Evangelical Church (Erda)

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Church from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Erda in the municipality of Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district ( Hesse ) is a choir tower church, Gothic in essence, with a late Romanesque defense tower. The church is a Hessian cultural monument for historical, artistic, urban and scientific reasons .

history

The first place of worship is assumed to be a chapel below today's church; Remnants of the wall in the old school garden are associated with this chapel. A pleban is documented in 1246 and a parish vicar Renbold from Erda in 1325. The shares of the Lords von Bicken and von Kalsmunt in the parish tithing passed to the Counts of Solms in 1294 and 1305 , who have since exercised the right of patronage .

Since the Middle Ages, Erda and Wilsbach formed a parish . Wilsbach had been a subsidiary of Erda since at least 1285 and only broke the connection from the mother church in 1812. Since 1806 Erda belonged to the Duchy of Nassau and Wilsbach to Hesse-Darmstadt .

In the middle of the 14th century, the fortified church burned down during the siege of Hohensolms Castle , which is why Archbishop Balduin von Trier had to forgive the city of Wetzlar.

The medieval church was dedicated to St. Consecrated to Nicholas . At the end of the Middle Ages, Erda belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier .

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1526, the parish changed to the Protestant confession. Nikolaus Koch can be traced back to Erda as the first evangelical pastor from 1563 to 1605. After that, the congregation adopted the Reformed faith, finally returning to Lutheran in 1624.

The nave was renewed in the 17th century, but its core was preserved. Three galleries were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. One was called “the Wilsbach stage” and was available to the Wilsbach branch community. After the final separation from Wilsbach in 1827, Erda was connected to the parish of Großaltenstädten . The west side of the church was redesigned in 1835.

In the course of an interior renovation in 1971, remains of old wall paintings were uncovered in the choir and in the nave.

The parish Erda-Großaltenstädten today belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . Since January 1st, 2020 there has been a parish office connection with the parish of Hohensolms.

architecture

View from the choir arch to the west

The roughly east-facing , white plastered church is slightly raised in the center of the village. It is located in the middle of the old cemetery area, which was used until 1911. The solidly walled up choir tower from Romanesque times is a massive defensive tower with loopholes on the upper floor. In its oldest parts, it possibly dates back to the 13th century. The bell chamber is slated and houses a triple bell. A large, steep hipped roof rises above the bell chamber . It is crowned in the west by a tower pommel with a decorated cross and a weathercock. The choir is illuminated in the east through a small arched window and in the north and south through a high window each.

The age of the nave, which is essentially Gothic, is unknown. The old roof structure is still preserved. The roof is hewn to the west. The interior receives light from the south through two tall, narrow windows and two medium-sized pointed arch windows. Further to the west, below the eaves, there is a small window with an arched arch. The north side has three small raised windows with arched arches, the west side has two arched windows on the upper level. The church is accessed through portals in the west and north.

Furnishing

View in From the ship to the choir
Pulpit, arch and view into the choir room

The interior of the nave is closed off by a flat beam ceiling that rests on three longitudinal beams . The middle girder is supported by four high octagonal wooden pillars with headbands . They correspond to four wall supports at the same height on the long sides, which also have headbands. The interior is dominated by the three-sided gallery which has rectangular coffered panels on the green parapets. The west gallery, which serves as the installation site for the organ, is marked with the year 1672. The four fillings in the west show tendrils and below the Bible verse from Jak 1,23  LUT . The simpler north gallery from 1681, which is supported by octagonal wooden pillars, has panels without a motif, including the inscription with Ps 150.4–5  LUT . The south pore is built a little higher and rests on round wooden pillars. The parapet bears 22 parapet paintings, which are dated around 1780. They depict the four great Old Testament prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel), five scenes from the life of Jesus as well as Christ Salvator and the 12 apostles in front of landscape backgrounds. Another painting is attached to the front wall of the south pore.

The oldest piece of equipment is a large, simple baptismal font in the shape of a goblet from the Romanesque period, carved from a block and placed in the nave between the last two pillars. The polygonal wood-faced pulpit on the southern archway is richly decorated with fittings and inlays . The frieze under the cornice is marked with the year 1671 and bears the Bible verse from Isa 58.1  LUT all around . A Pew in green version with white, perforated diamond factory in the upper part leads to the pulpit rise. To the right of the pulpit's sound cover is a panel from 1693 showing the crucified Christ. The green church stalls from 1651 with carved cheeks leave a central aisle free. The three-sided choir stalls have simple coffered panels. An epitaph for Pastor Wilhelm Daniel Gerst († 1670) made of red sandstone is placed on the eastern wall of the choir . The couple is shown in the upper arch field, including their twelve children over an oval text field.

