Evangelical Church (Katzenfurt)

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South side of the church and tower

The Evangelical Church in Katzenfurt in the parish Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district ( Hesse ) is a hall building . The late Romanesque tower was built in the 13th century and is a listed building . The 14th century Secco paintings in the basement of the choir tower are of particular importance . The nave was rebuilt in 1964/1965 in the modern style.

history

Gothic paintings in the tower hall above the wall niches

At the end of the Middle Ages, Katzenfurt was assigned to the sending district of Dillheim in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archidiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier . Twelve localities belonged to the large parish of Dillheim.

When the Reformation was introduced in the parish of Dillheim from 1524 , presumably under Pastor Johannes Zaunschliffer von Braunfels (1524–1530), the parish switched to the Protestant confession. The Gothic paintings in the tower hall were partially destroyed and whitewashed during this time. Katzenfurt remained a branch of Dillheim in the post-Reformation period.

The nave was rebuilt in 1722, as indicated by a bricked-in stone with the Roman date MDCCXXII, which was originally placed over the entrance portal and is now bricked up in the sacristy . The baroque ship, which was aligned on the west-east axis, had a hipped roof and was illuminated on the three free-standing sides through two tall rectangular windows each. Under master carpenter Ließfeld, the tower was given its lantern cover in 1783 .

After the two world wars, the church showed increasing damage. In 1948 the tower dome was renovated and the weathercock replaced. In 1948–1950, a gallery and new benches were installed in the church and the rectangular windows were provided with an arch to match the tower windows.

In 1959 Katzenfurt, which previously belonged to the parish of Dillheim, was raised to an independent parish and parish officially connected with the parish of Daubhausen . After the Katzenfurt church was now too small and no longer usable due to the dilapidation, the services took place in the rooms of the regional church community. In 1964 the baroque nave was demolished. In the course of this, the choir paintings were rediscovered when the plaster came off at one point. The design for the third church building came from the architect Erwin Rohrbach from Wißmar. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 15, 1964, and the inauguration on March 21, 1965.

In the 1990s, the church was extensively renovated in two construction phases. In 1994, church painter Karl-Bernd Beierlein exposed the tower paintings under seven layers of lime, preserved them and reconstructed missing parts. The interior of the nave was repainted and Günter Hardt carried out a general renovation of the organ, which had been damaged by the ingress of rainwater. In the course of this, the organ loft was enlarged. In 1998 cracks were walled up in the tower and the inferior plaster from 1948 was replaced, the tower roof was re-slated, the wrought-iron compass rose replaced and the weathercock re-gilded. The renovation work was completed by a new coat of paint on the ship and tower.

The evangelical unified parishes of Daubhausen and Katzenfurt are parishially connected and belong to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Glass concrete window to the west
View from the east

The squat choir tower of the medieval church has been preserved on a square floor plan, which shows the characteristics of the late Romanesque . The white plastered, undivided tower in the center of the village has solidly built-up walls that are 1.50 meters thick and are made of shawl walls. For this, field stones were laid in layers and connected with sand-lime mortar. The tower hall has three large arched wall niches. A square sacrament niche is set into the southern niche . The tower hall is illuminated on the three free-standing sides through small arched windows that are embedded in the vault caps of the groin vault with deep reveals. A large pointed arch opens the choir to the nave. The tower structure from 1783 is completely slated. An eight-sided baroque lantern rises above a flat monopitch roof, the four sound openings of which have arched arches. The bell chamber houses a four-person bell. The two-storey curved hoods are crowned by a tower knob, an ornate wind rose made of wrought iron and a gold-plated weathercock.

In the west, the south-facing ship adjoins it on an irregular pentagonal floor plan, which is covered by an asymmetrical gable roof. The narrower north side opens in a trapezoidal shape to the south. In the southern gable side, two walls made of unplastered, hewn natural stone stand on top of one another at an obtuse angle. The resulting triangular liturgical space is intended to symbolize a ship's keel . The Robert Münch company designed the windows in abstract forms based on a design by Heinz Hindorf from Michelstadt. In a central position in the altar wall are ten small glass concrete windows in differently sized rectangular shapes for the crucified: Above the inscription INRI , below the thorn-crowned head, to the side the pierced hands, below the body of Christ, the chalice and the pierced feet. The small stained glass pieces are dominated by the classic Christ colors white, blue and red. Above the natural stone, two wedge-shaped bands with leaded glass windows run towards each other. The western side of the eaves is made up of three large rectangular concrete glass walls, which take up motifs from the Lord's Supper in bright colors. The concrete glass wall on the east side is lower because the gable roof extends further down here.

