Evangelical Church (Allendorf / Lumda)

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Church from the northwest

The Evangelical Church is a listed church building in Allendorf , a town in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ). While the mighty choir tower dates back to the 14th century, the nave was given its present shape in 1731. The church with its three-storey bonnet shapes the image of the city and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

View of the church around 1655 from Topographia Hassiae
Tower arch with inscription
Skeleton in the choir room

Allendorf originally belonged to the parish of Londorf and was parish near Winnen . In 1323 the place fell to the Hessian Landgrave Otto I and was raised to an independent parish. The church was built around this time in the early 14th century. It is said to have been a chapel that was enlarged in 1454. The altar was dedicated to the Trinity, St. Cyriacus and St. Brigitte consecrated.

In the 15th century, Allendorf was assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1527/28 the place changed to the Protestant faith. The first Protestant pastor was Konrad Dorplatz von Friedberg, who worked here from 1548 to around 1555. In 1606 the parish joined the Reformed Confession in order to return to Lutheran in 1624 according to the principle cuius regio, eius religio .

A corner stone on the widened southern outer wall, which bears the year 1586, and a sundial with the indication “15XX” indicate that the church was widened in the 16th century when the church was converted into a sermon church. The old ship previously took up the width of the tower, but was only about half as long as the current one. The church building was hit by severe fires in 1634 and on October 17, 1728, and was extensively rebuilt. Copper engravings from the 17th century convey the earlier appearance: on the church roof, a double row of dormers illuminated the attic. The tower had a lantern with a small, four-sided pointed helmet. The current nave was renewed from 1730 to 1731 on the site of the previous building while retaining older parts and significantly increased compared to the previous building. The choir tower from the 14th century was preserved and, instead of the pointed helmet, was given a three-tiered hood in the Baroque style .

In the course of a comprehensive exterior and interior renovation in 1912, old paintings in the choir vault were partially exposed. The church roof was re-covered during the Second World War and the tower was re-slated in 1949. An extensive renovation between 1963 and 1968 included security and stone carving work and a renewal of the heating system and restored the old version in the church interior . During a dry rot renovation in 2004, old skeletons were found in the chancel, which originally lay under the foundation of the tower, which indicates a previous church.

architecture

Keystone in the choir vault
Church from the south

The east -facing church made of quarry stone masonry stands on a slightly elevated site at the highest point of the city. The walled churchyard borders on the north side of the city wall and was part of the fortification.

The oldest building is the fortified choir tower in the east from the 14th century, which also served as a place of refuge and was included in the city fortifications. It is built on a square floor plan. In the rib-vaulted sanctuary flat are Gothic sacrament niche admitted. The southern choir entrance used to be used by the priests as an entrance. The walled-up ogival and bevelled door in the north wall led into a sacristy , which was torn down at an unknown time. A console stone can still be seen on the outer wall. On the ground floor there are ogival windows on the three free sides, the east window was enlarged downwards in Gothic times. The tower has notches on the second floor. Various arcade windows can be found above the cornice that separates the former bell storey from the basement . A Romanesque window and the remains of coupled, pointed-arched windows in pointed-arched panels have been preserved. The tower is crowned by a three-storey hooded helmet , which is completely slated and tapers towards the top and ends with a Welscher hood. The storeys of roughly the same height are octagonal and are connected by curved monopitch roofs.

The nave made of quarry stone masonry is a simple hall construction with a slightly heaped gable roof. Sandstone is used for the corner cuboids and the main western cornice, lung stone for the south portal and the eastern part of the main cornice. Narrow rectangular windows of different sizes on the south side and arched windows on the north side (1730/31) illuminate the interior. Tower and nave are connected by a pointed triumphal arch , the keystone of which bears the inscription "HWB 1731". The west portal has a straight lintel (after 1730), the straight lintel of the profiled Gothic south portal rests on consoles with foliage and figures.

Furnishing

Interior to the east

The interior is from 1731 and is dominated by the built-in galleries on round columns with coffered parapets. The organ is in the choir tower on a gallery. The wooden baptismal font from 1731 made of oak stands on a carved, twisted column . The base, capital and lid are richly decorated with acanthus leaves. The stalls were replaced during the interior renovation in 1912. The octagonal wooden baroque pulpit on the right side of the arch has richly profiled panels between turned corner columns and has a small sound cover. The wall was broken through for the pulpit stairs.

The altar is designed as a simple cuboid. The ogival sacraments niche in a rectangular, chamfered frame is 0.78 meters high and 0.63 meters wide.

