Evangelical Church Hörnsheim

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Church in Hörnsheim from the south

The Evangelical Church in Hörnsheim , a district of Hüttenberg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a hall church from 1968/1969, which was built in place of a previous building from the 16th century. The late Gothic, compact choir tower , which received its distinctive three-storey bonnet in 1694, and a cycle of pictures from the Baroque era have been preserved. The church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In 1344 a chapel in Hörnsheim was first mentioned in a document, which belonged to the mother church in Großenlinden , whose parish included up to 22 villages in the Hüttenberger Land . In the Middle Ages, the community was assigned to the deanery of Wetzlar and the archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . The chapel in Hörnsheim remained a branch of Großenlinden after the Reformation. The Kollatur the family had Bicken to 1732 held, then Nassau-Weilburg .

When the Reformation was introduced in the parish of Großen-Linden from 1527, Hörnsheim was one of six branches that had remained in Großen-Linden. The congregation finally made the change to the evangelical confession in 1532. A group of Anabaptists gained a foothold in Hörnsheim and in 1540 had a number of followers. For a long time after the Reformation, the people of Hörnsheim regularly attended church services in Großenlinden. A document from 1585 confirmed the bond with the mother church. In Hörnsheim, prayer hours and Sunday sermons were held once or twice a week by the Großen-Lindener Kaplan, except on high Christian holidays. The chaplain or deacon of Großen-Linden was also pastor in Hörnsheim. In addition, the sacraments were only allowed to be donated here in emergencies . Up until the beginning of the 18th century, schoolchildren had to attend school in Großen-Linden and the midday church there on Sundays. During a visitation in 1600 the congregation attested to the pastor's legal teaching. He himself was “pleno vino” (drunk) and could not take part in the survey.

Due to a lightning strike, the spire burned down in 1693 and was rebuilt the following year. The walled-up tower shaft also suffered and was heavily renewed.

The Hüttenberger Land was divided up in 1703 as part of an exchange of parts of the territory between Hesse and Nassau. Hochelheim and Hörnsheim fell to the County of Nassau-Weilburg and in 1815 to the Kingdom of Prussia. Subsequently they belonged to the Wetzlar district in the Rhine province . In 1703 Hörnsheim was provided with a branch of the Evangelical Church Lützellinden and pastoral care by Lützellinden until 1970.

After the decision to build a larger nave had been decided in 1966 , the community began the first planning in January 1967 and announced a limited architectural competition for the new ship. The last service in the old building took place on October 29, 1967 and the demolition in November. The inauguration of the new building took place on July 13, 1969. The total costs amounted to 300.00 DM. Part of the baroque picture cycle that had previously served as parapet paintings for the galleries was taken over into the new church. The pictures were stored in the cellar of a prudent presbyter and restored by church painter Bernd Beierlein around 1989. Contrary to the original plans, the renaissance pulpit with sound cover was not reused. The old gravestones, which were previously placed on the south wall of the church, were placed on a new wall north of the church.

After the political communities of Hochelheim and Hörnsheim merged in 1968 to form the entire community of Hüttenberg, the two parishes of Hochelheim with 1560 and Hörnheim with 800 members were connected to the parish on July 3, 1970. Until then, Hörnsheim was supplied by the church in Lützellinden. The area of ​​the united parishes is almost identical to that of the new commune.

In August 1970 the presbytery decided to purchase a new organ, which was delivered at a price of DM 32,000 and inaugurated in December 1972. In December 1987 the handrail at the top of the church tower broke, so that the weathercock fell down. The entire point, including the ball knob and iron cross, was renewed by Berthold Rödder from Albstadt and returned to its intended use in October 1988.

On January 1, 2008, the Evangelical Church Congregation Hochelheim-Hörnsheim was newly formed as the successor to the congregations that had been affiliated to the parish until then. The parish of Hochelheim-Hörnsheim belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the eastern enclave of Braunsfels / Wetzlar in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

North elevation of the church
Interior facing east

The almost east-facing church is slightly raised in the center of the village on the main road. It consists of a younger hall building on a rectangular floor plan with a late Gothic choir tower on a square floor plan. The nave from 1969 replaces the previous building from the 16th century, which stood at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance . The old hall building on a rectangular floor plan only reached the width of the tower shaft. It was covered with a gable roof and was lit on the long sides through flat-pointed arched windows. The walls were sometimes up to 2 meters thick. Until 1967 the tower hall was used as a choir and the interior was oriented to the east.

The tower shaft, made of unplastered quarry stone masonry, is cuboid and not structured. The vaulted tower hall is illuminated to the north and south through a small arched window and to the east through a narrow, high round arched window with red sandstone walls. The ribs of the groin vault rest on profiled console stones and end in a ring-shaped keystone . A rectangular hatch above the organ in the community hall gives access to the upper floor of the tower. The three-storey, octagonal helmet structure is completely slated and tapers towards the top. Curved monopitch roofs lead over to the next floor. The first floor has pairs of round-arched sound openings on four sides , the middle eight round-arched sound holes. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached to the north and south on the middle floor. The top of the helmet is an open lantern with a Welscher hood , which is crowned by a gold-plated tower knob, a wrought-iron cross and a gold-plated weathercock. The steeple is 4 meters high and weighs 75 kg. A writing board made of red sandstone in the south wall reminds of the new building of the spire: “ANNO 1694 APRIL 7TH / THE FIRST STONE IS PLACED / ON DISEM THORN WAS PRIOR / ER IOHANN PHILLPVS ECKARD / VON GROSSENLINDEN BAV / MEISER IOHANN LVDWIG WILAS / VNDWIG KÖCHER BVR / GE MEISTER WILLHELM WILL / VND IOHANNES KÖCHER VND / BEFORE STEHER IOHANNES LAN / G GOD RECEIVES HIS WORD IN THIS ”.

