Evangelical Church (Reinhardshain)

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Church from the southeast
inner space

The Evangelical Church in Reinhardshain , a district of Grünberg ( Central Hesse ), was built in 1617 and is the oldest half-timbered church in the district of Gießen . The hall church , clad on two sides with a six-sided roof turret, characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the pre-Reformation period, at least since 1260, Reinhardshain was parish near Saasen -Veitsberg. With the introduction of the Reformation , Reinhardshain switched to the evangelical creed and was added to Wirberg .

At the beginning of the 17th century, the medieval predecessor building was "so bawfellig" that Landgrave Ludwig V was to be moved to a "Christian contributor" in a petition from 1616. The half-timbered church was completed in 1617. Originally none of the outer walls was clad. In 1739 the dilapidated wooden parts and the interior were completely renewed. Further repairs followed in the 19th century. In 1926 the roof was renovated, the roof turret was renewed in its old form and the north wall was shingled.

Plans in the 1970s to demolish the church were rejected when Peter Weyrauch, then architect of the regional church, was able to convince the church council of the importance of the monument. Instead, the framework was completely exposed in 1977, the missing roof turret was renewed in 1978 in a somewhat enlarged form to accommodate two bells, and in 1979/1980 an interior and exterior renovation. The community celebrated the completion of the renovations on October 18, 1981. In 1991 the entablature was restored to its original red color. When the treatment process for the wooden beams proved to be unsustainable because moisture penetrated, the south and west sides were shingled in the 1990s.

architecture

North side
East side of the church

The east-facing hall church on a rectangular floor plan without a choir is built in the center of the village on a high base made of quarry stone . It is surrounded by the former cemetery grounds.

In post construction , three circumferential bars divide the walls into four almost equally high levels with regular small square compartments . The corner posts are braced on all four sides by wall-high swords the width of two compartments, which end in profiled head angle timbers in the corners of the building. The swords run evenly over the entire northern long side in a zigzag pattern and are extended to the east by headbands to the motif of the man . The man figure is missing on the south side in the west. Instead, two shorter concave struts are built in halfway up. The triangular gables are less uniformly designed above the frame with beam heads.

The south and west sides are clapboard again today. The saddle roof is a six-sided ridge turret with flat curved welscher hood placed. It is crowned by the tower knob, cross and weathercock. The bell chamber houses two bells that were purchased during the renovation in 1978. The old, missing bronze bell by Andreas Otto from Gießen from 1840 (diameter 0.49 meters) had small cracks and was placed in front of the pulpit.

Furnishing

Interior to the west

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. An octagonal wooden post with two curved bows and saddle wood carries the longitudinal beam , which also secures the roof turret. Most of the furnishings go back to the renovation in 1739. The galleries, stalls, parsonage and pulpit from 1739 have a uniform green frame . In the north and west, a wooden angled gallery is built in, which rests on square posts with arches. The organ is set up on the west gallery. Every second of the coffered fillings of the gallery balustrade is painted with tendrils, grapes and vine leaves. A Bible verse is painted in the center of the west gallery. The church stalls with curved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

The block altar is covered with a fluted plate made of red sandstone (1.72 × 1.08 × 0.27 meters). It was taken over from the old church and dates from around 1500. The flat incised consecration crosses have been preserved. The modern wood-sighted baptismal font in the shape of a cup is eight-sided. On the south wall, a parsonage with openwork latticework gives access to the pulpit staircase. The panels of the pulpit are painted with various tendril motifs. The pulpit has a profiled cornice above and below. The pulpit rests on a wooden post supported by eight curved arches.

organ

Organ from 1997

In 1997 the community acquired its first organ , which was built by the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus with initially five registers . Before that, the church did not have an organ. Since the end of the 19th century, a harmonium was used to accompany the parish singing. Due to a donation, Förster & Nicolaus expanded the instrument in 2006 with a sixth manual register and a sub-bass 16 ′ in the pedal.

The flat prospectus of the front instrument is five-part. Due to the limited space on the gallery, the four longest pipes of the wooden sub-bass were placed to the right of the organ with cranked pipes. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture II 1'
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 761.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 494.
  • Friends of the Old Churches e. V., Marburg (ed.), Irmgard Bott u. a. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 , p. 78.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 238 f.
  • Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the greater community of Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, pp. 54–56.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 305–306.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 152 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 238.
  2. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 152.
  3. ^ "Reinhardshain, District of Giessen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 20, 2014 .
  4. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 494.
  5. ^ Förderkreis Alte Kirchen e. V., Marburg (Hrsg.): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 1987, p. 78.
  6. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 55.
  7. ↑ a b Gießener Anzeiger from August 30, 2017: Proud 400 years on the entablature , accessed on August 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ Floor plan of the Reinhardshain Church , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 305.
  10. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 56.
  11. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 306.
  12. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 761.
  13. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 153.
  14. ^ 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. 791 .
  15. ^ Organ in Reinhardshain , accessed on October 26, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 22.8 ″  E