Evangelical Church (Garbenheim)

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Church in Garbenheim from the southeast
West tower

The Evangelical Church in Garbenheim in Central Hesse , a district of Wetzlar, is a late classicist hall church . It has a west tower and a recessed polygonal choir . The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical, artistic and urban development importance .

history

A church in Garbenheim was first mentioned in a document in the middle of the 13th century. In his will, knight Erwin von Garbenheim mentions an altar dedicated to St. Georg was consecrated. Another altar, St. Consecrated to Catherine , it is mentioned in 1371 and for the last time in 1516. In 1380 the church was designated as a parish church, but had only limited rights and no baptism rights. In 1516 the “chapel” was incorporated into the Wetzlar monastery . In the pre-Reformation period, Garbenheim belonged to the parish of Wetzlar, which was assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar .

In the course of the introduction of the Reformation , the parish asked the Wetzlar monastery to appoint a Lutheran pastor. When this was rejected, the community turned to the sovereign in 1535. The first Protestant pastor was Gerlach Reuter (1536–1545) from Herborn. He was followed again for 20 years by a canon of the monastery who “was only half-heartedly Protestant” until the parish finally returned to the Lutheran confession in 1565.

After the church was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War, it was renewed in 1660. The church tower was damaged by a lightning strike in 1734. In 1740 or in 1761 and 1763, the parish had two new Rincker bells cast. A comprehensive renovation followed in 1757 for 373 thalers.

Due to dilapidation, the church was closed by the police in 1865. On October 17, 1866, a major fire destroyed large parts of the village and also the church and its furnishings. The Wetzlar district master builder Wilhelm Witte from Wetzlar presented drafts for a new building as early as 1870/1871. The resistance of the Masonic mayor against the new building plans of Pastor Hermann Bingel (1818-1889) sparked off by the building load . During the 17 years without a church, the congregation gathered in the schoolroom. Witte was also in charge of building supervision. The foundation stone was laid on May 16, 1882 and the inauguration on October 31, 1883.

In 1883 the community acquired a triple bell from the Rincker company. The material used were two captured French cannons that the Kaiser had donated for the new church. Two bells were delivered for war purposes in 1917. As a replacement, Schilling cast three chilled iron castings in 1922, with the remaining bronze bell being traded in. In 1975 Rincker cast a new triple bell out of bronze. The beat notes b 1 , c 2 and es 2 result in the Gloria motif. The steel bells went to the local museum. The leaded glass windows were destroyed in the Second World War . When the interior was painted in 1954, the high brown wall frieze made of pelicans in the choir was whitewashed. Instead, a lamb with a victory flag and the Bible verse from Heb 13.8  LUT and on the opposite side a pelican with the Bible verse from Col 1.20b  LUT were painted on the east wall of the nave to the left of the pulpit . In 1971 these depictions were also painted over. In the years 1975–1977 an exterior renovation followed. Damaged masonry was replaced and the previously unplastered church was given an exterior plaster for the first time. In 1998 an interior renovation followed, in which the Bible verse above the choir arch was restored.

The Protestant parishes in Niedergirmes and Garbenheim have been parishly connected across all parishes since 2013 . Since 2019 they have been part of the Evangelical Church District an Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Open roof truss
Polygonal choir in the east

The church , which is not exactly easted , but parallel to Kirchstrasse, is an extension of Goetheplatz and is made of quarry stone in the center of the village. It stands on a church site that is partially surrounded by stone walls. The masonry, the stones come from local quarries is plastered since 1978 in a yellowish tint, with structural elements like friezes , cornices , pilasters , pilasters , tracery and arches are recessed from the plaster. From a stylistic point of view, the arches and windows of the church indicate the round arch style .

