Evangelical Church Beuern

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Church in Beuern in the municipality of Buseck in the district of Gießen in Hesse was built between 1844 and 1847 in the neo-Romanesque style. The Gothic west tower from 1321 has been preserved. The church is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Tower from the northwest
Romanesque font

There is evidence of a pleban in Beuern for the year 1297 . In the late Middle Ages, Beuern belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Buseck district and was a branch of Alten-Buseck . The tower of the previous Romanesque church was built in 1321, the nave in 1354, and a sacrament house made of Lungstein in 1492. After several renovations, a late Gothic building was completed in 1496 with a new choir , which had a Marian patronage . Next to the high altar, which showed Mary with the child in a halo, who was surrounded by the twelve apostles , there was another altar, which was consecrated to Saint Anne .

A parish in Beuern is first recorded for 1527. With the introduction of the Reformation , Beuern switched to the Protestant creed. The first Protestant pastor was "Herr" Hermann (1547–1553). During the Counter Reformation from 1549 to 1552 the community briefly returned to the Catholic faith, whereupon Hermann was deposed. In 1577 Beuern was a branch of Großen-Buseck, and in 1593 at the latest it was an independent parish again. In the post-Reformation period, the von Buseck and von Schwalbach families had stately chairs.

Due to dilapidation, it was decided in 1843 to demolish the church, which was carried out from January to February 21, 1844. In its place, the new building was built between 1844 and 1847 according to plans by the Landgrave Provincial Master Builder Friedrich Wilhelm Müller from Gießen. The inauguration took place on January 7, 1847. In the course of the construction work, the spire was renewed in a new shape. Some of the old stones were reused when building the church. Individual wooden beams of the old roof structure were installed in barns, at least eight columns were used in the construction of a stable in 1860, other stones were used in the construction of the Bersröder Weg.

The Marien altar from the previous church was kept for a few years. When it fell into disrepair and only six figures of the apostles were left, it was sold for 40 Reichsmarks to the Riedesel zu Eisenbach family at Eisenbach Castle , where it is still located today.

In 1914 JF Weule in Bockenem built a new tower clock, a pendulum clock with three independent movements that has been in operation for more than 100 years. In 1922 the church was renovated and the blue and white painted coffered ceiling was replaced by a starry sky by the church painter Hermann Velte. This measure was reversed during a further renovation in 1969 and the original version was restored. The spire was re-covered in 1960 and the gold-plated weathercock was replaced.

architecture

West portal

The east-facing church building with west tower is raised in the old town center and is partially surrounded by a cemetery wall. The oldest structure is the Gothic west tower with corner blocks on a square floor plan. The ogival west portal is embedded in a rectangular niche and is 1.40 meters wide and 2.51 meters high. The lower of the two basement floors has a ribbed vault , the fluted ribs of which rest on 3/4 columns and end in a ring as a keystone . The two basement floors merge into two octagonal floors; the transition is slated. The third floor has loopholes (0.20 to 0.25 meters wide) and originally had a defensive character, while the top floor served as a bell room. It has two-part tracery with quatrefoil in the pointed arch and was previously vaulted. The slated helmet structure dates from 1847 and is crowned by a tower button, forged cross and weathercock. In 1915 the pointed helmet received four dormers for the clock's dials.

The neo-Romanesque new building made of unplastered basalt stone is accessed through the basement of the tower and two arched connecting doors on the west side of the tower. A rectangular door with a round bar between two throats connects the tower hall with the ship. The long sides are divided by pilaster strips and arched friezes into three equally sized fields, each with an arched window.

Furnishing

Interior to the west
Altar area

The symmetrically designed interior is closed off by a blue-and-white flat ceiling and characterized by a three-sided, wooden gallery. It is supported by 20 marble painted columns with cube capitals. They are 2.85 meters high and rest on stone slabs measuring 0.37 × 0.38 meters. The west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The equipment from the construction period has been completely preserved. The remainder of a late Romanesque, twelve-sided baptismal font made of Lungstein, which formerly rested on three stone lions and had long served as a fountain surround, was taken over. A life-size crucifix from the end of the 15th century is placed over the pulpit's sound cover. In addition, seven old tombstones were placed in the church, which the sculptor Johann Georg Steinmüller (1808–1852) had made from Beuern.