A sandstone epitaph belonging to the Willius family from 1635 is freely suspended on the south side of the tower . Above the Latin inscription on the table, the crucifixion scene can be seen as a devotional image in a framing circle, which is held by a female and a male figure.

organ

Right side of the organ prospectus

An organ by an unknown builder is first documented in 1628, the defects of which are listed in the protocol of a church visit. After the church fire, a new organ was built in 1737 by the organ builder Johann Conrad Wagner, who worked in Allendorf. A red inscription in the frame of the central tower reads: “Johann Conrad Wagner anno 1737 d. 16th Martii ”. In addition, the elevated central tower bears the mirror image of the monogram "JCW". The one-manual organ had ten stops and a richly decorated front with carved figures. In 1831 Johann Georg Bürgy repaired the work and created an equal tuning . Behind the historical prospectus, Förster & Nicolaus created a new organ in 1931, which had 17 stops on two manuals and pedal and an electric console .

Today's organ dates from 1996 and was built by the Oberlinger brothers . The purely mechanical grinding loading -instrument has 15 registers that are distributed on two manuals and pedals. The baroque prospect is in five parts with three round towers and two connecting flat fields. The original cassette lower case from Wagner is in the local museum of local history. Three winged angel heads support the console bar of the upper case. The pipe fields are finished with fern-shaped acanthus carvings. The "ears" at the sides are made of acanthus with volutes and enclose an angel playing a trumpet on the left and an angel with a violin on the right. The two low flat fields are crowned by lions.

I echo C – g 3
1. Copula 8th'
2. Slack travers 4 ′
3. Gemshorn 2 ′
4th Sesquialtera II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ''
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
5. Principal 8th'
6th Reed flute 8th'
7th Viola da gamba 8th'
8th. Octave 4 ′
9. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Super octave 2 ′
11. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Trumpet B / D 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Principal bass 8th'
15th trombone 16 ′

Bells

The tower houses three bronze bells from the 18th century.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1729 Johann Andreas Henschel, Giessen 990 586 g 1 " ANNO 1 · 7 · 2 · 8 THE 1 · 7. OCTOWER
WERE WE MITSAMPT CITY AND KERCH
VERBRAND. O HER HILF AND LAS WOHLGELINGEN
H I L BERGEN PFARHER
H E B MELCHIOR RENTMEISTER
H I I KORMAN H W FEY
BOTH BORGEMEISTER
ANNO 1 7 2 9
NOW GOTLOB IT'S VOLBRACHT
ANDREAS - HENSCHEL
MADE ME HOW I CALL WITH
MY VOICE ALL FROMEN
CHRISTIANS INTO OUR CHURCH
AND ASK
OUR HERN JESUM CHRIST THAT
HE IS FAR US GRACE "
2 1788 Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, Giessen 840 349 b 1 + “ WHEN I RALL IN PRAYER O SO EVERYONE PAYS IN FAITH TO THE LORD HE WILL BE COMFORT AND HVLF WARMED BY · ZANGEN · GOVERNMENT COUNCIL H · BICHMANN Parson H · JOHAN CHRISTOPF WAGNER BORGEMEISTER
FRANZ · H · LUDWEL HOHES I · LUDWIG DERN · REINHART H · ANTON DELWIG CONRATH
GOS ME IN GIESSEN FRIEDRICH WILHELM OTTO · 1788
H · STRECKER CITY WRITER H · IOH · HENRICH WISNER LOCAL MASTER "
3 1729 Johann Andreas Henschel, Giessen 720 222 d 2 " GOS ME ANDREAS · HENSCHEL ·
ANO 1728
· GOD · FIER · DANGER
OF FIRE · WAS · IN · THE · YEAR · 1728
WAS THE 17th DAY · OCTOBER
GENAND · TRUE · WE
SAMPT CHURCH AND
CITY VERBRAND
H · I · L BERGEN · PFARHER
H · E · B · MELCHIOR · RENDMEISTER ·
H · I · G · LOTZ · AND H · I · BERGEN
BOTH CASTLE MASTER · "

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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 7.
  • Wilhelm Diehl (Hrsg.): Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 404 f.
  • Evangelical Church Community Allendorf / Lumda (Hrsg.): The new organ in the Evangelical Church Allendorf / Lumda. Allendorf / Lumda 1996.
  • Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (Lumda) e. V. (Ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. The middle of the valley. Deissmann, Allendorf 1987.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 41 f.
  • Ernst Schneider: Allendorf on the Lumda. Chronicle of an old city. City publisher, Allendorf an der Lumda 1970.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 11–17.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 10 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Allendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 42.
  2. ↑ a b Allendorf (Lumda). Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 21, 2013 .
  3. ^ Schneider: Allendorf an der Lumda. 1970, 289.
  4. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 216.
  5. ↑ a b Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 213.
  6. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 41.
  7. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 404.
  8. ↑ a b c Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 11.
  9. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 11f.
  11. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Allendorf (ed.): Allendorf an der Lumda. 1987, p. 209.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 15.
  14. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Allendorf / Lumda (ed.): The new organ. 1996, p. 12.
  15. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 7.
  16. ↑ On the organ in Allendorf / Lumda , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  17. ^ 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 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 30th f .
  18. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 15f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  E