Evangelical Church (Trais-Horloff)

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Church from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Trais-Horloff , a district of Hungen in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), consists of two structures. The choir tower was built in 1740. The core of the hall church dates back to the 14th century, but has been extensively rebuilt several times and is not architecturally uniform. The church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Church from the west
Interior facing west

A chapel on the Grasser Berg, a basalt foothills of the Vogelsberg , is documented ("ecclesia Hornufa") and archaeologically proven. The Irish-Scottish abbot Beatus von Honau transferred it to his Honau monastery in 778. It is not identical to the Horloffer Church. The village of Horloff ("villa Hornuffa") is first mentioned in 780 in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Codex .

A pleban and a chapel in Trais-Horloff are documented for the year 1263 . Little is known about the medieval chapel. It was originally as wide as the choir (6 meters) and 12.50 meters long. It may have been built in the 11th or 12th century. From an ecclesiastical point of view, she probably belonged to the Wetterau Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . The church was already a parish church in the pre-Reformation period and the towns of Inheiden and Utphe were branches.

With the introduction of the Reformation (after 1544) the place changed to the Protestant denomination. Ludwig Mesomylius (Mittelmüller) was the first Protestant pastor here until 1585. He was followed by Johannes Coberus von Sonnewalde (1585–1599). He was one of the students at the Laubach Latin School founded in 1555 . Before he took over the office of pastor in Trais-Horloff, he was a deacon in Laubach (1581–1584). His successor Georg Wild died in 1599. Philipp Pistorius von Laubach (1599–1608) was previously the second teacher at the Latin school in Laubach (1592–1599). Pastor Johannes Velten (Valentini) (* around 1580 in Großen-Linden ; † August 13, 1611 in Trais-Horloff) died at the age of 31.

In 1730 the nave was extended to the north by a half-timbered wall and provided with a roof turret. The church received new galleries and new chairs. From around 1735 to 1740 the old choir was converted into the current tower. The organ gallery and organ were installed in 1776. The south and west walls were renovated in 1822 and in 1869 the north wall was built in massive construction, as the wall made of wood and clay was pushed outwards. In the course of this, the staircase on the western outer side was torn down and internal stairs for the galleries were installed instead. A new altar was purchased and a wall was built between the nave and the choir. The rededication took place on October 24, 1869 in the presence of Count Otto zu Solms-Laubach and his son.

The helmet hood was renewed in 1903. Fires in 1921 and 1925 were initially smothered. On February 27, 1927, a lightning strike in the tower caused considerable damage to the roof and the organ. In 1960 the interior was radically redesigned. The church received a new altar, floor, lamps, new chairs and new heating. The windows were newly lead glazed. The inauguration took place on February 26, 1961.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish includes the villages of Trais-Horloff, Inheiden and Utphe. It belongs to the Deanery Hungen in the provost of Upper Hesse of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Tower crowning

The almost east-facing building on the original western edge of the old village is surrounded on three sides by a walled cemetery. The oldest parts are the remnants of a medieval base profile on the south wall and a small, re-exposed Gothic window in the west gable wall. The rectangular hall is closed by a hipped roof. Six arched windows, arranged on two levels, illuminate the interior. Another is installed above the canopy of the west portal. Since the renovations in the 19th century, the windows on the north and west sides have been designed in two parts and with sandstone walls, and in one piece on the south side.

The mighty east tower on a square floor plan is divided into two floors by a cornice. It has corner blocks and has two arched windows in the basement on the north and south sides and one arched window above the east portal. The upper floor has a sound arcade with arched arches on each of the three free-standing sides, above which the clock faces are attached. A curved monopitch roof leads from the cube-shaped, brick tower shaft to the shielded helmet structure. The two-storey slate dome is crowned by a tower knob with a wrought-iron cross and a weathercock.

Furnishing

Panoramic photo of the interior
Baroque pulpit

The interior of the ship is closed off by a flat ceiling with two longitudinal beams . They rest on three transoms supported by six octagonal wooden posts. The posts include the gallery running on three sides. The parapet has coffered panels that are painted with an ornamented frame. A round arched triumphal arch with cantilever plates ( carnies ) opens the choir to the ship. The basement of the tower is separated from the ship by a wooden wall with a door. On the upper floor of the tower, the organ is placed on the central axis behind a parapet.

The polygonal pulpit with octagonal sound cover dates from the 17th or early 18th century and is placed on the south corner of the triumphal arch. The wooden crucifix to the left of the pulpit is from the late Gothic period. The altar is flanked by two wooden chairs with openwork latticework. The simple wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.

organ

Organ from 1776

The single-manual organ was built in 1776 with 13 stops instead of a previous instrument. Johann Andreas Heinemann or Johann Friedrich Syer are accepted as organ builders . In the course of time various changes to the disposition took place. In 1842 Johann Georg Förster repaired the work , in 1864 Adam Karl Bernhard . The prospectus is structured according to the “Central German normal type”: The elevated central tower and the two outer towers are connected by flat pipe fields. In 1963/64 a restoration by the company Förster & Nicolaus took place. A vox humana was added to a free loop . Since then, the instrument has had eleven registers distributed over a manual and pedal, with a total of around 950 pipes. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – e 3
Dumped 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'

Bells

The tower houses a triple bell. A bell cast by Philipp Henrich Bach in 1858 was delivered in 1917 for armament. Two bells from 1738 (by Philipp Schweitzer, 0.68 meters in diameter) and from 1762 (Johann Philipp Bach, 0.57 meters in diameter) were melted down in 1929 after one of the two had cracked. The Rincker bell foundry cast three new bells. The two larger bells had to be delivered in World War II and were refilled by Rincker in 1954 with the same inscriptions and pitches. They sound in the Te Deum motif.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1954 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn 402 b 1 “ Those who fell for the fatherland: I gave my ore, they gave their hearts. "
2 1954 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn 258 of the 1st " Glory to God on high "
3 1930 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn 178 it 1 “ Pray and work. "

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. 868.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Reformation book of the Protestant parishes of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. (= Hessian People's Books. Vol. 31–36). 2nd Edition. Self-published, Friedberg 1917.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (arr.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 189 f.
  • Ulrich Schütte (Ed.): Churches and synagogues in the villages of the Wetterau. (= Wetterau history sheets 53 ). Verlag der Bindernagelschen Buchhandlung, Friedberg (Hessen) 2004, ISBN 3-87076-098-2 , p. 534 f.
  • Friedrich Prokosch: Festschrift and local chronicle for the 1200th anniversary of Trais-Horloff. Giessen 1980.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 398–401.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 178 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 190.
  2. ^ Prokosch: Festschrift and Ortschronik. 1980, p. 95.
  3. ↑ a b Prokosch: Festschrift and Ortschronik. 1980, p. 110.
  4. ^ Prokosch: Festschrift and Ortschronik. 1980, p. 105.
  5. ↑ Trais-Horloff. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 6, 2013 .
  6. ^ Diehl: Reformation book. P. 574.
  7. ^ Diehl: Reformation book. P. 368.
  8. ^ Diehl: Reformation book. Pp. 368, 373.
  9. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 179.
  10. ^ Prokosch: Festschrift and Ortschronik. 1980, p. 107.
  11. ^ Homepage of the parish , accessed on May 5, 2015.
  12. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 189 f.
  13. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 189.
  14. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 399.
  15. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 400.
  16. ^ 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. 922 f .
  17. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 400 f.
  18. ^ Prokosch: Festschrift and Ortschronik. 1980, p. 124.

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '48.1 "  N , 8 ° 54' 12.8"  E