Evangelical Church (Elnhausen)

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Church in Elnhausen from the south

The Evangelical Church in Elnhausen , a Marburg district in Central Hesse , is a listed church from 1746. The baroque hall church with a hipped roof has a three-storey roof turret in the west .

history

Church from the southeast

A chapel in Elnhausen is documented for the first time in 1235, which was elevated to a parish church by Siegfried II von Eppstein . Until 1253, half of the place was parish to Oberweimar and the other half to Michelbach. The patronage of St. Margaret is proven for 1383.

In the late Middle Ages, Elnhausen was subordinate to the sending courts in Michelbach and Oberweimar in the deaneries Amöneburg and Kesterburg, which was assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Elnhausen switched to the evangelical creed under Pastor Konrad Wolff (1509–1548). In 1565 Wehrhausen formed a vicariate and in 1630 a branch. Over time the status changed several times. Elnhausen accepted the Reformed faith under Landgrave Moritz in 1609, only to return to the Lutheran faith with his abdication in 1624. In 1657 Dagobertshausen was parish off to Elnhausen.

After the previous building was demolished in 1741, the new building followed by 1746. Until 1905 the interior was designed as a transverse church with a gallery pulpit on the north side. The patronage box was separately accessible on the east side. It was removed in 1905, the inside walled up and the pulpit relocated to the east. In 1937 a large picture of Jesus by the Elnhausen painter Karl Müller was hung in front of the east window.

An interior renovation in 1971/1972 led to a redesign of the interior, which was again aligned to the east. After walling up the east window, the first fresco by Erhardt Klonk was created here in the damp plaster .

The parish of Elnhausen with its approximately 1150 members includes the two parishes of Elnhausen-Dagobertshausen and Wehrhausen is supplied by a pastor's office. The parish belongs to the Marburg parish within the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

architecture

The church , which is not exactly easted , but faces east-southeast, is built northwest of the old town center. The design probably goes back to JG Kessler. The surrounding cemetery was closed in 1823. The cemetery wall on the south side has a date stone built in from 1851. Except for the free south side, buildings are built close to the church on the other sides.

The simple baroque hall church, which is covered by a hipped roof with red tiles, is plastered in white. Only the corner blocks and the borders of the doors and windows in red sandstone are left out. The surrounding base made of unplastered quarry stone masonry protrudes. The church is accessed in the west through a high rectangular portal with profiled walls made of red sandstone and five steps. The double-leaf doors are iron-clad. A structurally identical portal with three steps is located in the middle of the south wall. Above this is a small window with an arched arch, which is flanked on both sides by high rectangular windows with arched arches. Like the south side, the north side is designed asymmetrically with four high windows. The west side is windowless.

The slender, fully slated roof turret that rises above the western entrance side is stepped twice. Two storeys each with eight narrow, arched sound openings for the bells rise above the eight-sided shaft. The hood is crowned by a double tower knob, cross and weathercock.

Furnishing

View of the organ gallery
Interior towards the altar with mural by E. Klonk

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling with rectangles. In the western part of the nave there is a three-sided, white gallery that rests on square wooden posts with bevels . The coffered parapet fields have gold-plated profiles. The simple, wooden church stalls in green frames fill the area between the galleries. The original upright rectangular entrance to the patron s box on the east side is walled up, as is the window above it. The outside borders are still preserved.

The interior has been dominated by a monumental fresco secco painting by Erhardt Klonk on the east wall since 1972 . Since then, Müller's picture of Jesus has been hanging at the staircase. Klonk's painting The church on the way to its center (or to Klonk: Paradise ) shows from top to bottom scenes from the biblical history of salvation, the history of Israel and the life of Jesus, which are combined with modern everyday scenes. In the bright center stands the Lamb of God, surrounded by the green trees of life.

The altar area is raised by one step and has choir screens with balusters on the edge . The richly profiled stone altar from the construction period stands on a sandstone pedestal. Two chalices have been preserved from the late Gothic period. The eight-sided cup-shaped baptismal font is made of red sandstone.

organ

Drawing of the Rindt organ from 1732
Wagner organ from 1877

In 1732 Johann Christian Rindt and his son-in-law Gabriel Irle built an organ with eight registers on a manual without a pedal for the previous church . The instrument was taken over in the course of the new church building. The organ builder Peter Dickel mentions in his report from 1854 that in 1836 or 1837 a compartment falling from the ceiling damaged the organ. The new organ, decided in 1863, was delayed. The monument conservator and state curator Ludwig Bickell sketched the old prospectus in 1869 .

The Rindt organ was replaced by Georg Friedrich Wagner in 1877 . The prospectus shows classicistic influences, but is designed independently. Two flat, upright rectangular pipe fields on the outside and a raised flat field in the middle are framed by pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The pipe fields close at the top with bas-reliefs, the openwork tendrils of which have the shape of a round arch. Two low and narrow flat fields mediate between the three large fields. In 1954/1955 Werner Bosch Orgelbau exchanged three registers. During a restoration by Gerald Woehl from 1971 to 1973 , the original state was not realized for cost reasons. A register was exchanged by installing a 8 ′ viol from Schadenbach. Woehl added a fourth choir to the mixture in the treble. The organ was advanced two meters. The instrument has twelve registers on a manual and pedal . The actions are mechanical. The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′

Peal

The church tower houses a triple bell. Two bronze bells were first reported in 1875 when one of them had cracked. In the following year the community bought three new bronze bells from the bell foundry in Apolda . When the little bell jumped in 1902, it was refilled by Franz Schilling in Apolda. The large and small bells were delivered in 1917 for armament purposes. In 1924, the Schilling Lattermann bell foundry in Apolda supplied three steel bells as replacements. After the middle bell had crashed in 1970 and further defects on the bell cage had been found, three used bronze bells were hung in 1971, cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher in 1950 and by the Stella Maris parish (Norderney) to the Kisselbach company in Kassel in 1970 had been sold. The two larger steel bells from 1924 were placed on the grounds of the Elnhausen Church. The chimes sound like the previous bells in the Te Deum motif.

No. Casting year Foundry, casting location Diameter (mm) Mass (kg) Chime
1 1950 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 650 170 it 2
2 1950 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 560 105 ges 2
3 1950 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 480 70 as 2

literature

Web links

Commons : Kirche zu Elnhausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: City of Marburg II. 2013, p. 553.
  2. ↑ a b Elnhausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 23, 2017 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Classen: The church 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.
  4. ^ A b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: City of Marburg II. 2013, p. 552.
  5. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2018, p. 206.
  6. ↑ a b Website of the parish of Elnhausen: Parish Church of Elnhausen , accessed on September 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Website of the parish of Elnhausen: Pfarramt , accessed on September 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Bodo Willmann: Sounding Church. Organs and bells of the parish church Elnhausen , pp. 9, 21, accessed on September 23, 2017 (PDF).
  9. ^ Brusius: The organ builder Georg Friedrich Wagner (1818-1880). 2014, p. 24.
  10. ↑ Bodo Willmann: Sounding Church. Organs and bells of the parish church Elnhausen , p. 15, accessed on September 23, 2017 (PDF).
  11. ↑ Bodo Willmann: Sounding Church. Organs and bells of the parish church Elnhausen , p. 33, accessed on September 23, 2017 (PDF).

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 44.9 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 19.7"  E