Evangelical Church (Bortshausen)

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Choir tower from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Bortshausen , a Marburg district in Central Hesse , is a listed choir tower church from the last quarter of the 13th century. A half-timbered floor was added to the choir tower in 1432, which is still preserved. The nave was given its present shape in 1894 when it was extended by Wilhelm Spahr .

history

Church from the south

In the late Middle Ages, Bortshausen was subordinate to the Sendgericht in Ebsdorf in the Amöneburg deanery, which was assigned to the Archdeaconate St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

In 1432 the tower was raised in half-timbered manner. With the introduction of the Reformation , Bortshausen changed from 1527, presumably under Conrad Schneider, pastor in Ebsdorf, to the evangelical confession. The community adopted the Reformed faith in 1609 under Landgrave Moritz , only to return to the Lutheran faith with his abdication in 1624.

In 1894 the ship was expanded and changed. The half-timbered floor of the tower was given a cladding that imitated half-timbering. In 1998 the upper floor was slated.

After the merger of the Ronhausen- Bortshausen parish on January 1, 2012 into one parish, Beltershausen was incorporated on December 1, 2012 . The Cappeler parish with a total of around 4480 parishioners is supplied by two parish offices. The community belongs to the Marburg parish within the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

architecture

Vault in the tower hall
Neo-Gothic east window

The east-facing , unplastered choir tower church made of quarry stone masonry with corner blocks and neo-Gothic walls made of red sandstone is built on the northern edge of the old town center. The solidly walled-up church stands in the middle of the former cemetery, which is enclosed by a wall.

The bricked-up choir tower from Romanesque times on an almost square floor plan is slightly drawn in opposite the nave. It is illuminated through a neo-Gothic tracery window in the east. It has two lanes with nuns' heads and a three-pass in the arched field. The half-timbered floor from 1432 has been completely slated since 1998 and therefore not visible. The slate has a trapezoidal recess on the east side in the area of ​​the quarry stone wall. On each of the three free-standing sides there are two rectangular sound openings for the bells. The framework has high St. Andrew's crosses that extend through three compartments . In the top compartment there are curly headbands with noses. A wooden external staircase with metal railings on the south side leads to a wooden door that gives access to the upper floor. The tent roof is equipped with four small dormers with triangular gables and is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock. Inside, a simple round arch with protruding combat stones opens the choir to the ship. A square sacrament niche is set into the south wall. The tendril paintings on the groin vault in the choir are not original, but are reminiscent of the remains of the plastered Gothic paintings.

The ship is covered by a slated gable roof, on which two dormers are placed on both sides, which have small pointed turrets with a point. It is supplied with light on the long sides through two two-lane, pointed-arch tracery windows with nuns' heads. It is accessed through a pointed arch portal, the walls of which are made of barbed stone . The tympanum bears an inscription. In the gable triangle, which is crowned by a stone cross, there is a round window with tracery made of three fish bubbles . The old pointed arch portal in the eastern south wall is now walled up from the inside, but the iron-studded door is still preserved.

Interior

Interior towards the choir

The interior has been closed off since 1894 by a trapezoidal wooden ceiling supported by four round arches. These rest on consoles and are decorated with quatrains and turned tips. Two twisted tie rods , richly decorated with wrought iron, secure the building. The west gallery, built in 1978, serves as the installation site for the organ. It rests on two wooden posts with headbands. The clockwork of the old tower clock is placed under the gallery.

The polygonal wooden pulpit in neo-Gothic style also comes from the time the church was expanded. The pink pulpit fields have turquoise tracery forms. The wooden church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

A simple wooden cross is attached above the choir arch. The block altar stands on a pedestal. The altar cross has a crucifix of the three-nail type, the arms of the cross are decorated with a shamrock .

organ

Interior with a view of the organ gallery

The organ was built in 1978 by Orgelbau Böttner as a parapet organ . The instrument has five registers on one manual . The pedal is attached. The actions are mechanical. The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C–
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture III
Pedal C–
attached

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 118.
  2. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: City of Marburg II. 2013, p. 496.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Classen: The ecclesiastical organization of Althessen in the Middle Ages (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau , vol. 8). NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1929, p. 100.
  4. ↑ Bortshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Homepage of the parish , accessed on September 21, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 6.02 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 28.87"  E