Evangelical Church (Niederquembach)

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Church in Niederquembach from the southwest
View from the southeast

The Protestant church in Niederquembach in Central Hesse in the municipality of Schöffengrund is a hall church from 1603. The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

Niederquembach belonged in the Middle Ages to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

In the middle of the 16th century, the Reformation was introduced under Pastor Johannes Geissler from Bonbaden . The parish changed to the Reformed Confession in 1582 under Count Konrad von Solms-Braunfels . In 1599 the place and the church burned down completely. The new church from 1603 was probably built on the foundations of a process building. Up until this point in time, the parish was under the rectorate of Bonbaden, together with Oberquembach, and belonged to Kraftsolms until 1717 , after which it was raised to an independent parish with Oberquembach. The first Protestant pastor was Gottfried Brückel (1717–1744).

The parish today belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

North side

The approximately geostete white-plastered hall structure with semi-circular Ostschluss is located on a slope above the center. Above the masonry, a wooden structure with a tooth cut and Bible verses forms the transition to the shingled gable roof . The western gable triangle is clapboard. The south portal in a wooden frame is flanked by two carved pilasters . In the middle of the roof is an eight-sided, completely shingled roof turret with a pointed helmet . The bell chamber houses two bells. The helmet is crowned by a tower knob, a cross with a circle and a gilded weathercock .

Furnishing

Inside, the flat ceiling rests on a longitudinal girder that is supported by a polygonal post with bows . This is marked with the year 1603. The polygonal wooden pulpit on the south wall is probably also from the construction period. It has rectangular panels and is accessible through an attached parish chair . The gallery parapet has simple rectangular panels. The old ashlar painting was exposed on the windows.

organ

When the Steindorf parish bought a new organ in 1834 , the previous instrument, which had six stops on a manual without a pedal , was possibly auctioned off in Niederquembach. According to Abicht, in 1836 the church was still “without an organ”. Gustav Raßmann set up an instrument with six registers in 1890. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C–
Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Dumped 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′

This organ was replaced in 1984 by a two-manual work by Orgelbau Hardt .

Peal

Second Junker Bell from 1950

In 1609 Melchior Moeringk from Erfurt cast a new bell, which was replaced by Andreas Otto from Gießen in 1848. This was delivered to the armaments industry in the First World War . A second bell from 1785 came from Nicolaus Bernhard from Tiefenbach and was also lost. In 1950 the community acquired two new bells from Albert Junker from Brilon on the chimes es 2 and ges 2 . The big bell bears the name of the foundryman with the place of casting, the smaller the bible verse from Jer 22,29  LUT : "O COUNTRY COUNTRY COUNTRY HEAR THE LORD'S WORD".

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. 144-145 ( 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 .
  • Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955].
  • 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. 193.
  • 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. 430-432.

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.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 193.
  3. ↑ Niederquembach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Niederquembach.de: Niederquembach once and now , accessed on July 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. [1955], p. [43].
  6. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on July 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008.
  8. ↑ a b Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 144 ( online )
  9. ^ 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 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 662 .
  10. ↑ 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. 140.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 32.2 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 8.3"  E