Evangelical Church (Wissenbach)

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Church in Wissenbach from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Wissenbach , a district of Eschenburg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a brick church in the neo-Gothic style . The short central nave with a high roof turret has a five-eighth end . Due to the two transepts, the building looks like a cruciform church from the outside and like a central building on the inside. The Hessian cultural monument , which characterizes the site , was completed in 1881.

history

The Dietzhölztal must have been Christianized as early as the 8th century , presumably by the Iroschottische Church . There are no certificates. When in the Merovingian - Carolingian times the area around Wissenbach was organized under Boniface around the year 740 in the Roman Catholic sense, the already baptized princes were asked to recognize the Roman Catholic priests and bishops and to support their work. The baptistery in Haiger was the starting point for this. Around 1450 a parish was established in Frohnhausen , whose mother church was visited by the Wissenbachers.

A "Capell zu Wissenbach" is documented for the year 1512, which was built on Dillenburger Strasse and was 7.20 m long and 5.40 m wide. At the end of the Middle Ages, Wissenbach was assigned to the deanship of Haiger and the archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier .

When the Reformation was introduced in the county of Nassau-Dillenburg from 1530 , Wissenbach remained in the parish of Frohnhausen. Around 1575 the parish changed to the Reformed Confession .

The church was lengthened by 7.80 m in 1750. The cost of the extension was 1305 florins and 29 albus . In 1773 Manderbach and 1818 Nanzenbach were added to the parish of Frohnhausen .

The Wiesbaden mountain church served as a model for Wissenbach.

Half the place, around 100 buildings including the church, fell victim to the great village fire on May 7, 1879. On July 26, 1880, the foundation stone was laid for a new church 150 m further west. The plans were made by architect Hofmann from Herborn, who took the Wiesbaden mountain church from 1879 as a model. The Wissenbach Church was inaugurated on July 20, 1881 by the Wiesbaden Consistorial Councilor Ohlig. The construction costs amounted to 16,150 marks, of which 13,450 marks were reimbursed by the fire insurance. Collections from the surrounding communities brought in 900 marks. The community, impoverished after the fire, raised 913 marks of the remaining 1,800 marks. An application for a government grant in the amount of the remaining amount of 887 marks was rejected.

Renovated parish hall

The church received a tower clock in 1890. The first weddings were held in Wissenbach in 1899. In 1911 the place and the church were electrified. In 1920, Wissenbach received an "assistant preacher position". 1954 Frohnhausen was connected to Manderbach parish, while Wissenbach and Nanzenbach were raised to an independent parish based in Nanzenbach. In 1967, Wissenbach was connected to the parish of Eiershausen by the parish. The rectory was built in Wissenbach.

The church was painted white in 1963; this measure was reversed in 1993. In 1968 the church was renovated and in 1976 a parish hall was built. In 2006, an estate made it possible to install an additional organ register. To protect the pipes from being out of tune, a wooden shutter was attached to the eastern choir window.

From 2014 to 2016 the parish hall was rebuilt and extensively renovated and in 2017/2018 it was given a large canopy.

architecture

The choir polygon from the east
View from the north

The unplastered church made of red bricks on a cross-shaped floor plan is built in the southeast of the village on the Bezirksstraße. It is not geosted , but oriented to the north-east according to the course of the road. The five-eighth end has the same height as the short central nave and the two transepts. In front of the gable of the central nave in the south-west is a drawn-in and low extension for the original entrance, which serves as a staircase. In front of it, a small vestibule with an arched portal and pent roof is built in the north-west .

A surrounding cornice divides the outer walls into two levels. The corners of the building have stepped buttresses . The polygonal choir is illuminated through three windows with blunt pointed arches, which are flanked by two blind windows. The two transepts have steep gables, which are crowned by a stone cross. In the lower area of ​​the gable ends there are two very narrow windows, above the cornice there are two pointed arch windows in niches with blunt pointed arches and above a round screen and three narrow windows in the gable triangle.

The roof landscape is completely slated. The high eight-sided roof turret has rectangular sound openings for the bells in the lower area. Four small ornamental gables rise above it, on the north-east of which the clock face of the tower clock is attached. An octagonal tower pommel and a decorated cross are attached to the slender pointed helmet.

In 1976, the parish hall was added to the southeast, giving access to the church. A large glass canopy from 2018 creates a protected meeting area in the courtyard in front of the parish hall.

Furnishing

Interior with a view of the choir

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling. In accordance with the reformed tradition, the interior is simply designed. Four large arches open the crossing ships to the community room, giving the impression of a central building. The wooden church furnishings from the construction period in gray color have largely been preserved. With the exception of the choir, galleries are built in on the other three sides, which have coffered parapets with high rectangular fields. On the south-eastern choir arch, the polygonal pulpit is set up on an octagonal base, the pulpit fields also have rectangular panels. The old church stalls are decorated with a three-pass on the cheeks . Instead of an altar, there is a modern table with a cross in the choir. The choir polygon serves as the installation site for the organ.

organ

Steinmeyer organ from 1954

In 1954 GF Steinmeyer & Co. built an organ with a free pipe prospect as Opus 1869 , after the congregation chant was accompanied by a harmonium for decades . In 2006 Orgelbau Hardt built a Salicional 8 ′ as an additional register. The back-playing instrument has eight registers that are distributed on a manual and pedal . The wooden pedal pipes of the subbass ' are placed behind the three choir walls. The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
mixture 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Bells

The Gothic chapel had a small bell, which was replaced by a new bell in 1729. It bore the inscription "God is my salvation, God is my honor" and had a diameter of 0.60-0.75 m. The church tower from 1881 houses two bells from the start. A first bell was donated by the Rincker bell foundry and rang in a makeshift wooden bell cage. The original bells were delivered to the armaments industry in the two world wars and have not survived. A bell melted down in 1917 was replaced in 1921 by the Rincker company (Sinn). In 1951 the same company replaced a bell that had been delivered during World War II.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1921 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn 695 C # 2 "I was given away for the fatherland
, rose from the ruins to give new life."
2 1951 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn 585 E 2 "O land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord."

literature

  • Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelical Church Wissenbach 1881–1981. Eschenburg-Wissenbach 1981.
  • Sieghilde House: History of the first Wissenbach chapel. In: Home yearbook for the country on the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district. Vol. 46, 1996, ISSN  0939-5180 , pp. 243-255.
  • 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. Volume 16). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 168.
  • Heinz Wionski (edit.): Architectural monuments in Hessen Lahn-Dill-Kreis I (formerly Dillkreis) . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-528-06234-7 , p. 160-163 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ Hilda Weg: Christianity in the Earliest Times , accessed on June 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 7].
  4. ↑ Wionski (Ed.): Monuments in Hesse Lahn-Dill I. 1986, p 168.
  5. ↑ Wissenbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 8th].
  7. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 13].
  8. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 9].
  9. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 25].
  10. ↑ a b Homepage of the parish: renovation work , accessed on June 18, 2019.
  11. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 33].
  12. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wissenbach (Ed.): Evangelische Kirche Wissenbach 1881–1981. 1981, [p. 27].

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 22.55 "  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 30.86"  E