Evangelical Church (Kirchvers)

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Church in Kirchvers from the south

The Evangelical Church in Kirchvers in the municipality of Lohra in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district ( Hesse ) is essentially a late Romanesque hall church from around 1300. The listed building with a straight choir closure is dominated by a mighty baroque roof tower with a hood from 1701.

history

Baptismal font from Roman times

Although Kirchvers is mentioned for the first time in 1130, a parish is only recorded for 1468. Weipoltshausen was included as a branch. The church had already been built in a shorter form around 1300 and presumably had only one roof turret instead of the roof tower . Because of the close proximity to the verse , it was assumed that the church should have been built inside the old moated castle.

In the late Middle Ages, Kirchvers was ecclesiastically subordinate to the Lohra district and was assigned to the Amöneburg deanery in the Archdiakonat St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Kirchvers switched to the Lutheran creed from 1526. Around 1538, Volprecht Fischer von Gießen is recorded as a Protestant pastor. In 1590 Rodenhausen, which until then had been an independent parish, was parish off to Kirchvers "for better subsistence " for the Kirchvers clergy. In 1605 the parish changed to the Reformed creed, and finally returned to the Lutheran one in 1624.

The small medieval church was extended to the west in 1602 and equipped with a wooden barrel inside. The galleries were mentioned for the first time in connection with a new paving of the floor by "Tyrolean masons" in 1653. The church stalls for the women were created in 1663, the east window from the Gothic period was built in 1680. From 1701 to 1703 a comprehensive renovation of the church followed due to dilapidation. Vaults and parts of the church furnishings such as the gallery and church stalls were changed and the roof was re-encrusted. The former smaller ridge turret was replaced by today's one. During a renovation in 1778, the church walls were reinforced with buttresses. The stalls and the galleries were painted with oil and the parapets were painted with biblical motifs.

In 1904, the lower part of the east wall was demolished and rebuilt in a smaller thickness. The church was renovated from 1929 to 1932. In this context, the surrounding cemetery was cleared up and left out and the remaining tombstones were placed on the church. In 1938, when a stable was being rebuilt, the Romanesque baptismal font that had served as a feed box was rediscovered. It received a lid and was placed in the church in place of the parish chair . The men's gallery received new benches in 1953. After a church renovation in 1961/1962, a comprehensive renovation in three construction phases followed from 1996 to 1999 and another interior renovation in 2002/2003.

architecture

View of the western gable end

The not exactly geostete , but something geared to northeast rectangular building made of exposed rubble masonry with straight, slightly wider chorus circuit is built in the town center. Parts of the old cemetery wall have been preserved in the north and east. An octagonal tower with a hood is placed in the middle of the gable roof. The mighty roof tower, which takes up almost the entire width of the nave, develops from a transverse rectangular base above the eaves. The eight-sided shaft has a small rectangular sound hole on top of each side for the bells. The clock face of the tower clock has been attached to the south side since 2001. A curved roof leads to a lantern with small sound holes and a Welschen hood , which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock. The bell chamber houses a four-person bell. The oldest bell was cast in 1480 and bears the inscription * ave * maria * gracia * plena . A bell from 1780 had to be delivered for war purposes in 1942, but escaped being melted down and was picked up from the Hamburg bell cemetery in 1946 and hung up again in the tower. Two bells bought after the Second World War complete the ringing.

To the east of today's round-arched south portal, the construction seam can be seen, which shows the extension of the nave to the somewhat wider choir. The south portal is marked with the year 1602, when the western part was added. The old arched portal is walled up to the right of the construction seam. A tall rectangular door is let into the western gable end. The choir is lit through two Gothic windows with walls made of red sandstone, a narrow east window with a flat pointed arch and a two-lane tracery window with quatrefoil in the pointed arched gable in the south wall. There is a small rectangular window above the south portal and a larger, upright rectangular window further west. A rectangular window is walled up in between. A round arched window is set into each of the gable triangles. Except for a small square window, the north side has no windows. The long sides are supported by three buttresses each and the west side by two buttresses. A wide, flat buttress is attached around the southeast corner.

