Evangelical Church (Albshausen / Solms)

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Church from the south
East entrance

The Evangelical Church in Albshausen in the town of Solms in the Lahn-Dill district ( Hesse ) is a listed hall church . For historical and artistic reasons it is a cultural monument . The church was built between 1923 and 1930 based on a design by Ludwig Hofmann in the style of baroque historicism . It consists of a church nave with a hipped roof, on which a roof turret with an onion dome is placed in the east , a polygonal west choir and a slated porch for the entrance area in the east, which is flanked by two columns.

history

In the Middle Ages Niederbiel as a branch church and Oberbiel as the mother church formed a common parish . At an unknown point in time, Albshausen and Steindorf were incorporated into the parish of Oberbiel. In the Middle Ages, Albshausen was assigned to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

With the introduction of the Reformation around 1549 under Heiderich Tillenburg, pastor from Oberbiel, the parish changed to the Protestant confession. During the Thirty Years War, the parish became Catholic under the Spanish for a few years in 1626, until the Swedes returned to Protestantism in 1632. On May 27, 1838, the parish joined the Uniate Church . The deceased from Albshausen were buried in Oberbiel until 1774. In 1929 Albshausen laid out a new cemetery and carried out the first burials there before the new church was built.

Today's church building was made possible by the foundation of Peter Friedrich Hormel, who grew up in Albshausen and then emigrated to America. However, inflation delayed completion, which was only possible due to reduced plans. So a massive church tower was dispensed with in favor of a ridge turret. In autumn 1923, the local community donated the building plot to the parish. Nevertheless, the construction work had to be interrupted for several years due to the economic and political situation. While Hormel visited Albshausen again in 1927 and would have preferred to demolish the ruins, the mayor Peter Dietrich tried to find new financing options. On April 22, 1928 a church building association was founded. Only the third request of the presbytery to the consistory of the Rhine province in Koblenz was successful: The consistory approved a grant of 5000 Reichsmarks and the Ev. Oberkirchenrat 4000 RM. Building officer Ludwig Hofmann took over the management of the building. In August 1930 a document was walled into the altar. The inauguration took place on October 12, 1930.

On April 1, 1932, the parish of Oberbiel was dissolved. But the parish connection between Albshausen and Steindorf with Oberbiel initially remained. On July 1, 1954, the parishes of Albshausen and Steindorf were raised to an independent parish. In 1955, Peter Schumacher was appointed as the first pastor.

A parsonage was inaugurated on July 6, 1958, and a parish hall was completed on September 7, 1975 after a year of construction. For the 50th anniversary, a comprehensive church renovation followed in 1979/1980, which included a new coat of paint on the interior walls, ceiling, galleries and pews, new electrical installations, drainage of the masonry foundation and a larger rain gutter system.

Until the end of 2018, the parishes of Albshausen and Steindorf were affiliated with the parish and belonged to the Braunfels parish, which in 2019 became part of the Evangelical Church District an Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Choir with sacristy

The hall church is not face to face , but is oriented to the southwest. It was built on the southern outskirts of unplastered quarry stone masonry with corner blocks over a base. The corners of the nave are beveled to the east. The large hipped roof has three small dormers with triangular gables on each side. The church is accessed through a round-arched east portal under a slated porch, which is supported by two eight-sided pillars made of artificial stone. The nave is illuminated on the long sides through two large arched windows and on the east through a low triple window, above which a small round window is let. The choir is lower and retracted opposite the ship. It only has a small arched window to the west. In the south of the choir, the small sacristy adjoins a small square window in the south under a canopy . The glass painting company Ferdinand Müller made the lead glass window in the choir, which shows the resurrected. The rest of the windows are structured by bars. The eight-sided roof turret with onion hood houses a triple bell.

Furnishing

View into the choir room

The interior of the church is vaulted with a wooden barrel. The simple church furnishings are largely from the construction period. In the east there is a wood-covered gallery, which also serves as a location for the organ. Four articulated posts, the middle section of which is rounded, enclose the gallery and reach up to the ceiling to support the roof turret. The posts under the gallery have headbands and the parapet areas have transverse rectangular panels with red profiles.

