Evangelical Church Hausen (Pohlheim)

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Church from the south
Church from the East

The Evangelical Church in Hausen , a district of Pohlheim ( Hessen ), was built in the 13th century. With its high ridge turret, it shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

A previous church in Hausen has been archaeologically proven. This building possibly dates from the Carolingian period (9th / 10th centuries). According to another opinion, it is a Romanesque predecessor building from the beginning of the 12th century. The completely preserved foundations with a rectangular floor plan of 5.05 × 7.25 meters point to a hall church with a semicircular east apse . The underlying unit of measurement was based on the Roman foot (29 cm). The foundations were 2½ feet thick, the nave 30 feet long and 23 feet wide, and the apse 16 feet wide. This church was replaced by the current building at the end of the 13th century. In 1285 a pleban is mentioned. In the pre-Reformation period, the altar of St. Consecrated to Anna . In the 15th century, the Romanesque chapel was extended to the west by a nave to its present length.

In church terms, the place was assigned to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar of the Archdeaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier at the end of the Middle Ages . In 1436 the right of patronage fell to Solms-Braunfels . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1528, Hausen switched to the evangelical creed. The first Protestant pastor Wilhardus worked here from 1528.

In the 1690s the church was extensively renovated and a west gallery was added. The interior was renovated in 1897/98, during which the small gallery on the south wall and the two latticework chairs in the choir were removed. The exterior of the church was renovated in 1926. From 1969 to 1971 the church was renovated and the nave was extended with an extension on the north side. During excavations in the church in 1969, three skeletons from around 1720 were discovered, one of which was completely preserved.

There is a parish relationship with the Protestant parish of Garbenteich .

architecture

Interior facing west with longitudinal girders

The approximately geostete , nave hall church on a rectangular ground plan is built in the middle of an elevated cemetery in the northwest of the old village center as a fortified construction.

Today's eastern part with the late Romanesque choir is the oldest part of the building. The square choir has a narrow window on the east side. It takes up the width of the nave and does not appear to be separated from it from the outside, but is raised from the nave by a narrow, round-arched triumphal arch from the late Romanesque period. While the northern fighter is worked as a trapezoidal plate, on which the crossbeam for the triumphal cross used to be set up, the southern fighter plate is largely cut off in a rough way to provide space for the pulpit. The late Gothic ribbed vault in the choir has grooved ribs that rest on round corner pillars. The keystone is covered with a rosette. Three narrow, slightly ogival windows on the free sides provide the room with light.

The church is made of plastered stone masonry . It has a steep, sloped, slightly heaped gable roof with dormers, the medieval roof structure of which has been preserved. The high, central roof turret from the late 19th century, which merges from a four-sided shaft into a pointed helmet, is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock. The clock faces are mounted in the four triangular gables, underneath on each side are the sound holes of the bell chamber.

The nave is lit on the south side through pointed arched windows of different sizes and from different times. Its sandstone robes date from the 19th century. The portals in the south and west are arched with lung stone . The west portal was converted into a window in the course of the extension in 1969. For this, the extension building received a rectangular door on the west side. It connects to the west of the old wall and extends east to close to the northern choir window. The extension has a shed roof and on the north side four rectangular windows on the lower level and four round windows on the upper level.

Furnishing

Choir
Gothic crucifixion group

The interior is flat. A longitudinal girder from the 16th century is supported by octagonal central posts with saddle wood and headbands . The western center post is older. The west gallery dates from the end of the 17th century, the north gallery was built in as part of the expansion of the nave.

There are wooden pews on the three walls of the choir. The modern stone canteen is covered by a profiled plate. In the north wall of the choir there are two sacrament niches that are closed with iron bars. A piscina outlet has been preserved on the outside of the south side .

