Evangelical Church (Wolfshausen)

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Church in Wolfshausen from the south

The Evangelical Church in Wolfshausen , a district of the community Weimar (Lahn) in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , is the oldest building in the town. The hall church , which is listed for historical reasons , was built in the 11th century in the Romanesque style and still shapes the townscape today.

history

Late Gothic sacrament niche

The church was probably built in the 11th century, but is only mentioned in a document in the 13th century. It was originally dedicated to St. Alban . In medieval times it served as a pilgrimage church and was raised to an independent parish church in the 13th century and structurally changed during this time. At the end of the Middle Ages, Wolfshausen was part of the Oberweimar district in the Amöneburg deanery of St. Stephan in the Mainz diocese .

With the introduction of the Reformation from 1526 Wolfshausen became Protestant. Structural changes were made in 1539/1540. Around 1606 there was a change to the Reformed Confession and in 1624 a return to the Lutheran faith. In 1630 Wolfshausen became a branch of Niederwalgern, previously of Oberweimar and Hassenhausen. Cappel has looked after the place in church since 1691. Wolfshausen has been a Roth branch since 1957.

Changes to the church took place in the 18th century when the choir was increased. In the second half of the 19th century, the north wall was extensively renewed. The bells were delivered to the armaments industry in 1917 and replaced by steel bells in 1925. In 1952 the parish had a Gothic-style ogival east window broken into. During an interior renovation in 1974, the altar was rebuilt and the floor was re-laid with panels. The chairs in the choir were replaced by individual chairs and the former parapet was moved directly to the choir walls. The Romanesque baptismal font, which until then had been placed behind the church, was restored to its place in the church. Since 1974 a triple bell made of bronze has been sounding again.

A renovation of the leaky roof followed in 2008/2009, which included the roof structure and the ceiling beams. In addition, the clay ceiling was restored and supplemented and the cracks in the outer walls removed. In 2013/2014 an interior renovation followed, which included a renewal of the heating, the electrical system and the interior plaster.

The Protestant parishes of Roth, Wenkbach-Argenstein and Wolfshausen merged in 2006 to form the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Roth. Together with Fronhausen, Hassenhausen and Niederwalgern-Oberwalgern, this forms the “Großkirchspiel Unteres Lahntal”, which belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck within the Marburg parish .

architecture

Church from the northeast
Baroque tombstone on the south wall

The roughly east- facing hall church with a rectangular choir is raised on the eastern edge of the town and made of quarry stone with sandstone corner blocks. The surrounding cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a wall.

The small church is covered by a saddle roof that is hipped to the east. A wind vane in the east is marked with the year 1728 and indicates the renovation of the choir, which at that time was united with the ship under a common ridge . In the western south side of the nave, a high-seated, monolithic , rounded slit window and underneath a large Romanesque rectangle lintel , which has also been interpreted as a grave slab, are walled up as spoils . Together with the remains of the wall on the southwest corner, they can point to an original extension, possibly a tower.

Inside, a round arch opens the slightly drawn-in rectangular choir, raised by one step, to the ship. A four-sided, completely slated, slightly curved roof turret is placed on the roof in the west, which is crowned by a gilded weathercock with a tower knob and a decorated cross. The shaft of the ridge turret has two high rectangular sound openings in the south and north and four protruding triangular openings for the bells in the roof.

The interior of the choir is a zweibahniges tracery of red sandstone from 1952 and in the south and north by each a small lancet windows with jambs exposed red sandstone. In the north wall of the nave there are two high rectangular windows, in the western gable side one high rectangular one and in the south side to the left of the portal a small high-seated rectangular window. A pointed arched sandstone portal on the south side opens up the church.

To the west of the portal are three baroque gravestones from the 18th century made of red sandstone and a fourth one further east. They have pictorial representations under the arched end. Two show the deceased flanked by flowers as a sign of transience, two depict the deceased's family under the cross. The writing field is adorned with framed rocailles . All four tombstones are broken off in the base area.

Interior

pulpit
View in east direction into the choir

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on a longitudinal girder supported by two octagonal wooden central posts with sturdy bows. The western post also takes the weight of the roof ridge. The wooden gallery on the southern long side extends as far as the small window and is accessible by stairs in the west. The gallery parapet has eight fillings that have alternating diamond-shaped and oval-shaped rocaille paintings.

The oldest inventory item in the church's furnishings is a Romanesque baptismal font, which is set up in front of the south side of the choir arch. On the north side of the arch is the wooden pulpit. The polygonal pulpit cage with rectangular fillings is supported by a square foot that was renewed after a smoldering fire in the 1960s. The pulpit is accessible through an attached parish chair in the northeast corner, which has coffered panels with rocailles painted in the lower area and openwork diamondwork in the upper area and which serves as a sacristy .

The block altar with protruding plate in the choir is raised by one step. It was rebuilt from sandstone during the interior renovation in the 1970s. On the altar a wooden altar cross with a crucifix erected the three-nail type. In the north east wall there is a high rectangular sacraments niche from the late Gothic period with an iron-studded door.

The simple church stalls, like the gallery, parish chair, center post and the joist, have a green-gray frame.

organ

Bosch organ from 1962

In 1892 the community acquired a first organ from Ratzmann from Gelnhausen. It is set up at ground level in the northwest corner. The red version takes the red of the pulpit and the today's instrument was built by Werner Bosch in 1962 as opus 298. It has five stops that are distributed on a manual and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture II-III
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Azzola: The high medieval trapezoidal grave slab outside in the south side of the church of Wolfshausen near Marburg. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 101, 1996, pp. 185-186.
  • 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. 985.
  • Felicitas Janson: Romanesque church buildings in the Rhine-Main area and in Upper Hesse. A contribution to Upper Rhine architecture (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 97). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-88443-186-2 , pp. 185-186.
  • 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. 702.

Web links

Commons : Wolfshausen Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse : District Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017, p. 702.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 985.
  4. ↑ a b Church on wolfshausen.de , accessed on November 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ Oberhessische Presse of March 6, 2012: 24,000 euros simply doubled , accessed on November 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Ecclesiastical gazette of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. Volume 120, No. 12 of December 23, 2005 , p. 246 (PDF).
  7. ↑ Janson: Romanesque church buildings in the Rhine-Main area and in Upper Hesse. 1994, p. 186.
  8. ↑ Azzola: The high medieval trapezoidal tombstone. 1996, pp. 185-186.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 54.34 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 23.2"  E