Evangelical Church (Dutenhofen)

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View from the northeast
Church in Dutenhofen from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Dutenhofen , a district of Wetzlar in the Hessian Lahn-Dill district , is a listed hall church with structures from different building eras. A baroque nave from 1653, which was rebuilt in the 1740s, extends to the west of the former choir tower, which is essentially medieval and renovated in 1653. The church was given its current form in 1906 when a transept was added to the west.

history

A church in Dutenhofen was first mentioned in a document in 1383. From an ecclesiastical point of view, Dutenhofen belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archidiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier in the Middle Ages . Dutenhofen was a parish church in the pre-Reformation period , but had no branch church.

Medieval choir tower

With the introduction of the Reformation in the 1530s, the parish switched to the evangelical confession. Pastor N. Orth can be verified as the first Protestant pastor in 1530 and 1540.

Paulus and Friedrich Michelbach transferred their share of the patronage rights to Count Philip IV of Nassau-Weilburg in 1559 .

After the church was ruined in the Thirty Years' War , the medieval nave was replaced by a baroque one using old materials and the eastern choir arch was expanded in 1653/1654. After damage to the roof and west gable of the nave, extensive renovations took place between 1742 and 1745. In this context, five windows and two doors were let in, the nave was raised by five shoes, the gable was renewed and the ceiling and roof were renovated. In 1819 a church renovation was carried out.

Due to the poor condition of the church and the increased population, renovation and expansion of the building became necessary at the beginning of the 20th century. The laying of the foundation stone for the spacious transept in the west was on August 13, 1905. The inauguration followed on September 13, 1906. The church was wested and the pulpit moved from south to west and the organ from west to east.

The old quarry stone cemetery wall that enclosed the church premises was largely removed in 1949, the cemetery was abandoned and the grave of pastor and superintendent Geibel († 1919) reburied. On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the church, the congregation acquired a third bell in 1953 to replace the one delivered in the Second World War. Interior renovations took place in 1949, 1972 and 1996, and the facade was renovated in 2009.

From 1710 to 1980 Dutenhofen and Münchholzhausen were parochial connected . From 1980 to 2012 both parishes had their own pastor and Dutenhofen and Garbenheim entered into a parish union. In 2013, the parishes of Dutenhofen and Münchholzhausen were again connected to the parish office and in 2017 they merged with around 3,000 parishioners to form the Evangelical parish of Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen with parish office connection to Lützellinden. The parish belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn und Dill of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Access to the gallery in the north

The originally easted , white plastered hall building with red corner blocks is in the old town center north of Gießener Straße. The church square borders in the north. The early history of the complex building is in the dark.

The former choir tower is slightly drawn in opposite the nave and reaches a height of 25 meters. Its quarry stone masonry, which is essentially medieval, has a late Gothic, pointed-arch east portal under a slated canopy. Presumably, the portal was transferred here in the course of the west building. A pent roof leads over to the tapered, rectangular, slatted half-timbered structure, the two floors of which are divided by a circumferential, protruding cornice. The compartments have wickerwork clay and man figures from around 1700. The two-storey eight-sided structure serves as a bell room. Small, rectangular sound openings for the bells are set in the four cardinal directions. Above this, the clock faces of the tower clock are attached to the north and south. A Welsche hood forms the end, which is crowned by a tower knob, an ornate cross and a gilded weathercock.

The baroque nave on a rectangular floor plan is illuminated through arched windows and covered by a saddle roof. The horizontal roof structure is constructed with a hanging frame for the flat ceiling inside. A plaque at the foot of the southern tower wall bears the inscription "+ AO + 1654", which is probably related to the construction of the ship and the tower hood. The transept and the western rectangular choir, which is only shallow, go back to the expansion in 1905/1906. In the west wall of the choir a large segmented round window is embedded in a round arch niche. The stained glass in the middle depicts Christ surrounded by eight ornamented fields. The transept has a slate hipped roof and is illuminated in two zones through tall rectangular windows. The north wing is accessed on the east side through a door with an arch, above which a covered external staircase leads to the gallery. Another solution was chosen for the south wing. A polygonal stair tower with an eight-sided tower structure and a squat, octagonal pointed helmet is built in the southwest corner , to which a small porch for the west portal with a canopy is attached to the south. A small crossing tower has two sound openings on each side and is closed off by a curved hood with a tower knob and a point.

Furnishing

Interior decoration towards the altar area
Pulpit under the Christ window

Nothing of the medieval church furnishings has survived; some baroque inventory items were taken over in 1906. The flat ceiling of the nave is continued in the two attached wings.

