Evangelical Church (Lardenbach)

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The Evangelical Church in Lardenbach , a district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), was built in 1657. The half-timbered church with roof turret characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

Church from the northwest
Eastern gable end

history

Originally Lardenbach was probably a branch of Groß-Eichen , in the documented time it was a branch of Freienseen and was under the Laubach patronage . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1544, Lardenbach switched to the evangelical creed.

Carpenters from Echzell built the church in 1657 instead of a small previous chapel. The construction had to be financed by the 22 families (called "neighbors") of the village community, who raised 234  florins out of a total of 619 florins for the construction costs. Since their own funds were insufficient, “collectors” moved to the distant county of Bentheim , from which the patroness Amöne Elisabeth von Bentheim-Steinfurt was born. An old bell and some pieces of wood from the previous half-timbered building were taken over for the new building. An inscription on a stand in the roof structure reads: “1657 JOHANES RVHL ET CVRT DRESLER BVRGEMEISTER DA DIESE KIRCH. IS BAVT. AL. L. ". The old altar plate was also taken over.

Until 1717 the church was only used for funerals, occasional devotions and at the beginning of the 18th century for bi-weekly reading sermons. Against the resistance of the Lardenbachers, who still had to bear the construction costs, the parish was raised to an independent parish in 1717 with the neighboring settlements of Solms- Ilsdorf , Flensunger Hof and Stockhäuser Hof . In this context, the men's gallery on the long side was widened in 1717 and a “boys' stage” was built in the choir. In 1750 the collapsed ceiling was renewed, in 1775 a further choir loft was built in front of the boys' stage as part of the new organ and in 1799 the church tower was renovated.

In 1815 the wooden interior was painted with oil paint. In 1857 the windows were replaced. Until 1865 a wooden triumphal arch connected the choir with the nave, which was removed in the course of the new organ. The interior was redesigned this year, the barred chair on the left behind the arch removed and the spiral staircase moved from the northeast corner to the southeast corner.

Plans in 1968 to demolish the church were not implemented. The half-timbered structure was exposed in 1976 and only the south side was clad again. In 1978/1979 the parishes of Klein-Eichen and Lardenbach were united under the parish office. As part of a comprehensive interior renovation in 1984/85, the men's loft, which was widened in 1717, was dismantled, the organ loft was lowered and the organ was placed in the middle from the right. The triumphal arch and the small arch over the pulpit were reconstructed according to old pictures, wall paintings were exposed, the benches were renewed taking into account the old cheeks, the medieval altar was relocated and refurbished, and stucco ornaments were again attached to the ceiling.

architecture

Shingled south side

The approximately east-facing hall church is built on a narrow rectangular floor plan (11.80 × 7.10 meters) in the center of the village, directly on a street. The area around the church was used as a cemetery until 1827. The gable building is considered to be "one of the oldest and most idiosyncratic half-timbered churches in the Vogelsberg area". The high gable roof (ridge height 11.00 meters) with leaf tiles has an octagonal, slated roof turret in the middle, which merges into an eight-sided pointed helmet and reaches a height of 19.30 meters and is crowned by a tower knob and a simple cross without a weathercock. The roof structure has a horizontal construction, with chair columns inclined at an angle to support the roof.

In post construction , three circumferential bars divide the walls into four almost equally high levels. They are connected by diamond-shaped cross struts that join together to form a large St. Andrew's cross . The wall-high corner stands are partly decorated with short ornamental headbands and angle pieces of wood. The horizontal bars in the gable are profiled. The "wild man" motif can be seen in the gable . On the north side, slightly curved struts, each occupying two compartments , support the two corner posts and two collar posts. The corner stands and the eastern fret stand have wooden head angles that are decorated with carved ornaments. The gable ends are symmetrical and richly braced. Joining signs have been preserved on the outside .

The south side is shingled. The windows date from 1857. The church is illuminated on the south side by three high rectangular windows and on the north side by two small rectangular windows in two levels. The west gable side has two small rectangular windows, the east side has two Gothic-style, wooden three-pass windows . The eastern triangular pediment has three small square windows, the western two square windows and a small arched window at the top, under which a fire goat is worked. The old window frame on the south side behind the pulpit was refreshed in 1984 and the other windows, which did not show any paint residues, were painted in the same way. The church is accessed via a round-arched west portal.

