Evangelical Church (Weipoltshausen)

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Church in Weipoltshausen from the northwest
View from the west

The Evangelical Church in Weipoltshausen in the municipality of Lohra in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district ( Hesse ) is a hall church from the 16th century. The listed church with a retracted rectangular choir and small roof turret was expanded to double its length to the west in 1965.

history

The existence of a church in 1234 can be inferred from documents, even if the legal position of the church remains unclear. In the late Middle Ages, Weipoltshausen belonged to the Lohra district in ecclesiastical terms and was assigned to the Amöneburg deanery in the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation , the place changed as a branch of Kirchvers from 1527 to the evangelical confession. A small church was built in the 16th century. At the end of the 16th century, Weipoltshausen formed a parish with Kirchvers and Rodenhausen . In 1604, the parish under Landgrave Moritz adopted the Reformed faith, only to finally return to the Lutheran faith with his abdication in 1624.

In 1965 the church was enlarged to double its length. The new west wall received a new entrance door as part of this.

Today Weipoltshausen belongs to the parish III of the large parish Lohra in the parish of Marburg within the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

architecture

North side, on the left you can see the small rectangular choir.

The roughly east-facing hall building on a rectangular floor plan made of unplastered quarry stone masonry with a straight end of the choir is slightly raised in the center of the village. It is partially surrounded by a low wall.

The nave from 1965 is attached to the older eastern section in the same design and in the same width and height as the earlier church. In the east, the low rectangular choir with a small gable roof is drawn in opposite the nave. The old and new nave are connected by a common, steep, slated gable roof. A small slate roof turret is placed over the eastern part. The cuboid shaft has four rectangular sound openings for the bells. The tent roof of the ridge is crowned by a cross and a weathercock.

A high rectangular west portal and a pointed south portal open up the church. Until 1965 there was only the south portal. The interior is illuminated through small rectangular windows: three high-seated ones in the south, five low-seated ones in the north and two high-seated ones in the western gable end. The east side has an arched lead glass window . Inside the church there is a large niche with a pointed arch barrel in the east wall for the altar.

Furnishing

Ornate pulpit
View of the altar area
Looking west

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on a longitudinal girder. The west gallery is slightly offset to the middle of the church and serves as the installation site for the organ. It rests on two round columns and has parapet paintings in the panels with six apostles and their symbols. It depicts James the Younger, Simon, James the Elder, John, Philip and Matthew. The parapet paintings were created by the painter Assmann from Gladenbach-Weidenhausen in 1788. They originally hung on the galleries of the church in Kirchvers and belong to a cycle of 30 paintings. After the reconstruction of the Kirchverser gallery, the pictures came to Weipoltshausen. To the left of the paintings is a building inscription with a Bible verse from Ps 26,8  LUT : “Lord, I love the place of your house and the place where your honor dwells. This church was expanded and renewed in the years 1965–1966. "

The polygonal wooden pulpit dates from the first half of the 17th century and is richly ornamented in the mannerist style . The pulpit fields are structured by corner pilasters and have rural representations of the evangelists under round arches. On the south wall gives a connected Pew , the above-barred diamond factory has access to the pulpit. Above the pulpit a Bible verse from Mt 21,22  LUT is painted, on the left the chorus Ps 98,5a + 1a  LUT .

The eight-sided font is made of red sandstone. The block altar stands in the eastern niche and carries a small altar cross of the three-nail type. A large crucifix is ​​attached to the north wall. The wooden church stalls made up of longer benches in the north and shorter ones in the south leave a central aisle free.

organ

Böttner organ from 1995

Today's organ was built in 1995 by Christoph Böttner . The previous instrument, a small positive organ by Bruno R. Döring ( Neukirchen (Knüll) ) from 1967 with three registers , is now used as the choir organ in the Wetter monastery . The Böttner organ has ten registers that are distributed over a manual and pedal. The flat prospectus with four arched pipe fields is classically designed. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C–
Dumped 8th'
Willow pipe 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Thought bass 8th'
Wooden principal 4 ′

literature

  • 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. 934.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, p. 350.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Helmuth K. Stoffers (Red.): District of Marburg-Biedenkopf II (communities Ebsdorfergrund, Fronhausen, Lohra and Weimar) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3550-0 , p. 549.
  • Karl Anton Müller (Ed.): Weipoltshausen, our home and its surroundings from then and now. Weipoltshausen 1973.

Web links

Commons : Ev. Church Weipoltshausen (Lohra)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse : District Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017, p. 549.
  2. ^ Albrecht Eckhardt (arr.): Monastery archives. Regesta and certificates. Department / Part 4: The Upper Hessian Monasteries. Vol. 2: Regesta and documents (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 9.4). Elwert, Marburg 1967, p. 361 (No. 548).
  3. ↑ a b Weipoltshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 934.
  5. ↑ ev-kirche-lohra.de: Parish care in the large parish Lohra , accessed on November 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ Evangelical Church Kirchvers on Lohra-Wiki, accessed on November 20, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 56.2 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 5.86"  E