Furnishing

Choir vault with world judges and evangelist symbols
View of the altar area

The Gothic wall paintings in the tower date from the end of the 14th century and are mainly executed in red and ocher tones using Secco technology. On the ceilings of the three wall niches, above the triumphal arch and in the upper area of ​​the windows, they show tendril paintings, in the area of ​​the niches up to the level of the windows they show curtain paintings with five-petalled flower ornaments and angels, on the side of the windows and in the walls stations of the cross , in the spandrels angels with Musical instruments and instruments of passion and in the vault Christ as judge of the world and the evangelist symbols (man, lion, bull and eagle) as well as flower ornaments that become stylized stars through five flower stalks. An animal head represents the antichrist .

The liturgical area is increased by two levels. The church furnishings are simple. The central communion table with a protruding plate is flanked on the left by the pulpit and on the right by the baptismal font; Jörg Großhaus created the panels and votive panels for the three inventory items . At the table, ears of wheat and grapes are reminiscent of the Lord's Supper and on the baptismal font, the sun over the rising water of baptism. The pulpit bears the Bible verse from Rom 10.17  LUT . The wood-sighted church stalls form a large central block. A gallery is built in to the north and a small organ gallery to the west.

organ

Hardt organ from 1967

The organ from Orgelbau Hardt was built in 1967 for the new church; In the previous church, a harmonium was used to accompany the parish singing. The organ has 13 registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal . She has the following disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture III
II Manual C – f 3
Gedakt 8th'
Copper principal 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Sif flute 1'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′

Peal

The church tower housed two bells in 1836. When the church only had one damaged bell in 1864, it was poured over and the congregation purchased an additional bell, which was delivered in 1917 during the First World War. The Rincker company cast two new bells in 1921, so that the tower housed a triple bell. In 1941 the small bell from 1921 and the middle bell from 1864 had to be ceded to the armaments industry. Both were replaced by Rincker in 1951, and a large bell was added in 2001. The four strikes result in a padded B minor chord.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 2001 Rincker , Sinn 698 1,077 f sharp 1 "CHRIST IS OUR PEACE"
2 1921 Rincker, Sinn 278 780 h 1 “Stand firm in the storm! CALL FROM THE TOWER! BE UNITED, UNITED, UNITED! 1.10.1921 THE FALLEN IN MEMORY! A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD!"
3 1951 Rincker, Sinn 174 674 d 2 “ONE IS NEED! EV. KATZENFURT CHURCH IN THE DILLHEIM KIRCHSPIEL THE VICTIMS OF THE WAR 1939 TO 1945 IN MEMORY "
4th 1951 Rincker, Sinn 128 602 e 2 “JESUS ​​CHRIST YESTERDAY AND TODAY! AND THE SAME ALSO IN ETERNITY! EV. CHURCH IN KATZENFURT "

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, p. 171 ( online ).
  • Ludwig Bornträger (Ed.): Katzenfurt 1233–1983. Ehringshausen municipal administration, Ehringshausen 1983.
  • 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 a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 500-501.
  • Felicitas Janson: Romanesque church buildings in the Rhine-Main area and in Upper Hesse. A contribution to Upper Rhine architecture (= sources and research on Hessian history. Volume 97). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-88443-186-2 , p. 150.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Maria Wenzel (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II (old district Wetzlar) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , pp. 263-264.
  • Edwin Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. In: Katzenfurter Hefte. Vol. 1. Katzenfurter Verein für Heimatgeschichte, Ehringshausen-Katzenfurt 2006, pp. 68–110.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, pp. 468-469.
  2. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Tower of the Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse , accessed on January 12, 2020.
  3. ^ 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, pp. 194-195.
  4. ↑ Katzenfurt. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, pp. 79-80.
  6. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, p. 82.
  7. ↑ Homepage of the church district an Lahn und Dill , accessed on January 13, 2020.
  8. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 500.
  9. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, p. 71.
  10. ↑ Janson: Romanesque church buildings in the Rhine-Main area and in Upper Hesse. 1994, p. 150.
  11. ↑ The church tower on katzenfurt-online.de , accessed on January 13, 2020.
  12. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 501.
  13. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, p. 80.
  14. ↑ Edwin Leidecker: Get to know our village. Katzenfurt on katzenfurt-online.de , accessed on January 12, 2020.
  15. ↑ Barnikol-Lübeck: Ceiling frescoes tell biblical stories , accessed on January 13, 2020.
  16. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, p. 89.
  17. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. 1836, p. 171 ( online , accessed January 12, 2020).
  18. ^ Leidecker: Evangelical Church Katzenfurt. 2006, p. 84.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '6.12 "  N , 8 ° 20' 59.31"  O