Evangelical Church (Hattenrod)

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Church with a Gothic tower from the south
Church from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Hattenrod , a district of Reiskirchen ( Hesse ), is a hall church from 1952, whose Gothic tower from the 14th or 15th century with a three-storey helmet structure from the beginning of the 18th century has been preserved. The Hessian cultural monument houses a late Gothic painted winged altar , which was created after 1489.

history

A pleban in Hattenrod is documented in 1294 . Around 1400 the place ecclesiastically belonged to the sending district Winnerod in the Archidiakonat St. Stephan in the diocese of Mainz . Like Albach, Hattenrod was probably supplied by the parish of Burkhardsfelden . With the Reformation , the parish changed to the evangelical creed and around 1550 became a branch of Ettingshausen under Reinhard von Solms-Lich .

The short, medieval predecessor building received a choir on a square floor plan around 1500 and, as part of a roof renovation in the 17th century, a barrel vault , the tower a new structure in the 1700s. In the years 1698 to 1700 a gallery was built in the choir and the first organ was purchased. In 1846 the parish was connected to Winnerod by the parish office for a few years, after 1855 the old state was restored.

The parish had already collected for a new church before the First World War. However, the project was delayed due to the world wars and inflation. In 1944 part of the wall collapsed after a bomb attack on the nearby Ettingshausen airfield, so that the church was closed in 1947. Due to the dilapidation, the old nave was torn down in the same year and, thanks to the willingness of the church and community to make sacrifices and their own efforts, replaced in a few months by a new building under the direction of the Gießen Building Department. Only the organ and the winged altar were taken from the old inventory. Peter Weyrauch discovered the old altar cross with its corpus from the early 16th century in the attic of the town hall.

architecture

Tower from the south

The east-facing predecessor church with a gable roof in the north-western town center was completely enclosed by a defensive wall. The modern hall building on a rectangular floor plan in north-south orientation is built directly on the street from quarry stone masonry . A small sacristy , which was added to the east of the tower, mediates between the medieval tower and the nave. Architecturally, the ship takes up late baroque and classicistic forms. It is lit on both long sides by flat arched windows and accessed through a flat arched south portal. The portal has a wedge-shaped keystone and is flanked by two narrow windows. A small round window is embedded in the triangular gable.

The tower shaft is made of quarry stone and has a portal in the south. A three-storey, slated, wooden helmet structure rises above it. A cube-shaped floor is structurally set back and communicates with the two eight-sided upper floors, which end with curved hoods. The helmet is crowned by a tower pommel with a wrought-iron cross and a weathercock. The bell floor has been home to a three-bell ring since 1966. The oldest bell was cast by Johannes Henschel in Gießen in 1707 for a church in the Arnsburg monastery . For a bell delivered during the First World War, the community purchased a bell from the cast steel factory Bochumer Verein to replace it, and in 1966 a third one from Rincker .

At the beginning of the 1960s, the building ground gave way and cracks in the wall appeared; the south gable threatened to detach itself from the long sides. The static problems were eliminated by installing a reinforced concrete gallery and using wall anchors .

Furnishing

Late Gothic winged altar
Interior facing north

The interior is closed off by a flat arched wooden barrel. The retracted, transversely rectangular choir also has a flat vaulted ceiling, but lower than the nave.

In the northwest corner the polygonal wooden pulpit is set up on one foot. The simple church stalls leave a central aisle free. The late Gothic altar cross probably originally had medallions with the symbols of the evangelists on the broad ends of the cross arms .

The most valuable piece of furniture is the late Gothic winged altar, which is installed in the southwest corner and is a total of 3.18 meters wide. The triptych probably comes from the Antoniterkloster Grünberg or the Antoniterkloster Roßbach and must have been created after 1489 due to the attached coat of arms. In the middle field (1.58 meters wide) it shows the crucifixion scene with Mary and John , flanked by St. Anthony with a book and T-shaped staff and the Apostle James with a pilgrim's staff and shell. The donor couple, Count Philipp zu Solms, and his wife Adriana von Hanau , who married in 1489 , kneel under the cross in small form . A landscape with a city and a crenellated wall stands out on the gold ground. On the side wings (each 0.78 meters wide) on the left are St. Odilia with a book that has two eyes, and Wendelin with a staff, dog and two sheep, and on the right Maria Magdalena with the ointment vessel and St. Margareta is shown with a book and a cross staff with which she stabs a dragon. The depictions of the Nativity and Annunciation scenes on the outside of the wings are of inferior quality.

organ

Organ from 1902

An organ from 1700 was possibly built by Florentinus Wang from Lützenburg. She stood in the choir on a specially built gallery. Today's organ was built in 1902 according to plans by A. Förster, son of Johann Georg Förster . The company Förster & Nicolaus dismantled the instrument in 1947 and, after cleaning it out, placed it in the new church on the north gallery in 1952. The Opus 96 has seven registers , which are divided between a manual and a pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flute dolce 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 382 f.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 218 f.
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. Local History Association, Reiskirchen 2009.
  • 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 , p. 600.
  • Hartmut Miethe, Heinz-Gerhard Schuette: Gothic paintings . Ed .: Förderkreis Kunst-Mensch-Kirche (=  Christian art in Upper Hesse . Volume 1 ). Grünberg 2010.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 224–229.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 82 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 600.
  2. ↑ Hattenrod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 31, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. 2009, p. 53.
  4. ^ Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. 2009, p. 25.
  5. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 82.
  6. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 83.
  7. ↑ Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions (PDF file; 37.7 MB), in: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, 1884, pp. 475-544, here: p. 528.
  8. ^ Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. 2009, p. 54 f.
  9. ^ Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. 2009, p. 56.
  10. ^ Köhler: History of Hattenrod. A village in Upper Hesse. 2009, p. 55 f.
  11. ^ Miethe, Schuette: Gothic paintings. 2010, [p. 63 f].
  12. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 382 f.
  13. ^ 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. 441 f .
  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. 442 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 33.2 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 55.7"  E