Evangelical Church Abterode

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Evangelical Church Abterode

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Abterode , a district of Meißner in the Werra-Meißner district in North Hesse .

History and architecture

The church of the Benedictines - Abbetesrode Propstei, founded in 1077, was a three-aisled column basilica with six arcades . It was the oldest Romanesque church in the Meißner foreland , but the Kassel consistory ordered a new building due to irreparable damage. It was therefore demolished in 1867 and replaced by the current church from 1867 to 1868, which was essentially based on plans by the Eschweg master builder Carl. A model of the former monastery church is in the aisle of the new building.

Today's church is a historicizing building in the classical tradition with Romanizing, but also Gothicizing forms. The spatial effect is good. The organ of the three-aisled gallery was built by Gustav Wilhelm in 1868/69. Only a few medieval building structures have survived, for example an old column base from the previous building in the anteroom of the church. Under the choir there is a walled-over crypt with the remains of an Abteröder bailiff who died in 1716. During the renovation in the second half of the 20th century, the interior of the church was redesigned to purify it.

Interior

  • The original baptismal font was discovered in a courtyard in the village in the 1950s and after it was reprocessed it was placed back in the church choir.
  • The three bells, the oldest cast around 1400, also come from the previous church.
  • The crucifix in the aisle was donated in 1916 by the daughter of a doctor.

organ

The organ on the west gallery, built in 1868/69 by Gustav Wilhelm , the last electoral Kassel “court organ builder”, has 23 stops (originally 21 and two vacant) and 1300 pipes, making it the largest organ in a village church in the entire Eschwege parish . It contains a large part of the original substance, because Wilhelm used more than 90 percent of the pipes of the previous baroque instrument from the demolished church; missing pipes could be replaced by original Wilhelm pipes from another organ. The prospectus is in the baroque tradition, divided into three towers with two fields. The organ was restored in 2002 by the organ builder Werner Bosch from Niestetal . The two manuals have a range from C to f 3 (54 notes), the pedal from C to d¹ (27 notes). The pitch is a semitone over a = 440 Hz at 18 .

The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viola da gamba 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture 4-fold rep. at c ′ to 4 ′, 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′, 2 ′, 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Trumpet 8 ′ (more recent)
Cimbel 2-fold originally vacant, according to the elevation
from c ° 1-fold, from c '2-fold reg.
II Hinterwerk C – f 3
Darling Dumped 8th'
Flauto Traverso 8th'
Salicional 8 ′ (from Treysa)
Principal 4 ′ (from Treysa)
Gemshorn 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Octave 2 ′ (from Treysa, originally vacant)
Pedal C – d 1
Violon 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
violoncello 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hesse 1, Gießen and Kassel administrative districts . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Abterode  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Markus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape II . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 1 .
  2. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen 1, Gießen and Kassel administrative districts . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 1
  3. ↑ New building with old traces: The house of God in Abterode , in: Werra-Rundschau , April 22, 2019 , with photo of the organ (accessed on February 7, 2020)
  4. ↑ For disposition and technical data, see here
  5. ^ Werner Bosch organ building: Ev. Church in Abterode , accessed March 10, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 11 ″  E