Evangelical Church (Unter-Seibertenrod)

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Church from the north
View from the southwest

The Protestant church in Unter-Seibertenrod , a district of Ulrichstein in the Vogelsbergkreis ( Hesse ), is a listed half-timbered church . The single-aisled hall church from 1738/1739 in the Baroque style has a hooded roof turret and a rare quadrant. The church building in the center of the village is the landmark of the village.

history

Unter-Seibertenrod was a branch of the mother church in Ober-Ohmen as early as the Middle Ages . The right of patronage had the Barons Riedesel held to Eisenbach. With the introduction of the Reformation under Hermann IV. Riedesel, the parish changed to the evangelical confession in 1527, probably under Georg Rupel, who was pastor in Ober-Ohmen from 1550. In 1557 a strict church order was introduced under Ursula Riedesel in order to enforce the doctrine of the Reformation.

A built around 1600 half-timbered church was built after 1738 Post Oak sold and translocated . The Evangelical Church of Klein-Eichen from Unter-Seibertenrod is one of the oldest preserved half-timbered churches in Hesse.

The new church was built in 1738/1739. The west portal is marked with the year 1738 and the weather vane with 1739. According to the parish chronicle of 1858, construction should have started in 1737.

During an interior and exterior renovation in 1902, which cost 3855 marks, the church was whitewashed and the first organ was purchased. Pastor Karl Momberger collected 1,200 marks in donations for the organ, which was two thirds of the cost of 1,800 marks. The remaining third was taken from the municipal treasury.

The parish of Ober-Ohmen consists of the three parishes of Unter-Seibertenrod, Ruppertenrod and Ober-Ohmen. It belongs to the Evangelical Deanery Grünberg in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Portal on the gable side

The church , which is not exactly to the east, but to the south-east, is built in the center of the village and is enclosed by a triangle of streets. Presumably it was created according to plans by Helfrich Müller. The Zeilbach church could have served as a model. The wood was felled in the Langsdorf forest. The half-timbered church over a base made of quarry stone masonry is clad on the two south sides and only shows its bright red wooden beams between white plastered compartments on the two north sides . In the meantime, the outer walls were plastered. In a frame construction , high posts with four continuous bars structure the walls. They are sparingly braced with swords on the corner posts, which go through two levels in the lower area and three levels in the upper area.

The church is covered by a steep, slated gable roof, which ends in the northwest as a crooked roof . An eight-sided, slender roof turret, which is also completely slated, is placed over the gable end. The two floors are staggered and each have four small rectangular sound hatches for the bells. The originally preserved, artistic crown from 1739 consists of an urn-shaped tower pommel, a wrought iron wreath with eight points around the year 1739 and a gilded weathercock. The interior is illuminated on the northern long side through three small square windows and on the southern long side through a small square window and two large arched windows, which presumably received their current shape in 1825. The end of the choir has two tall rectangular windows outside. The gable side is windowless apart from two small square windows below the eaves. The double-leaf wooden door with square and rectangular profile ornaments under a slid roofing dates from the 19th century.

The four-sided choir closure can only be found in Hesse in Quotshausen .

A stone memorial to those who fell in World War II is erected on the southwest side of the church and is also part of the cultural monument. A cross with broad arms is surrounded by two low rectangular steles.

Interior

Interior facing southeast
Pulpit from 1739

Except for the southern long side, on which the pulpit is erected, a three-sided gallery is built in, which serves as the installation site of the organ in the southeast. The stairs have square baluster docks . The interior space whose original color version was restored, is closed by a flat ceiling, which on a Längsunterzug rests. This is supported in the southeast by a crossbeam, which is developed as a wooden triumphal arch and separates the community area from the altar area. On the opposite side, a mighty post on the northwest gallery supports the girder. This gallery in turn rests on two eight-sided wooden posts in pink marbling with two short bows , as does the gallery on the northern long side, while in the choir two wall stands with large bows support the ceiling.

The most important item in the inventory is the pulpit, which was executed in high quality and has an “almost urban character”. Heinrich Stein IV., The local carpenter at the time, made the polygonal pulpit in 1739, which was designed by the Momberger brothers in the house opposite the church with rich carvings in the late Rococo style. Green marbled Corinthian double columns with gilded capitals structure the pulpit fields with profiled round arches, which are decorated with colorful flowers and green tendril ornaments. The upper and lower cornice has finely carved, S-shaped and gilded acanthus work on a red background. The lower part of the pulpit has fruit hangers. The seven-sided sound cover has a simply designed volute crown .

The bricked up and white plastered block altar is covered by a massive cafeteria plate. The wooden altar cross with a crucifix of the three-nail type comes from the time the church was built.

The balustrades of the galleries have images of the twelve apostles , who are represented with their attributes and halos and to which Judas Iscariot belongs. The apostles are supplemented with Moses and Isaac from the Old Testament, Christ and Mary, and some parapet panels with flower arrangements. The flower paintings can also be found in the parapet of the choir stalls and in the coffered panels of the parish chair , which has openwork lozenges in the upper half. Johann Heinrich Hisgen from Engelnrod, son of the Lich painter Daniel Hisgen , created the paintings in 1825. The trumpet angels on the ceiling were later painted over.

organ

The Bernhard brothers from Gambach built an organ with mechanical cone chests in 1902 . Compared to the original draft by the expert Ludwig Dosch, the register Flute octaviante 4 ′ has been added. The transverse rectangular flat prospectus in the neo-renaissance style is divided into three axes. The middle field is crowned by a flat gable triangle. The disposition is as follows:

Bernhard organ (1902)
I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flute octaviante 4 ′
Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Heinrich Bast II., Martin Bast: Unter-Seibertenrod. Documents and news about village and family history. Self-published, Mücke / Hessen [1948?].
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 888.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 483.
  • Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg (ed.), Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 .
  • Dieter Großmann u. a .: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 6th edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-008466-0 , p. 549.
  • Georg Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart / Aalen 1972, ISBN 3-8062-0112-9 .
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Vogelsbergkreis II. Part 2: Schlitz, Schotten, Ulrichstein, Wartenberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3055-0 , pp. 1074-1075. ( Pre-publication version from 2010 [PDF file; 4.25 MB])

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Unter-Seibertenrod  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ulrichstein.de: Unter-Seibertenrod , accessed on January 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bast: Unter-Seibertenrod. 1948, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Unter-Seibertenrod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Bast: Unter-Seibertenrod. 1948, pp. 9-11.
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 198.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 483.
  7. ↑ Evangelical in the Gießener Land , accessed on January 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Monuments Unter-Seibertenrod. (Pre-publication version) (PDF file; 4.25 MB), accessed on January 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Kratz: The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 138.
  10. ↑ Bast: Unter-Seibertenrod. 1948, p. 26.
  11. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Vogelsbergkreis II. Part 2. 2016, p. 1074.
  12. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen. 1987, pp. 33, 81.
  13. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Vogelsbergkreis II. Part 2. 2016, p. 1075.
  14. ^ Kratz: The district of Alsfeld. 1972, pp. 109, 138.
  15. ^ Grossmann: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 1987, p. 549.
  16. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen. 1987, p. 26.
  17. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 888.
  18. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen. 1987, p. 12.
  19. ↑ Bast: Unter-Seibertenrod. 1948, p. 27.
  20. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 939-940 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 50.1 ″  E