Evangelical Church (Kleinlinden)

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Church from the west

The Evangelical Church in Kleinlinden , a district of Gießen in the district of Gießen in Central Hesse , is a single-nave neo-Romanesque hall church with a gable roof , which was built from 1864 to 1866. The Hessian cultural monument has a retracted choir and a four-sided roof turret .

history

Church from the East

In the pre-Reformation period, Kleinlinden belonged to the church in Großen-Linden and thus to the deanery of Wetzlar and the archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . With the introduction of the Reformation in the parish in 1527 , the Linnesians switched to the evangelical creed, but still attended the services in Großen-Linden. A small medieval wooden chapel of unknown construction time in the churchyard on Untergasse (Wetzlarer Straße) was used for prayer, devotions and pastoral care. It was first mentioned in 1612 and a year later it was replaced by a small stone chapel, for which a state collection was held. Construction began on April 13, 1613; the inauguration took place on September 9, 1613. In the second half of the 17th century, services were held here on Sunday and Friday, during which theology students from Giessen often preached for practice purposes. The parish had contractually obliged the pastors in Großen-Linden to preach on Sundays and to distribute the Lord's Supper several times a year. The roof turret was replaced around 1810 and later placed on the Kleinlinden school. When school was broken off in 1969, the old roof turret broke. In the years 1864 to 1866 the church was rebuilt at the former exit from the village. The exterior plaster of the church was renewed in 1906, followed by an interior renovation in 1927.

A parish assistant from Großen-Linden lived in Kleinlinden since 1908 and looked after the place. Up to 1935, nine parish assistants worked in this way in Kleinlinden. In 1935 a pastor with definitive rights was hired for the first time, and a parsonage was built for him in 1934/35. On April 1, 1951, the parish Kleinlinden broke away from the parish association with Grossen-Linden and was raised to an independent parish. In that year the church roof, which was damaged in 1944, was thoroughly restored. An electric heater was installed in the church in 1960 and extended to the gallery in 1961. The dilapidated roof turret was renewed in 1964. The city of Gießen, which was responsible for building construction until 1990, had the church completely renovated in 1966. In this context, the choir was considerably enlarged according to plans by the Darmstadt architect Peter Weyrauch and a sacristy with an adjoining room was added. In 1969, the congregation purchased a new organ for the newly built organ loft. The parish hall was completed in 1971, the expansion in 1979. In 1984 a parish vicarage was established and in 1985 it was filled.

architecture

North portal
Building inscription from 1613

The church is built on a sloping site in a central location at a fork in the road and is oriented to the south-southeast in accordance with the narrow, tapering property. Before the place had expanded to the south and east, it was on the outskirts. It was built according to the Eisenach regulation , but has the pulpit in the middle between the altar and the organ. It is neither geosted nor is the organ on the west gallery above the main entrance opposite the choir, as stipulated by the regulations.

The church is illuminated on the long sides through three large arched windows. Above a surrounding cornice, pilaster strips divide fields that end with a round arch frieze under the eaves. Six steps of a flight of stairs lead to the stepped portal portal on the north gable side. The two-winged door is flanked by two columns each, the capitals of which merge into the protruding cornice, above which two bulb-shaped arches rise. A gold-plated cross is attached to the semicircular arch field. The gable side has two narrow arched windows on the outside, a small arched window in the top of the gable below the ridge and an arched frieze at the top.

The slim, four-sided roof turret with pyramid helmet from 1964 is placed on the northern gable tip. It is crowned by a tower knob, a simple cross and a weathercock.

The retracted choir, which is lower than the nave, is designed like the nave on the long sides with pilaster strips and a round arch frieze. Narrow porches on both sides have a monopitch roof that reaches half the height of the wall. Above each, two smaller arched windows are embedded and on the southern gable side a circular arched window and a small circular window in the gable triangle below the arched frieze analogous to the north side. The sacristy on the ground floor also receives light through two arched windows on the south side. The stems are an extension of the long sides of the ship. The western porch, which serves as the entrance area, is accessed through a round-arched west entrance and the eastern porch, which serves as an adjoining room, is accessed through a round-arched south entrance.

The portal lintel of the old church made of Rockenberger sandstone, rediscovered in 1956, is embedded as a spoil in the south wall of the new cemetery chapel, 1.50 meters long and 0.40 meters wide and high. It bears the inscription: “ANO DOMINI 1613 DEN 13 ABRILIS ZWAR [= was] THE FIRST STONE ZV THE CHURCH OF BAVWE GE LAID WAS DVRCH PHILIBS SCHMIT ABEL BINTZ BOTH BAVW HERN SINT TVRCH THE TOP OF AVS ER KORN”.

