Evangelical Church Birklar

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Church from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Birklar , a district of Lich in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), was built in 1819 in the classicism style. The stones bought from the library building of the abolished Arnsburg monastery were used . The hall church with its north tower shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

South portal

Originally, the Muschenheim church was the mother church of Birklar. A chapel in Birklar is mentioned for the first time in 1313 when Archbishop Peter von Mainz allowed three knights to employ a priest and pay for his maintenance. Before his separation, Birklar was parish in Muschenheim until 1316. In 1317 Birklar was raised to an independent parish when Muschenheim Kloster Arnsburg was incorporated. In the late Middle Ages, Birklar belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Muschenheim district.

With the introduction of the Reformation , Birklar switched to the Evangelical Lutheran creed between 1554 and 1560. Under Konrad von Solms-Braunfels , the church was evangelically reformed in 1582 . Around 1680 Birklar became a branch of Muschenheim again. Until then, Arnsburg held the patronage . The missing medieval chapel was demolished in 1818. Today's new church has taken its place. Birklar acquired the former library building of Arnsburg Monastery from 1755, which functioned as a corner building there, and built it in Birklar in a lower form. In the 1820s, a church tower was rebuilt from the material of the omitted floor, in which three bronze bells from the previous building were hung.

According to the parish chronicle, part of the money is said to have been embezzled: “ Although it cost little to buy, it is said that its transport and installation took away all of the previous church capital. It is said to have gone untidy during the construction of the church and it is assured that only half of that capital was used at the cost of the actual church building, the rest was consumed in an unauthorized manner. “The chronicle, published fifty years after the construction, overlooks the fact that the meals were part of the wages at the time.

Repairs to the church were carried out in 1890 and 1934, the tower in 1950 and the windows in 1954. The church received an oil heating system in 1967 and a new exterior paintwork in 1969 as well as the roof being encrusted. Comprehensive renovation measures followed in the years 1985 to 1993, during which the building was secured with a circumferential ring anchor. On October 3, 1993 the new bell was inaugurated, which had been purchased for 59,729.61 DM.

architecture

West side of the church

The hall church is built on a square floor plan and faces north. The ship is two-story and has three window axes. It is lower than the three-storey, four-axle library building, but has the same floor plan. It is completed by a mansard roof.

Rectangular windows in red sandstone walls provide the interior with light; on the inside they have stitch arches. The small dormer windows above each window axis underline the strict classical structure. While the rectangular east and west portal have a simple design, the south portal as the main entrance is covered by a segmented arch, has profiled soffits and emerges slightly in a central projection.

The three-storey tower shaft on a square floor plan on the north side is illuminated by three rectangular windows on each of the free sides. It is completed by a slid-up structure, the cube-shaped bell chamber and the eight-sided upper floor with a dome-shaped, closed hood, which is crowned by a tower button and cross (with an arrow as a wind indicator). Curved monopitch roofs lead over to the structures that taper upwards.

Furnishing

Interior facing north
Ceiling medallion

The simple interior has a flat ceiling with a throat. A ceiling medallion depicts the risen Christ with the victory flag. The picture is framed by the biblical passage from Joh 6,51  LUT . The three-sided gallery rests on square, Tuscan wooden pillars. The fillings of the parapet are painted with floral elements and words from the Bible from the Beatitudes . Altar, pulpit and organ are arranged one above the other on the central axis and in this way emphasize the principle of the sermon church .

On the north side, the two-storey, rounded sacristy protrudes into the room. The round pulpit hangs above the sacristy door in the middle of four rectangular windows. Their fillings are painted with golden tendrils. The pulpit basket is flanked by two oval vignettes with two other beatitudes. The rococo- style railing was taken over from Arnsburg Monastery. A protruding, curved organ loft is attached above the sacristy, to the parapet of which the pulpit's round sound cover is attached, which is covered with a diamond frieze. The wooden block altar rests on a dark stone slab. The stalls are aligned with the three principal pieces.

organ

Organ brochure from 1820

Philipp Heinrich Bürgy built the organ in 1820 , which has largely been preserved. The prospectus has seven axes. Two flat, rounded towers are flanked by two sloping, narrow flat fields. A middle, low flat field connects both parts and is crowned by classical decor. The lowest octaves and a half of the Flauto Traverso sound from the viol. The prospect pipes had to be delivered in 1917 and were provisionally replaced in 1925 by zinc pipes from Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . A comprehensive restoration took place in 1991. The sesquialtera was completed with two choirs, the principal reconstructed and the vox humana added on an empty loop. The side-playing instrument has 13 registers on a manual and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Viol 8th'
Flauto Traverso 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Fifth 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Sesquialtera II D
Mixture III 1'
Vox Humana 8th'
Pedal C-f 0
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violonbass 8th'
Vagot bass 16 ′

Bells

Bells in Birklar
Discarded steel bells in front of the south entrance
Festive greeting of the new bells on September 25, 1993

The church hosts a triple bell. In the middle of the 19th century there was a bell by Johann Peter Bach (Windecken 1763), by Johannes and Andreas Schneidewind (Frankfurt 1714) and a medieval bell that was taken over from the Arnsburg monastery . Two jumped bells were replaced by bells from Franz Schilling and Karl Friedrich Ulrich in 1896 and had to be donated as metal during the First World War . The third bell that Friedrich Otto cast in Gießen in 1855 was sold in 1920. In the same year, the proceeds were used to purchase three steel bells, which were created as a joint effort by Buderus and Rincker . The largest (1.10 meters in diameter) had the strike note G sharp 1 and carried the inscription: “In difficult times consecrated to the Lord, Lord help and now and forever.” The second (0.86 meters diameter) with the strike note h 1 had the inscription: “Righteousness exalts a people, but sin is the destruction of the people.” The third (0.76 meters in diameter) with c sharp 2 : “But whoever perseveres to the end will be saved.” With that the bells were in Te Deum motif. The bell was electrified in 1962. In 1993 the steel bells were fetched from the tower for reasons of sound and replaced by three bronze bells from Rincker with the same motif, but the tone sequence a 1 -c 2 -d 2 higher by a semitone .

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 1993 Rincker , Sinn 900 a 1 " All wisdom comes from the Lord God and is in him for all eternity "
2 1993 Rincker, Sinn 780 c 2 " I am the good shepherd "
3 1993 Rincker, Sinn 680 d 2 " I am the resurrection and the life "

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. 111.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, pp. 165–167.
  • 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. 461 f.
  • Werner Müller: The church in Birklar. History of bells. Leaflet, 6 pages, Birklar, January 2013 (church guide).
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 16-19.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 34 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 462.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 454.
  3. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. (= Writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 27.
  4. ↑ Birklar. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 10, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Quoted from Weyrauch: Die Kirchen des Altkreis Gießen. 1979, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Müller: The church in Birklar. 2013, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 16.
  8. ↑ a b Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 111.
  9. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 18.
  10. ^ 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. 128 .
  11. ^ Organ in Birklar , seen October 10, 2013.
  12. ^ Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions (PDF; 37.7 MB), in: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, 1884, p. 526 f.
  13. ↑ Quoted from Weyrauch: Die Kirchen des Altkreis Gießen. 1979, p. 35.
  14. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 18 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 47"  E