Evangelical Church (Ruppertenrod)

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Church from the East
View from the north

The Protestant church in Ruppertenrod , a district of the community of Mücke in the Hessian Vogelsbergkreis , is a listed half-timbered church from 1711. The baroque hall church has a three-sided end with a two-storey dome and characterizes the townscape through its central location.

history

Ruppertenrod already owned a house of worship in the pre-Reformation period, which was a branch of the mother church of Ober-Ohmen . With the introduction of the Reformation under the Barons Riedesel zu Eisenbach, the parish changed to the evangelical confession. The first Protestant pastor of the Ober-Ohmen parish was Georg Rupel (* around 1523) from 1550 to after 1553.

When the old church became dilapidated and too small at the beginning of the 18th century, the community decided to build a new one. In a request for a collection, the community asked Landgrave Ernst Ludwig to support their building project, as they were "planning to build a completely new church from scratch".

Construction began in 1710 and was completed in 1711. The roof turret was taken over from the previous building. The old church was not demolished but converted into a residential building. The new building plans in 1788 were not carried out; instead, a comprehensive renovation followed. In 1826/1827 the roof was repaired and the interior was renovated. In the course of a further renovation in 1851, a new organ was installed. The parish chronicle from 1858 indicates that the church had seven windows and two bells. A white binder, locksmith, bricklayer, carpenter and glazier were involved in the renovation work in 1899. Further exterior repairs were necessary in 1905/1906. They included the uncovering of the shingled framework on the weather-averted sides. During an interior renovation in 1930, the Darmstadt church painter Kienzle exposed the old layers of paint, including angels and arabesques , on the ceiling on a baroque basis . During the last interior and exterior renovation in 1999, the roof was re-covered.

Today Ruppertenrod forms a parish together with Unter-Seibertenrod and Ober-Ohmen. It belongs to the Evangelical Deanery Grünberg in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Facing south
South portal with the coat of arms of the von Riedesel family

The non geostete but oriented to the north-northeast church is built in the town center and lies on the Luther 1521 . On three sides, streets enclose the church, which, like a traffic island, is directly adjacent to the streets. Architecturally, the church in Ruppertenrod is similar to the Evangelical Church in Stumpertenrod .

The timber-framed church in frame construction with continuous corner posts is clad on the western long side and the south side. The other sides show red bars with white plastered compartments. The choir has a three-sided ending. The framework is divided into six levels by circumferential bars, which in pairs form three zones. Struts, which each run through two compartments, are used for stiffening. Only in the area of ​​the choir window do two struts replace the transom. In the polygonal choir, the struts form a Christmas tree motif. The eight-sided roof turret is supported by its own supports. It is completely covered with shingles and has four rectangular sound holes on the lower floor. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached to four sides of the tapered upper floor. The hood is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock.

The church is accessed through three high rectangular portals. While the portals on the long sides are simple, the south portal is representative. Two free columns carry an architrave above which the magnificent coat of arms of the von Riedesel family is attached. The south portal was originally attached to the west side, but was relocated because of the adjacent main road.

Interior

Construction period pulpit
View of the choir arch

The nave is closed by a wooden barrel that rests on wall services. The hollow ceiling, which continues in the choir, is painted in the nave with four medallions showing angels with clouds of blue and red dots. The walls are painted with biblical sayings, in the east of the ship with Isa 58.1  LUT and Ps 26.8  LUT , in the south with Ps 79.13  LUT and in the east of the choir with Mt 16.24  LUT next to the only partially preserved representation of the Crucified. An east window is framed with a painting of berry-like ornaments.

The profiled collar posts are designed inside with bases and capitals like stone pillars. A four-sided center post with chamfered corners and richly designed headbands carries a longitudinal beam that extends into the choir. A large, round wooden triumphal arch on two free-standing supports, which are painted black and marbled, opens the choir to the nave. Above the arch the Bible verse can be read: “JESUS ​​CHRIST YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND THE SAME ALSO IN ETERNITY. HEBR.13.8 ". It is flanked by two winged angel heads under a bouquet of flowers. The three-sided gallery that was built during the construction period has coffered panels that are decorated with ornamental tendrils in the area of ​​the nave (black on an olive green background), but are kept simple in the choir. The east side with the pulpit is spared by galleries.

The jewel of the church is the wooden polygonal pulpit from the time the church was built, which is attached to the eastern choir pillar. In its colorful frame , it stands out effectively from the rest of the interior. In the pulpit, the red-marbled panels on a white background are arched at the top and rectangular in the lower part. The pulpit fields are structured by turquoise laurel bars at the corners. The profiled sound cover is decorated with openwork carving. The conical tip is decorated with laurel garlands and crowned with a white pelican who nourishes his two youngsters with blood from his own breast, an ancient Christian symbol for Christ who gives his life as a sacrifice.

The church stalls are from 1978. It leaves a corridor free on the west side.

organ

Bernhard organ from 1851

As early as 1829 the church had a small organ with four stops . When a new church was built in Stockhausen (Herbstein) in 1843 , Ruppertenrod expressed interest in the organ by Philipp Ernst Wegmann from 1774, which was sold to Ersrode after 1844 . In the same year Johann Georg Förster was asked for an offer for a new organ, which did not materialize.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard built a new organ for the church in 1850/1851 with ten stops on a manual and pedal . The three-axis flat prospect in the classicism style is structured by pilasters that support a profiled triangular gable. An architrave rests on the middle two pilasters, which enclose a rectangular pipe field and a round arch field above. Trapezoidal flat fields connect to the outside. The top cornice is decorated with two crowning vases. The slider chest instrument with mechanical action was restored from 1988 to 1990. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Salcional 8th'
Flauto dolce 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Flauto 4 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 8th'

Peal

Bell in the roof turret

In 1858 the church housed two bells. The oldest, small bell dates from 1582 and was probably taken over from the previous church. After jumping, the parish bought three new bells in 1892. Two of them were delivered for armament purposes in 1917, one of which was replaced in 1922. In 1942 another bell had to be handed in. Since 1951 the triple bell has been complete again. The Rincker company cast the new bells with a sharp decorative ring on the Wolm.

literature

  • 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. 833-834 .
  • Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . Ed .: Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg. 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 799.
  • 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. 481.
  • Dieter Großmann: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 6th edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-008466-0 , pp. 430-431.
  • Herbert Jäkel: District Alsfeld. Monograph of a Landscape. Mushake, Trautheim via Darmstadt 1965.
  • Georg Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart / Aalen 1972, ISBN 3-8062-0112-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. (= Writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Ruppertenrod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 1, 2017 .
  3. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 481.
  4. ↑ a b c Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 482.
  5. ↑ a b c d Social Association VdK: History of the Protestant Church of Ruppertenrod , accessed on May 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Evangelical in Gießener Land , accessed on May 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Bott (arr.). Half-timbered churches in Hessen. 1987, p. 79.
  8. ↑ a b Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 136.
  9. ↑ a b Großmann: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 1987, p. 431.
  10. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 105.
  11. ^ Herbert Jäkel: Alsfeld district. Monograph of a Landscape. Mushake, Trautheim on Darmstadt 1965, p. 159.
  12. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 799.
  13. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Volume 3, Part 2. 1988, p. 833.
  14. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Volume 3, Part 2. 1988, p. 834.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 19.3 ″  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 18 ″  E