Evangelical Church (Beltershain)

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Church from the southeast
North side

The Evangelical Church in Beltershain , a district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen in Central Hesse , was built as a late Gothic hall church at the end of the 15th century . The church, which has been rebuilt several times, with a six-sided roof turret characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the pre-Reformation period, Beltershain was a parish near Saasen -Veitsberg. With the introduction of the Reformation , Beltershain switched to the Evangelical Confession and was assigned to Wirberg .

The church was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and the roof was renovated in 1650. Due to the dilapidation, the Wirberger pastor wrote in 1752: "The little church on the Beltershain branch is not only too small in front of the present congregation, but also very ruinous and dilapidated, with no tower and proper stalls." It is no longer possible to carry out church services “without risking life” and especially in winter “because of the blowing of the wind”. In the years 1758/1759 a profound renovation took place, during which the roof turret was renewed and the galleries were created. In addition, the windows were enlarged. Another renovation was carried out in 1852. In the course of the exterior and interior renovation in 1912, old paintings were exposed, but later whitewashed again. During painting and plastering work in 1962, some consecration crosses were uncovered all around the walls , but all but four were painted over again.

architecture

Window in the north side
South portal

The only about geostete hall church tends southwest-northeast. It is built on a rectangular floor plan without a choir and made of basalt stone masonry . The gables are made of timber . The western gable dates from the 17th century, the eastern gable from the Gothic period. The latter has four bars and three posts as well as two swords in the middle . The preserved garments are made of lung stone .

The building is accessed through an ogival south portal near the west corner and illuminated through an arched window in the south and an arched window in the east. The windows, which were later enlarged, have oak frames. A small rectangular, grooved slot window can be found in the west side and a small, high-seated rectangular window with a bevel on the right above the south portal. The north side has a narrow, ogival window made of lung stone with a hollow (1.22 × 0.54 meters), which dates from the time it was built. The original tracery has not been preserved. The steep gabled roof is fitted with a six-sided spire roof skylights, which ties in with the medieval design. It houses a bell that was cast in 1633 and bears the following inscription: "GEORG SCHERNBERG BEIN GOS ME IN MARPURG 1633". Presumably the bell comes from another church, as the roof turret was only put on in 1752.

Furnishing

Interior to the west

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling with longitudinal beams . The floor is covered with red sandstone slabs.

The oldest item in the inventory is the medieval, bricked-up and plastered block altar with a rectangular plate made of lung stone (1.36 × 0.86 × 0.28 meters) with five consecration crosses carved into it. On it stands a wooden crucifix of the three-nail type . A piscina is embedded in the south wall, which speaks against the implementation of holy masses in the late Middle Ages and against the acceptance of a subordinate curate chapel.

In the north and west, a wooden angled gallery is built in, which rests on square posts with arches . The organ is set up on the west gallery. The gallery parapet has fillings. The church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free. The polygonal wooden pulpit on the south wall probably dates from 1759. The pulpit fields have profiled panels and a continuous cornice top and bottom. An adjacent parish chair with an openwork diamond lattice grants access to the pulpit. The wood-sighted baptismal font is designed in the shape of a cup.

organ

Organ from 1989

The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built an organ in 1989 that has five stops on one manual. The pedal is attached. The flat prospectus is divided into five axes. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Zimbel II 1'
Pedal C – d 1
attached

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. 96.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 494.
  • 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. 177.
  • Hartmut Miethe, Heinz-Gerhard Schuette: Gothic paintings . Ed .: Förderkreis Kunst-Mensch-Kirche (=  Christian art in Upper Hesse . Volume 1 ). Grünberg 2010.
  • Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the greater community of Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Heinz Probst, Grünberg-Queckborn 2001, pp. 21–24.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 34 f.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 26 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Beltershain  - 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. 177.
  2. ↑ Beltershain. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 24.
  4. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 493.
  5. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 27.
  6. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 96.
  7. ^ Miethe, Schuette: Gothic paintings. 2010, [p. 62].
  8. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 22.
  9. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 34.
  10. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 35.
  11. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 23.
  12. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 26.
  13. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, pp. 22-23.
  14. ↑ organindex.de: Organ in Beltershain

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 11.4 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 10.1 ″  E