Evangelical Church Hochelheim

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Church in Hochelheim from the southwest
Interior with a view to the west to the organ gallery

The Evangelical Church in Hochelheim, a district of Hüttenberg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is a neo-Renaissance style church . The core of the hall church dates back to the 17th century and the roof turret to the 18th century. The Hessian cultural monument , which characterizes the townscape, was given the shape it is today after a reconstruction and extension by a transept in 1905/1906. Some inventory items from the baroque era have been preserved .

history

For the year 1285 a pleban named Rudolf is recorded in Hochelheim . Further references to a chapel in Hochelheim can be found in documents from 1426: One parcel is “under der kirchen lande”, another “under dem kirchgude”. In the same document there is also the hall name "hinder dem kirchobe zu Hirlsheym", which refers to a church in Hörnsheim. In the same document book there are further references to church property from the year 1455. In the year 1478 a piece of land is designated that is in Hochelheim “bii the priest”, as well as the house and yard “near the churchyard”. The church in Hochelheim is mentioned in 1488. At the end of 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 church in Hochelheim was a branch of the mother church in Großenlinden for a very long time , the area of ​​which extended over up to 22 villages in the Hüttenberger Land . The Kollatur the family had Wais of Fauerbach to 1592 held, then the Hesse-Darmstadt and from 1703 Nassau-Weilburg .

When the Reformation was introduced in the parish of Großen-Linden in 1527, Hochelheim, which at that time was one of six branches, switched to the Protestant creed. In 1578, Hochelheim was elevated to a parish church with the Dornholzhausen branch . The first Protestant pastor was Christoph Warich from 1578 to 1608. In 1629 the small chapel from the pre-Reformation period was replaced by a hall church. An inscription in the gallery parapet from 1657 may refer to a subsequent installation of the gallery. The two medieval bells were taken over in the new building.

In 1703 the Hüttenberger Land was divided up in the course 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 came to the Kingdom of Prussia. Subsequently they belonged to the Wetzlar district in the Rhine province . The community acquired an organ in 1701 and a third bell in 1727, which was cast by Barthels in Frankfurt am Main.

Interior of the old church with organ (before 1906)

In the years 1905/1906, under district architect Wilhelm Witte , the church was comprehensively remodeled, which amounted to a new building. The long sides of the hall building including the roof structure and roof turrets have been preserved, as have some baroque inventory items. The western gable side was redesigned and a transept was added to the east.

Paul Schneider spent his youth in Hochelheim from 1910 when his father was a pastor here. In 1926 he took over the office of his deceased father and worked as a Protestant pastor of Hochelheim and Dornholzhausen until 1934. Paul Schneider was murdered by the Nazis in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939 . In 1989 the Protestant community center was renamed "Paul Schneider Community Center" in his honor.

In 1952 the church was completely renovated.

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

During a renovation in the 1980s, the paintings on the pulpit and baptismal font, which had been painted over twice, were uncovered. In addition, a new steel bell cage was installed and the old wooden bell cage was given to the Bell Museum at Greifenstein Castle . The western entrance area of ​​the church was separated in 2002. After it was not accepted as a lounge area for the small children during the service, a foyer was created here for the regular church coffee.

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

Floor plan by Wilhelm Witte (1905)
Representative western gable end
South window in the apse from 1906

The church, which is almost east- facing and not facing the street, is built in the center of the village. It consists of an older hall building on a rectangular floor plan with an eastern transverse building from 1906, which ends with a flat, round east apse the width of a ship. A small sacristy has been added to the northeast corner. The masonry is plastered white on the outside and inside; Corner blocks , walls and other dividing elements made of red sandstone are left out. The west side presents itself as an elaborately designed front side.

The long sides of the nave are illuminated by two large arched windows and covered by a steep hipped roof on which an 18th century canopy ridge is attached. The rectangular west portal serves as the main entrance. It has a wide sandstone frame into which two small rectangular lead glass windows with a diamond pattern are embedded. Four headbands carry a curved canopy over which a three-part rectangular window with sandstone walls is attached. The triangular gable is separated by a sandstone band. The three windows are continued upwards as a semicircular, trichotomic thermal bath window . A building inscription with architrave forms the upper end .

The eight-sided roof turret is completely slated. The basement, which extends to the ridge of the roof, has four small sound openings to the south and north, the middle floor has a pair of sound openings in each direction and in between the clock faces for the tower clock. The two-storey Welsche Dome is crowned by a tower knob, a wrought-iron cross and a weathercock.