A large segment arch with ashlar painting from the construction period opens the west choir to the transept. On the sheet is a banner with the Bible verse from Heb 13,8  LUT . The staggered galleries of the northern and southern transverse arms reach up to the western choir arch. The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The gallery parapets have simple octagonal panels. The parapets were made for the old nave by carpenter Jacob Müller from Groß-Rechtenbach in 1742–1745 and reused in 1906. The two panels that flank the positive balustrade of the organ bear the Bible verse "I am the vine / you are the branches" (with Joh 15,5  LUT ).

The liturgical area is raised by one step and extends into the crossing . The polygonal pulpit, whose pulpit fields are structured by twisted free columns, stands on the west wall and has a two-course entrance with a coffered parapet. In essence, it also goes back to Müller. Until 1905 it was attached to the southern long side with a sound cover. The block altar and the eight-sided baptismal font, both made of red sandstone, are set up in front of the choir arch. The altar is covered by a protruding black cafeteria plate. On it is a wooden altar cross with the board inscription INRI and a three- nail type crucifix . The organ stands under the old east arch that connects the tower and nave. The church stalls with curved cheeks form a block in each of the two wings of the transept and leave a central aisle free in the nave.

organ

Organ under the old choir arch

Until the beginning of the 19th century the church was without an organ. In 1823 it was possible to buy an organ from Pohl-Göns, which was considered too small for the church there. In 1827 the community acquired the old organ from St. Michaelis in Oberkleen , which dates back to the middle of the 17th century. From 1837 onwards there were various proposals and offers to rebuild or renew the plant. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a new instrument in the old baroque case in 1906 for 4,475 marks and took the old organ in payment. The organ had twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal . Werner Bosch Orgelbau replaced the work in 1979 for 14,000 DM with a two-manual work with 15 registers, including two-thirds of the old pipes. A Rückpositiv was built into the parapet, stylistically based on the old main housing. Its elevated, round central tower is flanked by two flat panels, while the positive parapet has two high flat panels on the outside and a low panel in the middle. Flat-carved, openwork veil boards close the six pipe fields at the top. On the side of the main case are gold-plated rocailles and above angels and soaring lions, and on the central tower there is a structure with a winged angel's head. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Wooden dacked 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
Flauto-dolce 4 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Positive C-g 3
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sharp cymbal III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′

Peal

The church tower houses a triple bell. Master Steffan von Bingen from Frankfurt am Main still cast the largest and oldest bell in the pre-Reformation period (1514). In 1680 two bells were left after one (1673?) Was stolen by the French. Johannes and Andreas Schneidewind from Frankfurt created two new bells in 1708, the smaller of which (600 mm in diameter, 107 kg) was delivered in the Second World War. The Rincker company cast a new bell to replace it in 1953. The triple bell sounds in the Gloria motif.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 1514 Master Steffan, Frankfurt 870 b 1 "1514
OSANNA HEIS ME BAD WEATHER I TRIPLE STEFFAN ZV FRANCKFORT"		 Dutenhofen Ev. Church (29) .jpg
2 1708 Johannes and Andreas Schneidewind, Frankfurt 740 c 2 “IN FRONT OF THE COMMON DVTENHOFEN 1708 GOS ME IOH. V AND: SCHNEIDEWIND IN FFFVRT: " Dutenhofen ev. Church bell 2.jpg
3 1953 Rincker , Sinn it 2 Dutenhofen ev. Church bell 3.jpg

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 29-32 ( online ).
  • Günter Agel: Vivos voco - I call the living. Dutenhofen 2014.
  • 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 a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 372–373.
  • 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. 195.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 , pp. 371-386.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Parish Church (Dutenhofen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  2. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 195.
  3. ^ Diehl: Pastor and schoolmaster book. 1933, p. 372.
  4. ↑ Dutenhofen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. 1836, p. 30 ( online , accessed March 13, 2020).
  6. ^ Chronicle of the community of Dutenhofen from 1800–2013 , pp. 19, 53, 72. Accessed on March 14, 2020 (PDF).
  7. ^ Andreas Metzing: The Hessian areas of the Rhenish Church. In: Hermann-Peter Eberlein (ed.): Territorial churches and Protestant culture. 1648-1800. Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3938-7 , pp. 187–196, here p. 187.
  8. ↑ Homepage of the parish : History of our parish , accessed on March 13, 2020.
  9. ↑ Web presence of the Evangelical Church District an Lahn und Dill , accessed on March 13, 2020.
  10. ^ 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. 142-143 .
  11. ↑ Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: The "Osanna" from Dutenhofen , accessed on March 27, 2020.
  12. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 134.
  13. ^ Bells plenary in Dutenhofen , accessed on March 13, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 35.8 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 57.4"  E