Evangelical Church (Freienseen)

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North side of the church

The Evangelical Church in Freienseen , a district of Laubach in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), is a late baroque two-story hall church with a mansard roof from 1770 to 1773 with an early Gothic choir tower from the middle of the 13th century. The Hessian cultural monument , whose rococo furnishings have been completely preserved, is a defining feature of the town.

history

Defense tower from the south with key notch and original windows
Interior with subsequently raised choir arch

The previous building, an early Gothic chapel, belonged to the Laubach parish in the 14th century. The congregation became independent after 1435 and had two pastoral positions. Until 1717, Lardenbach, Solms-Ilsdorf and Flensunger Hof were assigned to it as subsidiary communities. With the introduction of the Reformation in 1544 under Friedrich Magnus I von Solms-Laubach , a friend of Philipp Melanchthon , the parish switched to the Protestant confession. The first Protestant pastor was Sintrum Lutz around 1558. In 1717 Lardenbach was raised to an independent parish and received Solms-Ilsdorf and Flensunger Hof as branches. Since then, Freienseen has had no subsidiary communities; as a result, the second pastorate was deleted.

After the old nave was demolished in 1769, the nave was rebuilt in a larger form, partly using the old stones as a substructure, as the chapel had become dilapidated and too small. The foundation stone was laid on September 12, 1769, the inauguration of the new building on May 16, 1773. The tower received its current helmet structure and an organ gallery directly behind the choir arch. In 1812 the doors were repaired and the masonry on the south side of the tower was partially renewed. The inventory was painted light blue. The interior was renovated in 1870, repainted and the inventory repainted yellow-brown. The last measure was reversed in 1950. In 1870 the paintings were also cleaned and restored. The windows and the roof slate were renewed in 1911. During a renovation in 1947/1948, rotten roof beams were replaced, the roof was re-slated and the outside of the church was re-plastered. The altarpiece that was placed above the choir arch was used again as a retable . A wooden wall was installed under the organ loft, so that the choir could be used as a sacristy . The inauguration took place on July 18, 1948.

As part of a comprehensive church renovation in 1975 and 1975, the old version of the stalls and galleries were exposed again. The windows were renewed, a Bible verse painted in 1948 over the arch was whitewashed, the altar moved forward and reworked using the old plate, the old cast-iron stove removed and underfloor heating installed. Ten tombstones were placed on the side walls and the eight-sided holy water font from the pre-Reformation period (probably 15th century) placed in the churchyard was moved into the church, where it serves as a baptismal font. The church stalls have been restored, but not all of the benches have been repositioned to create more space in the front and back. The re-inauguration took place on December 19, 1978. A renovation of the roof structure of the tower including new roofing and a renewal of the northern roof side of the nave followed in 2008.

architecture

View from the southwest

The east-facing church is slightly raised in the center of the village in the middle of an enclosed churchyard, the walls of which were largely renewed from 1770 in 1966. The small early Gothic chapel is depicted on a tombstone from 1755; the foundations were archaeologically proven in excavations in 1976. The floor plans of the tower and ship were about the same size and connected to each other.

The mighty choir tower on the east side has been preserved on a square floor plan. The late Gothic key notches and the small windows indicate the character of a defensive tower. The original south door was walled up in 1812. The narrow pointed arch window on the north side, the small windows and the two loopholes below the eaves date from the time it was built. In the 15th century the window on the east side was broken into, the tracery of which is only preserved in rests. A rectangular portal with a garment made of red sandstone is embedded below. A portal is walled up in the south side, which originally probably led into an attached sacristy . A tombstone made of red sandstone has been placed in the outside niche since 1975/1976. The slated helmet structure, which reaches a height of 30.30 meters, rises above the brick tower shaft. The pointed pyramid helmet is crowned by a tower knob, a forged cross and a weathercock. Dormers with small sound holes for the bells were placed over the eaves on the north, east and south sides, so-called Wichhäuschen , probably with the elevation to the parish in the 15th century. The clock faces of the tower clocks, which are electrically controlled, are attached to the three free sides below the eaves. The old mechanical clockwork is still preserved in the tower. A pointed arch opens the choir hall to the ship. The tower hall has a groin vault , the ribs of which rest on pointed consoles. The keystone is covered with a stylized rose, a symbol of Mary.

The nave with corner blocks is strictly symmetrical on all sides and has beveled edges on the west side. A rectangular portal with architrave is embedded in the center on the three free sides , which is flanked by two arched windows. The west and north portals are marked 1770. A memorial stone above the west portal bears the inscription: "HAEC AEDES EXSTRVCTA EST ANO 1770". There are three windows in the upper level. The somewhat more elaborate west portal presents itself as the main portal. The steep mansard roof has two dormers on the west side and three dormers on the long sides from the time it was built.

Furnishing

Rococo pulpit
Parapet paintings from 1773: Creation, Adam and Eve

The original, high-quality Rococo furnishings have been completely preserved. Ornamental paintings are attached to the mirror ceiling. The interior is characterized by the three-sided gallery, which rests on six marbled columns and gives the impression of a two-story structure. In the quatrefoil fields of the gallery parapets, 24 unsigned oil paintings are attached, showing 14 representations from the Old and 10 from the New Testament and attributed to Daniel Hisgen . The organ gallery in the choir arch is curved and has three paintings of King David . In front of it is the altar by Martin Kramer and Johannes Bern from 1643, the retable of which with the Last Supper scene from 1651 has side parapets. It is crowned by a crucifix that also dates from 1651. In 1889 the pastor's daughter Luise Frank donated an altar crucifix made of oak wood with a body made of silver-plated bronze, as the altarpiece was placed above the arch at the time. In 1948 the altar cross was removed when the altarpiece was given its current location. The altar plate from around 1250 was probably taken over from the previous building.