A round arch opens the choir, which has been raised by two steps, to the nave. The solidly walled block altar has a protruding stone cafeteria plate. The polygonal wooden pulpit on the southern arch has octagonal panels in the pulpit fields and ends at the top with a profiled cornice. The wood-visible church stalls with red profiles leave a central aisle free.

organ

Gaming table
Organ with a baroque prospect
JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 with Norbert Schenk

The organ was originally built for Schöffengrund- Niederwetz by Dreuth , where it served until 1952. In 1954 it was makeshiftly restored by the Walcker company using inferior materials. First it was installed in the parish hall of Frankfurt's Luther Church , after it had previously been assessed by the company as not worthy of restoration. The Rhenish Church obtained legal action that the organ had to be returned to the Rhenish Church at the price of the trade-in of 6000 DM at the time. The regional church approved the purchase of this organ by the parish of Albshausen after a harmonium had been used to accompany the parish singing for 25 years . In September 1955 the dismantling took place in Frankfurt and in October the construction of the instrument in Albshausen, on November 6, 1955 the inauguration and on April 20 the organ acceptance. The sub-bass 16 'that could still be used in Niederwetz was no longer available and the pedal was only attached. A few years after the relocation , the deficiencies became more and more evident, so that the organ builder Günter Hardt carried out a renovation in 1969. In 1973 a new wind supply was necessary. Due to the renovation of the rectory and church, a comprehensive organ renovation did not take place until the spring of 1980, when the organ was outsourced. Church painter Karl-Bernd Beierlein exposed the original version , which had been roughly painted over in the 1950s.

Behind the historical prospectus, Günther Hardt built a new manual in 1982 with the old arrangement of six registers . The old wind chests were retained and incorporated into the new building. The new pedals have two registers.

The prospectus in a polychrome rural-baroque setting in marbled ultramarine , vermilion and gold is structured by six pilaster strips with cords and fruit hangings. The elevated trapezoidal central tower is flanked by two low flat fields that lead to two pointed towers. The side blind wings made of openwork acanthus with rocailles and the ornaments on the curved consoles are gold-plated. The upper and lower cornices show high red friezes with gold bands. Fine, stylized lily motifs can be found on the fascia leaves. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
mixture 1'
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Peal

In the course of the new building, Friedrich Wilhelm Rincker cast the small bronze bell with a pigtail crown in 1930 (e 2 ). As a replacement for the bells delivered in World War II, the Bochum Association cast two bells out of cast steel in Untermoll extra rib in 1952 (h 1 and d 2 ). The three bells ring out on the Te Deum motif.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 1952 Bochum Association , Bochum 940 370 h 1 “ Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord! Rev 14,13  LUT " Evangelical Church Albshausen bell 1.jpg
2 1952 Bochum Association, Bochum 790 215 d 2 “ O land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Jer 22,29  LUT " Evangelical Church Albshausen bell 2.jpg
3 1930 Rincker , Sinn 650 162 e 2 “ Heaven and earth will pass, but my words will not pass! Rev 14,13  LUT " Evangelical Church Albshausen bell 3.jpg

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 122-124 ( online ).
  • Helmut Hardt: Alt-Albshausen. Homeland book; compiled on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of our village in 1982. Süss, Solms 1982, pp. 27–28.
  • Ulrich HC Hollmann: Organ of the Evangelical Church in Solms-Albshausen. Solms-Albshausen 1982.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Maria Wenzel (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 454.
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 202.
  • Presbytery of the Evang. Parish Albshausen (Ed.): The parish hall "Under the oaks". Albshausen 1975.
  • Presbytery of the Evang. Parish Albshausen (Ed.): 50 years of the Evangelical Church in Albshausen. Albshausen 1980.
  • Wolfgang Wiedl: History of the city of Solms and its districts. Vol. 1. City Council, Solms 1989.
  • Wolfgang Wiedl: History of the city of Solms and its districts. Vol. 3. City Council, Solms 1994.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Albshausen (Solms)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, pp. 468-469.
  2. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church Albshausen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse. Accessed on January 7, 2020.
  3. ^ Wiedl: History of the city of Solms and its districts. Vol. 1. 1989, p. 167.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, p. 114 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 202.
  6. ↑ Albshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ Presbytery (ed.): The parish hall "Under the oaks". 1975, p. 9.
  8. ^ Hardt: Alt Albshausen. 1982, p. 28.
  9. ^ Presbytery (Ed.): 50 Years of the Evangelical Church in Albshausen. 1980, p. 8.
  10. ^ Presbytery (Ed.): 50 Years of the Evangelical Church in Albshausen. 1980, p. 10.
  11. ^ Presbytery (Ed.): 50 Years of the Evangelical Church in Albshausen. 1980, p. 10.
  12. ^ Wiedl: History of the city of Solms and its districts. Vol. 3. 1994, p. 388.
  13. ^ Presbytery (ed.): The parish hall "Under the oaks". 1975, pp. 9, 11.
  14. ^ Presbytery of the Evang. Parish Albshausen (Ed.): The parish hall "Under the oaks".
  15. ^ Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 27.
  16. ↑ Hollmann: Organ of the Evangelical Church in Solms-Albshausen. 1982, p. 12.
  17. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 17 .
  18. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church Albshausen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse , accessed on January 6, 2019.
  19. ↑ Hollmann: Organ of the Evangelical Church in Solms-Albshausen. 1982, pp. 21-24.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 25.07 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 13.88"  E