Evangelical Church Altenhain (Laubach)

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Church from the southwest
Stair tower on the west side

The Evangelical Church in Altenhain , a district of Laubach in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), is a former school building from the years 1905/1906 in the style of historic castle building. The Hessian cultural monument is characterized by a richly designed east side with an open vestibule to the street and by the integrated staircase and bell tower on the south side.

history

In the Middle Ages Altenhain belonged to the parish of Bobenhausen II . In 1709 Altenhain became a branch of Sellnrod .

At the end of the 17th century, Altenhainer citizens were allowed to work as auxiliary workers ("winter teachers") in the winter months. When a local resident was hired year-round as a teacher in 1720, the main teacher from Bobenhausen occasionally carried out reading services. At the beginning of the 19th century worship were Kasualien held in a barn. Altenhain got its own teacher in 1810, who was commissioned to build a new school. The combination building of half-timbered with a gable roof initially consisted of two rooms, the “prayer room” with a gallery and the school hall. The teacher had an attic under the gable. The little ridge housed a bell. A few years later a school hall was added and the old one was converted into the teacher's apartment. The teacher received a cattle shed under the new hall. Around 1850, additional space was created with two gables . In 1951 the staircase was moved inwards and the entrance area enlarged.

The old chapel was dismantled in 1976 and demolished in 1980 and stored in Hessenpark . The old school was closed in 1969 and the building was taken over by the Protestant church. Church services have been held in the old school since 1975, after the vacant building was converted accordingly.

architecture

East side of the church
North side church

The two-storey building with a basement on a hillside is built in the village center. The hipped roof has a gable on the north side . Various building materials are used in the complex building. The base and the lower storey are made of rusticated quarry stone masonry made of basalt . All windows have red sandstone frames. The upper floor is plastered and has irregular corner blocks and isolated protruding basalt stones. The gables are slated.

The eastern side of the street is lavishly designed. In the center is an open entrance hall with a large basket arch and an arched window to the north under a pent roof. To the south, a round-arched glass entrance door leads into the entrance area, which has an arched window on the east side. A round arched archway connects to the north. A commemorative plaque is embedded in the outer wall behind it, reminding of the renovation: "Built by the Altenhain community in 1905-06". A triangular gable is built in front of the gable side to the south above the pent roof, including three rectangular windows.

The south side is characterized by the semicircular staircase and bell tower, which is integrated in the center of the building. Only in the lowest area does it have basalt and is otherwise plastered. A staircase made of red sandstone leads to the iron-studded rectangular entrance door under a canopy. The middle of the stair tower is illuminated by a rectangular window to the east, a twin window to the south and another rectangular window to the west, which rise with the course of the stairs. Above the cornice at eaves height of the hipped roof, three small rectangular twin windows are set in on three sides under a circumferential band of sandstone, and above the rectangular sound holes of the bell chamber. The tower houses two small bells from the Rincker company , a small, simple bell with the inscription "AD 1972" and a larger one with a flower frieze and the inscription "God alone, honor". The gable roof is crowned by a weathercock. It reaches the same height as the hip roof and is connected to it. The east south side has small square windows under a profiled sandstone cornice and a simple rectangular door in the basement with the cellar rooms, and six rectangular windows on the middle floor. On the outer wall there are three baroque tombstones from the 18th century. The western south side has a wide three-part arched window in the middle and two small rectangular windows under the eaves.

On the west side there are two small rectangular twin windows under the hips and a slightly larger rectangular twin window and a single rectangular window below. The north side has three broad arched windows with wedge-shaped keystones at the bottom and a rectangular twin and a rectangular triple window at the top.

Furnishing

Worship hall
Pulpit from the previous church

The church service hall on the middle floor is simply furnished and has individual wooden chairs. An altar table stands on a pedestal in front of a wood-paneled wall with a simple wooden cross in the middle. The oldest inventory item is the pulpit, which was taken over from the old church. From her the polygonal pulpit is still preserved, which has panels in two levels. An electronic organ is used to accompany the church singing. The former teacher's apartment on the upper floor is also used for community purposes.

literature

  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 575.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 277.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 18 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Lang (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. 2008, p. 277.
  2. ↑ Altenhain. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 17, 2014 .
  3. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 575.
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg (ed.), Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 , p. 60.
  6. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 19.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 12.8 ″  E