Evangelical Church (Fellingshausen)

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Church from the East
View from the northeast (street side)

The Evangelical Church in Fellingshausen in the municipality of Biebertal in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ) is a hall church with a side aisle and flank tower in the style of late historicism , which was built in 1900 according to plans by Ludwig Hofmann . The church is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the late Middle Ages Fellingshausen belonged to the parish Rodheim in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar, which was assigned to the Archidiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1526, the parish changed to the evangelical confession. A medieval church is mentioned for the first time in 1574, probably built in the 13th or 14th century. The church was dedicated to St. Georg and was thoroughly renovated in 1588 and enlarged by a third in 1748.

The ecclesiastical independence of Rodheim was a long way. In 1591 the fellings houses were allowed to celebrate communion in their church; this was practiced from 1602 onwards. In 1742 the old chapel was told: "It is an ancient chapel from the Bapstthum." From 1819 the community received the right to be buried in its own cemetery in Wickengarten. In 1859 and 1867 the parish Fellingshausen asked for an independent parish and its independence from Rodheim, which was not approved. After the construction of the new church in 1900, the desire for a separate assistant preacher position grew stronger, which was established in 1951. In 1958 the parish office connection with Rodheim was canceled and the parish vicarage of Fellinghausen was converted into a parish office. Since then, the parish has been connected to the parish of Bieber.

From 1837 major renovations were carried out. In 1839/1840 a new gallery including an organ was installed, in 1843 the tower was renovated and a new church clock was installed by watchmaker Wagner from Krofdorf. The community had the belfry renewed in 1867 and the church repaired in 1879. The roof was re-encrusted and the interior whitewashed.

In 1895 the parish decided to replace the too small church with a new building after part of the masonry had fallen out of the north side and the west gable showed cracks. Due to the risk of collapse, the dilapidated building could no longer be used. It was canceled in the fall of 1898. The parish enlarged the property by buying two courtyard parcels on the street. The foundation stone was laid on April 25, 1899 and the new church was consecrated on February 15, 1900. For a while, a harmonium was used to accompany songs, as the construction of a new organ was postponed until 1902 for reasons of cost.

The construction of a rectory with a community hall and a kindergarten began on September 12, 1959. The inauguration took place on January 22nd, 1961. The costs amounted to 190,000 DM. The kindergarten was expanded and modernized in 1974/1975 and a youth center was built in the basement. In 1987 the community hall was converted into a larger community center.

During an interior renovation in 1971, the interior painting, the friezes around the doors and windows as well as the wall slogans and inscriptions on the beams of the galleries were destroyed and painted over white.

architecture

Church from the southeast
portal

The geostete predecessor was long to 15.50 meters and 6.70 meters wide. A ridge turret with a pointed helmet was placed on the gable roof.

The new church made of quarry stone masonry by the Grauwacke faces southwest and faces the street with the main entrance in the northeast. The white plastered hall church with a gable roof is a complex structure that takes up formal elements from Gothic and Romanesque. The corner blocks and walls are made of red sandstone. An aisle is built on the south-east long side like a transept, which offers space inside a gallery. The aisle has two high, arched blind niches on the south-east side, in which a round window is let in at the top and a twin window at the bottom. The north-west side of the nave is illuminated by appropriate windows, which are designed as triplet windows in the lower area. In addition, a flank tower rises above a rectangular floor plan, which serves as a staircase. The slated half-timbered upper floor with rectangular sound holes serves as a bell room. It is closed off by a hipped roof with a delicate, pointed roof turret. On the south-east side of the tower, three narrow windows of different heights are let in, and a slit window in the upper area. The flat-pointed arched main portal is located under a slated canopy in a lower porch, the pent roof of which clings to the tower. The north-eastern gable side is designed as a show side, which is dominated by a large round screen with three large and three small round windows. In the lower area there are three flat-pointed arched windows. In the south-west there is a rectangular end of the choir with a large round window showing the sacrifice of Isaac , built into a flat-pointed arch niche and a rectangular sacristy in the south corner between the aisle and the rectangular choir .

Furnishing

View of the aisle
Sanctuary

The nave is closed off by a wooden barrel vault, the side aisle by a flat beamed ceiling. Wooden galleries are built into the northeast and southeast. The north-eastern gallery serves as the installation site for the organ and rests on a profiled wooden post with four curved bows each . The beam ceiling of the aisle rests on a girder that is supported by a post with four arches, which includes the gallery.

