Evangelical Church Espa

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Church from the northwest
Church from the southwest

The Evangelical Church Espa in Espa , a district of the Hessian community Langgöns , was founded in 1964.

history

The house of God is already the third church at the same location. The two previous churches were built in 1737 and 1892 and were both connected to the school. Above the prayer room on the ground floor, the upper floor served as a school. In the 1950s, the second church building became dilapidated, so that the place received a new school in 1960 on the site of today's town hall. A functional, functional church building was built on the foundations of the old church.

Originally Espa was parish near Oberkleen or Hausen . In 1821 Espa was merged with the Cleeberg and Weiperfelden to form a parish. Today Cleeberg and Espa are parishially connected. The parish Espa has around 320 Protestant members (as of 2014).

architecture

The east- facing hall church is built on the eastern edge of the village on a hillside. It has a drawn-in, transverse rectangular east end. The nave is covered by a flat gable roof. The chancel is illuminated on the south and north side by high rectangular, colored lead glass windows , the nave on the north side by four, on the south side by three high-seated rectangular windows. The south side also has five small square windows in the lower zone for the community rooms in the basement. The east side has no windows. A large three-lane window front that extends down to the base is let into the western street front. A slender bell tower with a flat gable roof is integrated into the nave at the southwest corner, which has sound openings on all four sides and which is slated on the south side. It is crowned by a gilded knob with a weathercock. The church is accessed through the rectangular south entrance in the tower with a simple canopy.

Furnishing

View to the west
Altar area

The interior is simple and functional. The interior is completed by a wood-clad pointed ceiling. In the northwest, the area below the gallery is separated from the foyer and an adjoining room. A stone staircase in the southwest enables the access to the gallery, which serves as a set-up for the organ. The parapet made of iron square tubes with wooden panels finds its counterpart in the construction of the pews that leave a central aisle free. The liturgical furnishings are also made from square tubes with wood.

The liturgical area in and in front of the choir is one step higher than the nave. The altar is a simple table with an altar cross, which is flanked on the southern side by a lectern and on the northern side by a baptismal font made of square tubes with wood.

organ

Steinmeyer organ

In 1965 a positive organ (model C) from GF Steinmeyer & Co. was purchased, which was built as opus 2060 in 1963. The instrument has five registers on a manual without a pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Scharff II – III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Espa. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 30, 2014 .
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 296.
  3. ↑ Evangelical Church has existed for 50 years. In: Gießener Allgemeine of December 27, 2014, p. 38.
  4. ^ 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. 181 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 20 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 49.8"  E