Evangelical Church (Klein-Rechtenbach)

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Church from the south
Church from the East

The Evangelical Church in Klein- Rechtenbach , a district of Hüttenberg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a baroque hall church that was built in 1664. The Church with three-eight circuit and an octagonal domes roof rider is hessisches of history, art and urbanistic reasons cultural monument .

history

In 1332 a pastor is mentioned, which implies the existence of a church. In the pre-Reformation period, Großrechtebach ("superior") and Kleinrechtebach ("inferior") each had a parish. In the late Middle Ages, the parish belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Rechtenbach probably switched to the evangelical creed in the middle of the 16th century. Johannes Willichius (Willich) is proven to be the first Protestant pastor in 1596, who was responsible for Rechtenbach until 1596.

The current church was built in 1664, possibly incorporating parts of the previous medieval building. At the same time, the rectory (which no longer exists today) with its outbuildings was built. Construction work on the choir is documented for the year 1740. Two small bells were cast in 1809 by bell founder Bernhard, Tiefenbach, and replaced by two Rincker bells in 1906 .

The western extension was built in 1966. In this context, the staircase was relocated.

Until 1970 there were two Protestant parishes in Großrechtebach and Kleinrechtebach, which were parochial related. The merged parish belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Church from the northwest
Roof turret

The roughly east-facing hall church is built in the center of the village on Dorfstrasse from white-plastered quarry stone masonry . An old churchyard wall surrounds the area including the parish garden.

Three large arched windows on the south side and one on the western north side provide the interior with light. The verschieferten gable roof is placed an octagonal verschieferter roof skylights. The eight-sided helmet structure with the clock faces of the tower clock rises above the cube-shaped shaft . The Welsche Haube is crowned by a tower knob, an ornate cross and a gilded weathercock .

The choir is illuminated in the northeast and southeast through two smaller, arched windows.

The western porch from 1966 serves as an entrance area, for small ancillary rooms and as a staircase to the gallery. It does not end with the long sides of the ship, but is asymmetrically offset slightly to the south. Its slated gable roof does not reach the height of the ship. In the west and south there is a rectangular window each and the entrance door on the north side.

An epitaph made of light marble with a relief crown is placed on the north outer wall of the church and commemorates Pastor Johann Friedrich Stein (1708–1784), who looked after the community for 36 years.

Furnishing

View into the chancel
pulpit

A flat ceiling completes the simply designed interior. An angled gallery with coffered rectangular panels is built into the west and north walls. The east gallery is a little lower and serves as a location for the organ. The floor is covered with tiles in different shades of gray. Some old inventory items of the church furnishings have been preserved.

The polygonal pulpit stands on a mighty eight-sided pedestal on the south side. According to tradition, it is said to have been made by a master Hobbelrode from Tyrol in 1742. The pulpit has twisted, spiral-shaped corner columns and ends with a profiled cornice at the top and bottom . The pulpit fields have profiled round arches. Opposite the pulpit is the cup-shaped eight-sided baptismal font . The wooden block altar is built over a pedestal. The church stalls with curved cheeks stand on a floorboard and leave a central aisle free.

organ

Organ prospectus

In 1836 there was an organ that Abicht described as "unsightly". An unknown organ builder built today's organ around 1870. On the outside, the neo-Gothic prospectus has two raised, flat, rectangular pipe fields with blunt pointed arches between two pilaster strips . The outer fields flank a lower transverse rectangular flat field with a round arch that opens upwards. The work has eight registers , which are distributed on a manual and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III 1'
Pedal C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 86-88 ( online ).
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 379-380.
  • Christiane Schmidt, Othmar Walz, Axel Wandel: From Re (ch) te (i) nbach to Rechtenbach - 788 to 1988 AD. The village in the mirror of history. Self-published, Hüttenberg 1988.
  • Maria Wenzel; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 337.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Pfarrkirche Rechtenbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Former Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  2. ↑ a b Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 26.
  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, p. 198.
  4. ↑ Kleinrechtebach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Abicht: The Wetzlar district. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 86 ( online , accessed on August 22, 2018).
  6. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 137.
  7. ↑ There is obviously a confusion with Hörnsheim: Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 512 .
  8. ^ Organ Index: Orgel Klein-Rechtenbach , accessed on August 22, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '54.64 "  N , 8 ° 35' 2.79"  E