Evangelical Church (Winnerod)

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South side of the church
Church from the north

The Evangelical Church in Winnerod , a district of Reiskirchen in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), is a Romanesque hall church from the 12th century. The attached choir has various Gothic elements, while the nave has been rebuilt several times and received its present shape after a reconstruction in 1950. The church with its characteristic roof turret is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

The nave was built in the 12th century and the choir was added by the middle of the 13th century at the latest. The church has been documented since 1252, when a pleban Gerlacus is mentioned. Presumably the same Gerlach was referred to in 1275 as "pastor ecclesie in Winnerode" and as "rector ecclesie in Winnerode", which indicates the position of dean.

In the late Middle Ages, Winnerod was ecclesiastically assigned to the Amöneburg deanery of St. Stephan in the Mainz diocese and formed its own broadcasting district . With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish switched to the evangelical confession, but lost its independence as a parish by 1575. The first Lutheran pastor was Johannes Bapst from 1575.

Probably in the 17th century a south and west gallery were built. In 1830 the church received new portals and windows. An interior renovation followed in 1893. The plans from 1923 to move the organ from the choir loft to the west loft in order to expose the choir and the reliefs on the vaulted caps were initially unsuccessful.

From 1914 the church was no longer maintained. The pastor's position was not occupied from 1929, so Winnerod and Bersrod were looked after by Beuern. In 1937 the building was closed. A collection of money carried out by the pastor von Beuern produced 4,000 Reichsmarks by 1940. Due to the lack of building materials and the hardship after the war, no renovation was carried out. In 1948 the late Gothic roof turret from the 15th century collapsed and buried the Romanesque roof structure that had been preserved until then . When the parish received a pastor again in 1950, the nave was rebuilt in a modified form, but still maintains the medieval proportions.

In the course of a renovation from 1962 to 1964, the south pore with its external staircase was demolished and the eastern choir window with tracery was reinstalled. An attached half-timbered bellows house for the organ and the choir gallery, on which the organ had previously been installed, were demolished and a new organ was erected on the west gallery. In 1963 the stucco reliefs in the choir were restored. The grave slabs that had previously covered the floor there were placed on the south wall. In 1963 the community bought three new bells.

architecture

East side of the church

The east-facing , unplastered hall is made of basalt quarry stone masonry in the middle of a churchyard, the walling of which has been preserved in the southwest. The walls are made of lung stone , the corner blocks are made of yellow-gray sandstone, and the newer parts are made of red sandstone.

The dimensions of the nave are based on the Roman foot , which suggests that it was built before the 13th century. The nave is exactly 37 Roman feet long and 27 Roman feet wide. It is accessed through portals on the west and south sides. The irregular cladding of the south portal is based on reused parts of a wider Romanesque portal. Three small round windows on the south side and two large round arched windows on the north side from 1950 illuminate the interior. Instead of the gallery access on the south side, a round window was let in in the 1960s. A roof turret is attached to the gable roof. The tall, slanted, square shaft has very small sound holes on each side for the bells. Four triangular gables lead over to the four-sided pointed helmet, which is crowned by the tower knob and weathercock. The roof turret houses a four-way bell. The oldest bell dates from 1770. It was donated by Freiherr Johann Jacob von Zwierlein and cast by Johann Philip Henschel in Giessen.

The retracted choir on a square floor plan with a straight east end is slightly lower than the nave and opens up to the nave in a round Romanesque triumphal arch over large fighters (plate over incline). The ribbed vault is Gothic. The ribs are 0.185 meters wide, rest on corner brackets and end in a round keystone . The pointed arched east window with tracery and late Gothic vestments dates from the 14th century, the smaller pointed arched window on the south side from 1964.

Furnishing

Triumphal arch with a view of the organ gallery

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling, which after the reconstruction has no central supports. The oldest piece of equipment is a Romanesque baptismal font made of lung stone (outside diameter 0.87 meters, height 0.62 meters) with an ornate round arch frieze under a dew band .

A wooden polygonal pulpit with simple panels is set up on the northern arched pillar .

The four evangelists are depicted as stucco reliefs on the vaulted caps in the choir . They were created in the second half of the 17th century and show the evangelists in writing and floating on a cloud with their evangelist symbols . Under Matthew , who traditionally takes his place on the east side, an angel is placed between an alliance coat of arms . The coat of arms with the ram's head points to Johann Philipp von Buseck called Münch , while the coat of arms with the striding rooster is brought in by Sophia Maria von Steinling.

Two grave monuments (double graves) commemorate the Lords of Windhausen. The unpainted epitaph made of red sandstone for Ebert von Windhausen († 1550) and his wife Margret geb. von Nordeck zur Rabenau († 1580) is designated with 1560. It is 1.40 meters wide and 2.08 meters high without a pedestal and was relocated in front of the southern archway. A writing plate between two coats of arms is attached above the life-size figures. The colored red sandstone tomb for Johann von Windhausen († 1612) and his wife Adelheid geb. von Selbach († 1609) is 3.08 meters wide and, without a crown, 3.00 meters high. The couple is depicted in life size between three-quarter pillars, coat of arms and fittings . It was made in 1608 and stands in its original location on the north choir wall. The grave slab of the Privy Councilor Friedrich Ludwig von Buseck called Münch († 1750) and his wife Christine Magdalene von Hutten zu Stolzenberg († 1762) is placed on the south wall of the choir. More grave slabs with coats of arms are placed on the south wall.

organ

Döring organ from 1964

The first organ was a gift from Friedrich Ludwig von Buseck. As was customary at the time, the organist's service was combined with the teaching position. The baroque organ was replaced in 1864 by a one-manual work with a pedal by Johann Georg Förster , which had seven stops . 100 years later, Bruno Döring built a new organ with eight registers and a mechanical action . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sifflute B / D 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zimbel II B / D
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Pommer 4 ′

literature

  • 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. 974.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 278 f.
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler: The story of Winnerod. Heimatgeschichtliche Vereinigung Reiskirchen eV, Reiskirchen 2010.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , pp. 621 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 366–372.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 196 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 622.
  2. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 196.
  3. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 366.
  4. ↑ Winnerod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 25, 2014 .
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 278.
  6. ↑ a b c Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 197.
  7. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 367.
  8. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 369.
  9. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 621.
  10. ↑ Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions (PDF file; 37.7 MB), in: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, 1884, pp. 475-544, here: p. 533.
  11. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 369 f.
  12. ↑ Köhler: The story of Winnerod. 2010, p. 177 f.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 371.
  14. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 372.
  15. ^ 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. 973 f .

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '29.4 "  N , 8 ° 51' 50.8"  E