Evangelical Church Dudenhofen

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Frontal view of the church, the Rektor-Geissler-Haus is on the left

The Evangelical Church Dudenhofen is the parish church of the Evangelical parish in Dudenhofen , a district of the Hessian town of Rodgau . It is the only transverse church in Rodgau and the only church building from the Baroque period in the Protestant deanery in Rodgau.

history

The Reformation took place between 1550 and 1560 under Count Philip III. introduced in Dudenhofen. The first Protestant clergyman in the community was Elias Preuss or Preis. The spelling of his name and his term of office cannot be taken precisely from the church records. Dudenhofen became an independent parish, which expanded over time. In 1845 there were 20 branches. At that time the parish stretched from Messenhausen via Ober-Roden to Klein-Welzheim and Steinheim.

The current church was built between 1769 and 1770. The previous building was from the time before the Reformation. It had become too small for the growing church community. In 1727 an annex was added to the old church. In 1739 a new belfry was installed, and a year later almost the entire church burned down.

In the 1760s, there were considerations to expand the old church. However, the conversion plan was abandoned after a government council had determined that "an expansion was not feasible". The church was demolished in 1769. In the same year, work began on the new building based on a design by Lieutenant Engineer Appolt from Hanau.

The church building load was already in the first half of the 18th century, primarily in church funds Dudenhofen and subsidiary in the civil parish. It was not until 1982 that the bourgeois community's maintenance and new building obligations were financially replaced. The city of Rodgau paid a total of 160,000 German marks in four equal annual installments to the Protestant parish and transferred the property to it. The construction work on the rectory had already passed to the parish in 1912.

construction

The foundation stone was laid on March 15, 1769. The sandstone for the church came from quarries in Trennfurt , was shipped over the Main to Seligenstadt and from there brought to the construction site.

After a construction period of 17 months, the building was completed in mid-August 1770. The total cost was 7,396 guilders. The church was consecrated on September 9, 1770 during a church visit by a Hanau city preacher.

Renovations and conversions

The gallery was changed in 1827. That had to do with the building of the organ: The new Dreymann organ was no longer to be on the gallery above the main entrance, but above the altar and the pulpit. A special “organ stage” was built for the instrument, which, however, reduced the amount of light entering the church. In order to allow enough daylight into the interior, the so-called court chair was demolished.

During an interior renovation in 1896, the church received a ceiling painting. It showed a scene of the Sermon on the Mount surrounded by the four evangelists and angels. In addition, the walls were painted in color. The ceiling painting was removed again in 1947 because it was damaged. During the renovation in 1947/48, the windows that were destroyed in air raids in 1944 were also replaced. In addition, the pillars on both sides of the sacristy were exposed and two new hot air ovens were installed.

In 1953, the community laid out a green area in front of the church after the old fire station and the bakery had been demolished.

The sacristy was added from 1967 to 1969

Before the 200th anniversary of the church, the building and furnishings were extensively renovated in 1967–1969. During the construction work the services took place in the parish hall. The church was plastered outside and inside, a sacristy was added, the floor and the chairs were replaced. The old tower clock was replaced by a new one. During the preparatory work for the installation of a warm air oil heating system, documents from the time of church building and human skeletons were found. As part of the renovation work, the wall of the former cemetery, which was located east of the church, was demolished. The dead had already been buried there at the time of the previous church.

An exterior renovation took place in 1982. The plastered surfaces were given a new coat of paint, the damaged slate covering of the church tower was renewed and the roof of the nave was repaired. The desire to repaint the building for the 700th anniversary celebration of Dudenhofen resulted in renovation work, the costs of which ultimately amounted to around 300,000 German marks. Historical records were found in the copper tower ball during the work. One of the documents described the consequences of a lightning strike in 1890. Another document reported on the renovation of the tower cross and the weather valve in 1916. Pastor Winfried Bormann added a report on the renovation in 1982 to these records.

The oil heating was replaced by gas heating in 1997. In 1999, a mobile radio transmitter was installed in the church tower . Four antennas were installed above the bell chamber at a height of more than 25 meters.

The arched window from the gallery to the tower was bricked up from 1967 to 2001

An extensive interior renovation in 2001 reversed some of the changes made over the past decades. Among other things, a round arch from the gallery to the tower was reopened, which was bricked up in 1967. The color scheme was based on the historical appearance: the contrast between a light shade (ceilings and walls) and a strong oxide red (base stripes and tower pillars). A restorer had previously uncovered the remains of previous layers of plaster and paint in more than 60 places. The renovation took four months. The cost was around 400,000 German marks.

