Evangelical Church (Klein-Eichen)

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Church and bakery from the southeast
View from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Little Oak , a suburb of Green Mountain in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), was in the late 16th century or around 1600 in sub-Seibertenrod built and in 1738 to Klein Oak translocated . It is one of the oldest preserved half-timbered churches in Hessen. With its roof turret, the church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Already in the pre-Reformation period, the place belonged to Groß-Eichen from an ecclesiastical point of view and later remained a parish there. From the beginning of the 18th century, the teacher led the village prayer hours, which led to the desire for a worship meeting room. The half-timbered church was built in Unter-Seibertenrod at the end of the 16th century, probably around 1600. When a new church was built there in 1737, the small chapel was sold to Klein-Eichen for demolition. After its transfer, it was rebuilt in 1738/39 and furnished inside in the following years until 1742. It is thus "a rare example of a translocated half-timbered church". Dating is difficult without a dendrochronological examination, as the church parish archive stored in the attic served the church servant as fuel during the Second World War and until around 1962. While the construction work was already taking place in 1738, Landgrave Ernst Ludwig was asked for support, since the community " bit anhero had no certain Orth to keep the weekly prayer hours and the intermittent performance of their ministerial acts, but generally met in Scheuren ".

Even after the church was built, there was still an obligation to attend church services in Großen-Eichen. In 1886 the interior and exterior were renovated and repainted. At the end of the 19th century, the community purchased a harmonium , which was replaced by a new one in 1928. It was not until October 1, 1919, that the pastor preached regularly every 14 days in services in Klein-Eichen.

In 1926 three sides of the half-timbered structure were covered due to the poor state of preservation, and the parapet paintings were exposed during the interior renovation. The roof was renewed in 1937 and instead of the square one received a new octagonal turret without a tower knob. Around 1960 there were plans to give up the church, which became loud again in 1975/77. Peter Weyrauch, architect of the regional church, convinced the community of the importance of the monument. So in 1960 the missing north wall was renewed by the bourgeois community in massive construction and the roof covered with Eternit plates. In 1977, 15 citizens from Klein-Eichen exposed the half-timbering on the plastered and plastered sides. An interior renovation followed in 1978. In the same year, the parish office connection with Grossen-Eichen came to an end after the parish had separated from the city of Grünberg in 1973, and Klein-Eichen was united with Lardenbach. The roof and tower were renovated in 1978 and 1994. When the southern long side showed increasing damage, it was clapboarded in 1986. As part of the village renewal from 2004 to 2006, the surrounding area was newly paved, the church entrance was designed without thresholds and the west side was also clad.

architecture

Interior to the west
Roof turret

The roughly east-facing hall church is built in the center of the village directly at a street crossing. The half-timbered church rests on a plastered quarry stone base and is one of the smallest churches in Upper Hesse with a rectangular floor plan of 8.50 × 6.60 meters. The room height is 4.10 meters. The gable roof has an eccentric octagonal ridge turret with a pointed helmet, which is crowned by a simple cross and a weathercock.

The original half-timbering is preserved on three sides, but (as from 1926) is only exposed on the east side. Three circumferential bars divide the walls (4.20 meters high) on three sides into four almost equally high levels. The north side originally had vertical uprights with two corner struts without bars and has been solidly bricked up since 1960. On the south and east side, two corner struts each run through three levels, otherwise the struts only reach half the wall height. The double cantilevered gables are symmetrical and point to an origin in Gothic times. Five stands divide the gable ends into four almost square compartments . On the east side two corner struts go through the three lower levels, on the west side two corner struts go through each other through two levels. The gable triangles are completely without struts. The south wall is also largely symmetrical with seven posts and three transom bars. The corner posts are supported by high corner struts and the third post from the outside by two struts, one above the other. In this way, only the middle two compartments remain without struts. Two intermediate bars on the western south wall serve to support the western gallery.

The church is accessed through a rectangular west door with a small square window above it. On the two long sides and the east side, a rectangular window illuminates the interior. A small square window is set into the two triangular gables. The profile of the portal framing with bulge and throat ends like other profile portals from the 16th century in front of the floor.

Furnishing

pulpit
Interior to the east

A round-arched wooden triumphal arch , which has no static function and does not reach the longitudinal beam , separates the choir area from the community hall. The gussets are filled with framework. In 1978 the floor was covered with clay tiles. The old, wooden stalls with new boards from 1978 consist of 19 short benches in the nave that leave a central aisle free, the benches in the galleries and an angled bench in the choir.

The west part of the three-sided gallery dates back to the time the church was built around 1600, in the north to 1738 and in the south to the 19th century. It rests on square, marbled wooden posts. The east gallery from the 19th century above the altar served as the installation site for an electronic organ . Today an electric piano is used. The parapet paintings, which were refreshed in 1926, show stylized, tendril-shaped plant ornaments. The interior is illuminated by four rectangular windows.

The bricked-up and plastered block altar stands in the east of the church under the archway. The crucifix was donated in 1874, and in 1911 as Vasa sacra two jugs, a paten and a jar for the communion bread. The altar bible dates from 1937 and rests on a wooden support with inlaid work. The polygonal, wooden pulpit on the south side of the parish hall in front of the arch dates from the 18th century and has deep panels.

Bell jar

Otto bell from 1874

Originally the tower did not house a bell. In the roof turret, which is only open to the village, hangs a bell with the strike note d 2 , which was cast by Georg Otto in Darmstadt in 1874. It weighs 284 pounds and bears the inscription on one side: “Cast / for / Klein Eichen / by / Georg Otto in Giessen / 1874” on the other side: “I invite you to holy festivals / a believing people to the temple. O you would like to be obeyed for your best / always to my call. ”Up until 1979, it was mainly confirmants who rang the bell in the attic with a hand rope. Since the number of confirmants was declining and the pre-chimes failed more and more often, the bell was electrified.

literature

  • Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg (ed.), Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 509.
  • 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, p. 488.
  • Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 350 years of the Evangelical Church in Lardenbach. 75 years Protestant church Weickartshain, 25 years Protestant church Stockhausen. Self-published, Lardenbach 2007.
  • Georg Ulrich Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and small oaks . In: Hessian homeland . tape 28 , 1978, ISSN  0178-3173 , pp. 92-95 .
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 197 f.
  • Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the greater community of Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, pp. 40-42.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 98 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church of Klein-Eichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and small oaks. 1978, p. 95.
  2. ^ A b c d e State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 198.
  3. ↑ Small oaks. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 1, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 98.
  5. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 509. The dating “around 1670” at Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen . 1st edition, 1976, p. 23, was corrected in later editions.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 488.
  7. ^ 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. 523 .
  8. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 47.
  9. ↑ a b Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 51.
  10. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 50.
  11. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 42.
  12. ↑ a b c d Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 99.
  13. ↑ http://www.klein-eichen.de : Village renewal , viewed October 27, 2013.
  14. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 41.
  15. ↑ Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and small oaks. 1978, p. 93.
  16. ↑ a b Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and Klein-Eichen. 1978, p. 94.
  17. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 54.
  18. ↑ Ringed on YouTube , accessed October 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '11.4 "  N , 9 ° 2' 55"  E