Evangelical Church (Laufdorf)

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Church in Laufdorf from the southwest
Attached rectangular choir

The Protestant church in Laufdorf in Central Hesse in the municipality of Schöffengrund is a hall church that dates back to medieval times. The retracted rectangular choir was probably added towards the end of the 17th century. The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

Secure evidence of a church in Laufdorf can be found in 1290 with the appointment of a pastor. The neighboring Nauborn was a sending point and in 1290 also had a pastor. Both communities formed a common parish in the late Middle Ages (proven in 1497 and 1526), ​​which in the Middle Ages belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier . A Wedeme hoof attested in 1307 , a bell ringer Vulradus (Volrad) mentioned in 1311 and a cemetery mentioned in 1317 indicate the existence of a church by the end of the 13th century at the latest.

The Reformation was introduced in the middle of the 16th century . The first Protestant pastor was Johannes Heymann from Nauborn (1549–1580). The parish changed to the Reformed Confession in 1582 under Count Konrad von Solms-Braunfels . During the Thirty Years War , the place was under the Spaniards a few years Catholic (1626-1632) until the Swedes allowed the return to the Reformed faith. The retreating Spaniards burned the village in 1629; only the church and three houses remained. There are still traces of fire from this time in the belfry.

Probably at the end of the 17th century, the rectangular choir with a turret was added and the entrance was moved from the south to the west. When the exterior plaster was renewed in 1956, walled-up portals were discovered on the north and south sides of the nave . As early as 1949 the parish bought a new bell and clockwork and had the roof turret renovated. In 1955 the roof was re-slated and the weathercock replaced. In 1956 the exterior of the church was renovated. On the site of the old school building, north of the church, a parish hall was built and inaugurated in 1968. In the course of an interior renovation in 2014/2015, the pews in the lower area were replaced with chairs and the wooden floor with sandstone slabs.

Although the parishes of Nauborn and Laufdorf were connected by parish office , the presbyteries met separately from one another from 1838. Since 1975 there have been joint meetings again. In 2020 the municipalities of Nauborn (1,600 members) and Laufdorf (900 members) merged. The new parish belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

South side

The white plastered hall building is not exactly easted , but facing east-northeast. It is surrounded by a churchyard, the walls of which have been renewed several times. The church mainly dates back to medieval times, but has been rebuilt. Slanted buttresses support the nave at the four corners. Windows of different shapes and heights are set into the long sides. The gable triangles of the two narrow sides are slated. The rectangular choir was added at the end of the 17th century. It is drawn in opposite the nave and is lower and is illuminated through small rectangular windows. On the east side it has two broad, sloping buttresses. Inside, a large square opens the choir, which has been raised one step, to the nave. The opening is supported by a cross beam that rests on two free pillars. The two-winged, iron-studded baroque west portal with wooden garb is flanked by two wood-carved pilasters , as in Niederquembach . Around 1900 the portal was given a porch that serves as a vestibule.

The slated roof turret is placed on the gable roof at the eastern end. A tent roof rises above the square shaft, in which small rectangular sound openings are set. It is crowned by a tower pommel, a cross and a gilded weathercock. The bell chamber houses two bells. Dilman Schmid cast the older Johannes bell in 1699. A bell from 1817 was replaced in 1844, but had to be delivered in 1917 for war purposes. The replacement bell from 1924 bore the same inscription as the previous bell and was sold during the Second World War. In 1949 the community purchased a new bell from Rincker . As an inscription it bears the call of the Savior "COME TO ME ALL YOU WHO ARE TOUGH AND LOADED, I WANT YOU TO REFRESH!" From Mt 11,28  LUT .

Furnishing

pulpit
Interior to the east

Inside, the flat ceiling rests on three longitudinal beams, the middle of which is supported by two polygonal, marble-painted posts. A 17th century gallery running around three sides is built into the nave, but it does not reach the east wall. Their square, coffered panels have gold-plated profiles. The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ and was probably built in with it. The floor is covered with red sandstone slabs.

The wooden church furnishings are dominated by shades of green, which are set off by gold-plated profiles. The polygonal, wooden renaissance pulpit dates from 1586 and was made by Adam Schuler from Biel. Between the two-zone, upright rectangular, coffered panels of the pulpit, there is a Latin inlay inscription. The five fields were obviously arranged in the wrong order 3 - 1 - 4 - 5 - 2 by a craftsman who is not familiar with Latin. The correct inscription reads: “HIC LABOR E (ST) OF (F) IC (I) T (UR) ANNO D (OMI) NI 1586 / PER ADAM (UM) SCHU / LER ARCULAR (UM) BILENS (EM) / JOHAN (NE) P (F) LEGER / & PETRO STORCK AEDILIB (US) ”(“ This work was made in the year of the Lord 1586 by Adam Schuler, carpenter from Biel. Johannes Pfleger and Petrus Storck, builders ”). The pulpit rests on an octagonal foot. An octagonal sound cover is added to the shape of the pulpit. A parsonage is attached to the southern wall of the choir, which has openwork diamondwork in the upper part and hides the staircase to the pulpit. At the end of the 18th century, the community acquired an altar made of black Lahn marble . The church stalls that leave a central aisle are marked with the year 1682.

organ

Organ brochure from 1776
View into the pipework

Johann Andreas Heinemann built a new organ in 1776 , the five-part prospectus of which has been preserved. A raised, round central tower is flanked by two harp fields, to which two pointed towers adjoin on the outside. Behind the baroque prospectus, which is similar to the one in the Ev. Church Freienseen is designed, Günter Hardt built a two-manual organ with 10 registers in 1967 . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Pommer 4 ′

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part: 2. The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 132-134 ( online ).
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 544-545.
  • Ernst Hänsgen: 1200 years of Laufdorf. Wetzlardruck, Wetzlar 1979, pp. 63-80.
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 201.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 , pp. 426-427.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 544.
  2. ↑ a b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  3. ↑ Goswin von der Ropp (ed.): Document book of the city of Wetzlar. 2nd volume: 1214-1350. Elwert, Marburg 1943, 161.
  4. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 201.
  5. ↑ Hänsgen: 1200 years of Laufdorf. 1979, pp. 64-65.
  6. ↑ Laufdorf. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: order mixed up , accessed on June 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b c Hänsgen: 1200 years of Laufdorf. 1979, p. 71.
  9. ↑ Hänsgen: 1200 years of Laufdorf. 1979, p. 79.
  10. ↑ Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: New founding of parish celebrated , accessed on June 13, 2020.
  11. ↑ 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. 138.
  12. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 545.
  13. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 546 .
  14. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus: Johann Andreas Heinemann . In: Ars Organi . tape 48 , 2000, pp. 28–34, here: p. 34 .
  15. ^ Organ in Garbenheim , accessed on May 21, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '54.9 "  N , 8 ° 27' 28.8"  E