Outside, on the long sides of the church and on the cemetery wall, a total of ten baroque tombstones made of red sandstone, which were made between 1718 and 1733. Three remind of pastors from Kirchvers, the other seven of the deceased from the rich peasant class. They probably all come from workshops in Marburg, most of them from the workshop of Johann Friedrich Sommer and his son Johann Philipp Friedrich Sommer.

Furnishing

Renaissance pulpit
Organ from 1899

The interior is closed off by a pointed arched wooden barrel vault from 1602, which has cross ribs in the choir. Two marbled, painted belt arches on wooden pillars support the roof. Most of the wooden pieces of equipment have a frame in different shades of green.

The oldest inventory items are the Romanesque baptismal font with a round arch frieze over narrow pilaster strips and the medieval cafeteria plate on the block altar. A tall rectangular sacrament niche with a barred door in the north choir wall dates from the Gothic period. To the east of it, Gothic paintings from the 14th century have been preserved, showing figures in tendrils, possibly the entry into Jerusalem and Saints Anna and Barbara . Further paintings in the choir, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century, represent angels with wind instruments in clouds.

The polygonal wooden Renaissance pulpit with six-sided sound cover was made around 1600 in the Mannerist style. It is attached to the eastern belt arch on the south side and richly decorated with fittings. The pulpit has round arches between corner pilasters on the fields. An attached parish chair has openwork diamond lattice work in the upper part. The body of the altar crucifix is old.

The wooden galleries of the 17th century are circumferential and rest on articulated columns with marble painting. Only the area of ​​the pulpit and parsonage is left out. The galleries bear parapet paintings by the painter Assmann from Gladenbach-Weidenhausen from 1788, which were uncovered again in 1963. They show scenes from the Old Testament, the evangelists and scenes from the life of Jesus. The rare motif "Christ, the snake-treading" and at least one Old Testament scene are executed on canvas and then glued in, the other pictures are painted directly on wood. The picture of the Last Judgment next to the pulpit originally hung on the gallery, as did six other pictures that came to Weipoltshausen as part of the renovation of the Kirchvers gallery. The picture cycle comprises a total of 30 pictures.

A first organ was installed in the west gallery in 1899 by the organ builder Heinrich Eichhorn from Weilmünster. The side-playing instrument has seven registers that are distributed on a manual and pedal. The prospectus has three pointed arch fields, which are divided by pilaster strips. The elevated central field is crowned by a triangular gable. In 1953 the gaming table was renewed. In 1985 the organ was restored.

literature

  • Günter E. Th. Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck, including the Rhine-Hessian church districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels. Evangelical Press Association, Kassel 1987, p. 90.
  • 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 , p. 508.
  • Hans Feldtkeller (arrangement): The architectural and art monuments of the Biedenkopf district. Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1958.
  • Festival committee for the 875 year celebration (Kirchvers, Lohra) (Ed.): Kirchvers. A village book 1130-2005. 875 years Kirchvers 1130–2005. Lohra-Kirchvers 2005.
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Romanesque in Hessen. Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0367-9 , p. 242.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Helmuth K. Stoffers (Red.): District of Marburg-Biedenkopf II (communities Ebsdorfergrund, Fronhausen, Lohra and Weimar) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3550-0 , pp. 481-482.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Kirchvers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bezzenberger: Churches worth seeing in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck. 1987, p. 90.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Classen: The ecclesiastical organization of Old Hesse in the Middle Ages, including an outline of the modern development. Elwert, Marburg 1929, p. 103.
  3. ↑ a b Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , p. 1.
  4. ^ Church verse. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, p. 350.
  6. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen : District Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017, p. 481.
  7. ↑ Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , p. 2.
  8. ↑ a b c d Evangelical Church Kirchvers on Lohra-Wiki, accessed on August 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , pp. 4–5.
  10. ↑ Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , pp. 5–6.
  11. ↑ a b c d Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Hessen I. 2008, p. 508.
  12. ^ Andreas Schmidt: The baroque tombs from the churchyard in Kirchvers. In: Festival committee for the 875 year celebration (Kirchvers, Lohra) (Hrsg.): Kirchvers. A village book 1130-2005. Lohra-Kirchvers 2005, pp. 139–164, here: pp. 139–141.
  13. ↑ Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , p. 3.
  14. ↑ Hans Peter Kovács: An illustrated building history of the Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchvers Church , p. 5.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 16.89 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 26.64"  E