The church roof was re-covered in 2010. Some beams of the roof structure also had to be replaced. In addition, the outside of the church was plastered with a lime plaster .

architecture

In the transverse church there is a pulpit and altar on one long side

The evangelical church Dudenhofen is a transverse church without a choir. The rectangular hall structure has bevelled corners and is structured by pilaster strips . The longitudinal floor plan is approximately easted .

The church tower is inserted into the hall on the east side. Its floor plan is square. Above the clock tower it merges into a stepped octagon clad with slate . A hood lantern forms the conclusion.

Coat of arms of the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel above the main portal

The main portal with a double-leaf coffered door is located in the foot of the church tower, another portal on the west side. An earlier entrance from Kirchgasse was bricked up. The arch of the main portal has an ornamented keystone . A sandstone relief above the main portal shows two lions holding the coat of arms of the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel . The relief is a work by the sculptor Kister from Hanau. Under the coat of arms is the inscription:

“What Hereditary Prince Wilhelm built at the pleasure of Hesse is
now familiar to you, oh true God, for care. 1769 "

The church was originally built from exposed brickwork . It was not plastered until 1969.

The high arched windows on the side walls are composed of honeycomb panes. The windows of the folded narrow walls are oval.

A curved, wooden gallery runs along three sides of the nave. It dates from the time the church was built and is supported by round columns.

The interior is spanned by a flat ceiling which is concave towards the support .

Furnishing

Altar , pulpit and organ are arranged one below the other

The Evangelical Church of Dudenhofen was built as a preaching church in the Lutheran sense . This can also be seen in the interior design. The church stalls face the pulpit from three directions. Altar, pulpit and organ form a unit on the southern long side.

organ

The church received its first organ in 1773. It came from the workshop of Johann Christian Dauphin from Kleinheubach. The instrument had ten registers and cost 450 guilders. The first major repairs took place in 1790 at Johann Henrich Schmidt in Hanau. In 1829 the organ was sold to the Catholic parish of Nieder-Roden, where it was in use until 1853.

The construction of the second organ in 1829 by Bernhard Dreymann brought about a fundamental change. It was no longer placed above the main entrance, but on a new organ stage on the southern long side of the church above the altar and the pulpit. The organ builder not only built the organ, but also the new pulpit. This makes the organ wall of the church look very uniform.

The Dreymann organ had 18 registers and cost 2100 guilders. It had a special registration device: with a lever operated with the knee, the organist could switch several registers on and off at once. Although the instrument only had one manual , it was possible to achieve an effect similar to that of a two-manual organ.

Detail of the organ prospectus

The front of the Dreymann organ is still preserved. However, the organ work was renewed in 1912. The company Förster & Nicolaus from Lich installed an instrument with 15 registers and two manuals. The bright and sharp timbres of the previous instrument have been replaced by a full, round organ sound. An electric blower made bellows stepping superfluous in 1935. During the church renovation from 1968 to 1970, some registers were changed to bring them closer to the sound of the earlier organs. A new console with an electric action was installed in 1974, and a register called Mixtur was added. A pedal register was replaced in 1994 by a trumpet bass ( trumpet 8 ' ).

Bells

In the first few years there was only one bell in the belfry . It was cast by Johann Wagner in Frankfurt am Main in 1662 . The bell weighed 422 pounds and had the tone c . The parish bought a second, larger bell in 1812 from Seligenstadt, where the old parish church was demolished. The purchase price of 750 guilders was financed from donations. This bell weighed 1200 pounds, had the tone a and was inscribed with the verse of prayer, Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum . A third bell was added in 1844. It was cast by Jakob Anfou Bastelli (Aschaffenburg), weighed 704 pounds and produced a tone between b and b .

After the largest bell cracked when it was rung in the evening in 1872, the community commissioned a new bell. The three new bells from the Hamen foundry in Kaiserslautern formed the triad D - F - A ( D minor ). They were heavier than the old chimes (2472, 1466½ and 723½ pounds). The consecration of bells took place on April 28, 1873.

During the First World War, the parish had to give up its two largest bells in 1917. Armaments were made from the metal. Four years later, in 1921, two new bells with the tones d and f were hung. They came from the Andreas Hamm bell foundry in Frankenthal. The price of 15,175 marks was paid from the municipal treasury. These two bells were inaugurated on May 1, 1921. During the Second World War they were melted down for war purposes.

The church has had a four-part bell since 1950. The three bells with the tones e , g and c come from the bell and art foundry Rincker in Sinn. The e-bell weighs 940 kg, the g-bell 550 kg and the c-bell 240 kg. The costs were financed for the most part from donations and the proceeds from events. The remaining amount was paid for by the bourgeois community, which was obliged to procure and maintain the bells. Probst Felix Rau consecrated the new bell on May 28, 1950, the first day of Pentecost.

