Evangelical Church (Kraftsolms)

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Evangelical Church of Kraftsolms
View from the south

The Evangelical Church in Kraftsolms in the municipality of Waldsolms in the Lahn-Dill district is a late Gothic hall church that was extensively rebuilt and renovated in 1615. The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

In 788 the donation of a church on the Solmsbach ("ecclesiam super fluvium Sulmissam sitam") is mentioned in the Lorsch Codex . The church is identified with Oberndorf or Burgsolms. In the year 1395 a church is recorded for the first time in Kraftsolms and in 1557 a parish. Oberquembach probably belonged to the parish Kraftsolms in the Middle Ages, which was assigned to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

The Reformation was introduced by Pastor Jost Stauss in 1549 at the latest. That year nine Solmish pastors wrote to the Wetzlar archpriest that they could not accept the Augsburg Interim because they had been teaching and practicing the gospel of justification by grace alone, the Lord's Supper in both forms and priestly marriage for many years. Probably during the tenure of pastor Friedrich Fabricius in Kröffelbach from 1570 onwards, a parish was formed from Kröffelbach, Kraftsolms and Niederquembach. In 1615 the Kraftsolms church was rebuilt, and some of the furnishings go back to this year.

The parish today belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Medieval bell

The white plastered, not exactly easted , but slightly east-northeast oriented hall with a slated gable roof and ridge turrets is in the center of the village. The piscina and a pointed arched Gothic window with a suggested cloverleaf arch indicate a Gothic core . Under the east window there is a narrow sacrament niche in a large, low wall niche with an arched wall that protrudes outwards in the form of a buttress wall.

The hall building on a rectangular floor plan is covered by a slated gable roof, which is equipped with two small faiths on the south side . The two gable triangles are also slated. On the south side, below the eaves, a building inscription can be read in the wooden structure: “DER HERKHVT YOU ALL THE TIME VND YOU SAVE YOUR SOUL EVR VBEL VND DANGER OF YOU NVN IN EVERY TIME YOUR AVSGANG DVRCH BEIN GVE VND YOUR ENTRANCE BEHVETE PSALM CXXI ​​ANNEX 1615 DEN 13 IVNI M GESELER BEST: ME FECIT ”. The interior is lit on the southern long side through four tall rectangular windows with red wooden frames and honeycomb glazing: to the east of the three high-lying windows there is a window at medium height. A lunette window is let into the lintel of the window above the south portal . The north side has three almost square windows of different sizes and heights, which also have wooden frames and honeycomb glazing. The west side is windowless. The church is accessed at the western end through a south portal with a high rectangular wooden frame, comparable to that in Laufdorf and Niederquembach .

An eight-sided, completely slated roof turret is placed in the middle of the roof, in the shaft of which small, rectangular sound openings for the bells are embedded. The octagonal pointed helmet is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock. The bell chamber houses a triple bell. A late medieval bell (diameter 750 mm) with the inscription Alpha and Omega has been preserved. The bells of Melchior Möringk from Erfurt (1616) and Nicolaus Bernhard from Tiefenbach (1790) were lost. A Rincker bell was delivered in the First World War . As a replacement, the community bought two steel bells from JF Weule from Bockenem in 1919 .

Furnishing

Interior to the east
Pulpit from 1615

Inside, the white-painted wooden beam ceiling rests on a longitudinal girder that is supported by a red eight-sided center post with four bows . Further to the northwest, a second octagonal post includes the north gallery. The angled porch in the northwest and the east gallery, which serves as the installation site for the organ, date from the year of renovation 1615. The red sill beams have a crenellated frieze and the parapets have panels, the painting of which imitates a wood grain.

In the north-east corner under the organ gallery , a parish chair is installed, which has openwork lozenges in the upper part. The polygonal wooden pulpit is marked with the year 1615. It stands on a cross-shaped foot that is raised by a round pedestal. The pulpit fields have arched arcades, the upper cornice has a frieze with tendril ornaments and the lower cornice has a crenellated frieze under rectangular panels. The altar made of black Lahn marble was donated by Friedrich Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels in 1791 . The church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

organ

Hardt organ

In 1804 the community acquired the used organ from the Braunfels castle church , which was built in 1688 by the organ builder Grieb from Griedel with ten registers . In 1836 Abicht speaks of a "mediocre organ". It was replaced by an instrument with eight registers by Gustav Raßmann . Today's organ in the northeast corner was created by Günter Hardt in 1970 with eight registers on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
II Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Pommer 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part: 2. The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 141-142 ( online ).
  • Johannes Bückner: History and Stories about the church, churchyard and rectory. In: Kröffelbach. From the story of a village in the Solmser Land. Waldsolms community, Waldsolms 2000.
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 192.
  • Karlheinz Knaus: The church donation from the year 788: "Super fluvium Submissa". The churches in Oberndorf and Kraftsolms. In: Home to Lahn and Dill. 209, 1988, p. 3.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 , pp. 512-516.

Web links

Commons : Kirche Kraftsolms  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  2. ↑ Knaus: The church donation from the year 788. 1988, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 198.
  4. ↑ Kraftsolms. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Bückner: History a. Stories about the church, churchyard and rectory. 2000.
  6. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on August 16, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 141 ( online , accessed on August 16, 2020).
  8. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 137.
  9. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century . Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , pp. 30 .
  10. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 520 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 17.7 ″  E