Evangelical Church (Ettingshausen)

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North side of the church
Interior facing east

The Evangelical Church in Ettingshausen , a district of Reiskirchen ( Hesse ), is a hall church from the 13th century with a choir tower in the east. The Hessian cultural monument is stylistically at the transition between Romanesque and Gothic .

history

In the late Middle Ages, Ettingshausen was ecclesiastically assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Johann in the Archdiocese of Mainz . In 1507 the place was probably a parish near the mother church Münster / Lich. With the introduction of the Reformation , the place changed to the Evangelical Confession and in 1606 became an independent parish. Johannes Vigelius Hausmann von Nidda was the first Protestant pastor to work here from 1612 to 1618.

In the 17th century the roof was raised and a wooden longitudinal barrel and the galleries were installed . In the 1730s, larger windows were broken into the south wall. Daniel Hisgen created the oil paintings in the gallery parapets in the 1770s. A gallery was built above the choir arch on which the organ was located. An interior renovation followed from 1878 to 1880, during which a new organ gallery was installed, on which a new organ was located in 1880. In the course of a further interior renovation in 1899, the choir was exposed by removing the benches there for the male confirmands and raising the organ loft on iron girders. A plaster ceiling replaced the previous canvas that was stretched over the wooden boards. The slogan “Peace be upon you!” Was placed above the choir arch and “Glory to God on high!” Above the east window. The floor was covered with new panels and an oven was installed. Pastor Nies donated a chandelier in 1911. In 1917 the tower gable was renewed and in 1919 the church was electrified.

During a comprehensive interior renovation from 1959 to 1961, the interior was redesigned in line with modern tastes, furnishings were replaced and the galleries renewed. The paintings were removed and landed on the rubble in front of the church. At the request of the civil engineer Peter Weyrauch, the church painter Kurt Scriba saved seven of the original twelve pictures. After the restoration in 1979/1980, six pictures were placed in the lower area of ​​the church, and a seventh senior church councilor was given to Joachim Petri from Darmstadt. Scriba used the picture with the Christmas scene as a template for a new painting in the Rimbach church. The iron spiral staircase that gave access to the organ and pulpit was removed. Since 1959, the attached sacristy and an ogival wall opening allow access to the pulpit. The gallery with the staircase to the bell tower has led to the organ since then. Due to the new plastering of the wall, the two verses of the Bible in the choir were lost. The roofs of the nave and tower were re-covered and the external plaster renewed. In 1961 the dials and hands were replaced according to the baroque models and in 1985 an electronically controlled clockwork was built into the tower.

Since moisture and salt bloomed , the exterior plaster had to be removed in 1990 and a breathable plaster applied. After Roger Hertzfeld's design for the redesign of the interior was not accepted by the Council of Churches, the interior was renovated in 1996. The new color scheme of the chancel was based on the Gothic version (around 1300) and that of the nave on the late Gothic (around 1450), while the modern color scheme was withdrawn. The pre-Reformation sacrament niches in the choir room and the lung stone in the lower area of ​​the choir arch, which could have come from a quarry in Nonnenroth, were exposed right up to the fighters . In addition, the pictures were cleaned and re-attached to the gallery in new frames.

architecture

Church from the west
Church from the south

The east- facing , single-nave, white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built in the middle of a walled cemetery in the northeast of the old village center with a defensive character.

The lower part of the low tower on a square floor extends only two meters over the nave . On the north side it has the original ogive slit windows (0.18 x 1.20 meters), in the east and south late Gothic windows without tracery . The brightly painted lead glass window in the east wall, which the artist Beiler from Heidelberg painted in 1902, shows the risen Christ. The choir has had a cross vault with fluted ribs that rest on consoles since the Gothic period . The round keystone is covered with a rose, symbol of Mary.

The triumphal arch is ogival and has a fighter plate over a throat. The four-sided, slated pyramid roof from the late Gothic period is two-tiered and is interrupted in the middle by a four-sided bell storey with two sound holes on each side. The small dormers were put on in the 1920s. The roof is crowned by a tower button , cross and weathercock .

The ship has a crooked roof in the west . The interior is lit through two large arched windows from the 18th century on the south side and two very small circular arched windows from the Romanesque period (0.16 meters × 0.70 meters) on the north side. The ogival west portal (1.34 meters wide) in an ogival niche (2.12 meters wide) dates from the time the church was built and serves as the main entrance. The north entrance is also pointed and original.