Church bells have been ringing electrically since November 10, 1963. The bell came from the Diegner & Schade company from Dorsten. The belfry was renewed in 1995.

Works of art and other equipment

Symbolic representation of the Ten Commandments on the pulpit

The interior is sparingly furnished with artistic representations. Only the pulpit and the organ front are decorated with gold-plated wood carvings. On the outside of the pulpit there are nine symbolic representations, seen from left to right:

  • anchor
  • Cross with an olive branch
  • grapes
  • Bell jar
  • Scales and sword
  • Tablets of the Ten Commandments
  • Ears of wheat
  • Hatchet and tree trunk
  • heart

At the sounding board of the pulpit that's Eye of Providence mounted. A plaque on the back wall of the pulpit shows the biblical phrase "He who has ears to hear, hear". The organ front is decorated with angels and musical instruments.

As early as 1885, Georg Schäfer had described the Evangelical Church of Dudenhofen as “artless and artless” in art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse ; the design of the interior reminds "more of a homiletic lecture hall than of an actual church building". A ceiling painting that was attached in 1896 was removed again in 1947.

A pipe-smoking moon face as a wall painting

A curiosity is a small wall painting on a side wall of the tower that protrudes into the choir gallery. It shows a moon face smoking a pipe. It is said to be a remnant of an earlier wall painting. In earlier centuries, farmers in Dudenhofen had also grown tobacco and wine. The tobacco was dried in the church attic.

A new font was inaugurated on September 4, 1988. It consists of Main sandstone. The metal plate that is placed on the baptismal ceremony bears the inscription: “I want to sprinkle pure water on you; that you will become pure. ”On the front of the baptismal font bears the Christ monogram .

literature

  • Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A new church for 7,396 guilders . In: Offenbach-Post . 4th October 1995.
  2. ↑ A new church for 7,396 guilders . In: Offenbach-Post . 4th October 1995.
  3. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 17th ff . (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
  4. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 376 .
  5. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 373 f .
  6. ↑ Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign countries and the acquired areas . In: Wilhelm Diehl (Ed.): Hassia Sacra . tape VIII . Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 736 .
  7. ↑ Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign countries and the acquired areas . In: Wilhelm Diehl (Ed.): Hassia Sacra . tape VIII . Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 737 .
  8. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 53 ff .
  9. ↑ A new church for 7396 guilders . In: Offenbach-Post . 4th October 1995.
  10. ↑ Adam Geißler: Dudenhofen between yesterday and tomorrow . Ed .: Municipality of Dudenhofen. Dudenhofen 1971, p. 54 .
  11. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 87 .
  12. ↑ A new church for 7396 guilders . In: Offenbach-Post . 4th October 1995.
  13. ↑ Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign countries and the acquired areas . In: Wilhelm Diehl (Ed.): Hassia Sacra . tape VIII . Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 736 .
  14. ↑ Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign countries and the acquired areas . In: Wilhelm Diehl (Ed.): Hassia Sacra . tape VIII . Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 736 .
  15. ↑ Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign countries and the acquired areas . In: Wilhelm Diehl (Ed.): Hassia Sacra . tape VIII . Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 737 .
  16. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 380 .
  17. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 332 f .
  18. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 384 .
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  25. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 388 .
  26. ↑ Kirchdach winterproof . In: Offenbach-Post . November 12, 2009 ( op-online.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
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  42. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 23 ff . (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
  43. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 25 (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
  44. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 61 .
  45. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 25 (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
  46. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 62 .
  47. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 25 (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
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  49. ↑ Evangelical Church Council Dudenhofen (ed.): 200 years Evangelical Church Dudenhofen . Dudenhofen 1970, p. 25th ff . (Festschrift for the 200th anniversary).
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  51. ↑ Manfred Resch: Our church, our home . Self-published, Rodgau 2000, p. 77 .
  52. ↑ Manfred Resch: Dudenhofen as it used to be . Self-published, Rodgau 1992, p. 14th ff .
  53. ^ Georg Schäfer: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Inventory and descriptive presentation of works of architecture, sculpture, painting and applied arts up to the end of the 18th century. Century. Commission publisher by Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1885, p. 29-30 (digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kdgh_offenbach/0019).
  54. ^ Albert Kämmerer: Ortschronik: Dudenhofen 1278–2011 . Ed .: Association of Home, History and Culture in Dudenhofen. Rodgau 2011, p. 380 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 20 ″  E