Evangelical Church Eberstadt

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Church in Eberstadt

The Evangelical Church in Eberstadt , a district of Lich in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), consists of a medieval tower shaft from the 14th century, the baroque spire and the nave from 1693. The church with its three-storey spire characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian one Cultural monument .

history

South portal of the church

In 1360 there is evidence of a chapel that belonged to the mother church in Trais-Munzenberg until 1361 and since that year has been elevated to an independent parish. The reason for breaking away from Trais was the long and arduous journeys to Trais and the neglect of pastoral care in Eberstadt. Arnold Steyn was the first pastor from 1367 to 1402. The location of the old chapel is not known. At the location of today's church, high up on the north-western outskirts, a new church was probably built in 1361. In the late Middle Ages, Eberstadt belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

In 1461 Eberstadt was incorporated into the Arnsburg monastery, but remained a parish church. Until the abolition of the monastery in 1803, Arnsburg had the right to present a new pastor, which repeatedly led to problems in the post-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation between 1556 and 1562, the congregation switched to the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Hartmann Broiler is proven to be the first Protestant pastor in 1564. In 1577 she accepted the Reformed Confession introduced by Pastor Johannes Venator. He worked in Eberstadt until he was 85 years old in 1635. Between 1637 and 1648 the congregation was again Lutheran for a few years, only to remain finally reformed after the Thirty Years War . In the years 1612 to 1648 Ober-Hörgern was temporarily looked after by Eberstadt.

A new nave and a spire were built in 1692/93 for 2500 guilders. The south portal was taken over from the previous church. The tower windows and west portal of the tower were redesigned by trying to incorporate profiles (in a non-professional way). The cemetery was walled in 1693 with the covered arched portal on the south-western corner. In 1770 the small porch was built (inscription).

A lightning strike caused considerable damage to the building on May 11, 1830, about which Pastor Völcker reported to the consistory on the following day: “ After noon the roof on the tower and church is completely ruined, the windows smashed, the doors smashed and the walls are very bad become defective. Far around in the churchyard and in the adjoining gardens are slate and brick, and the church is full of lime and splinters. “The interior renovations of 1852 and 1892 and the exterior renovation of 1893 removed the damage. In 1855 and 1892 the cemetery was expanded. The church received electric light in the summer of 1928 and was repainted. In 1955 Solms-Lich renounced the right of patronage. In 1958/1959 the interior of the church was renovated and redesigned and a new gallery was installed. The exterior was renovated in 1961, a new tower clock was installed in 1963 and new windows were installed in 1969/1970. The external plaster was renewed in 1974, after a lightning strike on June 3, 1981 the weather valve and 1987/1988 the heating.

Arnsburg Monastery was incorporated into Eberstadt when it was abolished by secularization in 1803. The paradise of the Arnsburg monastery has been available to the Eberstadt parish since 1964. Since April 1, 1981, the Lutheran preaching office of the Arnsburg Monastery in Eberstadt has been parish. In the course of this, the name was changed from “Evangelical-Reformed parish Eberstadt” to “Evangelical parish Eberstadt / Arnsburg monastery”.

After water penetrated in 2016 and damage to the tower emerged, the tower was renovated (2016/2017). The work included a repair of the plaster and the cornice as well as a renewal of the sound hatches, the cladding and the slats.

architecture

Northwest side of the church

The oldest structure is the medieval tower from the 14th century. Architectural peculiarities such as the base, the height, the use of lung stone and the type of stone treatment indicate that it was not built at the same time as the baroque nave, as was assumed in older literature. Unlike the windows in the nave, the round-arched and basket-shaped tower windows in the west have stone walls . The later profiled, pointed arch west portal in the tower serves as the main entrance. In 1693 the west tower was rebuilt inside and received its three-story helmet. The false ceiling dates from 1958/1959. Curved monopitch roofs connect the floors, which taper towards the top. The belfry above the tower cube merges into the hood, which in turn is crowned by a lantern. A gilded tower button, a cross and a weathercock form the end.

The east-facing hall church without a base made of quarry stone masonry with corner blocks has a 3/8 choir closure . It is supported by a slated pitched roof completed. On the south side of the nave, the old arched portal has been taken over from the previous building, possibly also the west portal. Both portals from Lungstein are marked with the year 1692. The small wooden canopy dates from 1770. The interior receives light from large, arched windows that are halfway up. There is also a small round window on each of the two long sides.

Furnishing

Block altar
Baroque pulpit

The simple, flat-roofed interior with longitudinal girders is shaped on three sides by a circumferential gallery, which was renewed in 1958/1959. It is coffered and rests on red marbled wooden posts. A scroll at the bottom of the gallery is marked with the year 1988 and bears three New Testament Bible verses: “S MCMLXXXVIII So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that all who believe in him would not be lost but have eternal life . Joh. III.XVI God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God I.Joh. IV.XVI Therefore be joyful in hope, be patient in truebsal, stop at the prayer Rom. XII.XII B ". A large round arch, on which a red curtain is attached, enables the passage to the upper floor of the tower from the west gallery. The longitudinal girder of the ship continues here. The corridors and the altar area were covered with slabs of red Main sandstone in 1959.