Furnishing

View into the chancel
Interior to the west

The interior, which has been rebuilt several times, is closed off by a flat ceiling with clay and chaff plastering with stucco ornaments that were attached when the church was built or in the course of a (partial) renewal of the ceiling in 1750. The ceiling of the church in Schlitz may have served as a model. The longitudinal girder rests on an octagonal, painted center post with two head locks . A carnation profile leads from the octagonal post to the square foot, which has beveled edges. The gallery encircling three sides dates in part from the time of construction, was widened on the long side in 1717, extended to include the eastern organ gallery in 1775 and changed in 1984/85 in the area of ​​the men's gallery. The stalls from 1984/85 still have the old cheeks, the painting of which has been restored. It leaves a central aisle free. The floor was re-covered with Schwabenröder panels in the same year.

The quarry stone altar has a basalt slab from the pre-Reformation period on which two consecration crosses are attached. Two red sandstone tombstones are placed under the pulpit and in the choir. They served as floor slabs in the rectory until 1910 and were placed in front of the church until 1985. A tombstone was made for Pastor Müller's two daughters, who died in 1754 at the age of one and a half due to smallpox . The gold-plated altar cross and the silver-gold-plated paten were purchased in 1857. The altar Bible and the wooden inlaid support were donated in 1985.

In the year the church was built, Alexander Madern created the polygonal pulpit on the south side with a sound cover. The upper panel on the parapet of the pulpit cage is rounded, the lower panel T-shaped. The pulpit was newly decorated in 1857. The cover was originally attached to the arch, but was removed with it during the renovation in 1865, but refurbished and reattached in 1910. Photos of the former pastors from 1865 hang on the pulpit staircase.

organ

organ

A first organ was purchased in 1775, which was repaired by Johann Georg Bürgy in 1816 and an attached pedal was added in 1855. The organ builders Finkenauer & Embach, journeymen of Hermann Dreymann , built a new organ with six registers in 1865. It was overhauled in 1967 by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . The organ has been preserved including the original prospect pipes. Until 1984 it stood on the right on the east gallery, since then in the middle of the lowered gallery. The instrument has the following disposition :

Manual C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Big dumped 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Mixture III 2 ′
Pedal C – h 0
Sub-bass 16 ′

Bells

The roof turret houses a triple bell made of bronze. The old bell with an old Gothic inscription, which was cast between 1250 and 1350, comes from the old church and is one of the oldest in the area. In 1749 an old bell was sold and two bells were added by Benedict and Johann Schneidewind in Frankfurt in 1749. The smaller of these two bells cracked in 1789 and was cast by Johann Peter Bach from Hungen. The two large bronze bells had to be delivered to the armaments industry in 1943/44, but escaped being melted down and came back from Hamburg in 1947. The bell has been electrified since 1979/80.

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 1749 B. and J. Schneidewind, Frankfurt am Main 710 229.5 dis 2 “ 1749 + GOSS MICH BENEDIC AND IOHANN GEORG [? ...] " Evangelical Church Lardenbach Bells 04.JPG
2 1789 Peter Bach , Hungen 650 170 d 2 “ HONOR TO GOD ALONE NOV 16. 1789 GOSS ME PETER BACH FROM HUNGEN IN FRONT OF THE PLACE OF LARDENBACH " Evangelical Church Lardenbach Bells 05.JPG
3 Our Father Bell 1250-1350 unmarked 480 65 ais 2 " Help Maria " Evangelical Church Lardenbach Bells 06.JPG

literature

  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former government district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.2 . Part 2 (L – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 724 .
  • 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. 764.
  • 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, pp. 284–287.
  • 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.
  • 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 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. 204 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. 43-46.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 108 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 205.
  2. ↑ Lardenbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 29, 2013 .
  3. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 108.
  4. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 284.
  5. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen . 1987, p. 15.
  6. ↑ a b Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and Klein-Eichen. 1978, p. 92.
  7. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 90.
  8. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 45.
  9. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 285 f.
  10. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen . 1987, p. 73.
  11. ↑ a b c d e 350 years a place for joy and sorrow ( memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ↑ a b Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 78.
  13. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 44.
  14. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 204.
  15. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 109.
  16. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 68.
  17. ↑ a b Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 74.
  18. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 75.
  19. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 69.
  20. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 71.
  21. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 539.
  22. ↑ Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and small oaks. 1978, p. 93.
  23. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 72.
  24. ^ Organ in Lardenbach , accessed on June 27, 2016.
  25. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 555 .
  26. ↑ Ringed on YouTube , accessed October 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 56 ″  E