Evangelical Church (Stornfels)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Church from the east, the former courtyard
South side of the church

The Evangelical Church in Stornfels , a district of Nidda in the Wetterau district in Hesse , is a hall church from 1837. The masonry comes partly from the remains of the medieval castle Stornfels . The classicistic church is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

Around 1435, Stornfels was a branch of the independent Ulfa parish . Ecclesiastically, Stornfels belonged to the Deanery Friedberg to the Archdiakonat St. Mariengreden in the Diocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1526, the parish changed to the Protestant confession. Ludwig Waborn was the first Lutheran pastor to work here until 1536. After consultations with Johannes Pistorius the Elder and further consultations and negotiations, Stornfels received a wooden chapel in 1565, which was built to the southwest below the castle (Am Höhenblick 35). The building initially had no tower and no bells. It was not until 1684 that a “Collecte to manufacture the tower and purchase a bell” was carried out. According to an entry in the Salbuch , the services were held alternately in Stornfels and Ulfa in 1741. By 1800 the ship and tower were damaged. After the Stornfels chapel fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 19th century, holding church services was forbidden around 1831/1832 because "you could no longer ring the bell without danger".

Pastor Ludwig Münch pushed ahead with the purchase and renovation of the castle's former tithe barn . After the late medieval castle fell into disrepair, the fortified residential tower was converted into a tithe barn. The renovation took place in the years 1835 to 1837. The north-west transverse building housed the school and teacher's apartment, the western part served as a church. The inauguration took place on August 13, 1837. The wooden chapel was demolished. In 1840 the civil parish in Stornfels was released from its building obligation, as it moved into its own building as a church. Since the first half of the 18th century, Stornfels was responsible for a seventh of the building obligation and the bourgeois community of Ulfa six seventh. Disputes arising from the new regulation were contractually settled in 1848.

The church was renovated in 1966.

The northwest extension is used today as a youth center. The parish of Stornfels is connected to the parish of Ulfa. The community belongs to the Deanery of Schotten in the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Former round corner tower on the southeast corner

The church rectangular structure is not faces east , but aligned to the south-southeast. The unplastered hall building made of quarry stone masonry with corner humps made of local basalt is visible from afar and built on the highest point of the place, a basalt cone 305 meters above sea level. It has a gable roof that is hipped in the north and a roof turret is placed on it in the south . While the west wall is 0.80 meters thick, it reaches a width of two meters in the north, east and south on the ground floor, as the remains of the old shield wall of the castle complex have been retained here. The beginnings of two round corner towers from the Gothic period are visible on the two eastern corners.

Portals and windows are clad in red sandstone . In the long sides, three rectangular windows with lattice structure illuminate the interior, in the upper zone two windows each and one window each below. The arched walls of the old barn door are still visible in the middle of the east wall. A rectangular window was broken into here. The coat of arms stone of Grafschaft Ziegenhain , which shows a six-pointed star, is embedded as a spoiler above the simple, rectangular east portal . A round arch portal further to the north of the east wall has a roughly filleted bevel . The clock face of the tower clock is attached above the large arched window in the south wall.

The four-sided, slated roof turret has rectangular sound holes and a pyramid roof , which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock.

Furnishing

Interior facing south

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on two beams . These are each supported by two Doric columns , which include the two galleries on the narrow sides. The north gallery rests on two Doric columns. The south pore has two pilasters at the corresponding point on the wall below the south pore, which separates the southern part as a sacristy . Next to them, two rectangular doors allow access to the rear room. Due to a surrounding panel at the level of the gallery, the significantly different wall thickness in the lower area is not noticeable.

The three principal pieces altar, pulpit and organ stand behind and on top of each other on the central axis, according to Protestant tradition. The rectangular pulpit with a polygonal sound cover is only accessible from behind through the sacristy. The wooden square altar with a surrounding plinth is placed on a pedestal. The wooden altar cross from 1837 stands on a step pyramid. A large crucifix on the west wall from the 18th century is made in rural style. Several modern oil paintings decorate the interior.

organ

Link organ from 1837

In 1636 there was already an organ , as evidenced by an invoice for a repair. For the new church, the construction of a new organ was contractually agreed with organ builder Georg Link from Reinhards , which was delivered in 1837. The instrument has seven registers on a manual and pedal. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau repaired the organ in 1913 and in 1956 replaced a missing register with a salicional . In the course of a restoration in 1976, this register was replaced by a Salicional in the original design. The five-axis, flat prospectus has an elevated central field, which is flanked by two double-storey pipe fields and each ends with a rectangular field on the outside. The upper cornice is crowned by two small urns. The organ has largely been preserved in its original state.

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Peal

The roof turret houses two bells. The smaller one was cast by Georg Otto in Gießen in 1875 and weighs around 100 kilograms. The larger bell weighs twice as much and is from 1949. It was cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Heilbronn. The previous bells had to be delivered to the armaments industry in the two world wars. The bell system was electrified in 1980.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Mass
(kg) 		inscription
  		image
 
1 1949 Bachert , Heilbronn 200 “ THE WORD OF OUR GOD REMAINS FOREVER. (ISAIAH 40.8) "
Evangelical Church of Stornfels Bells 05.JPG
2 1875 Georg Otto, Giessen 100 " Stornfels by Georg Otto in Giessen 1875. " Evangelical Church of Stornfels Bells 03.JPG

literature

  • Günter E. Th. Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck, including the Rhine-Hessian church districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels. Evangelical Press Association, Kassel 1987, p. 182.
  • Ottfried Dascher (Ed.): Nidda. The history of a city and its surroundings. 2nd Edition. Niddaer Heimatmuseum, Nidda 1992, ISBN 3-9803915-8-2 , p. 275.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 769.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (= Hassia sacra. Volume 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 350.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Siegfried RCT Enders (arr.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis I (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , p. 337.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dascher (Ed.): Nidda. The history of a city and its surroundings. 1992, p. 275.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis I. 1982, p. 337.
  3. ↑ Stornfels. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ulfa. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 2, 2015 .
  5. ^ Günther Stahnke: Ulfa. 15th to 17th centuries. From the time of the 30 Years War, the time before and after. History Association Ulfa, Nidda 2018, pp. 14, 93.
  6. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 350.
  7. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 769.
  8. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 348.
  9. ^ Bezzenberger: churches worth seeing. 1987, p. 182.
  10. ↑ Internet presence in the Evangelical Dean's Office Büdinger Land , accessed on September 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ Stornfels website , accessed on November 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ a b c Church on the website of Stornfels , accessed on November 2, 2015.
  13. ^ 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. 918-919 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '15.15 "  N , 9 ° 2' 8.52"  O