Evangelical Church Daubhausen

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Church in Daubhausen
Church from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Daubhausen , a district of Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a baroque hall church with a well-fortified medieval choir tower . The ship was built in 1710 by Huguenots who were settled in the village from 1685. The Hessian cultural monument is characteristic of the town. The church furnishings include an organ by Johann Georg Bürgy from 1822.

history

List of the settled Huguenots

At the end of the Middle Ages, the community was assigned to the sending district of Dillheim in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar and Archidiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier . When the Reformation was introduced in the parish of Dillheim from 1524, presumably under Pastor Johannes Zaunschliffer, the parish switched to the evangelical confession. Daubhausen was a branch of Dillheim until 1685.

After the Edict of Nantes was repealed, Huguenots fled France in droves in 1685. Wilhelm Moritz Graf zu Solms-Greifenstein settled around 190 of the religious refugees in Daubhausen, gave them the existing houses and lands and relocated 17 out of 20 of the local families against their will to neighboring villages, which received severance payments. In 1690/1691 he had the branch village of Greifenthal laid out for other Huguenots . The refugees came from the Queyras, Pragelas, Languedoc and Vivarais regions, as well as from Champagne. Many worked as skilled workers in the textile industry and in other crafts and were supposed to revive the economy after the population decline in the Thirty Years' War . After troubled years with further immigration and emigration, 37 families with a total of around 230 people had settled in Daubhausen and 22 in Greifenthal in 1703. In 1722 the Huguenot colonies received city and market rights with their own jurisdiction in the form of a letter of freedom for which they had to pay 1000 guilders annually and from 1728 another 800 guilders and were now officially Huguenot property.

Since the tower hall of the defense tower was not big enough, the Huguenots presumably conducted their French Reformed services in the Greifenstein castle church. By 1710 they built a simple church nave ( temple ) to the west of the tower and carried out collections in the area. French-speaking church services were held there by French pastors until at least 1825. During the 19th century the Huguenots integrated and increasingly lost their identity.

A plaque with the names of the 37 Huguenot families was placed in the church in 1935. In the course of an exterior and interior renovation in 1962/1963, the previously unplastered church received an exterior plaster for the first time. The pulpit and galleries were exposed again and freed from their blue oil paint. In 2008 the Daubhausen Huguenot Museum was opened opposite the church and documents the regional Huguenot history.

architecture

South side of the tower

The church, made of white-plastered quarry stone masonry, is not exactly eastward , but is oriented to the east-northeast. It lies in the middle of a trapezoidal cemetery which is enclosed by a wall and has not been used since 1835. The multi-storey, undivided choir tower is characterized by semicircular templates on the two east corners. In the area of ​​the tower hall, large ogival niches were carved into each other, each with a small arched window. The otherwise windowless tower has below today's eaves loopholes . Small dormers with triangular gables and rectangular sound openings for the bells are placed on all four sides of the tent roof . The roof is crowned by a tower knob, a decorated cross and a weathercock. The hall is vaulted inside by a simple groin vault. A pointed arched choir arch opens the low tower hall to the ship.

The attached nave is the same width as the tower and is covered by a hipped roof, which is equipped with a small dormer on the south side. It is accessed through a pointed arched, profiled west portal from the late Gothic period. High rectangular windows with lattice structure illuminate the interior.

Furnishing

Pulpit with inlays (18th century)
Interior with a view of the choir

The interior of the ship is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on a longitudinal girder. A Huguenot cross is painted above the choir arch , and above it the word RÉSISTEZ (“ Resists !”), Marie Durand's exhortation . She had scratched the word on the wall of the Tour de Constance in Aigues-Mortes , where she had been imprisoned for 38 years and stood firm against the re-Catholicization.

A three-sided building period gallery in the nave is supported by square wooden posts with bevels . In the west it serves as the installation site for the organ. The wooden, polygonal pulpit also dates from the beginning of the 18th century. The pulpit fields, which are structured by twisted free columns, have inlays in the form of four-pointed stars. The corner columns have Ionic capitals and rest on cuboid bases that are decorated with inlays.

The altar consists of a cuboid block with a simple plate. On top of it stands a modern, simple wooden cross and a French Bible from 1779. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free. The curved cheeks with triple pass in the head section were renewed at a later date. A row of benches has been set up on the three walls of the choir and has its own parapet with coffered panels.

organ

Bürgy organ from 1822

Johann Georg Bürgy's organ was originally built in 1822 for the Evangelical Church in Biskirchen , but in 1872 it was sold to Daubhausen as part of the construction of the new church there and installed there. Organ builder Johann Stockhausen from Linz renovated the instrument in 1956. Initially the organ stood directly on the west wall, but was preferred as a parapet organ in the 1960s . It has twelve registers that are distributed over a manual and pedal . Most of the work has been preserved in its original form; at least four registers have been renewed over time.

The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
Bourdon 8th'
Flute D 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture II-III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 3. Wigand, Wetzlar 1837, pp. 462-463 ( online ).
  • 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. 110-111 .
  • 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. 159.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Maria Wenzel (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 250.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  2. ↑ Daubhausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ Sybille A. Burggraf: Origin and development of the Huguenot community Daubhausen-Greifenthal. In: Huguenots: Volume 72, Issue 4, 2008, pp. 135–141, here: p. 136, accessed on September 10, 2017 (PDF).
  4. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Vol. 3, 1837, p. 462 ( online )
  5. ^ A b Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: The Huguenot Cross and the Faithfulness of Reformed Refugees. In the Evangelical Church in Daubhausen . In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung of October 12, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 159.
  7. ↑ Huguenot spores in Germany. (Dutch), accessed September 10, 2017.
  8. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol 2, Part. 1: A-K . 1975, p. 110 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '18.15 "  N , 8 ° 21' 0.66"  E