Evangelical Church (Reiskirchen)

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Church from the northwest
Church from the East

The Evangelical Church in Reiskirchen in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ) is a hall church from 1771 with a late Gothic choir tower from around 1300. The style of the nave is at the transition from late baroque to classicism . The church is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Richolf had a previous church built as his own church in the 10th century , after which Reiskirchen got its name. It was a parish church in 1226 when there was a dispute over the patronage right . In the late Middle Ages the place belonged to the sending district of Buseck and was assigned to the Amöneburg deanery of St. Stephan in the diocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. The first Protestant pastor was Joh. Mengel before 1591.

When the whole place was ravaged by a great fire in 1613, "the church above, whatever was on it, burned down to the vault". Apparently it was restored by the beginning of the Thirty Years War . In the middle of the 18th century, the church became dilapidated, so that the nave was rebuilt from 1769 to 1771.

The tower received a new helmet structure in 1859. In the course of a comprehensive renovation in 1898/1899, the roof was removed. A four-week rain then destroyed parts of the interior. In the choir, the galleries and the organ were removed, the galleries in the nave renewed and the parapets exposed again. A new organ was located on the new west gallery. In 1934 the interior and exterior were renovated and a heating system was installed, followed by another renovation in 1993.

architecture

Interior facing east
West portal

The only roughly east-facing, plastered hall building is raised on the northeastern edge of the village.

Two-lane tracery window with quatrefoil from the 15th century on the south side of the tower

The choir tower on the east side on a square floor plan has a sloping base, corner blocks and main cornice made of lung stone . The ground floor has a two-lane tracery window each in the east and south , in the south with a three-pass in a circle, in the east with a four-pass in a rhombus, while in the north a slit window is let (0.25 meters wide, 1.40 meters clear height). The windows in the tower date from the time it was built, only the south window dates back to the 15th century. The upper floor has three small pointed arch windows (0.25 meters wide, 1.00 meters high). In 1879 two small round arched windows without cladding were broken into under the helmet on each side . The chancel on the first floor of the tower has a cross vault, the grooved ribs of which rest on consoles and end in a round keystone . The low choir arch is ogival and has transom plates over throats.

The two-tier, slated helmet structure dates from 1859. A flat and slightly curved tent roof leads in the middle to an eight-sided bell storey on which an octagonal pointed helmet is attached. It is crowned by a tower knob and a cross. The weathercock was removed in 1899. The four bells date from 1694 (Johannes Henschel), 1794 (Friedrich Wilhelm Otto) and two from 1958.

The nave , completed in 1771, is closed by a flat hipped roof with a triangular gable on the west side. The interior is lit through high arched windows with red sandstone walls, four each on the long sides and two on the west side. The windows received their six-part cast iron frame with small square glass fields in 1899. The west portal has a frame made of red sandstone in the classicism style and presents itself as the main entrance. Above the flat-arched lintel, a field is decorated with volutes , which bears the inscription "ANNO 1769" in an oval cartouche. The south portal is designed in a similar way, the wide frame of which is decorated with tendrils and flower chains, but the closing field is empty. An oval window is let into the west portal.

Furnishing

Sacrament niche
King David as a parapet painting
Epitaph for the Reit family

The interior is closed off by a hollow vault. A large part of the interior decoration dates from 1899. The white marble altar was also donated at this time. On the three-sided circumferential galleries, which are supported by slender iron columns with Corinthian capitals, hang the parapet paintings of different sizes, which were possibly created in 1771 by Daniel Hisgen for the new building. They show 10 pictures on the north gallery: Jesus in Gethsemane, his crucifixion, resurrection and ascension, the four evangelists as well as Peter and Paul, on the south pore 12 pictures, namely 10 apostles , who are flanked by Jesus' baptism and King David with harp.

A painted wooden epitaph for Pastor Christian Reit († August 11, 1606), his wife and daughter († August 3, 1606) near the altar shows the family kneeling under a crucifix in an idyllic landscape . After Pastor Reit had only started work in Reiskirchen in 1605, they all died of the plague in August 1606.

The late Gothic sacraments niche with an iron grating in the chancel probably dates from 1519. With the frame, it is 0.86 meters wide and 1.12 meters high. A pointed arch panel with the difficult to interpret year “XV c XIX” in the arched area and three pinnacles above it are attached above the profiled enclosure . A small niche is set in the tower wall to the right of the altar, which may also have served as a sacrament niche.

The polygonal wooden pulpit from 1771 with fillings in the pulpit fields stands free on a foot that is decorated with flat carvings. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.

organ

Förster organ from 1899

In 1740 the community bought its first organ . It is not known whether this work was adopted in the new church. Johann Georg Förster received the order for a new building in 1898 and delivered his Opus 85 in May 1899 for 3,000 marks. The two-manual organ has nine registers and a pneumatic action . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Cornettino II-III 2 23
II Manual C – f 3
Salicional 8th'
Still covered 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, super octave coupling, sub octave coupling, octave coupling pedal
  • Playing aids : Tutti as a foot lever

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Dehio manual of the German art monuments, Hessen I: administrative districts Gießen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 764.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 264–266.
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler: History of the church of Reiskirchen in Upper Hesse. Heimatgeschichtliche Vereinigung Reiskirchen, Reiskirchen 2007.
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler: The history of Reiskirchen in Upper Hesse. Local history association Reiskirchen, Reiskirchen 2006.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , pp. 560-562.
  • Otto Trapp: From the Protestant parish. In: Festschrift 1000th anniversary of the Reiskirchen community. 975-1975. Mittelhessische Druck und Verlagsanstalt, Gießen 1975, pp. 76-88.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 307–310.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 154 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Reiskirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 562.
  2. ^ Reiskirchen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 15, 2014 .
  3. a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 307.
  4. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 264.
  5. ^ Trapp: From the Protestant parish. 1975, p. 77.
  6. Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 308.
  7. Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions (PDF file; 37.7 MB), in: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, 1884, pp. 475-544, here: p. 531.
  8. a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 154.
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 561.
  10. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 155.
  11. Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 310.
  12. ^ Köhler: The story of Reiskirchen in Upper Hesse. 2006, p. 20.
  13. ^ Köhler: The story of Reiskirchen in Upper Hesse. 2006, p. 13.
  14. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 792 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '50.4 "  N , 8 ° 50' 4.4"  E