Apart from the magnificent pulpit from 1693 on the south wall, nothing of the old furnishings has survived. Its original version was exposed in 1958. The pulpit is closed by a heptagonal sound cover, which is crowned by rich carvings with gilded tips. On the outside of it the Bible verse from Ez 3,18  LUT is painted: “If I tell the wicked you should die of death and you warn him not so he should die. But I want to ask His blood from your hands ”. At the bottom is a dove in a wreath of clouds. A curved banner above the dove bears the Latin words from Joh 3,8  VUL : "SPIRAT VBI VELIT" (The spirit blows where it will). The polygonal pulpit has profiled fields with gilded scrollwork between the corner pillars and is supported by a slender foot.

The altar area is raised by two steps. The simple, cube-shaped altar is closed off by a profiled plate. The church stalls were renewed in 1958/1959.

organ

Interior facing east

In 1852 the church received a new organ from Johann Georg Förster from Lich, which had eight registers and a transmission drawer. Förster used spring wind chests "according to his own invented way". The costs amounted to 840  florins. After a new tile floor had been laid in the ship, Förster cleaned and repaired the organ for 54 florins. In 1938/39 the church received a new organ from Förster & Nicolaus behind the old prospectus . The instrument with electropneumatic action had eleven registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal.

Today's organ goes back to an instrument that Paul Ott created for the Markuskirche in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . The work was transferred to the Frankfurt church music school in 1955 and extensively rebuilt in 1968 by the Oberlinger company . Förster & Nicolaus overhauled the organ in 1986 and moved it to Eberstadt in 2006. The front-playing instrument with neo-baroque disposition and mechanical slider drawers has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The old prospectus of the predecessor organ by Förster was preserved as a dummy over the eastern parapet and hides the actual organ. The disposition is:

I Manual CD – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Mixture III
II Manual CD – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Quintad 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Cymbel IV
Krummhorn 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C-f 0
Sub-bass 16 ′
Pipe pommer 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Dulcian 16 ′
Schalmey 4 ′

Peal

The church tower houses a five-bell bell. Two bells are from the pre-Reformation period. They were cast in 1516 and 1522 and bear old inscriptions. One of these late Gothic bells was consecrated by pastor Konrad Altvater and the pastor in Holzheim. A third bell from 1590 has not survived. Georg Otto from Gießen cast a bell with a diameter of 0.98 m in 1875, which was melted down for armament purposes during the First World War and replaced in 1925 by a "peace bell" by FW Rincker (diameter: 1.05 m). It was also delivered and replaced in 1949. A foundation added two more Rincker bells to the bell in 1959. The new bells were consecrated on December 6, 1959 and the peal was electrified.

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Height
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 1949 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn as 1 " O LAND LAND, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD
1590 + 1949
AFTER WAR AND SORRY AND HARD TIME
I CALL TO BLISS AGAIN"		 Eberstadt Ev. Church bell O country (1) .jpg
2 1959 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn b 1 " OUR FATHER WHO YOU ARE IN HEAVEN " Eberstadt Ev. Church bell Our Father (2) .jpg
3 1516 not designated 800 620 c 2 " MARIA GATTES HEIL PROVIDES WHAT I IBBER SZEIL ANNO MV c XVI " Eberstadt Ev. Church bell 1516.jpg
4th 1522 not designated 700 570 it 2 " HELP VNS GOT AMRIA SANCTA ANNA SELB THIRD AMEN 1 5 22 " Eberstadt Ev. Church bell 1522 (1) .jpg
5 1959 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn f 2 " HONOR TO GOD IN HEIGHT AND PEACE ON EARTH " Eberstadt Ev. Church bell Glory to God (1) .jpg

literature

  • 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. 255 f .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 187.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, p. 229 f.
  • Paul Görlich: Trais was once the mother parish of Eberstadt. The "Pfaffenpfad" still reminds of this. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 210, November 8, 2006, pp. 45-48.
  • Paul Görlich: Centuries-long tradition of pastoral work. Eberstadt has had its own pastor for around 540 years. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 199, May 24, 2005, pp. 201-203.
  • Paul Görlich (arr.); Magistrate of the city of Lich (Ed.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. Self-published, Lich 1989.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (arr.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 478 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 26–29.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 44 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Eberstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 479.
  2. ↑ a b Görlich: Trais was once the mother parish of Eberstadt. 2006, p. 46.
  3. ↑ a b c Görlich: Centuries-long tradition of pastoral work. 2005, p. 201.
  4. ↑ a b c d Weyrauch: The churches of the old district of Gießen. 1979, p. 44.
  5. ^ 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. 34.
  6. ↑ a b Peter Herold: My Church in Eberstadt - Part 2 inside and history of the church . In: Gießener Zeitung of March 13, 2013, seen on April 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b Eberstadt, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 9, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 229.
  9. ↑ a b Görlich: Trais was once the mother parish of Eberstadt. 2006, p. 47.
  10. ↑ a b c Görlich: Trais was once the mother parish of Eberstadt. 2006, p. 48.
  11. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger of July 29, 2016: Only the birds take it easy , accessed on January 2, 2017.
  12. ^ A b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 478.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 27.
  14. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 26.
  15. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. 1988, p. 255.
  16. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. 1988, p. 256.
  17. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 28.
  18. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 29.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 28 ″  E