Evangelical Church (Pohl-Göns)

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Church in Pohl-Göns , a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district in Central Hesse , dates back to the 15th century and has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. The late Gothic hall church characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Sacrament niche from the time the choir was added (around 1500)

There is evidence of a chapel for 1221 and a parish for 1322. In the Middle Ages, the Gönser Mark belonged to the deanery Wetzlar and the archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . In the High Middle Ages, the Pohl-Göns parish was looked after by the mother church in Großenlinden , where the sending court was also held. The church, built in the 15th century, was expanded by a choir around 1500 . In the course of the Reformation , Pohl-Göns switched to the evangelical creed in 1535. The first Lutheran pastor was Hieronymus Laub von Wetzlar from 1535 to 1544.

From the 17th to the 20th century, the church underwent various renovations. In 1695 the interior of the church was renovated and the sacristy was torn down . In 1738 the vaults in the choir and the triumphal arch that opened the choir to the nave were removed. A window was broken into on the north side and the east window was converted into a door, which was made accessible by a stone staircase. In addition, the altar was restored and the ceiling replaced. An interior renovation in 1754 included the renewal of the women's chairs (“women's stalls”) and probably the installation of the gallery . In the eastern part of the church two windows were broken in and two others were enlarged downwards. Two doors were broken into on the east side. An outside staircase led to the upper door, which gave access to the men's gallery. The west gable, which fell into disrepair in 1850, was demolished and rebuilt a little further to the west while enlarging the church. When it turned out in 1860 that the old bell cage was no longer up to the new bells from 1859, it was fundamentally renewed and received a new clock face and a new weathercock.

Plans from 1838 to unite the parishes of Pohl-Göns and Kirch-Göns were initially not implemented. A first organ was installed in 1841. In 1913, an old sacrament niche was discovered in the choir , exposed and closed with a new iron door. Two years later the church received electric light. Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns have shared a parish office since 1916. In 1927/1928 the nave was widened by a side aisle on the north side, which was painted by the church painter Velte, who also exposed the paintings on the gallery parapets. In 2013 the exterior plaster was renewed and an interior renovation began. The pulpit has been supported by a square post since 2014 because the crossbeam in the masonry had rotted away.

architecture

West elevation of the church

The small, roughly east-facing hall church on a rectangular floor plan in the center of the village was originally surrounded by a cemetery until a new cemetery was inaugurated on the outskirts in 1820. The ship is covered by a slated hipped roof, which is equipped with small dormers with little gables. It is accessed through a rectangular west portal and a round arched portal in the east of the south side. Another arched portal in the west of the south side is walled up secondarily. There is a large grave slab made of red sandstone . The interior is illuminated through windows of different sizes and shapes. In the middle of the south wall there are two large rectangular windows, to the west a small high-seated rectangular window, and a small, slightly ogival window above the east south portal. There is a small rectangular window above the west portal and another rectangular window in the slated gable. The northern extension has large rectangular windows in the north and west.

The slightly lower rectangular choir is slightly wider than the nave. It is supplied with light through pointed arch windows on the long sides. On the east side there are two ogival windows, a small one above and a large one below. On the south side there is a portal with an arched arch. The high, six-sided, fully slated roof turret has a curved hood, which is crowned by a wrought-iron cross and weathercock.

Interior

Interior facing east
Epitaph in the south wall

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. A double-sided gallery from the 18th century rests on black marbled, Tuscan , wooden columns, which, when added to the north side, merge into square posts that support a longitudinal girder . At the level of the choir, the ceiling is supported by a cross beam.

In the northern choir wall, there is a sacrament niche with a three-pass in an arched field from the time the choir was built around 1500, which received an iron lattice door in 1913. An epitaph around 1600 depicts the deceased under a crucifix and the Archangel Michael in the arched area above the architrave .

The parapet pictures by Daniel Hisgen on the west gallery show the depictions of the four evangelists , flanked by the Luther rose and a field for Philipp Melanchthon . Eleven apostles and Paul can be seen on the north gallery. The gallery is set back at the height of the extension and is connected to the choir gallery by an inclined piece. The connector has a signature plaque with the names of the fallen in the First World War . The simple, wooden, polygonal pulpit dates from around 1800. The attached parish chair has openwork wooden tendrils in the upper part and is closed by a profiled cornice. The parapets at the pulpit and on the lower part of the parish chair show paintings from the mid-18th century in the style of chinoiserie . The wooden church stalls have curved cheeks and leave a central aisle free. The masonry altar is covered by a slanted red sandstone slab on which a wooden crucifix stands. The octagonal baptismal font is made of red sandstone.

organ

Bernhard organ from 1841

Until 1841 the church did not have an organ . In 1840 Johann Georg Bürgy from Gießen submitted a cost proposal for a new organ with nine registers , which were distributed over a manual and pedal. The new building was never completed because Bürgy died in 1841. Instead, Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard from Romrod built a side organ with ten registers. Four pilasters structure the transverse rectangular prospectus , which has two narrow round arches on the outside and a wider one in the middle. After delivery of the pinnacle prospect pipes in 1917, Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau replaced the lost pipes in 1920. In addition, two registers were exchanged. A renovation after the Second World War changed the disposition profoundly. Gerald Woehl restored the original disposition during a restoration in 1981/1982, which reads as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Flageolette 2 ′
mixture
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′

Peal

Bells from 1950 and 1922

The two larger bells were hung on September 7, 1859, after the small Our Father bell had broken earlier. The larger bell was created in 1511 by the Butzbach citizen Ludwig Calvert (or Calvort). Friedrich Otto from Gießen cast two new bells with inscriptions, which were hung on September 13th. The larger bell bore inscriptions with the Bible verse from Lk 2.14  LUT and the names of the pastor, mayor and the bell-makers, the smaller inscriptions with the same names and the words “Watch and pray” ( Mt 26.41  LUT ). After the bells for the war industry had to be delivered in 1917, the community had three new bells cast in 1922 and melted down a bell from 1450. The two bells confiscated in 1942 were replaced in 1950 by two new ones by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (g sharp 1 , 338 kg and h 1 , 207 kg).

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, pp. 248-249 ( online ).
  • Edgar Binzer: Family book Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns from 1610. (Deutsche Ortssippenbücher; 689). Cardamina-Verl. Breuel, Plaidt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86424-054-6 .
  • 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. 669.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 248 f.
  • 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. 462 f.
  • Werner Reusch: Pohl-Göns - our home. Locations tell their story. Reusch, Butzbach-Ebersgöns 1989, pp. 229–245.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Pohl-Göns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on January 23, 2015.
  2. ^ 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. 203.
  3. ↑ Pohl-Göns. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 669.
  5. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 248.
  6. ^ Binzer: family book Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns. 2012, p. 10.
  7. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 670.
  8. ^ S 'Leaflet for the Protestant parishes of Kirch- / Pohl-Göns. No. 115, November 2013 - January 2014 ( Memento from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 9 (PDF file; 6.26 MB).
  9. ^ Reusch: Pohl-Göns - our home. 1989, p. 232.
  10. ^ 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. 774-776 .
  11. ^ Reusch: Pohl-Göns - our home. 1989, p. 233.
  12. ^ Heinrich Walbe: Report on the architectural monuments in the province of Upper Hesse. In: Annual Report of the Preservation of Monuments in the People's State of Hesse 1913–1928. Vol. 4a. Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1930, p. 234.
  13. ^ Reusch: Pohl-Göns - our home. 1989, p. 245.

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 42.58 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 1.28"  E