Evangelical Church (Garbenteich)

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The Evangelical Church in Garbenteich , a district of Pohlheim ( Hessen ), was built in the 12th century and is the oldest building in the town. It shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

Church from the north

history

South side of the church

According to a forged document, Garbenteich belonged to the parish of Schiffenberg Abbey from 1141 onwards . In church terms, the place was assigned to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar of the Archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier at the end of the Middle Ages . The church from the 12th century was first mentioned in a document in 1258 ("de capella Garwarteich").

With the introduction of the Reformation , Garbenteich switched to the evangelical creed in 1561 at the latest, possibly as early as the 1530s. In 1607 the Watzenborn church was raised to an independent parish and received the Protestant churches of Garbenteich and Steinberg as branches. As a result, the church in Garbenteich was converted into a sermon church in 1619, a first gallery and the wooden ceiling were installed, the roof was renewed and the roof turret was put on. The chair of the church master is marked with the year 1619. The church roof was repaired in 1739. In 1774 the gallery was given its current three-sided shape. The choir was renovated in 1804, the church ceiling was painted in 1825, new benches were made and the floor was re-laid in 1826/27. The Protestant parish of Garbenteich near Hausen has been a parish since 1926 . Interior renovations took place in 1900 and 1961. In 1968/69 the plastered outer walls made of uncut basalt were exposed and the churchyard wall was restored. By 1974 the outdoor facilities were renewed, a new organ was purchased and in 1977 whitewashed wall paintings were exposed in the choir.

architecture

North portal

The east-facing , single-nave aisle church on a rectangular floor plan is built in the middle of a cemetery in the old village center. It is made of unplastered quarry stone masonry , the irregular corner blocks and the walls are made of lung stone . The church has a recessed, rectangular choir closure in the east and a low turret with a pyramid helmet, which is crowned by a tower button, a cross in an ornate circle and a weathercock. It is possible that the choir was originally intended as the basement of a choir tower . The choir has an arched window of different sizes in three directions, of which the southern window is the smallest (0.42 × 0.90 meters). The enlargement of the east window (1.10 × 1.65 meters), which has grooved wooden walls, dates back to 1500.

The nave is illuminated on the three free-standing sides through a medium-sized round arched window with straight lung stone walls. The two long sides each have a small rectangular window without walls under the eaves. Another small, round arched window without a frame is installed in the south wall (0.27 × 0.72 meters). With the exception of the two small south-facing windows, all the other windows were later enlarged or later collapsed. The western half-timbered gable triangle is slated. The arched portals on the west and north sides open up the building. They both have thick, protruding spars and irregular lungstone walls. The more elaborately designed north portal, which is located on the street and serves as the main entrance, is tiered and has a Gothic door leaf with iron fittings under a blind niche.

Furnishing

Interior to the west
Pulpit from 1619

The interior is flat and looks narrow due to the low ceiling and built-in galleries. A Längsunterzug is two mighty octagonal center post with four curly Bügen supported. The three-sided, coffered gallery rests on wooden posts. The interior of the church is dominated by the green tones of the wooden furnishings. The remains of old paintings from the early 17th century have been preserved in the choir, which surround the windows with ocher-colored tendrils.

The oldest piece of furniture is the polygonal pulpit with sound cover from 1619, which is painted with flower tendrils on the fields. It is connected to a wooden parish chair , the upper half of which is made of openwork latticework. A bench parapet is marked with the year 1619 and the names of some of the church leaders.

A late Gothic piscina in the southern choir wall has been preserved. The medieval stone canteen is closed off by a profiled plate. In front of the north side is a large Romanesque baptismal font made of Lungstein (1.05 meters in diameter, 0.45 meters high).

organ

Organ from 1974

In 1900 Johann Georg Förster created a new organ with six registers on a manual and pedal , which was placed in the choir. Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau replaced the instrument in 1974 with a new work that found its place in the north-eastern corner of the choir. Some older registers have been reworked and included. The prospectus is structured by five open boxes of different heights. The wooden pipes of the sub-bass are on the right, separate from the organ on the east wall. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Bourdun 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture II-III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Bells

The roof turret houses a triple bell. In 1872, Philipp Heinrich Bach from Windecken cast a bell for Garbenteich (0.85 meters in diameter), which had to be delivered in 1917 and was replaced in 1924 by a bell by FW Rincker and Son (0.90 meters in diameter, No. 3152). It is decorated with an acanthus frieze. In 1873 the community acquired another Bach bell (0.70 meters in diameter), which is no longer there. After the Second World War, a bell by Johann Heinrich Scheel from 1732 came to Garbenteich as a so-called "loan bell", which was originally cast for Lubuń (Labuhn). The Rincker brothers cast a small third bell in 1952.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location Diameter
(mm) 		inscription
  		image
 
1 1924 FW Rincker and son , Sinn 900 “ If God is for us, who can be against us? " Evangelical Church Garbenteich 43.JPG
2 1732 Johann Heinrich Scheel " YOU MUTE SPEAKER, IT MUST BE YOUR SWEET SOUND THAT
YOU HAVE BEEN LOST BY A RIS, BEFORE GANTZ
BY YOUR ARTIST
'S HAND, INCREASED EVERYWHERE TO GOD'S GLORY AND GLORY, ON THE NEW SEYN, AND
THE SOUND OFTEN HAVE RECOGNIZED THE SOUND
OVERVIEW SO mOVED THAT WE VOLLM Hauffen
TO YOU GEEYLET ARE IN ADDITION WE Draw EMPOR
SO WE COME TO YOU, WITH ALL MAKES GELAUFFEN

GOD EREN AND WORKING
FLOW The PUBLIC
WORSHIP HAVE THIS
BELL, AFTER YOU PREVIOUSLY GE
SPRUNEN, LET EMBROIDERED, SEEMLIKE
RULES AND INHABITANTS
OF THE VILLAGE LABBUN BY IOH.
HEINR. SCHEEL ZU COLBERG IN THE YEAR AFTER CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY 1732 "		 Evangelical Church Garbenteich 41.JPG
3 1952 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn " PRAISE THE LORD IN HIS SANCTUARY
Evangelical Church Congregation Garbenteich
Psalm 150,1
[cross]"		 Evangelical Church Garbenteich 45.JPG

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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 303.
  • 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. 237 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 401 f.
  • Magistrate of the City of Pohlheim; Wilhelm Adler (Red.): 850 years of Garbenteich. Pohlheim 1991, pp. 30-35.
  • Otto Stumpf: Garbenteich. District of Pohlheim. Old and new from an old Hessian village. 1979.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part without Arnsburg. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 35–37.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, 50 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 850 years of Garbenteich. 1991, p. 35.
  2. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 401.
  3. ↑ Garbenteich. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 17, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b 850 years of Garbenteich. 1991, p. 30.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Diehl : Reformation book of the Protestant parishes of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 2nd Edition. Self-published, Friedberg 1917, p. 116 f.
  6. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 237.
  7. ^ Stump: Garbenteich. District of Pohlheim. 1979, p. 67.
  8. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 51.
  9. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 35.
  10. ↑ a b c Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 50.
  11. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 36.
  12. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 303.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 37.
  14. ^ 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. 345 .
  15. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 37.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32'12 "  N , 8 ° 44'57"  E