Evangelical Church (Römershausen)

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Church in Römershausen , a district of Gladenbach in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , is a hall building from 1856. The previous church of the 17th century was extended to the west in the classicism style with arched windows and roof turrets. The small, listed church shapes the townscape.

history

13th century bell from the previous building

A church in Römershausen is first mentioned in a document in 1354. The preserved bell from the 13th century is another reference to a medieval local church. From an ecclesiastical perspective, Römershausen belonged to the Send District and Diaconate of Gladenbach in the Archdiakonat St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz at the end of the Middle Ages . The branch church Römershausen was parish after Gladenbach. With the introduction of the Reformation in Gladenbach, Römershausen also became Protestant from 1526. In 1606 there was a change to the Reformed creed, only to return to the Lutheran one in 1624.

Little is known about the further building history up to the 19th century, since the documents concerned either say nothing about the structural form of the church or were lost in the Second World War. The current church was built in 1856 as an extension of an older 17th century chapel. The architect was district builder Georg Sonnemann , who rebuilt Biedenkopf Castle from 1843–1847 , built the church in Frechenhausen in 1848 and the school in Hartenrod (later the church) in 1858 . In 1904, Römershausen was raised to an independent parish and separated from Gladenbach.

An extensive interior renovation took place in 1964 and an exterior renovation in 2003. In the course of this, the top of the ridge was renewed and the roof was re-slated.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish belongs to the Evangelical Dean's Office Biedenkopf-Gladenbach in the Propstei Nord-Nassau in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

The roughly east- facing church is built a little northeast of the old village center of white plastered quarry stone masonry on a hillside. Only the high western plinth area, which extends directly to the adjacent street, is left out of the plaster. The western narrow side is otherwise slated. The church in Römershausen is one of the last classicist churches in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Interior facing east

The church on a rectangular floor plan is designed symmetrically. Three arched windows with lattice structure on the south side and one each on the narrow sides and the north side illuminate the interior, which is accessed by a centrally mounted, rectangular south portal. The building is covered by a gable roof, on which an eight-sided, completely shingled roof turret is placed slightly to the east . This houses a double bell. A larger bell poured the company Rincker in 1952 (percussive it 2 , 135 kg). It bears the inscription "O land, land, hear the word of the Lord / The fallen of the world wars 1914–1918 / 1939–1945". Since the old bell ( strike c 2 ) cracked and could not be repaired, it was placed below the pulpit in 1989 and replaced by a smaller Rincker bell in the same year (strike f 2 , 107 kg). Their inscription reads: “From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord be praised” ( Ps 113 : 3  LUT ). The octagonal pointed helmet with small arched sound openings is crowned by an ornate wrought-iron cross and a gilded weathercock.

Interior

Construction period pulpit

The interior is closed off by a flat slab that rests on a longitudinal girder. The unified church furnishings in white and light blue version is largely original building.

The wooden, three-and-a-half-sided gallery with simple coffered parapet fields rests on square wooden posts. On the east side three copper plates are attached to the parapet, which bear Bible verses as reliefs, on the left Rev 4,8  LUT , in the middle Mt 5,9  LUT under a group of people in front of a half cross and on the right Ps 27,1  LUT . The portal-shaped access to the gallery on the north side has a round arch with gold-plated carving in the spandrels .

The block altar, which is raised on a pedestal, has a cast-iron altar cross and two bronze candlesticks, which were designed in 1946 by Hans Dinnendahl. The circumferential inscription around the body reads: "By dying he destroyed our death and through his resurrection acquired new life for us."

The wooden polygonal pulpit on the south side is supported by an octagonal, marbled painted support. It has coffered pulpit fields and a surrounding cornice. A parsonage in the southeast corner below the organ provides the staircase to the pulpit. The simple church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

organ

Becker organ from 1955

A "new organ" in 1900 can be called a harmonium . Today's parapet organ in the south-east corner was built by Klaus Becker in 1965. In the three-part flat prospectus , the principal 2 ′ stands in a low, square central field that is flanked by two vertical fields. The instrument has three registers on a manual without a pedal . It has a sliding drawer with a purely mechanical action . The organ has the following disposition , which corresponds to the typical disposition design of a positive :

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I. Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 777.
  • Karl Huth : Gladenbach. A city through the centuries . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Gladenbach. Magistrate of the City of Gladenbach, Gladenbach 1974, DNB  790637227 , p. 209 .
  • Siegfried Hartner (Red.): From the history of Römershausen. Association for the promotion of charitable tasks in Römershausen, Gladenbach 2005.
  • Frank W. Rudolph: Evangelical churches in the dean's office Gladenbach . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-02288-1 , p. 74-75 .

Web links

Commons : Church Römershausen (Gladenbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolph: Evangelical Churches in the Deanery Gladenbach. 2010, p. 74.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Diehl : Pastor and schoolmaster book for the acquired lands and the lost territories (= Hassia sacra. Vol. 7). Self-published, Darmstadt 1933, p. 211.
  3. ↑ Römershausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 777.
  5. ↑ Rudolph: Evangelical Churches in the Deanery Gladenbach. 2010, p. 75.
  6. ↑ a b c Homepage of Pastor Henß , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  7. ^ Huth: Gladenbach. A city through the centuries. 1974, p. 209.
  8. ↑ Feldtkeller: The architectural and art monuments of the Biedenkopf district. 1958, p. 34.
  9. ^ Organ in Römershausen , accessed on November 11, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29.86 "  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 1.74"  E