Evangelical Church Atzbach

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Church from the west

The Evangelical Church in Atzbach is a hall church in the style of early classicism in Atzbach , a district of the municipality of Lahnau in Hesse. The transverse church was consecrated in 1767 and has a tower from 1899 on the north side. The Hessian cultural monument is now part of the Protestant parish of Atzbach-Dorlar.

history

Tower renewed in 1899

"The chapel with churchyard built in the village of Atzbach" was first mentioned in 1337. The chaplain of the Dorlar monastery had to read two masses here every week. The previous building, a Gothic church, was demolished in 1765. Today's church building took two and a half years to build. Julius Ludwig Rothweil and Friedrich Joachim Stengel were commissioned as architects . The foundation stone was laid on April 24, 1765, the topping-out ceremony on September 2, 1766 and the inauguration on November 8, 1767. Two bells from 1686 ( Dilman Schmid ) and 1743 were taken over from the previous building. Until 1783 the new building had no organ. The teacher acted as cantor and cantor on a special desk. The two bells were replaced in 1850 by a new three-ring bell from Philipp Rincker . Due to dilapidation, the tower structure was demolished in 1899 and rebuilt in a new and higher form. The bells were melted down in the two world wars to extract raw materials for weapons and replaced by two new Rincker bells in 1951 .

The church was renovated from 1960 to 1963 and 1996/1997. Eleven windows were replaced, the floor was newly paved, the seating was replaced and the altar area redesigned. During the organ restoration in 1997/1998, the church painter Karl-Bernd Beierlein exposed floral paintings on the case. The rich painting in the late Renaissance style from 1637 was well preserved under several versions .

The Protestant parishes of Atzbach and Dorlar are connected by parish offices and belong to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Building description

South side

The church is on the northern edge of the original village on a slope. It is surrounded by a cemetery, which is no longer used today and whose wall enclosure is only partially preserved.

The church is a symmetrical hall structure, which is designed as a transverse church and is closed by a hipped roof. There are five large arched windows on the south wall and two on the north wall, and three more on the east and west walls. The church tower is located in the center of the north side. The honeycomb-shaped glass panes have a light gray tint. Inside, the north wall has three blind arches of the same size as the windows. The church is accessed on the narrow sides in the east and west through portals with arches under the middle window. An inscription can be read above the north portal: "With the praise of God let this house resound [or: and] broadly for salvation the deeds of Jesus".

The 37 meter high church tower on the north side consists of the bricked lower part and the slated, wooden tower structure. The tower originally ended with a slated Welschen hood over a lantern . The cube-shaped bell storey houses three bronze bells from the Rincker company , a small one from 1921 and two larger ones from 1951. Four triangular gables lead over to the octagonal pointed helmet , which is crowned by a bronze ball , a wrought-iron rosette with a entwined cross and a gilded weathercock with a star.

Furnishing

Pelican above the pulpit
Altar and pulpit on the north wall
Gallery picture: The Good Shepherd

Inside the church, the altar and pulpit by master carpenter Jakob Amend from Großrechtebach are in the center of the room on the north wall in front of the central blind arch on a pedestal with a baluster parapet. The block altar is made of wood, which is painted in granite patterns and finished with a slab of black marble . On the altar is a wooden, late Gothic crucifix , the body of which comes from the Baroque period and was taken over from the previous building.

Above the altar is the bulged pulpit with a large sound cover , which is decorated with gold-plated tassels . A pelican is enthroned on its top and nourishes its young with its blood, a symbol of Christ who sacrifices himself for his community. The pulpit is accessible from the rear via a staircase in the tower. The pulpit fields of the octagonal pulpit cage are structured by decorative profiles.

On the walls outside the altar wall there is a three-sided gallery with seats. The 43 parapet pictures by Daniel Hisgen from 1767 show 18 scenes from the Old Testament and 25 from the New Testament from the creation of the world to the conversion of Paul. Subtitles indicate the scene and cite the relevant Bible passage. Comparable to the pictures by Christoph Murer from the Tübingen Bible (edited by Georg Gruppenbach , 1591), they served as a poor Bible . The pews also created Jacob Amend. An old church chair has been preserved under the south window.