The block altar made of red sandstone is raised by one step. The pulpit Bible with a personal dedication was donated by Empress Auguste Victoria . Furthermore, altar and lectern clothing, two goblets with paten and a communion set as well as an altar cross were donated. The old Vasa Sacra are displayed next to the chancel in a glass cabinet, as is the old crucifix , which stands on a step pyramid. The arms of the cross end with the names of the four evangelists. The altar cross used today is simple and without a body. Three arms of the cross end in a three-pass .

The polygonal pulpit in the west, made of red sandstone, rests on a broad base. Its pulpit fields were once painted with depictions of the four evangelists and are now painted in light blue. The profiles are gold-plated.

The wooden church stalls across the width of the two aisles leave a central aisle free.

organ

Organ brochure from 1902

The previous building had an organ from at least 1673 , as the organist's annual salary for this year is two guilders. In 1800 carpentry work was done on the organ stage. A new organ from organ builder Leicht from Gießen was purchased in 1839/1840 and an organ gallery was built for it after the congregation had been without an organ for a long time. Organ builder Friedrich Weller from Wetzlar added a pedal register to the instrument. Ludwig Eichhorn from Weilmünster repaired the instrument in 1877 and replaced ten pipes.

In the course of the construction of the new church, a new organ was put out to tender in 1901. Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau was awarded the contract. The organ behind the neo-Gothic prospect was approved on October 22, 1901 and accepted on June 20, 1902. During the construction period or later, the originally planned disposition was changed and expanded from seven to nine registers . Instead of the jumping wind chest, the instrument was given a pneumatic action . The builder company repaired the organ in 1930. Willi Peter from Cologne built a new factory behind the historic prospect in 1969. The organ has seven stops and a mechanical play and stop action.

I Manual C – f 3
Prefix 8th'
Wooden dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Night horn 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sesquialter III
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Peal

The roof turret of the old church housed two bells. After the larger bell cracked in 1835, it was cast over by Andreas Otto from Gießen. In 1867 the community purchased a small third bell from Georg Hamm from Kaiserslautern. It fell down in 1884 and damaged the central bell. In 1885 Georg Otto cast a larger new one out of the two damaged bells. She weighed 668 pounds. A big bell was donated by the local consumer association for the new church in 1899, cast by the Rincker company and initially hung in a makeshift bell cage. It was inaugurated on New Year's Eve when it ushered in the new year 1900 in the new tower. It was delivered in 1917 and melted down for armament purposes, as were the crenellated prospect pipes of the organ. As a replacement, a new Rincker bell (340 kg) was purchased in 1924, which was also melted down together with the one from 1867 in 1942. In 1950 Rincker cast a new double bell for 6510 DM plus the cost of the inscriptions.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1950 Rincker, Sinn 1060 660 f sharp 1 " PROTECT US FROM WAR EMERGENCY AND SORRY TO THE PEACE, LORD BE
DEDICATED TO OUR MINISTRY CASTED IN 1950 FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHURCH IN FELLINGSHAUSEN "
2 1950 Rincker, Sinn 890 390 a 1 " THE DEAD FOR MEMORIES THE LIVING FOR A WARNING
CASTED IN 1950 FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHURCH IN FELLINGSHAUSEN "

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Dehio manual of the German art monuments, Hessen I: administrative districts Gießen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Dünsberg Association Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 3. Edition. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei Gießen 1989, ISBN 3-9800654-1-3 .
  • Biebertal community (ed.), Gerhard Augst (edit.): 750 years of Fellingshausen. 1263-2013. A village through the ages. Municipality of Biebertal, Biebertal 2013.
  • 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 of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 88.
  • Frank Reif: Fellingshausen. The village, its people and their traces on the journey through time. Reif, Biebertal 1994.
  • Willy Steinmüller: The parish Fellingshausen and its churches. Beer, Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach 1998.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 88.
  2. ↑ Fellingshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 16, 2014 .
  3. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 310.
  4. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 204.
  5. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 294.
  6. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 161.
  7. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 209 f.
  8. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 153 f.
  9. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 63.
  10. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 154.
  11. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 66.
  12. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 320.
  13. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 217 f.
  14. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 329 f.
  15. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 152.
  16. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 274.
  17. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 159.
  18. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 153.
  19. ^ 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. 184 .
  20. ^ Organ in Fellingshausen
  21. ↑ 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. 135.
  22. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, pp. 240-252.
  23. ↑ Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 67.
  24. ^ According to Reif: Fellingshausen. 1994, p. 159, two bells were melted down in 1917, a large one with a diameter of 1.09 meters and a weight of 784 kg and a small one with a diameter of 0.72 meters and 223 kg.
  25. ^ Steinmüller: The parish of Fellingshausen. 1998, p. 334.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 28.5 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 57.6"  E