Evangelical Church (Ostheim)

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Church from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Ostheim , a district of Butzbach in the Wetteraukreis in Central Hesse , consists of two structures. The Gothic choir tower from the 14th century has a pointed spire with four characteristic vichy houses . The transverse, baroque hall building was completed in 1750. The church is characteristic of the town and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Painted tower hall from Gothic times

Martin's chapel already existed in Ostheim in the 12th century. In the Middle Ages, the place, like Griedel, was initially under the ecclesiastical part of Nieder-Weisel , which belonged to the Friedberg dean's office in the archdeacon of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . At that time the church was owned by the von Munzenberg family. In 1343 the place was separated from Nieder-Weisel and raised to an independent parish church. The church was dedicated to St. Martin .

With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. Heinrich Möller, the former Johanniter brother in Nidda, was the first Protestant pastor to work here from 1532 to 1567.

On May 5, 1749, the medieval nave was torn down due to dilapidation. At the instigation of Prince Heinrich of Hesse, the tower was preserved. The foundation stone for the new building on the west side of the tower was laid on June 20, 1749, and its inauguration took place on July 8, 1750. The design is attributed to H. Müller.

In 1913 the church was renovated, the organ was given a new interior, the choir arch, which had been walled up since 1749, was opened and the church painters Velte and Kienzle uncovered the choirs. After a lightning bolt split the spire, renovation, the removal of dry rot , the installation of new bells and new sluicing followed. In 1976 the original version of the stucco ceiling was exposed and the ornaments were gilded by the restorer Meffert. Extensive construction and restoration work took place in the 1990s. The tower was refurbished and re-slated, the cement plaster removed and drainage laid in order to prevent further damage to the choir from moisture and salt efflorescence. The paintings, which mainly showed damage in the lower area, were restored for 100,000 DM. The heating and weather valve were renewed. The inauguration took place on January 24, 1999.

The parish of Ostheim belongs to the Wetterau deanery in the Oberhessen provost in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Helmet construction

The east-facing , white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan is built in the center of the village. The transverse hall building, a so-called transverse church , is not built on the central axis of the east tower, but ends asymmetrically in the north with the tower.

The bottom floor of the choir tower on an approximately square floor plan is the rest of the old chapel. It is vaulted inside by a one-yoke groin vault from the late Gothic period. The tower hall is illuminated by arched windows, which indicates a Romanesque origin. The octagonal upper floors made of quarry stone have small slotted windows in the middle floor , the former loopholes. The four windows on the third floor have different shapes and sizes. Small arched windows that date back to the Romanesque period are embedded to the north and west. The late Gothic window with a three-pass and arched panel facing east is the largest window (1.00–1.20 × 1.80 meters wide). The south window is a little smaller, but built similarly. A stone layer above the east window changes the masonry and larger stones are used. The outer wall jumps back 0.50 meters higher at the level of the bell storey by 0.20–0.25 meters. It is assumed that the masonry was raised by 2.50 meters in the second half of the 15th century and that the spire with its four wich houses was placed on top. There was probably originally an open defense platform above the third floor until the bell storey was moved into the tower spire in the late Gothic period. A stone gargoyle has been preserved on the north side and points to an originally different tower end. A large rectangular ashlar with the coat of arms of the Hessian landgraves is embedded in the eastern corner of the north wall. It was probably taken over from the previous building and served as a coat of arms stone above the main portal. The slated, wooden pointed helmet is flanked by four small corner towers, pentagonal wichhouses with pointed turrets and crowned by a tower knob, a wrought iron cross, a weather vane and a gilded weathercock. The clock face for the tower clock is attached below the eaves in the south on the fourth floor. The bell chamber houses a four-bell ring. Wilhelm Otto cast a small bell in Gießen in 1786. Rincker delivered three more in 1950. A baroque grave slab of Pastor Christian Matern Vigelius (1689–1773) made of red sandstone is walled into the south wall of the tower. It describes the family history on a rectangular tablet and shows a winged angel head in the curved headpiece. A war memorial south of the tower commemorates the fallen of the two world wars.

The crooked roof of the hall building is equipped with five dormers in the west. The interior is illuminated on each side through two tall, narrow rectangular windows with deep reveals with arched arches on the inside . The east side has only one rectangular window due to the tower. An oval window is let into each of the rectangular portals with a straight lintel and slate canopy in the south and west. The south portal is marked with the year 1749.

Interior

Interior to the southwest
Looking east

A Gothic pointed arch opens the completely painted tower hall to the ship. A curtain is painted in the lower area. The figurative representations on the walls, window reveals and on the vault of the choir date from the second quarter of the 15th century. On the background of fine tendrils in the east wall they show the crowned Our Lady (left of the window), three saints (above the wall cupboard), the crucifixion scene (above the window arch), remains of the Adoration of the Magi (in the southern garment), a head of Christ, probably as part of the Holy Trinity (above the niche) and the Mount of Olives scene (to the right of the window). In the south wall the crowning of thorns of Christ is depicted (left of the window), a dragon slayer (probably St. Margaret ) and the wheel of St. Catherine (in the east window reveal), an inscription from 1913 (in the west reveal) and Christophorus (right from Window). The remains of saints and the handkerchief of Veronica (above the window niche) can be seen in the north wall . The lamb of God is depicted in the crown of the vault, which is surrounded by the evangelist symbols with Gothic lettering in the vaulted caps. In the background, stars and small, stylized clouds are connected with jagged lines. Sacrament niche and wall cupboards also date from the late Gothic period.