A baroque tombstone made of red marble for Margarete Hasslocher († 1705) is placed on the southern outer wall. The crown of life can be seen above the two family crests. Further grave monuments on the south wall commemorate the victims of the two world wars. The memorial in front of it, a framed aedicula with an incised drawing, dates from 1923.

organ

View of the west gallery

On the west wall is the organ, built in 1637, which was purchased second-hand from the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt in 1783/1784 . Originally the instrument was probably single-manual and had wing doors on the side; the locations for the hinge devices can still be seen. Johannes Peter Rühl set up the organ in the Atzbach church and, according to his own statement, changed the disposition on an inscription on the case : “But I broke it off there and set it up again here, and much of it was redesigned as a manual and pedal piano, as well as a violi de gamba and still quite a few wooden pipes. I also removed 2 inches and 5 inches from the height. ”The instrument was then repaired and rebuilt several times. In 1842 organ builder Loos from Siegen carried out a repair, in 1886 Johann Georg Förster proposed a new building (I / P / 11). The tin prospect pipes were delivered to the armaments industry in 1917 and replaced by silver-painted wooden mock-ups. Around 1935 an electric fan was installed. During a renovation by Orgelbau Hardt from Möttau, the wooden pipes were replaced by zinc pipes. In 1997/1998 Förster & Nicolaus restored the organ and brought it back to the state of the church consecration. In the course of this, floral paintings on the housing were exposed, the wind bellows stored in the attic of the church were reinstalled and the original arrangement was restored. The organ now has twelve registers with a total of 1020 pipes. Five registers have been reconstructed, seven historical registers have been preserved. In the five-part prospectus of excessive central circular tower of two equally high flat fields flanked, on which two trumpet -blowing angels are attached. The central tower is crowned by a crowned eagle, the coat of arms of the city of Frankfurt.

Manual C – c 3
Principal 8th' FN
Gedact 8th' A.
Hollow flute 8th' R.
Gamba 8th' FN
Octav 4 ′ A.
Ged. Flute 4 ′ FN
Fifth 3 ′ A.
Octav 2 ′ A.
Mixture III FN
Trumpet 8th' FN
Pedal C – h 0
Sub-bass 16 ′ R?
Octave bass 8th' R?
A = old stock (1637)
R = Peter Rühl (1783)
FN = reconstruction by Förster & Nicolaus (1997/1998)

literature

  • Christoph Borries: 1637 - 1783 - 1983. Stations in the history of the Atzbach church organ. In: Local history study group Lahntal. No. 10, 1987, pp. 154-161.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I. Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 39.
  • Wolfgang Dütge: The Evangelical Church Community . In: Atzbach parish council (ed.), Baldur Keil (ed.): Atzbach 774–1974. Contributions to local history. Atzbach 1974, pp. 141-154.
  • Support association of the Ev. Parishes Dorlar and Atzbach (ed.): When God shows himself. 43 devotions to the gallery pictures of the Ev. Atzbach Church. Parish of Atzbach, Atzbach 2012.
  • Focko Weberling: The Protestant Church in Atzbach. In: Werner Brandl: Churches of the community Lahnau. (= Small Art Guide; 2516 ). Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-6429-3 , pp. 5-8.
  • Maria Wenzel; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 365.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wenzel; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, p. 365.
  2. ^ Atzbach parish council (ed.), Baldur Keil (ed.): Atzbach 774–1974. Contributions to local history. Atzbach 1974, p. 28.
  3. ^ Weberling: The Protestant Church in Atzbach. 2002, p. 5.
  4. ^ Atzbach parish council (ed.), Baldur Keil (ed.): Atzbach 774–1974. Contributions to local history. Atzbach 1974, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 131.
  6. ↑ Dütge: The Protestant community . 1974, p. 144.
  7. ^ Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 27.
  8. ↑ Uta Lübeck-Barnikol: Hidden Message. Ornate inscription above the door of the Atzbach church is a mystery. In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from February 1, 2020, p. 15.
  9. ^ Weberling: The Protestant Church in Atzbach. 2002, p. 6.
  10. ↑ a b c Focko Weberling on the homepage of the parish: The Evangelical Church in Atzbach , accessed on August 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ a b Weberling: The Protestant Church in Atzbach. 2002, p. 7.
  12. ^ Gießener Allgemeine from April 19, 2011: panels return to the Atzbach Church , accessed on August 4, 2014.
  13. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 39.
  14. ^ Weberling: The Protestant Church in Atzbach. 2002, p. 8.
  15. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 36 .
  16. ↑ Borries: 1637 - 1783 - 1983. Stations in the history of the Atzbach church organ. 1987, p. 155.
  17. ↑ Borries: 1637 - 1783 - 1983. Stations in the history of the Atzbach church organ. 1987, p. 157.
  18. ↑ Support association of the Ev. Parishes Dorlar and Atzbach (ed.): When God shows himself. 2012, p. 7.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 37.3 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 15.4"  E