Evangelical Church (Weickartshain)

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West side of the church
South elevation of the church

The Evangelical Church in Weickartshain , a district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), is a hall church that was built from 1931 to 1932 in the style of historicism . With its six-sided roof turret, the church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the Middle Ages, Weickartshain was a branch of Flensungen and assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Johann in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1526, Grünberg and the Weickartshain parish changed to the Protestant creed. With the resignation of Pastor Erasmus von Flensungen in 1553, the parish with its branches in Ilsdorf , Stockhausen and Weickartshain was reorganized and Flensungen was united with Merlau .

Because of the ties to the mother community, the residents of the branch villages had to attend church and school in Flensungen. It was not until around 1660 that a “winter teacher” was allowed to teach the youngest classes in Weickartshain during the winter months. This makes the existence of a school of their own likely. According to another opinion, the lessons took place in the teachers' homes. In 1690 or before 1685 Weickartshain had its own schoolmaster who was responsible for the Merlau pastor. In 1757 a new school was built, which fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 19th century and was sold in 1845. As a replacement, a 1837 half-timbered building , a former farmer Hofreite from Great Oaks purchased and after Weick Arts grove translocated . In 1825 the place received the right to be buried in its own cemetery. In 1840 a “morgue” was added to the new school, which also served as a “prayer room”. The schoolteacher held services here, and from 1844 onward pastors occasionally. The half-timbered chapel over a solid stone plinth on an almost square floor plan was united with the school by a shared saddle roof. It was only 58 square meters and offered 60 seats on the women's benches and a further 60 seats in the men's galleries. In 1842 a roof turret with a bell and a pointed helmet was added to the chapel, and in 1854 a second bell from Laubach was added. Weickartshain was given the right to celebrate the sacrament in 1844 and the right to baptize and marry in 1855. In the first few years the pastor from Lardenbach carried out the Lord's Supper, from 1852 the pastor from Merlau. The school teacher has held a Sunday afternoon service in Weickartshain since at least 1866, and the Merlau pastor every two weeks since 1877. The community purchased a harmonium in 1886 , which the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus supplied. Before that, the teacher had accompanied the church singing on the violin. In 1891 the roof turret was renewed.

Collections for a new church were made from 1903, a church building association was founded in 1904 and a new school was inaugurated in 1906. On 11/12 May 1931 the combination building was demolished and the construction of the new church began at the same place with the laying of the foundation stone on July 12, 1931. Heinrich Walbe played a key role in the plans. The inauguration followed on October 30, 1932. In the late 1930s the church was paid off. The separation from Merlau happened gradually and the connection to Lardenbach finally only in 1979.

During the renovation in 1977/1978, the interior was painted to brighten the inventory items that were framed in black. The tower and entrance portal were re-slated in 1978 and the roof was repaired. Another renovation followed in 1991/1992.

architecture

Six-sided roof ridge

The roughly east-facing hall church made of unplastered quarry stone masonry made of basalt on a rectangular floor plan is built a little higher in the center of the village. The draft Hochbauamt pouring in historicizing Heimatstil leaned against the church in Blitzenrod , which was built in 1926 to plans by Heinrich Walbe. Both designs take up the formal language of 18th century village churches.

A two-tier roof turret is attached to the steep, slated gable roof in the west. The six-sided bell house has rectangular sound holes and the clock face of the tower. The hood is designed in baroque forms, which widens towards the top and is crowned by a knob, a wrought-iron cross and a weathercock. Two small dormers are placed on each side of the gable roof.

The west side has a porch. In the east corner of the south wall, the walls of a portal are incorporated so that a breakthrough for a second entrance can be created here later if necessary. The yellow plaster is typical of the region. In some places the stones from Weickartshain cracked and were replaced. The gray plaster indicates the repair measures. The interior is lit on the long sides through three high, narrow rectangular windows in the neoclassic style with irregular walls.

Furnishing

Interior facing east
Altar and pulpit

The interior is closed off by a white, coffered flat ceiling. The interior is largely made of wood. The three principal pieces altar, pulpit and organ stand behind and on top of each other on the central axis according to the Wiesbaden program . The wooden gallery runs on three sides. The gallery benches extend beyond the altar area so that a choir is avoided. In the west, a transverse girder is supported by two four-sided wooden posts that include the west gallery . The north gallery also rests on a four-sided support, while a pulpit wall is built in to the east, which separates the sacristy . The wall in the area of ​​the pulpit is not straight, but has a bulge towards the rear. The rear wall of the pulpit rises above the organ gallery and is closed off by a polygonal sound cover. It is bulged to the rear and is flanked at the side by two tablets with inscriptions with Bible words from Ps 103,1–2  LUT and Joh 8,31–32  LUT . The coffered pulpit fields and the pulpit staircase are subtly decorated with painted garlands. In the further course of the east gallery medallions with depictions of the four evangelists are painted. In the far south on the pulpit wall there are four memorial plaques for those who fell in the two world wars. The parapets of the west and north gallery have tendril ornaments in the style of the 17th century. A wooden panel on the opposite side of the pulpit wall under the north gallery is reminiscent of the church building. Biblical verses, especially the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount , are painted on the fields in between .

The baptismal font, a pewter bowl with a three-legged wooden stand, and the wooden block altar are movable. On the altar there is a wooden crucifix of the three-nail type . The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free. To the north of the altar, two pews are set across.

organ

Free pipe prospect of the organ from 1932

In the new church there was initially a harmonium , which was taken over from the previous building and which had been purchased in 1922. In 1933 an organ from the Aug. Laukhuff company was built by Georg Schlosser from Nieder-Ohmen . The instrument with a free-pipe prospect based on a design by Walbe from 1932 had five registers distributed over a manual and pedal. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus created a new work in 1981/1982 including the prospectus and four registers from the old organ. Were supplemented mixture and a subwoofer . The cost was 65,400.30 DM. The instrument has six stops on a manual and pedal. Another register is prepared for expansion. The disposition is as follows:

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

Bells

The old chapel received a bell from Barthels and Mappes from Frankfurt am Main in 1842, and a second from Laubach in 1854, weighing 216 pounds. Both are not preserved. After a piece popped out of the larger bell in 1910, it was replaced in the same year. The new bell bore the inscription "A strong castle is our God" and had to be delivered in 1917 for war purposes. A smaller bell was confiscated in 1941 and replaced in 1949.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 1949 Bachert 775 c 2 " Faith - Hope - Love [Lutherrose] In memory of the victims of the war 1939–45 " Evangelical Church Weickartshain bell 01.JPG
2 1931 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn 670 it 2 " A strong castle is our God " Evangelical Church Weickartshain bell 02.JPG

literature

  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 476.
  • Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 350 years of the Evangelical Church in Lardenbach. 75 years Protestant church Weickartshain, 25 years Protestant church Stockhausen. Self-published, Lardenbach 2007.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 256 f.
  • Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the greater community of Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, pp. 61-64.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 357.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 186 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Weickartshain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 257.
  2. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 62.
  3. ↑ Weickartshain. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 31, 2014 .
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 186.
  5. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 41.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 476.
  7. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 34.
  8. ↑ a b Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 64.
  9. ↑ a b Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 187.
  10. ↑ a b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 256.
  11. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 39.
  12. ↑ a b Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 24.
  13. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 1007, p. 23.
  14. ^ 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. 960 f .
  15. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 25 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 56.6 ″  E