Evangelical Church (Oberquembach)

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Church in Oberquembach from the southeast
View from the northeast

The Evangelical Church in Oberquembach in Central Hesse in the community of Schöffengrund is a baroque hall church from 1696. The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

Oberquembach belonged in the Middle Ages to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archdiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier . In a document from 1350, a church is named for which Kraftsolms is assumed to be the mother church.

The Reformation was probably introduced under Pastor Maximilian Fabri (1527–1568) from Oberwetz . The parish changed to the Reformed Confession in 1582 under Count Konrad von Solms-Braunfels . In 1696 what is now the church was built, probably using parts of the previous building. The parish belonged to Oberwetz until 1717 and was then raised to an independent parish together with Niederquembach. The first own 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

Church with bakery at the Brandweiher

The roughly geostete white-plastered hall building with three sides Ostschluss located on a hillside in the town center. The church presents itself together with the bakery at the Löschwasserteich as an eye-catcher of the place. Above the masonry, a wooden structure with an inscription forms the transition to the shingled gable roof . The inscription reads as follows: “WHEN WE COUNT SIX TOES, HAVE CHANGED YOUR YEAR / VND NINETY SIX WAS BAVET / DIS GOTTES HAVS GOTT VNSREM HERREN / ZV HIS GREAT NAME HONOR / DARIN HIS PRAISE VND RVHM ZV HOREN”.

The interior is illuminated on the east and south side through three large arched windows with honeycomb glazing. The west and north sides are windowless. The western gable triangle is clapboard. The church is accessed through a rectangular portal under an arch at the western end of the south side.

Two small dormers with triangular gables are attached to the gable roof in the south and a four-sided, completely shingled roof turret with an eight-sided pointed helmet in the east . The helmet is crowned by a tower knob, a cross and a weathercock. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached to the south and north sides of the shaft. Sound openings for the bells are let in on each side.

Furnishing

Interior to the east
Pulpit (around 1700)

Inside, the flat ceiling rests on a longitudinal beam . The wooden polygonal pulpit from around 1700 is set up on the south side and rests on a rotated column. It is painted blue-marbled. The pulpit fields have ocher high rectangular fillings and be free round pillars in red-brown version divided. The dove-blue corner gallery with rectangular, brown-marbled painted panels in the northwest comes from the same time. It is supported by round wooden pillars, which are also painted in brown marbled. The eastern choir gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. It is closed below the organ by a wall that has latticed rhombuses in the upper area, which also flank the organ. The wooden block altar with protruding cafeteria plate is painted dark gray marbled. The simple church stalls with curved cheeks in blue frames leave a central aisle free. Some red tendril paintings have been preserved on the walls of the windows.

organ

Hardt organ behind historical prospectus

In 1839 the congregation acquired its first positive organ , which was taken over from Altenkirchen . The instrument had eight registers on a manual and an attached pedal . In 1889 Gustav Raßmann built a new organ with six registers. The prospectus has three arched fields, the middle of which is elevated and emerges like a risk. It was replaced by Orgelbau Hardt with a work with six registers behind the Raßmann prospectus . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Bells

The bell chamber houses two bells. Of the original two bells from the 15th century, one with the inscription "EGO SUM VERBUM" ("I am the word") was delivered during World War II and replaced in 1950. According to legend, the other is said to have served as the measuring bell of a Liebfrauenkloster in the nearby forest, which the name Liebfrauenbörnchen still suggests today.

No. Surname Casting year Caster Dimensions diameter Chime inscription image
1 Maria 1451 Johann Bruwiller 590 mm d ′ ′ "O rex glorie veni cum pace Maria sub anno M cccc li" Evangelical Church Oberquembach bell 1.jpg
2 1950 Rincker brothers f ′ ′ “Peace be with all who are in Jesus Christ. 1950. " Evangelical Church Oberquembach bell 2.jpg

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. 142-144 ( 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. 198.
  • 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. 437-440.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 198.
  3. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955], [p. 32].
  4. ↑ a b Oberquembach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 142 ( online )
  6. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on July 18, 2020.
  7. ^ 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. 689 .
  8. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955], [p. 43].
  9. ↑ 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.
  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. 126.

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '58.6 "  N , 8 ° 28' 48.4"  E