The Vasa sacra includes a gilded silver goblet from the 13th century, which is said to come from the Schiffenberg monastery . Medallions with the four evangelist symbols are attached to the pommel . The round base is decorated with a crucifix . The richly decorated baptismal bowl, a so-called cymbal bowl made of brass, shows the Annunciation . It was made at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century. Depicted in a hortus conclusus symbolized by a flower vase is Maria at a lectern. The Archangel Gabriel approaches from the left, holding a lily scepter in his hand. The Holy Spirit in the form of a flying dove wears a halo. Around the scene there is an inscription on an inner ring with the five-letter sequence V - E - H - U - F - A - V - A in Gothic capitals . The mariological motif and the Gothic inscription are based on a model of the Nuremberg basin bat from the 15th and 16th centuries, which was widely used. The same motif with inscription can also be found in the Evangelical Church in Allendorf / Lahn and in the Evangelical Church in Muschenheim . The letter sequence VEHUFAVA is interpreted as "venia humanum fatum, venia altissima" (the grace [forgiveness] of sins is the path of humanity determined by God, the grace of the Most High).

The polygonal pulpit in red and blue frame with a small sound cover dates from the 17th century. It rests on a square wooden post on the southern triumphal arch and has profiled fields in the pulpit. To the left of the arch is a late Gothic crucifixion group with Jesus, Mary and John. The figures of Mary and John are dated around 1380 to 1390, the late Gothic cross, which could originally have served as a lecture cross , to the 15th century, when the crucifixion group was put together. The crucified ( three-nail type ) is probably a little older than the cross.

The lead glass windows with abstract motifs were created in 1972 based on a design by Erhardt Klonk . In the eastern outer wall there are gravestones from the 18th century, including those for Pastor Justus Friedrich Heß († 1735) and for Pastor Michael Müller († 1739). Before that, the large Romanesque font has found its place (1.08 meters in diameter, 0.66 meters high).

organ

Organ around 1890 behind a baroque case
Organ from 1974

There is evidence of an organ for the first time in 1741, which the Rödger teacher Johann Kaspar Grimm built behind a baroque case. The five-axis prospectus had a raised central tower and two pointed towers on the side. Lowered flat fields connected the towers. The lateral blind wings, the veil boards and the crowning of the flat fields on the case were filled with tendrils. After a final repair by Johann Georg Förster in 1896, he created a new work with seven voices in 1898.

In 1974 Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau replaced the organ with a new one, which was erected on the east side of the north gallery. Some older registers have been reworked and integrated. Like the previous organ, the organ has seven registers, which are distributed over a manual and pedal. The prospectus is structured by three boxes of different heights, open at the front and back. The wooden pipes of the sub-bass are placed behind. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Mixture III 1'
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Bells

The roof turret houses a triple bell. After the Second World War, bell 2 came to Hausen as a so-called "loan bell". Bell 3 was acquired by the community of Wohnbach in 1920 .

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		inscription
  		image
 
1 1855 Friedrich Otto and son, Giessen 900 " CAST BY FRIEDRICH OTTO AND SON IN GIESSEN FOR THE COMMUNITY HOUSES IN THE YEAR 1855 " Evangelical Church Hausen (Pohlheim) 42.JPG
2 1824 Schwenn brothers, Schwerin Evangelical Church Hausen (Pohlheim) 39.JPG
3 1662 Guido Monginot 660 " I am called the sound of the bell I call the Leuht through my song
I move and drive them to God's house and his word
Guido Monginot me fecit August 9th 1662 "		 Evangelical Church Hausen (Pohlheim) 41.JPG

literature

  • 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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 386.
  • 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. 235 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): 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. 419 f.
  • Magistrate of the city of Pohlheim (ed.): 1100 years Garwardeshusen 886 Pohlheim-Hausen 1986. Brühl, Gießen 1986.
  • Heinz P. Probst: Early village churches in Hessen. A contribution to the formation and archeology of medieval small churches. In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association. NF Volume 89, 2004, pp. 213-260.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part without Arnsburg. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 108–110.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 84 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 420.
  2. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 387.
  3. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 85.
  5. ↑ 1100 years Garwardeshusen 886 Pohlheim-Hausen 1986. 1986, p. 63.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 235.
  7. ^ 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. 197.
  8. ↑ Hausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 19, 2013 .
  9. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 84.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 109.
  11. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Jäger: The Nuremberg basin bat bowls used as baptismal bowls and their Gothic capitals. Self-published, Heidesee 2010.
  12. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 443 f .
  13. ^ Organ in Hausen , accessed on June 5, 2018.
  14. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 110.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  E