Evangelical Church (Niederwetz)

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Evangelical Church Niederwetz

The Evangelical Church in Niederwetz in the community of Schöffengrund in the Lahn-Dill district is a hall church from 1954. The building is built on the highest point of the village and characterizes the townscape. Due to its historical and urban significance, it is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

The designation "Wetiffa" in the Lorsch Codex can refer to Oberwetz and Niederwetz as well as the Wetzbach. It was not until the 13th century that the two Wetzorte were distinguished. In the years 1221 and 1226 a church in Niederwetz and in 1352 a pleban are recorded in the Wetzlar deanery directory . The fact that the place was a branch of Reiskirchen cannot be proven and is unlikely. Rather, Niederwetz, which was also Sendort , seems to have been an independent parish. From a political point of view, the place was divided into two parts: the eastern part belonged to Nassau, the western part to Solms-Braunfels . In the late Middle Ages, Niederwetz was ecclesiastically assigned to the Archipresbyterate Wetzlar in the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

The Reformation was introduced in the Nassau part as early as 1526, while the Braunfels side was reformed in 1556. Until 1568 Niederwetz received spiritual care from Oberwetz and then from Reiskirchen.

On November 6, 1952, a lightning strike destroyed the ridge turret , the roof and largely the church furnishings . Only the foundation walls of the choir and the organ remained. The new building was completed and inaugurated in September 1954.

Niederwetz and Reiskirchen have merged into one parish, which has entered into a parish alliance with the parish Vollnkirchen / Volpertshausen / Weidenhausen . The parish Niederwetz-Reiskirchen belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . She is a member of the Bible and Confession network .

architecture

West entrance to the sacristy
Preserved choir with a three-sided ending

The east-facing , white plastered hall building is prominently erected on a hill in the town center. The ship and west tower were built on a larger scale in 1954 according to plans by architect Erwin Rohrbach. The old church was a small hall building with four tall rectangular windows in the south wall and an eight-sided roof turret, which was placed on a slated gable roof in the middle. The new ship, on a rectangular floor plan, has a steep, sloped gable roof and is lit on the long south side by five and on the north side by six narrow, high lead glass windows. In the southeast a small sacristy is built under a sloping roof , which has three small, narrow rectangular windows in the south. It is accessed in the west through a door with a rectangular frame made of red sandstone under a slated canopy.

The somewhat unevenly preserved choir is lower than the nave and drawn in. The three-sided end has three arched windows with deep soffits in the east and has no windows in the south and north. The lead glass windows in shades of blue each have a white cross in the middle. The west tower on a transverse rectangular floor plan is also drawn in opposite the ship. It serves as an entrance area and provides access to the west gallery and the bell storey via stairs. The ground floor has tall rectangular doors with a sandstone frame under a pent roof in the north and south. Below the eaves there are three sound openings with arched arches and one high sound opening for the bells on the gable ends. The clock face of the tower clock is attached to the west side . The slated gable roof is crowned by a tower knob with an ornate cross and weathercock.

Furnishing

Pulpit as the oldest inventory item (around 1700)
Interior to the east
Canopy ceiling in the choir with wooden ribs

The church furnishings are simple in keeping with the times. The interior of the ship is closed off by a trapezoidal wooden beam ceiling on consoles. The choir is three steps higher than the nave. The construction of a ten-part ribbed vault in the form of a canopy that protrudes slightly into the nave and probably dates back to the 17th century is unusual. The oak ribs converge in a dome with a Luther rose and had to be procured in this length and curve, as the oak could not be bent. The ribs rest on two oak free columns in the choir arch and eight oak services , which are designed as half columns with capitals .

The oldest piece of equipment is the wooden polygonal pulpit, which was made around 1700. The pulpit basket is rotated by free columns with gilded capitals between two projecting rim ledges divided. The pulpit fields have rectangular, profiled panels. The pulpit staircase, which is accessible via the sacristy, has a parapet with diamond-shaped panels. The block altar, which is raised by one step, has a protruding oak plate, is completely clad with wood at the bottom and carries a simple altar cross. The cylindrical baptismal font is made of light stone. The parapet of the west gallery is clad with wood. The deep gallery rests on two pillars and serves as a place of installation for the organ. A flexible partition wall can be used to create a separate anteroom below the gallery. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.

organ

Walcker organ from 1952

Dreuth from Griedel built an organ around 1750. In 1836 Abicht speaks of a "mediocre organ". The work was hardly playable at the beginning of the 1950s. The organ expert thought the organ was worthless and too expensive to repair. He advised a new building and recommended the Walcker company , which received 1000 DM for the old pipe work and in 1952 supplied a new organ with eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal . The instrument survived the lightning strike in November 1952.

Dreuth's baroque prospect ended up in a detour to the Albshausen Evangelical Church , where the old wind chests were reused for a new building. 1972 Orgelbau Hardt expanded the instrument in Niederwetz to include the Dulcian 8 'and the tremulant and replaced Gedacktpommer 4' in the pedal with the octave 8 '. The disposition has since comprised twelve registers and is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Dulcian 8th'
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
Soitzgedackt 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

Peal

The church tower houses a four-bell ring made of bronze bells. The slender sugar loaf bell was cast by unknown masters in the early 13th century and the Gothic bell in 1479. In 1954, the congregation purchased two new Rincker bells for the new church .

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Caster
  		Mass
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		Height
(mm) 		Strike tone
( HT - 1 ⁄ 16 ) 		inscription
  		image
 
1 Maria-Margareta 1479 unmarked 350 844 659 b 1 -7 ave * maria * santmargreta * anno * dni * m ° * cccc ° * lxxix * amen *** Evangelical Church Niederwetz Bell 1.jpg
2 Christ bell 1954 Rincker brothers 250 766 590 c 2 -6 IT IS OUR PEACE † † † † †
TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD OF TWO WORLD WARS		 Evangelical Church Niederwetz Bell 2.jpg
3 1954 Rincker brothers 200 693 492 it 2 -6 GLORY TO GOD † † † † †
DONATED BY THE NIEDERWETZ Saving and Loan Fund		 Evangelical Church Niederwetz Bell 3.jpg
4th Evangelist bell 13th century unmarked 150 567 485 g 2 +5 SENNAhoI SACVL SVCRAM CVEhTAM (Evangelists mirrored) Evangelical Church Niederwetz Bell 4.jpg

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. 98-100 ( books.google.de ).
  • 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 .
  • Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955].
  • Heimat- und Kulturverein Niederwetz, Reinhard Klippert, Helmut Wolf with the assistance of Klaus Röttger and Manfred Barth; Community board of the community Schöffengrund (ed.): Niederwetz. A village book. Community of Schöffengrund, Schöffengrund 2007.
  • 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. 202.
  • 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. 433-436.

Web links

Commons : Church (Niederwetz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen .
  2. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955], [p. 28].
  3. ↑ Niederwetz. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 98 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ a b Heimat- und Kulturverein Niederwetz: Niederwetz. A village book. 2007, p. 163.
  6. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 202.
  7. ↑ a b Community Schöffengrund: Ev Kirchengemeinde Niederwetz , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ Network Bible and Confession , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  10. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008.
  11. ↑ Niederwetz Local and Cultural Association: Niederwetz. A village book. 2007, p. 171.
  12. ↑ Niederwetz Local and Cultural Association: Niederwetz. A village book. 2007, p. 179.
  13. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 675 .
  14. ↑ Organ index: Organ in Niederwetz , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  15. ↑ 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. 140.

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 55.4 ″  E