Evangelical Church (Röddenau)

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View from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Röddenau in the municipality of Frankenberg in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district ( Hesse ) is a listed hall church . The transverse classicist building was built in the years 1818/1819 with arched windows and a western tower with a Welsch dome .

history

inner space

The mention of tithe and ownership in 1108 indicates the existence of a church that was first documented in 1184 ( ecclesia ). A pleban is attested for 1220 and 1240 ( plebanus ). In the late Middle Ages, Röddenau formed its own send district in the deanery “Kesterburg” ( Christenberg ) in the Archdeaconate St. Stephan within the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1526, the place changed to the evangelical confession. The first Protestant pastor was Johannes Stipp (called Christiani), who worked in Röddenau from 1527 to 1561. The community adopted the Reformed faith under Landgrave Moritz in 1606, only to finally return to the Lutheran faith with his abdication in 1624.

The medieval church was comprehensively renovated in 1768 and partly demolished in 1783 and an upper floor made of half-timbered buildings was added . Despite the renovation, the complete demolition followed in 1818 and the new building under builder FR Gülich at the same place until 1819. The draftsman was Nikolaus Erdmann Arend. In 1861 changes were made to the interior.

In 1951 the community purchased a new bell from the Rincker company . A comprehensive interior renovation followed in 1962, during which the alignment of the church furnishings was rotated by 90 °. The galleries were rebuilt accordingly, the entrance was moved to the west and the principles were aligned to the east. The church renovation from 1980/1981 included the stabilization of the galleries and a new coat of paint. In 1985, remains of paintings were uncovered and reconstructed below the ceiling, imitating curtains.

architecture

The east- facing church , built from hewn red sandstone blocks in the classicism style, is in the center of the village.

The outer walls have flat bases and a sandstone band running around the tower. Three round arched windows with blind arches in the east, two in the west and one each on the narrow sides illuminate the interior. They have wooden frames with leaded glazing. Small peaks are placed on both sides of the hipped roof .

The two-storey church tower in front of it on a square floor plan is integrated into the church on the western long side. Above the high rectangular west portal, which serves as the entrance to the church in addition to the north portal, a construction panel and a semicircular arched window are embedded in a panel. The slightly tapered and windowless upper floor rises above a profiled cornice band that continues the eaves cornice of the nave. Above a protruding cornice, a flat tent roof conveys a slid-up octagonal lantern , which serves as a bell storey and has high rectangular sound hatches on all sides . The hood is crowned by a tower knob with a cross and a weathercock.

Furnishing

Facing south

The interior, which is kept in white color, is closed off by a flat ceiling supported by two longitudinal beams. These rest on square supports that enclose the three-sided gallery. The west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ.

Opposite the tower entrance and the gallery are the altar and pulpit on the east side. A small crucifix of the three-nail type stands on the block altar, which is covered by a massive sandstone slab . The simple wooden pulpit placed behind it has tall rectangular coffered panels in the polygonal pulpit. The sound cover is decorated with an openwork attachment with small gold-plated tips.

On the west wall below the gallery is the tombstone of Hans Dehnert († 1695) made of red sandstone, which depicts the head forester full-length and life-size.

organ

Organ behind a historic case

The baroque organ was possibly built in Westphalia around 1670, acquired second-hand in the course of the new church building and installed by Philipp Heinrich Dickel, Peter Dickel's father , in Röddenau. The five-axis prospectus is structured by massive free columns with gilded Corinthian capitals . It is richly decorated in cartilage style with inlays . The elevated polygonal central tower is flanked by twisted columns decorated with vines and grapes. Two low flat fields lead over to the narrow outer pointed towers. The flat fields and pointed towers have gilded veil boards . In 1976 Werner Bosch Orgelbau built a new organ with nine registers on a manual and pedal into the historic case .

I Manual C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Capstan whistle 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Pedestal 16 ′
Wood octave 8th'

literature

  • Gerhard Adel; Festschrift working group (ed.): Röddenau. A village and its history from the beginning of the 9th century to 2005. Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary. Heimat- und Kulturverein Röddenau eV, Frankenberg-Röddenau 2005.
  • 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 , p. 775.
  • Heinrich Kessler: Heimatbuch Röddenau. The 1200 year history of a Hessian village. With articles about the neighboring towns of Frankenberg, Rodenbach, Haine, Birkenbringhausen, Burgwald-Industriehof. Self-published, Frankenberg-Röddenau 1983.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Roland Pieper, Antje Press, Reinhold Schneider (edit.): District Waldeck-Frankenberg II (Allendorf, Battenberg, Bromskirchen, Burgwald, Frankenau, Frankenberg, Gemünden, Haina, Hatzfeld, Rosenthal, Vöhl) . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3054-3 , p. 420 f.
  • Armin Wiegand: More than simple. Classicism and round arch style using the example of the churches in Kurhessen and Waldeck . Theiss, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3652-1 , pp. 245 f .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Röddenau. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg II. 2015, p. 420.
  3. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 775.
  4. ↑ Wiegand: More than simply. 2017, p. 245.
  5. ^ Röddenau timetable , accessed on October 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Wiegand: More than simply. 2017, p. 246.
  7. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg II. 2015, p. 421.
  8. ^ Peter Brusius, Dieter Schneider: The organ builder family Dickel. Brusius, Marburg 2013, pp. 8–9.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 49.04 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 15.53"  E