Furnishing

Parapet painting by Daniel Hisgen: Adam and Eve
Pulpit with the 12 apostles

The interior of the ship is closed off by a wooden barrel with belt ribs and cross ribs that open into wooden keystones. The modern angled gallery on the north and west side has six panels of the wooden parapet with pictures by Daniel Hisgen with biblical scenes. On the east side above the triumphal arch there is a grandstand-like gallery from 1959 for the organ.

The octagonal wooden pulpit from the 18th century, which already existed or was installed in 1733, has four panels in each of the three pulpit fields with depictions of the twelve apostles . The baroque altar cross is a crucifix of the three-nail type mounted again at the altar for the 1961st The two candlesticks were made in 1879. The modern seating leaves a central aisle free. To the right of the pulpit was a tombstone. It bears the inscription: “Leich Text im… Lazarus our friend is sleeping; but I'm going to wake him up. His disciples said, if he sleeps, things will get better with him ”( Jn 11 : 11-12  KJV ).

The choir is two steps higher than the nave. The block altar made of red sandstone with a plate is in the center of the choir. On the north and south sides of the choir, square sacrament niches from the pre-Reformation period are set in at a low height, which are closed with a wrought iron grille.

organ

Förster organ from 1880

In 1703 the church received a baroque organ , which was probably built by Florentinus Wang from Hadamer. The instrument had eight stops on a manual and no pedal . In 1880 Johann Georg Förster built a one-manual work with eight registers and a mechanical cone shutter on the newly built gallery . A major repair was carried out in 1938 by Förster & Nicolaus , who replaced the prospect pipes made of zinc with tin pipes in 1996 and rewrote the case with a beer glaze . The prospectus is divided into three pipe fields by pilaster strips. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 3 ′
mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Peal

The bell cage houses a triple bell. In 1806 there was one medieval bell and two from 1806 from the Otto company from Gießen, all of which had to be delivered in 1917 for armament purposes. In 1920, the Rincker company supplied three new bells as replacements, two of which were sold during World War II. The small bell was preserved and was cast around in 1953 with the same inscription. In 1952, Rincker cast the big bell. The middle bell loaned by Lorentz Kökeritz from 1678 is the oldest. It originally comes from Babin in Silesia. In 1964 the bell was electrified.

No. Casting year Foundry, casting location Chime inscription image
1 1952 Rincker , Sinn " FOR PENSION I CALL + ASK FOR PEACE + THE LORD I
PRIZE OUR FALLEN IN MEMORIES 1914–1918 1939–1945 "		 Evangelical Church (Ettingshausen) bells 02.JPG
2 1678 Lorentz Kökeritz " MR HANS HINRICH V. FLEMIG HAUPTMANN TO COLBATZ H. FRIDRICH HOLTZENS PASTORIS
DANIEL SPCKEN SCHULTZ BERND NIESEN AND JOCHEN WEND CHURCH LEADER TO BABIN
LORENTZ KÖKERITZ GOS MICH ANNO 1678 "		 Evangelical Church (Ettingshausen) bells 05.JPG
3 1920 Rincker " CALL ME IN EMERGENCY
PSALM 50.15 "		 Evangelical Church (Ettingshausen) bells 03.JPG

literature

  • 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 , p. 225.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 217 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 590 f.
  • Hartmut Miethe, Werner Viehl, support group art - people - church (ed.): Chronicle of the parish Ettingshausen and Hattenrod. (= Church history books from the archive of the parish Ettingshausen-Hattenrod 2 ). Ettingshausen 1995.
  • Hartmut Miethe, Werner Viehl, support group art - people - church (ed.): The church Ettingshausen. (= Church history booklets from the archive of the parish Ettingshausen-Hattenrod 3 ). Ettingshausen 1996.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part without Arnsburg. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 32–34.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 46 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 591.
  2. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 46.
  3. ↑ Ettingshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 14, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 225.
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 217.
  6. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): History of the parish Ettingshausen and Hattenrod. 1995, p. 48.
  7. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 8.
  8. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 47.
  9. ↑ Pierre Bouvain: The Altarpiece of the Rimbach Church , accessed on July 15, 2014.
  10. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 10.
  11. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 35.
  12. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 9.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 32.
  14. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 33.
  15. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 11.
  16. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 39.
  17. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 295 .
  18. ↑ Miethe, Viehl (ed.): The Church Ettingshausen. 1996, p. 33.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 35 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 20.6"  E