Ceiling of the choir room
Late Romanesque depiction of a fish rider and the crowned sea king

In the north choir wall there is an ogival sacraments niche and opposite in the south wall a square one. A pointed triumphal arch opens the choir, which has been raised by two steps, to the nave. The red square painting with architectural illusion painting dates from 1719. The groin vault of the tower hall shows early Gothic figurative representations, which were painted over with tendril paintings in the late Gothic period. Remains of paintings of the Last Judgment, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ were uncovered on the choir walls. In the south and north the window frames are decorated with tendril paintings from the late Gothic period. The south window shows the coat of arms of the von Buseck and von Hattstein from the second half of the 15th century. On the southern long wall there are remains of two late Romanesque depictions of St. Christophorus dating back to the 14th century. Fish and sea monsters are depicted at its feet. A fish rider holds a fish in each hand, which he hands to Jesus; the crowned sea king, like the fish rider, has two lower bodies with scales and fins. The baroque marbling on the window reveals and cladding, like the painting on the triumphal arch, dates from 1719. At the top left of the triumphal arch is a wreath of flowers with the name of the schoolmaster and a Bible verse 1 Cor 13.7  LUT .

organ

One organ was described as bad by Abicht in 1836. It had five registers on a manual with a short octave and one pedal register. Gustav Raßmann built a new instrument in 1898 with three round arches in the prospectus . The free-standing console on the balustrade enables the organist to look straight ahead into the nave. The organ has mechanical cone chests and 14 registers, which are distributed over two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:

Organ seen from the south pore
I Manual C – f 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III
II Manual C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Gedakt 8th'
Salicional 8th'
flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

Bells

The choir tower houses a triple bell. A bell is said to have been stolen during the Thirty Years' War, but was later found in the forest. Jacob Rincker from Asslar cast two bells in 1727, both of which had to be delivered during World War II. The larger bell came back to Erda in 1947, while the smaller one was lost and was replaced in 1953 by Rincker from Sinn. The middle bell was cast by Nicolaus Bernhard from Dieffenbach in 1776.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1727 Jacob Rincker , Asslar 920 453 g 1 “ This bell sounds under the protection of the illustrious Count and Lord, Mr. Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu Solms, Hohensolms, Lich and Tecklenburg, Mr. zu Münzenberg, Wildenfels and Sonnenwald. In the month of May 1727 by Johann Jakob Rincker from the Braunfelsischen Asslar in Erda in the same county it was cast (?) (Translation from Latin) "
2 1953 Rincker, Sinn a 1 " Peace on Earth "
3 1776 Nicolaus Bernhard, Dieffenbach 750 h 1 “ When doend my sound to the ground / humbly call on God. / Honor to God alone. [Names] When I was pouring through the fire, Nicolaus Bernhard from Dieffenbach cast me. Erda 1776 "

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 197-200 ( online ).
  • Working group for village chronicles: Heimatbuch published on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the Erda community. 771-1971. Municipal administration Hohenahr, Hohenahr 1971.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 210-211.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 324-325.
  • Erda municipality (ed.): Erda 771–1971. Commemorative publication for the 1200 year anniversary from 28-30. August 1971. Erda 1971.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Karlheinz Lang (Ed.): Kirchstrasse 6, Ev. Church In: Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Giessen III. The communities Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , pp. 291-292.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  2. ^ A b Working group for village chronicle: Heimatbuch published on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the Erda community. 1971, p. 161.
  3. ^ Frank W. Rudolph: 175 Years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Wilsbach , pp. 4–5, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  4. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area (= writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 196.
  5. ^ Diehl: Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories. 1933, p. 246.
  6. ↑ Erda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Frank W. Rudolph: 175 Years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Wilsbach , p. 55, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 210.
  9. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 211.
  10. ↑ Evangelical Church District at Lahn and Dill , accessed on January 20, 2020.
  11. ^ Frank W. Rudolph: 175 Years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Wilsbach , p. 50, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ Municipality of Erda (ed.): Erda 771–1971. 1971, p. 25.
  13. ^ A b Working group for village chronicle: Heimatbuch published on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the Erda community. 1971, p. 165.
  14. ^ Abicht: The Wetzlar district. Volume 2. 1836, p. 197 ( online ).
  15. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former government district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.2 . Part 2 (L – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 176 .
  16. ↑ 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.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27.7 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 33.6 ″  E