Evangelical Church (Ilbeshausen)
The Evangelical Church in Ilbeshausen is a late Baroque hall church in the Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen district of the Grebenhain community in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse . It was built between 1765 and 1766 and has two previous churches. The church was the parish church of the parish of Ilbeshausen, which was independent from 1728 to 2005 and which today belongs to the Evangelical Parish Altenschlirf -Ilbeshausen- Schlechtenwege within the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) .
history
Until 1728 Ilbeshausen did not form an independent parish, but was assigned to the parish of Crainfeld , which had existed since 1011 . With this it also shared the introduction of the Reformation in 1527. Because of the difficult distance to the mother church, especially in winter, Ilbeshausen was raised to a separate parish in 1728 without any further branches. Since January 1, 2005 it has been united with the neighboring parish Altenschlirf to form the Evangelical Parish Altenschlirf-Ilbeshausen-Schlechtenwege.
In the Middle Ages, Ilbeshausen had two stone chapels. One was on the Alteberg north-west of the village, where the cemetery at that time was also located, and served as a church for the dead, surrounded by a curtain wall . It is believed that it was originally used for services by the inhabitants of the later deserted areas of Ditzels , Gundolfs and Mitzels , which were later to be found on the Fulda area . The chapel on the Alteberg was demolished in 1801, the cemetery there abandoned in 1876 in favor of a local one.
There was a stone chapel in what is now the lower village in Ilbeshausen. In the report of a visitation in 1628 this was described as expired, but apparently initially restored. In 1668 the completely dilapidated chapel was finally abandoned and the community bakery was built at its location using the remains of the wall . A half-timbered church has now been built for the two-week church services in Ilbeshausen . As the population of the village grew, this soon proved to be too small.
In 1765 the half-timbered church was laid down and construction of the current stone church began at the same place. Your master mason Weber came from Storndorf . Balthasar Weitzel from Ilbeshausen worked as a carpenter. The church was renovated several times, for example in 1887. In 1913 a new organ was installed. On the west side of the church, the war memorial for the fallen of the First World War from the community of Ilbeshausen was erected in 1926 . Major repairs to the church were necessary between 1949 and 1951, among other things to repair damage caused by the explosions in the neighboring Hartmannshain air ammunition plant in March 1945.
architecture
The church is located in the center of Ilbeshausen at the through- road of Landesstraße 3140 . It is plastered white with divisions and walls made of red sandstone and has high rectangular windows that end with a segmental arch at the top . The church closes off on three sides to the east, in the west it is determined by a high roof turret over the main entrance portal. This is highlighted by a segmented gable with the coat of arms of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .
Furnishing
The interior ends with a cove ceiling. The interior of the church was originally geared towards the overall context of altar, pulpit and organ, which was partially lost when the new organ was installed in 1913. The three-sided gallery was actually built for the male worshipers. Portraits of people from the Old and New Testament as well as Martin Luther's are painted on the gallery balustrades . In the organ loft in the choir there are representations from the New Testament.
Above the altar is the pulpit, which is made of wood but imitates stucco marble and is decorated with medallions with portraits of Jesus and the evangelists . The organ was built by Adam Eifert in Stadtilm in 1913 and replaced an instrument from the workshop of Jost Oestreich from the time the church was built, of which only two carved cheeks with angel heads have survived.
Bells
The church bell consists of three bells. The oldest was cast in 1709 by Friedrich Wilhelm Otto for the then small half-timbered church. Two more bells were cast in 1877 and 1889, but they had to be delivered in 1917 and were melted down. In 1921 they were replaced by two new ones. These bells were also confiscated and melted down in 1942 for armaments purposes. In 1950 the bell could be completed again.
literature
- 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, pp. 401–404.
- Gerhard Kalkhof: History of the climatic health resort Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen . Brühl, Giessen 1993
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 19.3 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 45.2" E