Evangelical Church (Annerod)

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North side of the church in Annerod

The Evangelical Church in Annerod , a district of the Fernwald community in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), is a listed cultural monument . The hall church with an open roof was built in the years 1879/1880 according to plans by Ferdinand Broel in neo -Gothic style.

history

From an ecclesiastical perspective, Annerod was assigned to the Archdiaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier in the Archipresbyterate Wetzlar and was broadcast to Großen-Linden . From the 13th century, when a small stone church was built here, until 1837, the place belonged to the parish of Hausen, and since then it has been a subsidiary of Rödgen . The ship was probably demolished in the first half of the 16th century and replaced by a half-timbered ship . When this was lost, according to the parish chronicle, a larger new building was built from stone between 1705 and 1708. The equipment included two bells and from 1742 a new organ from the organ builder Dreuth , which was repaired in 1847.

The construction obligation for the new church had the bourgeois community, who entrusted the construction management to the Giessen architect Ferdinand Broel. The demolition of the previous church began on March 25, 1879. The old cemetery was dismantled and a temporary bell tower was built. The foundation stone of the church was laid on June 22, 1879 and the consecration on September 12, 1880. For the new church, CF Ulrich, Apolda, cast two new bells in 1880. The middle bell, the "school bell", was adopted.

In 1963/1964 a parish hall was added. An interior renovation took place in 1969/1970. In the course of this, the three windows in the choir and in the south nave, which had suffered war damage, were replaced by Heinz Hindorf. Annerod has been an independent parish since 2011, which is connected to the evangelical parish of Buseck-Oppenrod.

architecture

Look into the choir
View in east direction to the organ gallery

The west church is built in the middle of the old town center. Red Main sandstone from Wertheim was used as building material . The cruciform church consists of an east tower flanked by two lower wing structures, the nave and the recessed polygonal choir in the west. Architecturally, it is dominated by the neo-Gothic design language inside and out.

The church tower on a square floor plan has four storeys, which are divided by surrounding cornices . The slim, eight-sided pointed helmet has four narrow dormers below and is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock. The stepped east portal serves as the main portal, which was originally accessible from the street via an outside staircase. It is embedded in a pointed arch niche of a gabled house, in a triangular pediment with a five-pass orifice and a crowning finial ends. The blind arch above the double-leaf door is decorated with a three-pass screen with the inscription “In the name of Jesus”. Three two-part pointed arched windows with tracery characterize the east side as the visible side. The large window above the portal extends into the third floor and has a six-pass. On the fourth floor, corner pilasters each surround two narrow sound arcades for the bell and the clock faces of the tower clock. Two-storey, transept-like tower structures are set back a little compared to the tower. At the bottom you have a twin window with a clover leaf cover , in the middle a tracery window with a circular area and a clover leaf frieze below the eaves . A finial forms the end of the gable triangle, which is connected to the tower by a gable roof. In the middle of the southern and northern gable ends there is a quadruple window and in the gable triangle there is an ogival blind window in a large blind niche with a pointed arch.

The long sides of the ship are divided by buttresses , between which four two-part tracery windows with a closing circular area in the style of wing structures are let. Here as there, they are arranged on two floors. A small twin window with a clover leaf screen on the first floor corresponds to a large pointed arch window. The north gallery is accessed via a separate entrance. A double-leaf door in the north wall forms the passage to the later built community center. In the northern nave, the original window paintings by Heinrich Oidtmann are preserved, which show the birth, resurrection and ascension of Christ as well as Pentecost in grisaille , surrounded by colored ornaments and foliage, and from the "Bible in Pictures" by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld have been faithfully adopted.

The retracted and vaulted choir is lit through three large pointed arch windows without tracery in one zone. The choir windows were renewed in 1970. A pointed arch made of sandstone connects the nave with the choir. It is highlighted by a narrow, pointed arch made of sandstone that rests on small consoles. The choir is three steps higher than the nave. It is closed off by a rib vault that rests on console capitals, the services of which are supported by a cornice band with console stones running around below the window. Two single-storey annex buildings are built between the nave and the choir. The storage room south of the choir was added later. The sacristy north of the choir has its own entrance from the choir room.

Furnishing

Looking west

The gothic interior is closed off in the nave by a double-bent wooden ceiling, the elaborate construction of which rests on consoles. As is usual in 19th century churches, the interior is characterized by a three-sided gallery. It is supported by round wooden columns. The wooden interior is completely preserved from the time it was built. Only the black color of the entire wooden furnishings was removed during the renovation in 1969/1970.

The wooden altar block in the choir arch has three clover-leaf arches between four pilasters, the contours of which are gilded. The altar crucifix is 1.85 meters high and 0.62 meters wide. The polygonal, wooden pulpit on the northern choir arch has tracery-like decorations between corner pillars, while the octagonal sound cover has artistically carved battlements and towers. The stalls in the nave leave a central aisle free. There are stalls for the church council on the choir wall. Lectern, baptismal font and offering box are all designed in the neo-Gothic style.

organ

Förster organ from 1881

On the east gallery is the organ by Johann Georg Förster , which is labeled 1880 on a coat of arms and was inaugurated in 1881. The neo-Gothic architectural prospect is divided into three pointed arch fields by pilaster strips with pyramid helmets that end in finials. The elevated central field has a pedestal in the middle with a carved figure of Christ, which was carved by the sculptor Wilhelm Barthel from Gießen. The instrument with hanging valve and transmission drawer has 14 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Bourdon 8th'
4th Gemshorn 8th'
5. Viola di gamba 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th Flauto dolce 4 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Octave 2 ′
10. Cornett mixture IV 2 ′
II Manual C – f 3
11. Flauto dolce 8th'
12. Dolce 8th'
13. Flauto traverso 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
14th Principal bass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
cello 8th'
Great Octave 4 ′

Peal

The bell floor houses a triple bell. In 1920 three new bells were cast by Gebr. Rincker after two bells had been delivered to the armaments industry in 1917. The two larger bells had to be relinquished again in World War II and were replaced in 1949. Only the small Rincker bell from 1920 was preserved.

No.
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Chime
 		 inscription
 
1 1949 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn “ O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord. Cast for the Ev. Church in Annerod 1949 "
2 1949 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn “ Jesus Christ died for us. Cast for the Ev. Church in Annerod 1949 "
3 1920 FW Rincker , Sinn “ I rejoice peace and joy, I release lust and suffering, I call to eternity. "

literature

  • 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. 69 f .
  • 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. 29.
  • Wilhelm Diehl (Hrsg.): Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 271.
  • Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Annerod (Ed.), Adolf Wallbott (Red.): Evangelical Church Annerod 1880–1980. Festschrift for the return of the inauguration on September 14, 1980. Lenz, Gießen 1980.
  • Fernwald community (ed.), Adolf Wallbott (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. Festschrift for the anniversary year 2007. Gibietz, Fernwald 2006.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 107 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 28f.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 20 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 108.
  2. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 28.
  3. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 20.
  4. ↑ a b Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 1 (A-L). 1988, p. 69.
  5. ^ Fernwald community (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. 2006, p. 45.
  6. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Annerod (Ed.): Evangelical Church Annerod 1880–1980. 1980, p. 19f.
  7. ^ Fernwald community (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. 2006, p. 50.
  8. ^ Fernwald community (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. 2006, p. 47.
  9. ↑ a b Fernwald community (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. 2006, p. 48.
  10. ↑ a b Fernwald community (ed.): Annerod yesterday and today. 2006, p. 49.
  11. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 29.
  12. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Annerod (Ed.): Evangelical Church Annerod 1880–1980. 1980, p. 16.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 3.2 ″  E