The width of the new nave extends beyond the tower shaft. It is built from white sand-lime bricks and has a slate roof. The church is lit on both long sides through a series of high-seated, rectangular windows. The west side is windowless and has a slate gable triangle. A wooden porch with a gable in the very west of the nave leads to the two-winged south portal. A large rectangular opening below the organ gallery opens the tower hall to the nave.

The old tombstones on a separate wall in the north of the church are made of red sandstone. The oldest was created for Johannes Zerber, court jury and church senior from Hörnsheim, who died in 1662. A single tombstone with a semicircular end is placed on the north side of the tower.

A memorial in front of the south side of the church from 1922 commemorates the fallen of the First World War. A white cube on a pedestal bears inscriptions on the sides with the names of the fallen soldiers of the two world wars, on the front an old iron plaque with the names of two fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War and on the back an inscription with a poem by Matthias Claudius . A bronze helmet decorated with oak leaves on a laurel wreath forms the upper end.

Furnishing

Interior facing west
Painting with Saint Simon (with saw)

The community hall has an open roof, which is clad with wood. Crossing struts support the rafter roof , which has a continuous ribbon of windows as a skylight on the north side. The altar area is to the west. On the west wall there are 13 baroque oil paintings, which show Christ with 10 apostles in the center, who are flanked on the outside by Moses and Aaron. The pulpit, altar and lectern are set up below, all of which are simply and functionally made of wood with an iron frame. The church is furnished with white single chairs and offers space for 250 visitors. On the east wall, at the back of the tower, there is an organ loft on which the organ stands in front of a round arch niche.

The tower hall continues the community hall, but can also be separated from it and used separately. About 20 other oil paintings by the same artist are hung here. They depict biblical scenes from the Old and New Testaments, but also non-biblical figures such as Paul of Thebes , who are shown with their respective attributes . The names of the person concerned or the biblical passage are painted on the frame below the pictures.

organ

Organ in Hörnsheim

An organ was first mentioned in 1710, when the schoolmaster was paid. Repairs followed in 1727 and 1783. Organ builder Dreuth worked on the bellows in 1770 and carried out maintenance work in 1795. In 1796 the municipality decided to enlarge the organ by a few stops by organ builder Johann Peter Rühl from Gießen. Hugo Böhm from Gotha created a new work in 1890 with ten stops on two manuals and pedal. Günter Hardt from Möttau built a new organ in 1972, which has eight registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal . The prospectus is characterized by two open trapezoidal boxes. The front organ has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture III 2 ′
II subsidiary work C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Pommer 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Bells

The church tower houses a triple bell. In 1596, bell founder Siegmund Arnold from Fulda cast a bell with the strike tone f sharp 1 for Hörnsheim, which is no longer there. It bore the inscription “Siegmundta, Arnoltta von KleinFulta gos mich. I din the small churches, to the gods word rof I 1596 ”. Heinrich Wilhelm Rincker cast a bell in 1772 and Friedrich Wilhelm Otto from Gießen in 1787 two more. The one from 1772 and one from 1787 were replaced in 1906 by two bells from Pfeiffer from Kaiserslautern. When the other Otto bell broke in 1920, the community had three new bells cast by Rincker. These were delivered for armaments purposes during the Second World War and were replaced by three new Rincker bells in 1950, whose tone combination can be heard in the Te Deum .

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Chime
 
1 1950 Rincker , Sinn f 1
2 1950 Rincker, Sinn as 1
3 1950 Rincker, Sinn b 1

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 57-59 ( online ), Volume 3. Wigand, Wetzlar 1837, pp. 376-383 ( online ).
  • 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 , p. 419.
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Maria Wenzel (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 326.
  • Otto Schulte; Marie-Luise Westermann (Hrsg.): The history of the great Linden and the Hüttenberg . Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1990, ISBN 3-924145-12-1 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Hörnsheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ Westermann: Romanesque Church Grossen-Linden. 2008, p. 5.
  3. ^ Schulte: The history of Grossen-Linden and the Hüttenberg . 1990, p. 28.
  4. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Vol. 3. 1837, p. 378 ( online )
  5. ^ Schulte: The history of Grossen-Linden and the Hüttenberg . 1990, p. 111.
  6. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Vol. 3, 1837, pp. 376-377 ( online ).
  7. ↑ a b c d hoernsheim.de: History of Hörnsheim , accessed on March 31, 2015.
  8. ↑ a b c d Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 419.
  9. ^ Lützellinden, District of Giessen. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 29, 2015 .
  10. ^ In Hochelheim and Hörnsheim. Free path to the union of the parishes , accessed on March 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ The spire of the church has been restored. In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung of October 19, 1988, accessed on March 29, 2015.
  12. ^ Official gazette of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. No. 11 of November 15, 2007 , p. 428 (PDF file; 133 kB), accessed on March 30, 2015.
  13. ↑ Evangelical Church District at Lahn and Dill , accessed on March 25, 2019.
  14. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former administrative district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.1 . Part 1 (A – K)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 451-452 .
  15. ^ Organ in Hörnsheim , accessed on March 29, 2015.
  16. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. 1836, p. 58 ( online ).
  17. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 136.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '7.18 "  N , 8 ° 37' 40.76"  O