallendorf) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1651-7 , pp. 314-315.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelm Classen: The church organization of Old Hesse in the Middle Ages, including an outline of the modern development. Elwert, Marburg 1929, p. 73.
  2. ↑ a b Homepage of the parish Großseelheim , accessed on July 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, p. 361.
  4. ↑ Kleinseelheim. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Küther: Kirchhain. 1977, p. 226.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 512.
  7. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 511.
  8. ↑ kleinseelheim.de , accessed on July 26, 2017.
  9. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse : District of Marburg-Biedenkopf I. 2002, p. 315.
  10. ^ Küther: Kirchhain. 1977, p. 227.
  11. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse : District of Marburg-Biedenkopf I. 2002, p. 314.
  12. ↑ Very rare: bells in the church of Kleinseelheim are still rung by hand , accessed on July 26, 2017.
  13. ^ Organ in Kleinseelheim , accessed on July 26, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 16.68 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 13.66"  E