Evangelical Church (Groß-Rechtenbach)

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Evangelical Church from the South
View from the north

The Evangelical Church in Groß- Rechtenbach , a district of Hüttenberg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a baroque hall church that was rebuilt in 1638 or extensively rebuilt. Which has since repeatedly converted church with octagonal domes roof rider is of history, art and urbanistic reasons Hessian cultural monument .

history

The first reference to church life in Rechtenbach can be found in 1265, when a pleban Hermann ("Hermanni plebani nostri") is mentioned in a document, who lived at the collegiate church in Wetzlar and was responsible for pastoral care in Rechtenbach. It is unclear which of the then three Rechtenbach (Groß-, Klein- and Oberrechtebach) is meant and in which there was a church . All three localities were evidently closely connected to the Marienstift in Wetzlar. In 1389 a Herr Konrad was rector of the church in Mittelrechtebach, later known as Groß-Rechtenbach. In 1441 the lords of Schwobach (today the municipality of Waldsolms ) are mentioned as patron saints of the church of Großrechtebach. Großrechtebach ("superior") and Kleinrechtebach ("inferior") were two parishes in the pre-Reformation period. The parish belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar of the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Rechtenbach probably switched to the evangelical creed in the middle of the 16th century.

The current church was rebuilt or extensively rebuilt in 1638, including older parts of the medieval predecessor building. In 1657 the construction work was completed. One bell was cast by Rincker (Asslar) in 1730 and another by Otto (Gießen) in 1803. In 1831 the church was rebuilt. The community bought another Rincker bell in 1892. All three bells were delivered to the armaments industry in 1917 and replaced after the First World War.

In the course of an interior renovation from 1957 to 1960, almost the entire interior was replaced and in 1959 a small western extension was added. As a result of arson in 1970, the church burned down completely.

The two Protestant communities Großrechtebach and Kleinrechtebach merged in 1970. The newly formed church community belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

After damage to the roof structure , the ceiling floor and the roof turret had been found in 2011 and 2012 , a comprehensive roof and tower renovation was carried out in 2013.

architecture

Church from the southwest
Roof turret

The white plaster, not exactly geostete but oriented to east-northeast hall church is south of the old town center of rubble masonry built. Remains of the old churchyard wall have been preserved.

The verschieferten hipped roof of the nave is placed an octagonal verschieferter roof skylights in the east, the ship and choir optically connects together. From the cube-shaped shaft, which is divided by a cornice and has two small round-arched sound openings on each of the three free sides, the eight-sided bell chamber with round-arched sound openings in four directions and the clock face of the tower clock on the north side develops . The bell chamber houses a triple bell. The Rincker bells have the chimes g 1 -b 1 -c 2 ( Te Deum motif). The Welsche Haube is crowned by a tower knob, an ornate cross and a gilded weathercock . The top of the roof in the west carries a weather vane. Three large arched windows on the south side and one on the western north side illuminate the interior. On the northern outer wall, a memorial commemorates the fallen of the two world wars, whose names can be read on four bronze plates.

The choir on a rectangular floor plan is drawn in opposite the nave and is lower. It also has a crooked roof, which is half-timbered in the gable area . A weather vane is placed on the forelock in the east. A gable beam of the choir is marked with the year of construction 1638 and bears the inscription: “AT THE FIRST DREAM FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS JUSTICE × ANO 1638” ( Mt 6,33  LUT ). A large round arched south window provides the choir with light.

The western, somewhat retracted porch from 1959 under a gable roof serves as the entrance area. The west wall is completely slated. The entrance door on the north side has a flat arch.

Furnishing

View into the nave

The simple interior is closed off by a flat ceiling . The floor is covered with brown tiles. In the north-west there is an angled gallery with coffered panels, the core of which goes back to the 18th century. A choir arch with a basket arch opens the choir, which is one step higher, to the nave. The eastern choir gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The church furnishings are largely new.

The polygonal pulpit on an eight-sided base is the only piece of inventory that has survived from the 18th century. The pulpit has simple coffered panels and a profiled cornice top and bottom. The modern pulpit staircase leads through a narrow round arch in the choir arch. A simple wooden table serves as an altar .

The church stalls with curved cheeks stand on a floorboard and leave a central aisle free.

organ

Organ prospectus

An unknown organ builder built an organ in the 18th century that had seven stops on a manual and no pedal . Since it was felt to be no longer up-to-date in the 19th century, Peter Dickel was given the task of making suggestions for improvement, including a change in disposition . The conversion was carried out by Gustav Raßmann before 1873 and included an exchange of registers, the addition of a pedal with a sub-bass 16 ′ and the installation of new bellows. Today's sideways parapet organ was built in 1962 by Günther Hardt with eight stops on two manuals and a pedal. The old organ was given to the Evangelical Church in Bissenberg in 1965 in the form that was rebuilt in the 19th century , where the prospectus has been preserved. The arrangement of the Hardt organ is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture IV-V 2 ′
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Pommer 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Sesquialter III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 84-86 ( online ).
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 379-380.
  • Christiane Schmidt, Othmar Walz, Axel Wandel: From Re (ch) te (i) nbach to Rechtenbach - 788 to 1988 AD. The village in the mirror of history. Self-published, Hüttenberg 1988.
  • Maria Wenzel; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 334.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche (Großrechtebach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  2. ↑ Goswin von der Ropp (ed.): Document book of the city of Wetzlar. 2nd volume: 1214-1350. Elwert, Marburg 1943, No. 74, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Wolf-Heino Struck (Ed.): Document book of the city of Wetzlar. Part: Vol. 3: The Marienstift zu Wetzlar in the late Middle Ages. Regest 1351-1500. Elwert, Marburg 1969, No. 440, pp. 221-222.
  4. ↑ a b Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 26.
  5. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area (= writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 198.
  6. ↑ Großrechtebach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  7. ^ Abicht: The Wetzlar district. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 90 ( online , accessed August 22, 2018).
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ^ Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung of October 18, 2013: Extensive work on the church of Großrechtebach , accessed on August 22, 2018.
  10. ^ 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. 387 .
  11. ↑ Organ Index: Organ Groß-Rechtenbach , accessed on August 22, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '11.43 "  N , 8 ° 34' 36.77"  O