The transverse building from 1906 has a two-story window arrangement and is covered by a hipped roof. The west side is adjacent to the nave a respective rectangular side portal through which two square windows and a cambered double canopy on Bügen are attached. To the outside there are stair towers, whose spiral staircases lead to the galleries and the attic. They form side elevations . The lower area has two small square windows and two small rectangular windows at the top, which adjust in height to the course of the stairs. The square upper floor of the stair tower above the eaves is completely slated and has three narrow windows to the west. The curved hood is crowned by a point with a ball. The north and south sides of the transverse building each have three small windows with flat arches in the lower area , and three high arched windows in the upper area. The apse has no windows on the immediate east side and on the side has two high-seated, round-arched lead glass windows from the renovation period. A light-colored diamond pattern forms the background. The middle third is dominated by a medallion, which is decorated in the upper part with volutes in shades of yellow and in the lower part by a winged angel's head, from which a curved red ribbon with attached tassels extends. The north window shows the Christ monogram XP in the center, which is flanked by the Greek letters Alpha and Omega , the south window shows the Eye of Providence in a halo over a lyre that is written on a book.

Four baroque tombs from Hörnsheim are placed on the outside walls of the church, including three made of red sandstone with a curved finish from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century. A relief shows the family of the deceased under the crucified Christ.

The war memorial from 1921 in the southwest in front of the church bears the names of 24 fallen soldiers of the First World War on a two-tiered base on a stele with a crowning eagle.

Furnishing

Interior facing east
Renaissance pulpit from 1620

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling, which is supported by a U-shaped beam in the area of ​​the extension . The roughly square entrance area is separated from the nave by a glass front with a central glass door and serves as a foyer. A few pews are set up at the edge.

A gallery encircling three sides in the nave is continued, mediated by a curved piece, set back in the two transverse arms. The transverse arms are completely filled by the large galleries, each with five seating areas. The wooden parapet from the renovation period integrates baroque beams from the 17th century. Wide battens between simple posts have cup-shaped openings in the upper area. The parapet is profiled below and is decorated with an additional dew band in the area of ​​the nave and in the south arm . At the bottom of the parapet of the west gallery , which serves as the installation site for the organ, there is an inscription with a biblical phrase from Ex 20,24b  LUT : “WHAT PLACE WILL I GET A MEMORY OF MY NAME. I. ZV. TO YOU. COME. VND. YOU. BLESS. EXODI XX CAPITEL. ”Above it, a plaque reminds of Paul Schneider:“ YOU MUST OBEY GOD MORE THAN THE PEOPLE APG 8 V. 29 IN MEMORY OF PAUL SCHNEIDER PRIOR IN HOCHELHEIM AND DORNHOLZHAUSEN 1926–1934 · GEST. IN BUCHENWALD ON JULY 18, 1939 ”. The north gallery in the transverse wing bears the building inscription: "LVC: 11 · ERNEVERT VND AVFGERICHTR DVRCH CHRISTIANVM ERNESIVM, MEISTERN: IOSI ENGELN VND HENRICH MAKEN: BAVMEISTER AO 1657". On the south pore opposite you can read Bible verses from Ps 150 : 1 + 3  LUT : "PRAISE THE LORD IN HIS HOLY THVMB PRAISE HIM IN THE FESTIVAL OF HIS POWER PRAISE HIM WITH POSAVNES PRAISE HIM WITH PSALTER VND HARFFEN Ψ CL ANNO 1684". The wooden stalls have flat-carved cheeks and the parapets have simple coffered, profiled panels. It is oriented to the east in the nave and to the central axis in the transverse arms.

A large basket arch opens the flat round apse to the transverse structure. The arch is painted with the inscription from 1 Joh 5,4  LUT . Since the apse is not very deep and there is no actual choir room, only the pulpit is set up on the east wall, above which a simple wooden cross is attached. The altar and baptistery have found their place in the altar area in front of the arch, which is one step higher. A rectangular door in the north side of the apse allows the passage to the sacristy. The block altar stands on a pedestal and has two white round columns on square bases at the front. The square wooden stele that supports the baptismal bowl is hollow and lockable. It has profiled cornice wreaths around the top and bottom and profiled fillings with tendril ornaments.

The most important piece of furniture is the wooden pulpit from 1620 with rich carving in the late Renaissance style. It was created during the tenure of Pastor Eberhard Fuldner (1608–1624 in Hochelheim; † 1632) at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. The pulpit has stairs with coffered panels on both sides. It stands on an octagonal post with a circumferential zigzag pattern over a square stone base. The lower rectangular panels are painted with flowers and tendrils. On the cantilevered wooden consoles there are fluted three-quarter pillars that structure six pulpit fields. Filigree reliefs are placed between the round column bases. The pulpit fields have round arches with fighters between pilasters , above an architrave with a blown gable that encloses a vase. Figures are depicted under four round arches, in the middle Christ and a clergyman, outside two angels. Two areas are not painted. The frieze in the upper cornice bears the Bible verse: “· 1 · 6 · 20 · BLESSED · SINT · THE · WORD · OF GOD · HEAR · VND · BEWAREN”.