The four-axle nave is covered by a gable roof with small dormers and a stone cross on the east side. The five-eighth closing is lower and drawn in compared to the nave. Pilaster strips and corner pilasters on the nave and choir merge into a round-arched frieze below the eaves. Stylized umbels are placed on the corner pilasters on the nave . A surrounding cornice divides into two window zones. The upper zone has arched windows with two-lane tracery and round windows in the arched field and the lower zone of the nave has small arched windows. The choir is lit through three windows and flanked by low annex buildings under a pent roof . The northeastern extension serves as a sacristy and the southeastern one as a side entrance from Goetheplatz. The main portal in the tower projection was originally flanked by two columns, but redesigned in a simpler form in the 1960s.

The west tower is almost completely integrated into the nave like a risalit. The square walled tower shaft protrudes on consoles and is divided into two storeys by a cornice. The bell storey has coupled arched openings with round columns. As with the nave and choir, the corner pilasters merge into a round arch frieze. The octagonal pointed helmet, crowned by a tower knob and an ornate cross , rises above four flat, slated triangular gables on which the clock faces of the tower clock are attached .

Furnishing

Interior with a view of the altar
pulpit

The interior is closed off by an open roof truss, the boarded construction of which rests on wall posts as consoles. The anchor beams are decorated with wooden pegs. Small consoles in the choir support the vaulted choir. A large arch opens the choir, which has been raised by two steps, to the nave. It carries the Bible verse: "Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same also for ever" from Heb 13,8  LUT . The church furnishings are largely from the construction period. The floor is covered with stone slabs, while there is a wooden floor below the church stalls. The fir wood chairs leave a central aisle free.

The three-sided gallery does not reach the east wall on the long sides. The polygonal pulpit made of oak with coffered panels in the pulpit is set up on the northern archway. The original sound cover is no longer available. The simple stone altar is raised by one step and carries a Greek cross in a circle at the front . The simple wooden altar cross was made in the 1950s. Reinhold Atzbach made the cup-shaped font made of pine wood in 2002, which carries a baptismal bowl donated in 1883. The tombstone for Johann Wilhelm Lantz († 1833), who died while mining, was built into the right wall of the choir.

organ

Raßmann organ from 1886

In 1765–1768 the congregation purchased a new organ from Philipp Ernst Wegmann , which after Abicht in 1836 was in "fairly good" condition. It had eleven stops on a manual and pedal . With the church fire in 1866, the Wegmann organ was also destroyed. In 1886 Gustav Raßmann built a two-manual organ with 13 stops on mechanical cone chests in the style of late Romanticism for the new church . It cost 2950 marks. A renovation in 1961 led to changes in the layout in the neo-baroque style. Since then the disposition has been as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Covered 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Lovely covered 8th'
flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
violoncello 8th'

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part: 2. The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 22-24 ( online ).
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 303.
  • Werner Franzen: Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Diss . Part 3. Düsseldorf 2002, p. 177–178 ( duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on June 3, 2020]).
  • 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 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 207.
  • Waldemar Küther ( arrangement ): Garbenheim 776–1976. A home book. published by the municipality of Garbenheim. Mr., Giessen 1976.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 .
  • Siegfried Meier (edit.): 125 years of the Evangelical Church Garbenheim. Garbenheim 2008.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, pp. 36-37.
  3. ↑ a b Garbenheim. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 104.
  5. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 207.
  6. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 204.
  7. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 207.
  8. ↑ a b c Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change. 2002, p. 177.
  9. ↑ a b Abicht: The Wetzlar district, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. 1836, p. 24 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 222.
  11. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 229.
  12. ^ Meier: 125 years of Garbenheim Evangelical Church. 2008, pp. 47, 49, 51.
  13. ^ Meier: 125 years of Garbenheim Evangelical Church. 2008, pp. 19, 41, 55.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Küther: Garbenheim 776–1976. 1976, p. 232.
  16. ^ Meier: 125 years of Garbenheim Evangelical Church. 2008, p. 11.
  17. ↑ Website of the church district an Lahn und Dill , accessed on May 23, 2020.
  18. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 303.
  19. ^ Meier: 125 years of Garbenheim Evangelical Church. 2008, p. 9.
  20. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 1 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 348 .
  21. ^ Organ in Garbenheim , accessed on May 23, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 49.3 ″  E