Evangelical Church of Bisses

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Protestant church

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Bisses , a district of the Echzell community in the Wetterau district ( Hesse ).

History and architecture

The predecessor building of today's church was a chapel that already existed in the 14th century.

The church was dedicated to St. John the Baptist . The small hall building with a three-sided end was built in 1503 and changed in the 18th century. Three bells hang in the octagonal roof turret . Two of the bells with the striking notes e 2 and h 2 date from before the Reformation. One has no inscription, the other bears the inscription: "* iohannes * baptiste * in * biszis *". The group of pictures on the bell ring shows a group of pictures with Jesus on the cross, Mary and the church patron . Better known is the so-called silver bell from the 16th century with the inscription "* o * rex * glorie *". Since collected silver was used in the bell casting, it got this name.

The Lutherlinde in the churchyard is a designated natural monument.

Furnishing

  • The galleries from 1170 or 1781 were decorated with parapet paintings
  • The organ was installed around 1800
  • In 1916 the church received electrical lighting.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966
  • Hugo Koch, The district of Bisses. In: 1200 years of Echzell. 782-1982. Origin, epochs and structures of a village community. Echzell 1982. ISBN 3-921142-45-8 , pp. 345-350.
  • Kurt Mogk, The bells in the churches of Echzell. In: Echzeller Geschichtshefte 10, 1997, pp. 18–34. therein: The bells of the Protestant church Bisses, p. 29
  • Heinrich Wagner, art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Büdingen district. Darmstadt 1890. On Bisses p. 23 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Bisses)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Koch, The district of Bisses. P. 134 ff, p. 346.
  2. ^ Kurt Mogk, The bells in the churches of Echzell. In: Echzeller Geschichtshefte 10, 1997, pp. 18–34. therein: The bells of the Protestant church Bisses, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 85 .
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Preservation of Monuments in the People's State of Hessen IVa, 1913–1928, Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1930, p. 174.

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '47 "  N , 8 ° 54' 24"  E