Furnishing

Interior with a view of the choir
Interior facing north

The interior is closed off by a coffered flat ceiling, which is painted in light blue and has a simple design. The outer of the three longitudinal tracks are slightly lowered compared to the middle one. The three-sided coffered gallery rests on ten octagonal wooden pillars, the headbands of which are decorated with flat-carved, stylized tendrils. The wooden church stalls with flat carved cheeks leave a central aisle free. The floor is covered with red sandstone slabs.

A large round arch opens the retracted choir to the nave. A circumferential profiled cornice divides the choir into two zones. The organ stands in the south choir gallery and is accessible via an iron spiral staircase next to the sacristy. The principal pieces altar and pulpit in the choir are aligned on the central axis. The wooden block altar, raised by one step, is decorated like the church building with pilaster strips and round arch friezes. There is a wooden crucifix on it . The polygonal pulpit in front of the organ gallery rests on an octagonal post with a square foot. The pulpit has coffered panels and ends with a profiled cornice. The pulpit is framed in white with gold-plated profiles. The steps of the iron pulpit staircase have openwork tendrils and the railing rungs have gold-plated decorations. The baptismal bowl rests on a triangular iron frame.

The area below the organ gallery is separated and serves as a sacristy. The cantilever arch of the sacristy door in the west corresponds to the cantilever arch of the east window. The entrance on the north side is a porch separated. Here is an epitaph hung from light sandstone, that the victims of the French German War recalls. Between two pilasters there is a plaque with the names of the fallen and missing from 1866 to 1871, including a winged grimace. An iron cross with a laurel wreath can be seen under an arch above the architrave .

organ

Förster & Nicolaus organ from 1969

A first organ was probably purchased at the beginning of the 19th century. The foreman Philipp Jung bought it in 1857 for his new mission association. After Jung's death, the instrument was stored in a barn until Privy Councilor von Gail had it renovated and bequeathed it to the Oberhessisches Museum in 1862 , where it fell victim to the great bomb attack on December 6, 1944. A new organ with eleven stops on two manuals and pedal was contractually agreed with Johann Georg Förster on May 17, 1865. The organ was not completed until September 18, 1869 and inaugurated one day later. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus repaired the instrument in 1893. For the enlarged choir, Förster & Nicolaus built a new instrument in 1969 that has 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The V-shaped prospectus, whose trapezoidal pipe fields rise to the outside and top off with vertical wooden slats, is divided into six axes. Two high towers are attached to two low flat fields in the middle, which protrude slightly towards the outside. Two narrow pipe fields of medium height flank the organ. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Open flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III
II positive movement C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Tube bare 4 ′

Peal

The church houses a four-note bell with the notes h 1 -cis 2 -e 2 -fis 2 (motif: Christ has risen ). Two old bells were taken from the previous building. They were cast in 1613 and shattered in 1843. Friedrich Otto from Gießen cast the small bell in 1843 and the large bell in 1849. The small one weighed 250 pounds and bore the inscription "Goß mich Fr. Otto in Gießen in 1843 for Klein-Linden" as well as the names of mayors, pastors, teachers and parish council members. The big bell was melted down for war purposes in 1917 and replaced by a bell in 1921, which in turn was melted down in 1942 and replaced in 1948 by the Rincker Brothers . It is provided with the inscriptions “Watch, stand in the faith and be strong.” And “From war and suffering and difficult times I call again to bliss” and bears the years “1849–1921–1948” and the name of the bell founder. In 1965 the congregation acquired two more bells from Rincker, the large one with the inscription “Lord give us peace and lead us to unity in faith, even over walls that separate us”, the small one with the inscription “Come to me all who you are laborious and laden ".

literature

  • Helga Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Kleinlinden church building. Kleinlinden 1991.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. University town of Giessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlagsgesellschaft Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 , p. 513.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 100 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 513.
  2. ↑ Kleinlinden. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 100.
  4. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 9.
  5. ↑ a b Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 31.
  7. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 12.
  8. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Friedhofsweg 5 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  9. ^ 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. 528-530 .
  10. ^ Organ in Kleinlinden , accessed on June 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 10.
  12. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 13.
  13. ↑ Altmannsberger u. a., Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinlinden (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 125th anniversary. 1991, p. 23.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 51"  E