Evangelical Church (Wallernhausen)

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Church in Wallernhausen from the north-west
South side

The Evangelical Church in Wallernhausen , a district of Nidda in the Wetteraukreis ( Hesse ), is a baroque hall church from 1740. The church with a three-sided east end and hooded ridge is a Hessian cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons .

history

From an ecclesiastical point of view, the parish church belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Middle Ages . In the late Middle Ages Wallernhausen was the mother church of the Fauerbach church . In 1359 Wallernhausen was an independent parish. A restoration of the altar in 1968 confirmed that a previous building already existed in the 15th century. In 1493 the right of patronage was given to the Johanniterkommende in Nidda .

With the introduction of the Reformation Wallernhausen switched to the Protestant creed. The first evangelical pastor was Bechtold Ringshausen from 1527 to 1561, who belonged to the Order of St. John until 1527 and then administered the St. John's House in Nidda. The Kollatur had until 1585 held the Knights of Nida, after Ludwig IV. , Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg and after his death, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. From the 16th century until 1852, the parish Wallernhausen included the places Fauerbach, Ober-Lais and Glashütten as well as the Streithain settlement. After Abpfarrung of Ober-Lais (with Nebensorten) in 1856 Waller Hausen and Fauerbach form a parish .

The medieval church was replaced by a baroque building in 1738–1740.

In 1901 an extensive interior renovation took place, during which the choir stalls, the sacristy, the gallery staircase and the parapet paintings as well as the windows were renovated. Since the two middle wooden posts were rotten in the lower area, they were replaced by stone. The painter Hartmann from Camberg painted the church ceiling. The cost of the entire renovation amounted to 5,000 marks.

architecture

Polygonal east end
Rincker bell from 1949

The roughly east- facing small hall church is made of white-plastered quarry stone masonry northeast of the old village center. Only the walls of the windows and the portal made of red sandstone as well as the corner blocks on the choir are left out of the plaster.

On the west side, a two-storey hooded roof turret rises above the hipped roof. On the eight-sided bell storey with round-arched sound openings and the clock face of the tower clock on the south side, a smaller lantern is attached, which is crowned by a tower knob, a decorated cross and a weathercock. The previous church already housed bells that were cast in 1590. In 1784 Johann Philipp and Johann Peter Bach cast a new bell that has not been preserved. Today, three bronze bells from the Rincker brothers , Sinn, hang in the roof turret, which were cast in 1949 as a replacement for the bells delivered in the Second World War. One of the two bells on the first floor bears the inscription “EHRE SEI GOTT IN DER HÖHE”. The second continues the Bible verse: "PEACE ON EARTH" ( Lk 2,14  LUT ). The third bell is hung on the second floor. The bells have the pitches d 2 , e 2 and f sharp 2 .

The church is accessed through two central portals in the south and west with profiled walls. A small rectangular window is set in each case. On the south side, two large, tall rectangular windows flank symmetrically. The north side and the three-sided end of the choir each have three large, rectangular windows.

Furnishing

Baroque pulpit
Interior to the east
Evangelists on the west gallery

The church furnishings come from the Baroque era (galleries, pulpit, organ prospectus , stalls). The flat ceiling is supported by two longitudinal beams that rest on two round columns in the west, which include the gallery. A simple circle of stucco decorates the middle ceiling field above the east and west gallery.

The three-sided gallery on bulging pillars bears parapet paintings in 26 panels, which Ernst Pauli created in 1746. The rectangular representation of the Lord's Supper above the altar is emphasized by its double width; all other paintings are upright. In the west the Last Judgment , Luther, Moses and the four evangelists are depicted , on the long side in the north Christ and the twelve apostles and in the east six New Testament scenes (baptism of Jesus, last supper, crucifixion, burial, resurrection and Pentecost). The paintings on the west and north gallery have signatures with the name of the person concerned. In the biblical scenes in the short galleries, the respective biblical passage is given. The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The wooden church stalls have carved cheeks.

The masonry altar has a protruding plate to which a wooden crucifix is attached. A rotated column of a remodeled lectern from 1611 serves as the stand for the baptismal bowl, with a pentagram carved into its square base .

The polygonal wooden pulpit from the baroque era is predominantly in shades of blue caught . The strongly profiled cornice wreaths with a surrounding frieze and crankings are partly gilded or painted in red. The pulpit rests on a marbled cup-shaped foot. Between the twisted free columns with gilded bases and capitals , the pulpit fields have high rectangular panels, the gilded profiles of which are bevelled at the top. The painted fillings show flower arrangements in front of a round arch. The eight-sided sound cover also has a cranked cornice wreath with a frieze and openwork tendrils above it and turned columns. The volute crown is crowned by a gilded pelican who nourishes his young with the blood from his chest, a symbol of Christ who sacrifices himself for his community.

organ

Historical organ prospect from the 18th century

The organ was taken over from the previous building in the new church. It came from Johannes Bien from Blankenau and was made before 1720. "After it was completely ruined by a vagabond", Johann Friedrich Syer restored it in 1747. It had seven registers on a manual and pedal . The five-part prospectus has an elevated polygonal central tower, which is flanked by two low pipe flat fields. There are two pointed towers outside. The pipe fields are decorated above with veil boards made of openwork acanthus work. Profiled cornices crown the towers and flat fields. The lateral blind wings have angel heads. Grape hangings carry the consoles of the pointed towers and another angel's head supports the central tower console. The background is painted with red roses. Curved consoles lead over to the narrower lower case.

In 1906, the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau built a new side-playful work with twelve stops on two manuals and pedal behind the baroque prospectus on pneumatic cone chests. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Bourdun 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Progr. Harmonia II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ +2 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Darling Covered 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, super octave coupling II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 3 fixed combinations (piano, mezzoforte, forte), trigger

literature

  • Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 297-299 .
  • Georg Dehio , Folkhard Cremer a. a .: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 794.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (= Hassia sacra. Volume 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 351–353.
  • Wilhelm Diehl: Hessen-Darmstädtisches Pastor and Schoolmaster Book (= Hassia sacra. Volume 1). Self-published, Darmstadt 1921, p. 340 f.
  • Siegfried RCT Enders; Ottfried Dascher (ed.): The cultural monuments in Nidda and its districts. Nidda 1992, 249-292.
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). Elwert, Marburg 1937, reprint 1984, p. 35.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Siegfried RCT Enders, Christoph Mohr (arrangement): Architectural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis I. (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , p. 356.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Wallernhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Architectural monuments in Hesse. 1982, p. 356.
  2. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1937, p. 35.
  3. ^ Wallernhausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  4. ^ Diehl: Hessen-Darmstädtisches Pastor and Schoolmaster Book. 1921, p. 340.
  5. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 794.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 351.
  7. ↑ Enders: The cultural monuments in Nidda and its districts. 1992, p. 270.
  8. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , pp. 48, 85, 310-311.
  9. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . 1988, p. 9532
  10. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . 1988, p. 953.

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '39.1 "  N , 9 ° 1' 2.88"  E