Evangelical Church Cleeberg

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Evangelical church from the west with a staircase
View from the north

The Evangelical Church Cleeberg is a basically Gothic church building in Cleeberg , a district of Langgöns in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ). The listed church received its characteristic octagonal roof turret in 1855 .

history

At the end of the 13th century, Ritter und Burgmann Fleisch von Cleeberg donated a chapel that was dedicated to Mary . The chapel was first mentioned in 1355 when it was given a chaplain. Cleeberg only broke away from the mother church of St. Michaelis in Oberkleen for a time . From an ecclesiastical point of view, the place originally belonged to the Parochialverband (parish) Grossen-Linden and thus to the deanery Wetzlar in the archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . The choir was added around 1500.

In the course of the Reformation , Cleeberg switched to the evangelical confession with Oberkleen in 1531/1532. Johann Wißbach changed from the Catholic to the Protestant faith and became the first Lutheran pastor of Oberkleen and Cleebach. In the visitation protocol of 1618 it says: “Around Annum 1531 or 1532 the office of Cleeberg was removed from the papal yoke and accepted the newly founded Augsburg Confession. First pastors: Johann Wißbach zu Obercleen and Johann Vatterges zu Ebersgönß. "

The ship was modified in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1748 and finally in 1764 Cleeberg broke away from Oberkleen and had his first pastor, Johann Ludwig Großmann, from 1765 to 1801. Cleeberg was merged with Espa and Weiperfelden to form a parish in 1821. When the church became dilapidated in the middle of the 19th century, the nave was converted and the roof turret was built in 1855.

architecture

Coupled choir window

The hall church made of exposed rubble masonry in the town center, opposite the old town hall is not faces east , but facing southeast. It is closed by a steep, sloped gable roof with a crooked hip on the north-western gable side. Three windows enlarged in the Baroque style with arches on the north-eastern long side provide the interior with light. The church is accessed on the front side in the northwest through a Gothic pointed arch portal, which is flanked on both sides by two small windows on two levels with blunt pointed arches. On the south-west side, which is windowless due to the hillside, an external staircase leads to the gallery door below the eaves.

The one-bay choir with a five-eighth end is slightly drawn in opposite the nave, but towers above it. The choir is illuminated in the south-east through a domed pointed arch window and in the east through two tall rectangular windows with wooden walls, and in the south it has a small door with a wooden frame. In 1855 the eight-sided roof turret with a slim shaft and pointed helmet was put on, which is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock. It houses three bells. The older one dates back to the pre-Reformation period and, according to the inscription, was cast in 1473: " Ave Maria , gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Anno Domini 1473". A second bell by Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (Gießen) from 1794 was delivered to the armaments industry in World War I, replaced in 1920, delivered in World War II and replaced in 1950. A third bell was purchased in 1970. Inside, a large pointed triumphal arch with square painting opens the choir to the nave.

Furnishing

Pulpit with the evangelist paintings
Interior with a view of the choir room

The interior of the nave is closed off by a flat ceiling. The ribs of the groin vault in the choir are painted on and were restored in 1962. A wooden angular gallery is built in towards the west, which rests on six-sided wooden posts that are painted blue marbled. The gallery parapet has coffered panels.

The choir is dominated by a corner gallery towards the south . It serves as the installation site for the organ. The parapet paintings on the galleries were made around 1700 and depict Christ and eleven apostles. The bricked-up block altar, raised by one step, has a protruding slab over a slope. The late Gothic sacraments niche with a frame made of red sandstone dates from around 1500. In the northeast, a parish chair with openwork lozenges in the upper area extends to the choir gallery.

The wooden polygonal pulpit in the north-east corner of the church dates from the end of the 17th century. It rests on a profiled wooden column and ends at the top with a profiled cornice. The cartouches in the pulpit between round corner columns show paintings by the four evangelists. A roughly hewn round arched opening in the choir wall connects the pulpit with the parsonage in the choir room.

In 2018 the church received a baptismal angel made of linden wood with a red robe and white wings, holding a baptismal bowl. The 0.80 meter tall figure was hand-carved and hand-painted by master wood sculptor Ewald Böggemann from Mettingen.

organ

Bernhard organ from 1889

In 1817 there was already an organ in the church, which was made by an organ builder Bernhard, probably Johann Hartmann Bernhard , about which no further details are known.

The Bernhard brothers from Gambach built a new organ in 1888/1889. The single-manual instrument has eight registers . In 1937, the organ builder Eppstein made a change to the disposition and replaced the Gamba 8 ′ register with a Gemshorn 2 ′. The Progressio harmonica was renamed into a mixture. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Mixture II-III 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. 2010, p. 296.
  2. ^ 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. 202.
  3. ↑ ebersgoens.de: Ebersgöns timetable , accessed on August 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Cleeberg. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 151.
  6. ↑ 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. 133.
  7. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger of March 26, 2019: Baptism angel inaugurated in the Evangelical Church in Cleeberg , accessed on March 27, 2019.
  8. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 221 f .

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 39 ″  E