In front of the large arched niche on the east side, the altar and pulpit are placed one behind the other on the central axis. The pulpit is flanked by paintings by Martin Luther and Philip the Magnanimous , which the painter Gasthauer created. The Luther picture is based on the altarpiece in the Herder Church in Weimar , which Lucas Cranach the Younger completed in 1555. The benches have left a central aisle free since 1922. The octagonal, cup-shaped baptismal font and the sacrificial stones come from the Beuerner stonemason Wilhelm Arnold V (1856–1934).

organ

Bernhard organ from 1847/1848
Audio sample: Gavotte in G major by Georg Friedrich Handel

A first organ was built in the previous building in the first quarter of the 18th century. A letter from 1837 reports about an organ repair. In 1847 Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard built a new organ for the west gallery, which was inaugurated in 1848. It has 23 registers, which are distributed over two manuals and pedal. The upper work on the second manual is aligned transversely. The neo-Romanesque prospectus was made by the Gießen carpenter body. It has an elevated central projection with a flat gable, including two coupled round arch fields. The rectangular side panels are adorned with a relief frieze over which blind arches are attached. The old organ was traded in by Bernhard and installed in Lumda, where it was replaced in 1893. The individual parts were auctioned and brought in 14 marks. The prospect pipes delivered to the armaments industry in 1917 were replaced in 1930. The instrument on the side was moved two meters in 1953. In 1978 the historical Bernhard organ was repaired by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau , which received new prospect pipes in the course of this. The arrangement of the otherwise completely preserved organ is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Hollow flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Cornettino III (from g) 4 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Flauto dolce 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Gedact 4 ′
Nasart 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Principal 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Gedactbass 8th'

Bells

The church tower houses a triple bell. The bell from 1575 is, even if the foundry Rincker makes claims contrary to the facts, the oldest verifiable of the Frankfurt foundry Laux Rucker . The big bell from 1575 was cast in 1846 by Otto in Gießen. The small bell was cast for the first time in 1876 by Otto and a second time in 1915 by Rincker. During the First World War, two bells were delivered to the armaments industry and replaced by Rincker bells in 1920. After their delivery in World War II, the community bought two new bells in 1950. The three bells ring out in the Te Deum motif.

No.
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Chime
 		 inscription
 		 image
 
1 1950 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn 1030 g 1 “ Stand firm in the storm of time, bless your suffering! Think of eternity! " Evangelical Church Beuern Bells 03.JPG
2 1950 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn 850 b 1 “ Seek rest and rest! Faithfully bear the burden! Hold what you have! " Evangelical Church Beuern Bells 02.JPG
3 1575 Laux Rucker 750 c 2 " IT MADE ME PAST THE COMMON ZV BEVERN DVRCH RICKERN ANO DONI MDLXXV " Evangelical Church Beuern Bells 04.JPG

literature

  • 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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 105.
  • Wilhelm Diehl (Hrsg.): Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 249 f.
  • Harald Klaus: The church tower in Beuern (= Beuerner Hefte. Publications of the Heimatverein Beuern eV February 2002). Self-published by Heimatverein Beuern, Buseck-Beuern 2002.
  • Harald Klaus: The Church in Beuern (= Beuerner Hefte. Publications of the Heimatverein Beuern eV November 2002). Self-published by Heimatverein Beuern, Buseck-Beuern 2002.
  • Heimatverein Beuern (ed.): “With us in Beuern”. History, stories and stories. Gratzfeld, Butzbach 1985.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 51 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Volume 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 38–46.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 32 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Beuern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 52.
  2. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 2.
  3. ↑ a b Beuern. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 10, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 44.
  5. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 3 f.
  6. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 51.
  7. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 7 f.
  8. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 5.
  9. ↑ Klaus: The church tower in Beuern. 2002, p. 22 f.
  10. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 14.
  11. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 45.
  12. ↑ Klaus: The church tower in Beuern. 2002, p. 2.
  13. ↑ a b Local history walk through Beuern , seen January 10, 2014.
  14. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 13.
  15. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 105.
  16. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 12.
  17. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 13 f.
  18. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 33.
  19. ↑ Dieter Schäfer: The organ in the church in Beuern. (= Beuerner Hefte. Publications of the Heimatverein Beuern eV March 2002). Self-published by Heimatverein Beuern, Buseck-Beuern 2002, p. 4.
  20. ^ Hans Martin Balz, Reinhardt Menger: Old organs in Hessen and Nassau (=  publication of the Society of Organ Friends 72 ). Merseburger, Kassel 1979, ISBN 3-87537-169-0 , p. 28 .
  21. ^ Klaus: The church in Beuern. 2002, p. 11.
  22. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 A – L ). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 119 .
  23. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 46.
  24. ↑ Jörg Poettgen: Possible sources of error in the transmission of historical bells using the example of early bells from the workshops of Mabilon, Petit and Rincker . In: Deutsches Glockenmuseum (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Glockenkunde . tape 23/24, 2011/2012 , ISSN  0938-6998 , p. 131-133 .
  25. ↑ Klaus: The church tower in Beuern. 2002, p. 11.
  26. ↑ Heimatverein Beuern (ed.): "With us in Beuern" . 1985, p. 136.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 27 ″  E