The hall building is completed by a flat mirrored ceiling with wide valleys on the long sides . The stucco ornaments were created by JJ Roßbach and Master Wilhelmi. The central gilded eye of providence is represented in a triangle, surrounded by a halo and four winged angel heads. Profiled stucco strips form geometric figures that are connected by garlands of leaves. The three-sided gallery leaves the east side free, which serves as the installation site for the pulpit and organ . The gallery rests on round pillars painted in marble and has coffered panels. Under the north gallery there is a building inscription in a laurel wreath, which is marked with the year 1750 and gives the names of the four builders. A painted medallion with the inscription "Sub umbra alarum Jehovah" (under the shadow of Jehovah's wing) under the south pore also has the year 1750 and the initials of Landgrave Ludwig VIII as a double L. The blue-gray church pews correspond to the three sides of the gallery whose parapets also have coffered panels, aligned with the pulpit and altar. A wooden stand with an openwork diamondwork is set up on the south and north walls.

The walled-up block altar is covered by a canteen plate over a slope. There is a wood on it crucifix of the three-nail type donated (1711-1761) from Butzbach 1750, the town clerk Christoph Helwig Haberkorn. The wooden, polygonal pulpit from 1750 rests on an octagonal post. The edges of the profiled cornices are gilded. The cover is inscribed with the Bible verse from Isa 58.1  LUT . It is decorated on the edge with shells, volutes and lace and crowned in the middle by a volute crown on which a pelican nourishes its three young with its own blood, a symbol of the devoted love of Christ. From below the cover is painted with eight biblical scenes from the Old and New Testament. In the center there is a white dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit. Access to the pulpit is provided by a parish chair below the organ gallery, which has coffered panels at the bottom and openwork diamondwork at the top.

organ

Organ brochure from Syer (1754)

Johann Friedrich Syer from Florstadt built the first organ for the new church in 1754 with the help of the journeyman Johann Conrad Bürgy from Schaffhausen . The pedal-less organ had ten stops on one manual . In 1857 Adam Karl Bernhard added a pedal with a sub-bass 16 ′. In 1913 the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a new interior factory with a pneumatic cone store behind the Rococo prospect . Nine registers are distributed over two manuals and pedal. In 1979 the same company replaced the organ. The church painter Karl-Bernd Beierlein presented the original version in Bergblau restores.

The five-axis Syer Prospectus has an elevated polygonal central tower and two pointed towers on the outside, with low flat fields in between. Characteristic for Syer are the waved pilaster strips and the profiled cornice. Gilded tendrils close off the pipe fields at the top, crown the flat fields and form the lateral blind wings, into which two angel figures are incorporated. The lower case has coffered panels, the middle of which bear the Hessian coat of arms and the monogram of Ludwig VIII. "LLZH D" (Ludwig Landgraf zu Hessen-Darmstadt) and the inscription "Ludwig LandGraff 8te stüfft zu disser organ 75 gulden". The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture II-III
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, pp. 244-246 ( online ).
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , pp. 664–665.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 299-300.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , p. 452.
  • Karl Wilhelm Rosenow; Dieter Wolf (arrangement): Chronicle of Ostheim near Butzbach. In: Kelterei Müller KG, Butzbach-Ostheim (Hrsg.): Ostheimer Chronik. 300 years of the town hall 1697–1997, 125 years of the family-owned cider press from 1873–1998. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 37-116.
  • Ulrich Schütte (Ed.): Churches and synagogues in the villages of the Wetterau. (= Wetterau history sheets 53 ). Verlag der Bindernagelschen Buchhandlung, Friedberg (Hessen) 2004, ISBN 3-87076-098-2 .
  • Werner Wagner: The paintings in the Ostheimer church. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 159, 2001, pp. 41-43.
  • Dieter Wolf : Supplementary contributions to the local history of Ostheim. In: Kelterei Müller KG, Butzbach-Ostheim (Hrsg.): Ostheimer Chronik. 300 years of the town hall 1697–1997, 125 years of the family-owned cider press from 1873–1998. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 117-152.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  18. ^ Wolf: Supplementary contributions to Ostheimer local history. 1997, pp. 141, 143.
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  21. ^ Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 244 ( online ), accessed November 15, 2015.
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  23. ^ Wolf: Supplementary contributions to Ostheimer local history. 1997, pp. 147-148.
  24. ^ Wagner: The paintings in the Ostheimer church. 2001, pp. 41-42.
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  26. ↑ Rosenow: Chronicle of Ostheim near Butzbach. 1997, p. 72.
  27. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , pp. 33, 88.
  28. ^ 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 29.2 . Part 2 (M – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 770 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 9.76 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 4.71"  E