Evangelical Church Dexbach

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Southeast view
South window in the choir

The Evangelical Church Dexbach is a listed church building in Dexbach , a district of the town of Biedenkopf in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district ( Hesse ). The Romanesque hall church was built in the 13th century and has an eight-sided roof turret on the retracted choir from the late Gothic period .

history

The Dexbacher Church was built in the 13th century, possibly around 1260, and was probably dedicated to the Apostle Thomas . The place is first mentioned in a document in 1332, when Gottfried von Dexbach and his wife sold a farm to the Haina monastery . A first pastor is named in 1393. Around 1400 the choir was added or brought up to the height of the nave. Probably at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century, the east wall was raised with half-timbering. Ecclesiastically, Dexbach was assigned to the Deanery Kesterburg in the Archdiakonat St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Dexbach changed to the Evangelical Lutheran creed. Jacob Mercator (Kremer) worked here as a Protestant pastor around 1576. From 1606 to 1624 the congregation accepted the Reformed creed, after which it finally returned to the Lutheran. The right of patronage went to the Hessian landgrave in 1577. Since then, Dexbach has been connected to Engelbach in the parish . From 1613 to 1710 Eifa (Hatzfeld) was parish in Dexbach.

During renovation work in the years 1957 to 1958, larger remains of a Christophorus from the beginning of the 15th century with village motifs under Friedrich Bleibaum were uncovered on the north wall of the Romanesque part and the rectangular painting and window frame from the Renaissance were restored. The baroque galleries were reduced to the west gallery.

Building description

Layout
East end with half-timbered structure

The east-facing church with a crooked roof is built in the middle of the village from white-plastered quarry stone masonry . Only the base is unplastered. The retracted choir has corner blocks.

The wide, two-bay Romanesque nave has a dome-like, ribless groin vault , which is divided by a wide belt arch. The painting with the sun and moon dates from 1730. Two simple, rectangular south portals open up the building. A rectangular window and a coupled arched window in the south wall illuminate the ship. The north and west sides are windowless.

The retracted, late Gothic rectangular choir receives light on the south and east side through two-lane tracery windows with nuns' heads and fish bases at the top. The slightly higher and steeper choir roof compared to the nave bears a completely slated, octagonal roof turret with a pointed helmet and four little gables broken over the edges, which is crowned by a wrought-iron cross with a weathercock. The roof turret houses a triple bell. The oldest bell dates from the 15th century; it is made of bronze , 60 cm high and weighs 200 kg. As an inscription it bears the beginning of the Gospel of John in Gothic minuscule . The east wall is built like a battlements in half-timbered houses with two eight square compartments .

The ogival ribbed vaults inside the choir tower rest on round corner services . The choir , shield and girdle arches have square painting (around 1730?) In the style of the Renaissance and the choir windows have floral renaissance borders. The keystone in the choir bears the letter S. On the wall you can read the nomen sacrum IHS.

Furnishing

The simple, polygonal, wooden pulpit on the north archway rests on a plinth with four winding wooden pillars, which replaces an earlier sandstone plinth. The pulpit fields have coffered panels and a frieze below the upper cornice . Two fields bear the inscription from Ps 103: 1–4  LUT : “PRAISE THE LORD MY SOUL AND WHAT IS IN ME HIS HOLY NAME / PRAISE THE LORD MY SOUL AND DON'T FORGET WHAT GOOD HAS DONE FOR YOU / WHO FORGIVES ALL YOUR SINS AND HEAL ALL YOUR BROKENINGS / WHO REDEEMS YOUR LIFE FROM CORRUPTION, WHO CROWNS YOU WITH MERCY AND MERCY ”.

The six-sided baptismal font , rediscovered in 1980 during excavation work on a farm, dates from the 14th century and is placed on the southern archway. A piscina is set in the choir . A wooden crucifix of the three-nail type stands on the simple block altar . A pewter chalice, which was made around 1830, belongs to the Vasa sacra . On the south wall there is a well-preserved tombstone of Bartholomäus Rußdorfius from Marburg from 1668, who was a pastor in Dexbach from 1633 to 1668. The church stalls in the nave leave a central aisle free. In the choir there are individual benches on the wall. The wooden, simple west gallery from the Baroque period has coffered panels and serves as a location for the organ .

organ

Johannes Schlottmann installed an organ in Dexbach in 1791 . Organ builder Peter Dickel from Treisbach (Wetter) created a single-manual organ with eight registers in 1860 , including the baroque prospectus and older parts. Orgelbau Hardt carried out repairs in 1941. Today's organ is a new Hardt building from 1958 with a free pipe prospect. It has six registers that are distributed over a manual and pedal . The instrument has the following disposition :

I main work C–
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Günter E. Th. Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck, including the Rhine-Hessian church districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels. Evangelical Press Association, Kassel 1987, p. 72.
  • 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 , pp. 164-165.
  • Hans Feldtkeller (arrangement): The architectural and art monuments of the Biedenkopf district. Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1958. p. 22.
  • Ferdinand Luthmer (edit.): The architectural and art monuments of the districts of Biedenkopf, Dill, Oberwesterwald and Westerburg. Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1910, p. 27 ( online ).
  • Frank W. Rudolph: Evangelical churches in the deanery Biedenkopf . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-02355-0 , p. 36-37 .

Web links

Commons : Dexbach Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolph: Evangelical churches in the deanery Biedenkopf. 2012, p. 36.
  2. ↑ a b Dexbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 163.
  4. ↑ a b c Rudolph: Evangelical churches in the deanery Biedenkopf. 2012, p. 37.
  5. ↑ a b Feldtkeller (arrangement): The architectural and art monuments of the Biedenkopf district. 1958, p. 22.
  6. ^ A b Luthmer (arrangement): The architectural and art monuments. 1910, p. 27 ( online ).
  7. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 164.
  8. ^ Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck. 1987, p. 72.
  9. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse; 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 296 .
  10. ^ 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. 114 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '12.13 "  N , 8 ° 35' 17.08"  E