Evangelical Church (Lindenstruth)

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South side of the church
Altar area to the east

The Evangelical Church in Lindenstruth , a district of Reiskirchen ( Hesse ), is a Gothic hall church from around 1370. When it was expanded in 1740/1741, it received its decisive Baroque appearance; the interior goes back to the late 1950s. The Hessian cultural monument has a six-sided roof turret on the hipped roof .

history

Bricked up south portal

A Romanesque church in Lindenstruth was originally probably independent. A late Romanesque font from Lung stone with arched frieze from the second half of the 13th century was in 1910 to the Wetterau Museum sold in Friedberg and was lost there. The previous building was replaced by a curate chapel in the 14th century . In 1453 the parish had a bell (0.56 meters in diameter) cast in honor of St. Cyriacus was consecrated. A second bell (0.46 meters in diameter) followed in 1668.

With the Reformation , the parish switched to the evangelical creed and has been looked after by Wirberg ever since . From 1577 to 1912 Lindenstruth was a branch of Saasen- Vitosberg, and since then of Winnerod. In the 18th century, the church became increasingly dilapidated, so that in 1738 the then Wirberg pastor Martin Balthasar Fischer and the Grünberger dean applied for a new building: “The church is like this from bottom to top, from roof and shelf, by Maur and all very old and dilapidated, so that every moment, if a strong storm wind should arise, it threatens the invasion. [...] So it has to be built again, when it shouldn't fall in a heap otherwise. […] There are no more windows […]. Kurtz does not look like a church, but rather an old ruinous Scheur. ”Instead, an extensive extension conversion took place, including older wooden beams. The gable roof and the two stone gables were torn down, replaced by a new roof, the ceiling replaced and a roof turret put on. One of the two octagonal wooden supports that had previously supported the girder was reused for the new roof. Instead of the three medieval windows, larger windows and a new south portal were broken into. The church received a north and west gallery and a new interior in the Baroque style. In addition, the ceiling, walls and galleries were painted. An inscription on the north wall reminded of the beginning of construction in 1740, one on the south wall of the completion in 1741. The first read: “ANNO CHRIST IN THE YEAR 1740 / IS THE BEGINNING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHURCH AND GOD'S HOUSE / STARTED AND UNDER THE / TIME AO 1741 THE 15 DAY OF AUJUSTY OF THIS CHURCH / BUILT BY GOD'S HELP AND ASSISTANCE / BECOMED THE MASTER MASTER MIRROR JOHANNES / ALBACH AND THE BERED SONIORS ARE / Mister CASSBER AND Mister HENRICH RIEHL, WHO JOINED WITH BEYESSEN, DISFER ALBACH BUILDING FAITHFULLY AND ERLICH HE HAVE SHOWED ", the second:" IN THE YEAR OF CHRIST IN ANNO 1741 THIS CHURCH / BECAME RENOVIRT AND HAS BEEN TEMPORARY / PRIOR MARTIN BALSSER FÜSCHER WON / ADHESIVE AT WIERBERG. "

In the course of a renovation in 1912, the paintings, which had been whitewashed in the meantime, were exposed again and restored. When a community center with two halls and a kitchen was added at the end of the 1950s, the entire interior of the church was replaced and the paintings and inscriptions destroyed. Four symmetrically attached windows replaced the baroque windows. The 1.50 meter high, oval helmet structure on the tower hood has been removed.

Since 1981 Lindenstruth has formed a joint parish with Reiskirchen and Burkhardsfelden in the Evangelical Dean's Office in Kirchberg of the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hessen and Nassau .

architecture

Crowning the roof turret

The geostete church is a hall building of rubble masonry with Eckquaderung on the east side on a rectangular ground plan whose wall enclosure is preserved in the south and east. The medieval masonry is still partially preserved. The interior is illuminated through four arched windows in the south wall; the other sides are windowless. The ogival, secondary walled south portal (0.83 meters wide) is marked with the year 1370. An over sunken inscription (0.26 x 0.23 meters) in gothic, heavy indecipherable capital letters dated from the same year: "MCCCLXX VIII MEI BERNGR." The baroque rectangular portal with molded jambs of sandstone, the approximate right of the gothic portal center the south wall was broken into is also walled up.

A six-sided roof turret with small arched sound holes is placed in the middle of the slated, protruding hipped roof . It houses two bells, a large one in d 2 from 1960 with the inscription “Land, Land hear the Lord's word” and a smaller one from 1958 on f sharp 2 . The roof turret is completely slated and ends with a flat, curved hood, which is crowned by a tower knob, a wrought-iron cross and a weathercock.

Furnishing

Interior to the west

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. The entire interior was destroyed during the renovation in the 1950s and replaced with a new one. The paintings and inscriptions also fell victim to the renovation. The frame of the arched windows is painted with rocailles .

The eastern part, the floor of which is covered with red sandstone slabs, is raised by two steps and serves as an altar area. The block altar is raised one more step and is closed off by a plate. To the left of this is the simple, semicircular wooden pulpit, to the right a six-sided wooden baptismal font on a six-sided base. A large cross is attached to the east wall, which is described with the Bible verse "There is no other salvation" ( Acts 4:12  LUT ) and covered with some rectangles in different shades of blue.

The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free. For the organ, a small organ loft was built in in the northwest corner, which is accessible via a spiral staircase. A flexible wooden wall in the west wall enables the church to be enlarged by including the neighboring parish hall.

organ

Organ positive on the west gallery

In the 19th century the church received a new organ . In 1978 the municipality purchased a used positive from the Emanuel Kemper company , which was built in 1964. The instrument has five registers on mechanical slide drawers . In the play cabinet, the shelf 16 'is installed for the pedal. The single-manual instrument is front-playing. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Holzgedackt B / D 8th'
Reed flute B / D 4 ′
Principal B / D 2 ′
Scharff IV B / D
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
shelf 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 588.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 499 f.
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler: From the history of Lindenstruth. Local History Association, Reiskirchen 2003.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 608 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 270–272.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 120 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 609.
  2. ↑ Köhler: From the story of Lindenstruth. 2003, p. 19 f.
  3. ↑ Köhler: From the story of Lindenstruth. 2003, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Lindenstruth. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 499.
  6. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 120.
  7. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 121.
  8. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 608.
  9. ↑ Evangelical Dean's Office Evangelical Church Congregation Lindenstruth , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  10. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 271.
  11. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 588.
  12. ^ 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 . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 618 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 15.7 ″  E