Evangelical Church (Wermertshausen)

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Church in Wermertshausen from the west
Church facing south

The Evangelical Church in Wermertshausen , in the municipality of Ebsdorfergrund in central Hesse , is a Grade II listed timber-framed church . The hall church , built in 1755, has a three-sided choir closure and a hipped roof with a small roof turret .

history

In 1222 Wermertshausen was parish off to Ebsdorf. In the late medieval period, Wermertshausen was subordinate to the Sendgericht in Ebsdorf in the Amöneburg deanery, which was assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Wermertshausen changed from 1527, presumably under Weygandt Rauwenberg, pastor of Winnen , to the evangelical creed. The place was parish in 1577 after Winnen. The community adopted the Reformed faith under Landgrave Moritz in 1606, only to finally return to the Lutheran faith with his abdication in 1624.

In 1755 the place got its own church. Due to the poor condition, the regional church office recommended the demolition of the church in 1926, but this was not realized. During the renovation of the church in 1955, the church painter Karl Faulstich exposed the whitewashed gallery paintings again. The altar was replaced in the early 1980s.

Together with Nordeck and Winnen, the church formed a parish in the extreme southwest of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck by the end of 2011 . After 435 years, Wermertshausen was released from the parish of Winnen on January 1, 2012 and connected to the Protestant parish of Dreihausen / Heskem .

architecture

Entrance portal

The church on the north-eastern edge of the village is not east-facing, but rather faces south-south-east due to the two adjacent streets. The unplastered half-timbered church is covered by a crooked hip roof with tiles. The six-sided canopy ridge is completely slated. Six sound openings for the bells are let in above the low shaft. The curved hood is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock. Since the last renovation, the bell chamber still houses one bell, before that there were two bells.

The framework in simple post construction with uniform, high-rectangular compartments rises above a stone base to the eaves. The foot struts with counter struts on the corner posts extend through three of a total of four levels. The long sides are of the same design and in the south-eastern part of the church have mighty foot struts with counter struts through three levels that form six large triangles. The three surrounding bars are interrupted on the long sides by three rectangular windows each with lattice structure in the top two compartments. Below the eaves above the entrance door and in the choir there is a box-sized window.

The church is accessed through a rectangular wooden portal in the north-western gable side. The frame consists of two pilaster-like posts with crossbars and a protruding triangular gable. On a carved wooden plaque above the door, a twelve-pointed star can be seen in a circle, held by two soaring, two-tailed lions. The interpretation of this coat of arms-like ornamental field is unclear. Possibly it is the guild sign of a craftsman or the earlier sign of a restaurant. The building inscription reads: “This church was built by words: 22 man / Oh god read you were commanded to go out and in here / SOLI DEO GLORIA / In the year of God / ANNO 1755”. The gable triangle in the northwest is slated. Two small rectangular windows illuminate the attic.

Interior

Interior with a view of the organ gallery
pulpit

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. An angled gallery is built into the two east sides, which rests on wooden posts with bows . The gallery in the choir serves as the installation site for the organ and projects slightly forward in a trapezoidal shape. The panels of the cashed parapet are decorated with paintings from around 1780 showing the eleven apostles with their attributes, Christ as Salvator mundi , the fall of man , the crucifixion group and John the Baptist with six fingers. The simple representations in the rural style are not very vivid and not proportional; The paintings in the Bellnhausen church probably served as a model . The tablet above the altar bears the Bible verse from Rev 1,8  LUT and the tablet in the middle of the long side carries the word of Jesus from John 6,69  LUT . A board is painted with a bouquet of flowers.

The wooden altar table on a sandstone pedestal has replaced the earlier, larger altar since the early 1980s, which was removed for reasons of space. It was made according to a design by the Marburg architects Himmelmann. There is a three-nail type crucifix on the altar . The polygonal wooden pulpit is set up in the south. It rests on a square, articulated post with curved arches. The pulpit fields have narrow panels. The staircase is used a second time and was sawn to fit the church.

The floor is covered with slabs of red sandstone. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.

organ

Organ from 1984

An organ was installed in 1910 by the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus , which had five stops on one manual . Förster & Nicolaus created today's organ in 1984 behind the old prospectus . The instrument comprises six registers on a manual and pedal. The actions are mechanical. The organ has the following disposition :

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

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 941.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Helmuth K. Stoffers (Red.): District of Marburg-Biedenkopf II (communities Ebsdorfergrund, Fronhausen, Lohra and Weimar) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3550-0 , p. 263.
  • Markus Zink; Evangelical parish (ed.): The parish of Winnen. Church art history. A church leader. Evangelischer Medienverband, Kassel 2004, pp. 53–59.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 941.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Classen: The ecclesiastical organization of Althessen in the Middle Ages (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau , vol. 8). NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1929, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Wermertshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e zinc: The parish of Winnen. 2004, p. 54, online on the parish homepage , accessed on September 27, 2017.
  5. ^ Zinc: The parish of Winnen. 2004, p. 57.
  6. ↑ Oberhessische Presse of April 13, 2012: After 435 years, the common path ends , accessed on September 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen : District Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017, p. 263.
  8. ^ Zinc: The parish of Winnen. 2004, p. 53, online on the parish homepage , accessed on September 27, 2017.
  9. ^ Zinc: The parish of Winnen. 2004, p. 57, online on the parish homepage , accessed on September 27, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '48.35 "  N , 8 ° 54' 22.8"  O