organ

Organ in Hochelheim

The former Hochelheim pastor Friedrich Kilian Abicht reported in 1834 that a new organ was purchased in 1701 , which he describes as bad. According to Adam Karl Bernhard , the organ was moved from the church in Griedel to Hochelheim in 1722, "a work that was already unusable at that time". In 1726 the church carried out a larger collection for the organ. The organ builder Ludwig Eichhorn from Weilmünster was commissioned in 1878 with a new building that included ten stops on a manual and pedal. In 1879 the new organ was accepted. In the course of the church renovation, this work was replaced in 1906 by a two-manual instrument with 14 registers by Hugo Böhm (Gotha). The prospectus is in the neo-baroque style. It is divided into three axes by pilasters. The raised arched field emerges like a central projectile and is crowned by two winged angels' heads above the profiled cornice. Two flanking rectangular fields have openwork tendrils as veil boards, while the lateral blind wings are made of acanthus . Another new building with 15 votes behind the old prospect followed in 1970–1972 by Günter Hardt . The organ has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Spindle flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
octave 1'
Scharff III – IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Gedacktpommer 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′

Bells

No.
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Chime
  		image
 
1 1950 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn g 1 Evangelical Church Hochelheim Bells 01.JPG
2 1950 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn b 1 Evangelical Church Hochelheim Bells 02.JPG
3 1950 Gebr. Rincker, Sinn c 2 Evangelical Church Hochelheim small bell.jpg
4th 1452 Johann Bruwiller or Delman Borger d 2 Evangelical Church Hochelheim old bell 01.jpg

The roof turret houses a four-way bell on two levels.

Of the two medieval bells, that of 1452 has been preserved. It bears several pilgrimage marks, including that of St. Matthias and St. Maximin . In Hochelheim, such a pilgrimage sign was first recorded on a bell. Bruwiller and Borger poured together in Haiger around 1449. The sources report differently as to which of the two ultimately cast the bell.

Before the world wars there was still a bell by J. Barthels (Frankfurt / Main) from 1727, which was cast in 1870 by G. Otto (Gießen). In 1950 the Rincker brothers cast three new bells. The old Hochelheim bell chair is now in the bell museum at Greifenstein Castle .

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 59-62 ( online ), Volume 3. Wigand, Wetzlar 1837, pp. 384-391 ( online ).
  • 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. 436-437 .
  • 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. 418.
  • Otfried Hankel: Family book of the Protestant parish Hochelheim (Hessen) 1771–1874. Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-86991-066-6 .
  • 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 , pp. 320-321.
  • 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 : Evangelische Kirche Hochelheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Wenzel (Ed.): Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, p. 320.
  2. ↑ Ernst Wiese (edit.): Document book of the city of Wetzlar. 1141-1350. Vol. 1. Elwert, Marburg 1911, certificate no.146.
  3. ↑ Wolf-Heino Struck (arrangement): The Marienstift zu Wetzlar in the late Middle Ages. Regesten 1351–1500 (= document book of the city of Wetzlar. Vol. 3). Elwert, Marburg 1969, Certificate No. 782.
  4. ^ Schulte: The history of Grossen-Linden and the Hüttenberg . 1990, p. 28.
  5. ^ Marie-Luise Westermann, parish council of the Protestant parish in Großen-Linden (ed.): Romanesque Church in Großen-Linden. Documentation of the building history . Evangelical Church Community, Linden 2008, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Vol. 3. 1837, p. 385 ( online )
  7. ↑ Hochelheim. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 10, 2015 .
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  10. ↑ Image of the Hochelheimer Glockenstuhl on Panoramio , accessed on March 11, 2015.
  11. ^ History of Hörnsheim , accessed on March 10, 2015.
  12. ↑ a b Abicht: The Wetzlar district, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Vol. 2. 1836, p. 60 ( online )
  13. ↑ In Hochelheim and Hörnsheim: Free path to the merger of the parishes , accessed on March 10, 2015.
  14. ^ Official gazette of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. No. 11 of November 15, 2007 , p. 428 (PDF file; 133 kB), accessed on March 10, 2015.
  15. ↑ Evangelical Church District at Lahn and Dill , accessed on March 25, 2019.
  16. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 418.
  17. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Wenzel (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, p. 321.
  18. ^ Deutsche-kriegsgeschichte.de , accessed on March 10, 2015.
  19. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/1. 1975, p. 436.
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  21. ↑ Hartmut Kühne: A Roman pilgrim sign in the archive of the city of Mühlhausen. In: Mühlhauser contributions. No. 34, 2011, pp. 165–169, here: p. 166.
  22. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 60 ( online ), mentions the year 1461.
  23. ↑ 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.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 41.03 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 4.37"  E