The formerly round triumphal arch was later raised in a pointed arch to provide enough space for the organ. The rounded, curved, polygonal, wooden pulpit by an unknown artist on the southern archway is intricately carved and has a graceful sound cover on which stands an angel blowing trumpets. A white dove hovers below the sound cover. The barred parsonage leads to the pulpit staircase. In the corner on the left in front of the arch, it corresponds to the glazed patronage chair for Count von Laubach. The fillings and the curved crowns are painted with flowers, which are also attributed to Daniel Hisgen. The wooden church stalls with curved cheeks and painted floral decorations leave a central aisle free. The chandelier dates from 1904.

A crenellated sacrament niche is set into the north choir wall. From the pre-Reformation period, a piscina has been preserved in a niche on the east wall of the tower, which has an outflow to the outside and which indicates the pre-Reformation installation of the altar in the tower hall. Numerous tombstones are attached to the interior walls of the church. The tombstone of Johann Conrad Graf from 1755 with a schematic representation of Freienseen was subsequently placed inside on the north wall of the church.

organ

Organ from 1797

The previous chapel already had an organ , which is documented for the first time in 1706. In 1797 the congregation bought a new organ for the new church, the builder of which is not named. The prospectus, technical details and the Jubal Flute 8 ′ refer to Johann Andreas Heinemann and his son-in-law Johann Peter Rühl from Gießen, possibly also to Henrich Jacob Syer, son of Johann Friedrich Syer from Offenbach. Johann Georg Bürgy repaired the bellows in 1824 and carried out further repairs in 1835. After work by Ph. Jacob Kayser from Grünberg in 1840, Johann Georg Förster was commissioned with repairs in 1857. In 1857, Förster removed the wind gust of the instrument by widening the canal, set an equal tuning , applied for another repair in 1871 and repaired the movement in 1891. In 1919 the community bought a larger, used organ from Königstein im Taunus . After the curator and the senior consistory forbade the installation, there was a dispute that ended with the withdrawal from the purchase.

In the course of repairs by Förster & Nicolaus in 1953, the viol 8 'was replaced by a quintatön 8' . In 1977 it was restored by the same company that renewed the Principal 4 ′ . The instrument has 13 registers, which are distributed over a manual and pedal. In addition to the two exchanged registers , the fourth choir of the mixture was renewed. The rest of the pipework is old. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – e 3
Bourdon 8th'
Floet Travers 8th'
Jubal flute 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Floeta 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
octave 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture IV
Pedal C – c 1
Sup bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'

Peal

The church tower houses a triple bell. It is believed that the 13th century church had a bell. A large bell was cast in 1853, which had to be delivered in 1942. It escaped being melted down, was found in Hamburg in 1946 and hung up again in Freienseen in 1947. A bell cast in 1857 with a diameter of 0.94 meters and a mass of 514 kg was also removed and melted down in 1942. In 1954 the community bought a new bell to replace it.

No.
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 inscription
 
1 1853 Philipp Heinrich Bach , Windecken 1070 757 f sharp 1 " Kirchenvorstand pastor Blumhof LORD BUERGERMEISTER LOEBER, Assistant HRJF BEYER, J. BACHMANN 2, KH Völp JK Immelt 7, K JUNG, JH SCHMIDT 6 J BEYER 3, JH VOLP 2, JH RUHL Freienseen
P HH BACH TO Windecken GOSS ME 1853 as MR NOACK CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION MASTER OF GRUENBERG WAS "
2 1954 Rincker brothers 487.5 a 1 " I want to live with you [as a circular inscription around the representation of the church]
As a replacement for the bell that was drawn in during World War II in memory of all who could not return home 1857 - 1953
LORD STAY WITH US ALL DAYS UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD "
3 1790 Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, Giessen 810 323 h 1 " FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB CASPARI JOHANN CONRAD STEIN BOTH BUILDING MASTER JOHAN MARTIN SAUER JOHAN PHILIPP MOLL JOHANNER BAR JOHAN HENRICH HOFMANN BOTH FOREWORD, BOTH CASTLE MASTER
ANNO 1790
FRIED RICH WLI
WLISSEN HOTTEN
IN GEGEIN GIESEIN GIESO HELMSSEN HOTTEN IN GEGEIN GIESEN GIESO HELMSSEN HOTTEN "

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I. Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 247.
  • 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. 281 f.
  • Evangelical church council Freienseen (ed.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. Evangelical Church Council, Freienseen 1978.
  • Church council of the Protestant parish Freienseen (ed.): Church leader for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. punctum, Grünberg 2016.
  • 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 , pp. 286-288.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 48 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Freienseen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Lang (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. 2008, p. 288.
  2. ↑ Freienseen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 15, 2014 . , accessed August 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Evangelical Church Council Freienseen (Hrsg.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. 1978, p. 22.
  4. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 281.
  5. ↑ a b Church Council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 32.
  6. ↑ Evangelical church council Freienseen (ed.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. 1978, pp. 36-41.
  7. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 11.
  8. ↑ Evangelical church council Freienseen (ed.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. 1978, pp. 41-43.
  9. ↑ a b c Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 49.
  10. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 2.
  11. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Lang (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. 2008, p. 287.
  12. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 6.
  13. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 10.
  14. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 48.
  15. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 247.
  16. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, pp. 12–13.
  17. ↑ a b Evangelical Church Council Freienseen (Hrsg.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. 1978, p. 27.
  18. ^ Church council: Church leaders for the Evangelical Church Freienseen. 2016, p. 29.
  19. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 282.
  20. ^ 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. 309 .
  21. ↑ Evangelical church council Freienseen (ed.): Festschrift der Evang. Freienseen Church. 1978, pp. 30-33.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 44.5 ″  E