Evangelical Church (Salzböden)

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South side of the church in Salzboden

The Evangelical Church of Salzböden was built in the 13th century as an early Gothic defense tower and expanded in the 16th century by adding a small choir . The church in Salzboden in the municipality of Lollar in the district of Gießen is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Defense tower from the west

The defense tower, which was built in the middle of the 13th century, served not only its cult function but also defensive purposes. From an ecclesiastical point of view, in the late Middle Ages salt soils belonged to the sending district of the Kirchberg church in the archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz . A pastor who was probably subordinate to Odenhausen (Lahn) is documented for 1500 in Salzboden . Salzboden has had a branch relationship with Odenhausen since the middle of the 16th century.

In the 16th century, the medieval spire was replaced by today's hipped roof with two oriels. Originally a small apse or a rectangular choir was added, which gave way to today's choir in 1600. In 1760 a transverse pore was built in and a rococo- style organ was purchased. A second floor was added to the gallery in 1807. In the same year, the tower was renovated; the tower vault was removed and a new north window was broken into.

In 1958/1959 the church was renovated and the whitewashed paintings on the windows and tombs were exposed again. A sacristy was added in 1978.

In 2017, the parishes of Salzboden and Odenhausen merged, which were previously connected by parish offices. The community belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Tracery windows on the east side
Cenotaph from 1586 for Jost Nachtigall

The roughly east- facing church is raised on the northern outskirts in the middle of a three-sided walled cemetery. The arched cemetery portal is marked 1663. The church consists of two structures, a massive defensive tower and a 3/8 choir closure in the east. The family gravestones inside and outside date from the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. A cenotaph from 1586 for Jost Nachtigall is embedded in the church wall. Under a round arch with an inscription on the person kneeling in a rectangular field of figures, the couple with two children in prayer position under the crucified. The scene is flanked by two pilasters with Ionic capitals bearing the coats of arms of the couple, on the left a nightingale over an angle with a six-pointed star, on the right for the wife a coat of arms with a hammer. The grave monument ends at the bottom with a writing field on which the Bible verse from Ps 25.7  LUT can be read.

The tower is built on a rectangular floor plan and is illuminated through two slit windows in the south. The timber-framed upper floor is closed off by a hipped roof. A five-sided roof bay window from the 16th century protrudes from the south and north sides. The original groin vault was excavated at the beginning of the 19th century. The cladding of the west portal and the lower north window were created in the 18th century, the upper north window in 1807. The tower clock with striking mechanism was built by JF Weule in 1914.

The elongated choir is the same width as the tower and ends on three sides. Architecturally, it is designed in a Gothic style, such as the south portal, the three pointed-arched tracery windows and the wooden ribbed vault. The south portal is marked 1600.

Furnishing

Double tomb from 1594
inner space

The south pore is two-story. The lower gallery from 1600 rests on round columns and is decorated with carvings. The biblical representations on the parapet were painted in 1808 by Georg Ernst Justus Kayser and his son Johann August from Gladenbach. The transverse porch for the organ dates from 1760 and also has biblical parapet paintings. It shows three figures from the Old Testament, the apostles and the evangelists . The upper gallery from 1807 is painted with bouquets of flowers. The Kaysers have immortalized themselves in a building inscription on the western wall of the choir: “To the glory of God, this church was completely RENOVATED and enlarged with stages under pastor Georg Friedrich Andreas Schopper. In 1807, the master builder was Mr. Schulteis Georg Wagner himself The room and carpenter work who were involved in the community were Mr. Jost Schneider and Mr. Johannes Wagner, the judge, and Mr. Johann Philip Rau. The master of the painters and white binder guild was Georg Ernst Justus Kaiser and his son Johann August Kaiser von Gladenbach. “The windows, doors and tombs are framed with paintings in the style of the late Renaissance from 1600.

On the altar there is a wooden crucifix from the 15th century, which is decorated with quatrefoil and painted evangelist symbols on the ends of the bars .

The church served as the burial place of the Lords of Rolshausen, whose courtyard house was adjacent to the east side. Several grave monuments in relief with polychrome frames are set up on the north wall behind the patronage chair. A double grave for Johann Caspar von Rolshausen († 1591) and his second wife Anna Catharina born. von Nordeck zur Rabenau († 1594) with its coat of arms is elaborately designed in the Renaissance style. To the right of this are the tombstones of his first wife Margarethe von Buseck and the simpler tombstones of their children Susanna, Margaretha and Johann Caspar.

organ

Organ with Rococo prospect

The old case of a Rococo organ , which is dated around 1760, has been preserved on the gallery . The following inscription is painted on a wooden plaque above the manual: “A very human-friendly and tired, wealthy person took Madam Schunkin from Kassel, who drove a considerable sum of 200 Reisthlers to this new organ in the local community. Completed August 31st, 1808. GEJ Kaiser. pinxit. ”A new work with seven manual registers was probably purchased after 1835 , which was replaced in 1961 by a new building by Orgelbau Hardt behind the five-part brochure . In 2013 a renovation was carried out by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau , which included a renovation of the wind supply. The organ has eleven registers with a total of 650 pipes. The raised central round tower is flanked by two corner towers. The three towers are connected by two low flat fields and each crowned with a winged angel's head. The disposition is:

I Manual C–
Dumped 8th'
Pointed Gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Octave 1'
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′

Bells

Brief ringing of the bells

The bell chamber houses a double bell. A bell was cast in the 14th or 15th century. The Aachen pilgrim sign is similar to that of the Marienglocke in Großen-Linden by Tilman von Hachenburg . The three-circle pilgrim's mark shows a Pietà in the lower part and the coat display according to the Aachen rite in the upper circle . A second, larger cross bell was purchased in 1634. It was delivered to the armaments industry in 1942. It escaped being melted down and was brought back from Hamburg in 1947.

No.
 		 Casting year
 		 Diameter
mm		 Chime
 		 inscription
 		 image
 
1 1634 880 as 1 " OHERR SEE VNS MERCY AND LASZ A ZORN FOR VBER GAN SALTZBODTEN ANNO CHRISTI 1634 " Ev Church Salzboeden Bell 1.jpg
2 15th century 700 of the 2nd " Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum bene dicta tu in mulieribus et bene dictus fructus ventris ihesus christ amen " Ev Church Salzboeden Bell 2.jpg

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. 804.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 223 f.
  • W. Trelenberg: The Evangelical Church in salt soils. In: Magistrate of the City of Lollar: 750 years of Lollar. 1242-1992. City of Lollar, Lollar 1992, p. 117.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 168 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 224.
  2. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 223.
  3. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 168.
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 169.
  5. ↑ Trelenberg: The Evangelical Church in Salzböden. 1992, p. 117.
  6. ^ Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 27.
  7. ↑ Jost Nachtigall 1586, Salzböden. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650 (as of November 30, 2007). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 804.
  9. ↑ Small Chronicle of the Salzböden Church (PDF file; 505 kB), viewed January 10, 2014.
  10. ^ Johann Caspar von Rolshausen 1591 and his wife Anna Catharina born. from Nordeck to Rabenau 1594, salt soils. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650 (as of November 30, 2007). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 28, 2015 .
  11. ^ 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. 836 .
  12. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 141.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 0.6 ″  E