Evangelical Church (Erbstadt)

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Church in Erbstadt from the northeast
View from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Erbstadt in the municipality of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district ( Hesse ) is a hall church that was given its present form in 1744. The listed church with a crooked roof has a straight choir closure in the east and a hooded roof turret in the west.

history

In the late Middle Ages, Erbstadt was ecclesiastically under the jurisdiction of the Ilbenstadt Monastery , but had its own pleban . Erbstadt was in the district of the Deanery Roßdorf in the archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz , but the monastery had secured this right over several churches in a contract from 1404.

With the introduction of the Reformation , the place changed under the Eichen priest Adam Ludwig from 1551 to the evangelical creed and became a branch of Eichen. The parish accepted the Reformed Confession in 1597 under Count Philipp Ludwig II . Since then, the Lutherans of the town have attended the services in Windecken . Although Ilbenstadt Monastery continued to exercise patronage rights until 1661 , the pastors had to adhere to the respective Protestant denomination and order. The church, which was built in the 16th century, was largely destroyed in 1635 during the Thirty Years' War . A monk from Ilbenstadt Monastery temporarily administered the parish, but he had to adhere to evangelical regulations. After restoration work, the first acts of worship by an evangelical pastor were only possible again from 1655. In the middle of the 17th century Erbstadt became a branch of Windecken for a short time, but then came back to Eichen.

A comprehensive renovation, equivalent to a new building, took place in 1744. In the course of the Hanau Union , the parish became a uniate parish in 1818 .

In 1998 the church was renovated and received three stained glass windows on the south side , donated by the Protestant women's group Erbstadt in 1997.

architecture

View of the altar area

The church , which is not exactly easted , but is slightly east-northeast oriented, is built from quarry stone in the center of the village. It is plastered in white, only the plinth area, the corner blocks and the sandstone walls of the doors and windows with their deep reveals are left out of the plaster. The simple hall church has a straight east end and is covered by a hipped roof with red tiles, on which an eight-sided, gray slated roof turret is placed in the west . Above the cube-shaped shaft, on the north and south sides of which there is a white dial for the tower clock, a protruding time roof leads over to the octagonal bell storey, in which four round-arched sound openings for the bells are set. The bell chamber houses a baroque triple bell that Johann Peter Bach cast in 1750 ( strike note es 2 ), 1760 (g 2 ) and 1765 (c 2 ) with the motif of a minor triad . The eight-sided pointed helmet is crowned by a tower pommel , a richly decorated wrought-iron compass rose and a gilded weathercock.

The church is accessed through a portal in the west. The profiled walls rest on smooth base stones. The central arched portal with a keystone in the south is now walled up and serves as a closet inside. Large baroque arched windows illuminate the interior, three on the two long sides, two in the east and one in the west. Below the hipped eaves on the narrow sides there is a small, upright rectangular window. On the south-west side there is a building inscription with the following inscription: “ERB. 16TH CENTURY / DEST. 1635 / ERB. 1728 / RENOV. 1998 ". The sandstone panel is part of the original medieval cafeteria plate , of which a second fragment is walled in on the western south side.

Furnishing

pulpit
Central leaded glass window, donated in 1997

The asymmetrically designed interior of the church is simply furnished in accordance with Reformed tradition. The church furnishings are largely from the construction period. The interior is completed by a stucco mirrored ceiling with a haunch and geometric figures. The gallery runs around three sides and leaves the south side with the pulpit free. It has simple coffered panels, which are painted with delicate marbles, and rests on slender wooden posts with bases and capitals . The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The floor is covered with slabs of red sandstone.

The south windows are designed as lead glass windows with strong colors. The eastern window shows the Holy Family in the stable of Bethlehem and the western Christ with outspread arms standing on a mountain in front of a group of people. The central window is divided into four parts: at the bottom five fish and a bread, above Noah's ark with a white dove, then a communion chalice with a white cross, flanked by six ears of grain, and in the arched area the eye of providence in a triangle with a halo and a white dove .

The polygonal wooden pulpit in a brown frame with a flat, octagonal, profiled sound cover stands on a slender, twisted column with a square base and a cube capital. The pulpit fields of the pulpit cage have tall rectangular coffered panels, the profiles of which, like the cornices, are gold-plated. The fillings are enclosed by wave profiles.

The modern, simple altar is table-shaped made of three sandstone slabs and is raised by one step on a sandstone pedestal. The cup-shaped baptismal font is also made of red sandstone to match. The old wooden altar table has turned feet and now stands between the two east windows under a modern painting showing the crucified in red.

In the nave , the simple wooden church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free. In the eastern part there is a single row of benches on the wall under the gallery.

organ

Organ from 1775

In 1775 the organ builder Johann Friedrich Dreuth built a new organ , who then took care of the organ. The five-axis prospectus with an elevated, trapezoidal central tower and two small pointed towers at the side is based on a principal 4 ′. Flat fields mediate between the towers. The coat of arms of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel , held by two soaring, gilded lions, is mounted in a crowned oval above the central tower . Above the low flat pipe fields, two fields are attached over a battens so that the cornice can end at the same height as the pointed towers. In the left field a red rose is painted, on the right a red tulip; the lower case on the side of the gaming table is decorated with painted flower arrangements. The pipe fields close at the top with gilded openwork veil boards. The blind wings on the sides and on the upper cornice are made of openwork tendrils. In addition to the case, six registers and the original console have been preserved from the organ .

The instrument has ten registers and has the following disposition :

I main work C–
Lead-covered 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Chamois fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
mixture 2 ′
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
double bass 8th'

literature

  • Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1968. Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Volume 33). Elwert, Marburg 1984, ISBN 3-7708-0788-X , pp. 173-174.
  • Erhard Bus: Overview of Erbstadt's political history from the first mention to the present day. In: published history book. AK Publication History Book, Nidderau 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037670-2 , pp. 25–52.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 229.
  • 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 ). Elwert, Marburg 1937, reprint 1984, pp. 46-47.
  • Frank Schmidt: The Protestant Church in Erbstadt. In: published history book. AK Publication History Book, Nidderau 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037670-2 , pp. 88–95.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Erbstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year 1728 is occasionally given.
  2. ^ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization. 1984, pp. 46-47.
  3. ↑ Bus: Overview of Erbstadt's political history. 2012, p. 33.
  4. ↑ Erbstadt. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ A b c d Schmidt: The Protestant Church in Erbstadt. 2012, p. 92.
  6. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 229.
  7. ^ A b c Schmidt: The Protestant Church in Erbstadt. 2012, p. 94.
  8. ^ Schmidt: The Protestant Church in Erbstadt. 2012, p. 93.
  9. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , pp. 31, 176–179.
  10. ^ Nikolaus E. Pfarr: The organs of the Evangelical Church in oaks. 2nd edition Pfarr, Mittelgründau 2005, p. 39.
  11. ^ Schmidt: The Protestant Church in Erbstadt. 2012, p. 95.

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 53.1 ″  E