Evangelical Church Albach

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North side of the Albacher Church
Interior to the east

The Protestant church is a listed church building in Albach , a district of the Fernwald community in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ).

The hall building with a slim roof turret was built from 1773/74 to a design by the Lich building manager Rockstroh. It shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In terms of church, Ober-Albach originally belonged to the Winnerod parish , but gained independence in the 14th century. There is evidence of a first chapel in Albach for the year 1332, which was built on the site of today's church or in its vicinity. With the introduction of the Reformation , Albach switched to the evangelical confession in the first half of the 1530s. In the further course, the affiliation changed several times. In 1617 Albach was raised to an independent parish.

The Thirty Years War had badly affected the Church. Various restoration measures are attested between 1632 and 1656. So in 1639 the glass windows and in 1648/49 the belfry were renewed and in 1650 new church stalls were purchased. In 1696 a comprehensive renovation was carried out for 220 guilders. A first organ was installed in 1735.

After the church had become more and more fragile and susceptible to repair in the course of the 18th century, the community decided to build a new one. A vaulted keystone with ribs has been preserved from the old church . Today's church was built in 1773/74 as a successor to the medieval church according to plans by the Lich building manager Rockstroh and was inaugurated on October 23, 1774. The old masonry altar was partly taken over.

Albach has been parish at the Evangelical Church of Steinbach since 1838 . In 1866, the spire was extensively renovated because the wood was partially rotten, again in 1929 when a new clock with four dials was installed. An interior renovation followed in 1897 when the parapet paintings were refreshed. A coke oven was installed in 1896 because the organist refused to play the organ in the cold church. The oil hot air oven was followed by radiant heaters, which were replaced by electric heating in 1987.

The church was electrified in 1928 and the interior was renovated from 1950 to 1953. Three new bells including the belfry and electrical Läutvorrichtung were purchased in 1958, the medieval rooftops 1959 by Rincker in mind recast to reflect the new bells. The renovation measures between 1968 and 1974 included the renovation of the roof turret, which was given a copper dome. In 1972 the church was re-plastered and the color version from 1774 was restored by Kurt Scriba.

architecture

Interior to the west

The approximately east- facing single-nave aisle church on a rectangular floor plan stands on an elevated site on the north-western edge of the town. The quarry stone masonry is plastered white and is closed off by a crooked roof. On the east side is the three-storey, fully slated roof turret. The cube-shaped basement serves as a bell cage and has two narrow sound holes on all four sides . The octagonal middle storey leads over a curved monopitch roof to a small octagonal upper part, which is crowned by a small pointed helmet with a tower button, cross and weathercock. Two arched portals on the south and west side with walls made of Lungstein allow access. A small round window is installed above each of them. Three large arched windows on the north wall and two on the south wall illuminate the church, which has no gable ends.

Furnishing

Polygonal pulpit
Hisgen picture: The Transfiguration of Christ

The interior is completed by a vaulted ceiling, which is decorated in the four corners by medallions with angel and flower motifs, which the Licher master Daniel Hisgen created.

Wooden galleries are built in on all four sides, resting on marble painted Tuscan columns with small, curved arches . The short north gallery is not continuous, as the pulpit and the parish chair are attached here. The two supports for the roof turret include the east gallery. Oil paintings by Daniel Hisgen with 19 depictions from the Old Testament and 13 scenes from the New Testament hang on the gallery parapets , seven on the organ gallery and 25 on the main gallery. Subtitles explain the images; only two remain unsigned. Clouds on them represent the nothing out of which God created everything. It is said that the bourgeois community acquired it in Frankfurt. The rise of images show people in contemporary costumes of the Rococo . The cheeks and parapets of the church stalls and the parish chair are painted with beautiful flower arrangements, which also come from Hisgen.

The octagonal pulpit with an octagonal base and coffered panels is placed on the north side and dates from the time the church was built. The profiled sound cover with crowning, gilded tendrils is held by a large, forged, strongly stylized swan. Access to the pulpit is provided by an attached parish chair , which also serves as a sacristy . It has rectangular windows in the upper area. A large Luther painting from 1983 is hung above it. Instead of the walled up the altar now stands a wooden table in front of the east gallery, on which a crucifix of the three-nail type is. A four-sided, wooden baptismal stand from the second half of the 18th century has an eight-sided top.

organ

Förster organ from 1863

The left-hand parapet organ was created in 1863 by Johann Georg Förster behind a neo-Romanesque prospect for 1225  florins in the east above the altar. The prospectus has three vertical pipe fields, the middle of which is elevated. Four passes form the upper end of the fields . The housing is crowned by a battlement frieze. The instrument has eight registers on a manual and pedal, cone chests and a mechanical action . In 1979 it was overhauled by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . The fully received disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Quinta tones 16 ′
2. Violin principal 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th Dolce 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Flauto-dolce 4 ′
7th Acuta IV 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
8th. 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. 3.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 393 f.
  • Richard Koch: Albach and his church. In: Photo and history book of the district Albach. Published on the occasion of the 750th anniversary in 1989. Fernwald 1989, pp. 83–96.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 98 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 2–3.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 6 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 99.
  2. ↑ a b c Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 6.
  3. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 392.
  4. ^ Koch: Illustrated and history volume of the district of Albach. 1989, p. 83.
  5. ↑ Ober-Albach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 22, 2013 .
  6. ^ Koch: Illustrated and history volume of the district of Albach. 1989, p. 87 f.
  7. ^ Koch: Illustrated and history volume of the district of Albach. 1989, p. 90.
  8. ↑ a b Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1939, p. 2.
  9. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 7.
  10. ^ Dehio, Cremer: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen I. 2008, p. 3.
  11. ^ Koch: Illustrated and history volume of the district of Albach. 1989, p. 86.
  12. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 28 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 15.7 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 40.5 ″  E