Evangelical Church Girkhausen

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Girkhausen Church

The Evangelical Church is a listed church building in Girkhausen , a district of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The origins of the pilgrimage can no longer be determined; it was discontinued after the introduction of the Reformation in the course of the 16th century.

The former parish and pilgrimage church of St. Marien is a two-aisled , two-bay hall church with two parallel choirs in the 5/8 end. The originally four-bay nave was built in the 13th century. The Romanesque east section was replaced around 1300 by a two-nave transept-like east yoke with two apses . The three west bays collapsed in 1680 and galleries were built into the shortened nave .

The simple quarry stone building with buttresses is plastered. The Romanesque yoke is covered with longitudinal roofs and the Gothic with a transverse roof. A roof turret was added to the Gothic yoke . The choirs are structured by two-lane tracery windows. The west wall and the south porch were built from 1909 to 1910. The top floor of the tower , structured by tracery windows, is Gothic . The spire was renewed in 1909. The first floor was set up in 1920 as a war memorial hall. The west side was rebuilt in 1992. The vaults inside rest on strong round pillars and wall templates. Ribbed vaults were placed in the west yoke, and ribbed vaults were drawn into the choirs and the east yoke. The stars painted in the vault were renewed based on a finding from the 14th century. On the south wall there is an inscription with the name of a founder Wypert, a reference to three bells and the designation 1298.

Furnishing

  • A late medieval sacrament niche with remains of the painted frame
  • The north gallery is marked 1680
  • The west gallery bears the designation 1729
  • Two grave slabs of the local von Gerhardenhausen family
  • A children's epitaph from 1647
  • The free-standing bell tower has three bells. The big bell (d ') was cast around 1298. The middle bell (e ') was made in 1665. The smallest bell (g') was cast in 1954 by Rincker.

literature

  • Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 49.
  • Ulf Lückel: The Evangelical Church Girkhausen. Fate of a pilgrimage church (= Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV supplement 9). Bad Laasphe 2019.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 49.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 19 ″  E