Evangelical Church (Maibach)

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Church from the southeast
View from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Maibach , a district of Butzbach in the Wetteraukreis in Central Hesse , is a hall church built between 1764 and 1766 with a three-sided choir. The small baroque church with a canopy ridge characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In church terms, Maibach belonged to the parish of Münster in the Middle Ages , which was assigned to the Deanery 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 Protestant creed.

In place of the previous building, today's church was built between 1764 and 1766, and was also supplied from Münster. From 1774 to 1782 Maibach had its own pastor.

Extensive renovations were carried out in 1849 and 1901. The big bell was delivered to the armaments industry in 1917.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish belongs to the parish of Münster, which together with the parish of Fauerbach forms the parish of Münster. The parish has a total of around 1350 members, who are spread over five villages with four churches. It is assigned to the Wetterau deanery in the Oberhessen provost in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Roof turret

The roughly east- facing , white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built on the eastern edge of the village. The triangular churchyard is enclosed by a wall made of quarry stone .

The verschieferten roof are five small dormers placed. Above the hipped roof of the west side rises roof skylights . From the four-sided shaft, on the south side of which the clock face of the tower clock is attached, small pent roofs lead over to the octagonal upper floor, which has eight round-arched sound openings. The Welsche Haube is crowned by a tower knob, a decorated cross, a weather vane in the shape of a dragon's head and a gilded weathercock.

The interior is lit on the long sides by two and in the choir by three arched windows. A small round window is let into the west side. The church is accessed through a modern extension on the west side.

Furnishing

Interior facing west
Baroque pulpit

The polygonal, wooden pulpit dates from the time the church was built. It is of curved Bügen supported, where gilded lace hanging. The pulpit is decorated with fittings . This corresponds to the sound cover, which is crowned by gold-plated tips.

A wooden corner gallery in the north and west was probably built in the renovation year 1849 and renewed in 1969. The short north gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The gallery rests on three slender, round wooden pillars that end in cube-shaped capitals and are painted with red marbles. The parapets have rectangular coffered panels in a turquoise frame with red profiles. The wooden church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

organ

Raßmann organ from 1851

The church received its first organ from Daniel Raßmann between 1850 and 1851 . The prospectus shows four arched fields. Two larger flat pipe fields on the outside flank two smaller fields in the middle. An empty loop was prepared for later expansion, to which a Gemshorn 8 'was later added. Raßmann's disposition was changed. In 1969 it was moved to the new north gallery. The disposition with nine registers is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Mixture III 2 ′
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

literature

  • 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 , p. 569.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, 404.
  • 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 , p. 427.
  • Gail and Winfried Schunk: Chronicle Butzbach. Timeline for Butzbach and its districts. 2nd Edition. History Association for Butzbach and the Surrounding Area, Butzbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809778-3-8 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Maibach, Butzbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 569.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on February 27, 2016.
  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. ↑ Schunk: Chronicle of Butzbach. 2007, p. 34.
  5. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 404.
  6. ↑ Schunk: Chronicle of Butzbach. 2007, p. 52.
  7. ↑ Internet presence in the Evangelical Dean's Office Wetterau , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  8. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II. 1999, p. 427.
  9. ^ 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 29.2 . Part 2 (M – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 633 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 45.73 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 23.07"  E