Evangelical Church in Kirch-Göns

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North side of the church

The Evangelical Church in Kirch-Göns , a district of Butzbach in the Wetteraukreis in Central Hesse, dates back to the 12th century and has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. It shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Romanesque church tower

In the Middle Ages, the Gönser Mark belonged to the deanery of Wetzlar and the archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . In the High Middle Ages, the Kirch-Gönser community was looked after by the mother church in Großenlinden , where the sending court was also held. Based on the place name, it is assumed that Kirch-Göns belonged to the oldest village in the Göns communities. In the High Middle Ages, it had a curate chapel, which stood between a branch and a parish church under canon law and had a supra-local function. Until the 13th century the Jakobuskirche in Lang-Göns was a branch church , until the end of the 15th century probably also Pohl-Göns .

In the 14th century the nave and choir burned down and were renewed. In 1364 there is a patronage of St. Peter proven. Probably in the 15th century the outer walls of the ship were increased by over a meter from the original 4.4 m.

In the course of the Reformation , Kirch-Göns switched to the Protestant creed around 1540. The first pastor of the new faith was "Herr" Ebert in 1541.

The former small arched windows in the nave and choir were replaced by large rectangular windows in early modern times , probably in 1669, when various building measures were carried out inside and outside, but no later than in the 18th century. In the course of the church renovation in 1669, today's staircase was built into the tower. Until around 1751, the nave and choir were connected by a triumphal arch . At the beginning of the 18th century the church had three bells. In 1706 a new one was purchased after the old big one broke up. This bell bore the inscription "JOHAN ANDREAS SCHNEIDEWIND GOS ME IN FFVRT ANNO 1706" and was placed in the bakery in 1980. When the big bell jumped in 1746, it was cast by Philipp Henschel in Gießen. In 1875 the bells "Friede" and "Eintracht", and in 1877 the third big bell, the "Bell of celebration and joy in the Lord", were inaugurated. The two largest together weighed 882 kg and had to be delivered to the armaments industry in 1917. New bells were cast in 1920 for 27,000 marks.

In the middle of the 18th century, the vault, including the column and arch, was broken out. The interior was renovated in the 1790s and the white binder Daniel Hisgen created the pictures for the gallery parapet. The medieval baptismal font was probably removed from the church at this time. The roof and the spire with a cross and a weathercock were renewed in 1874 and the clock in 1884. Further interior renovations took place in 1881 and 1925. In 1900 a stove was built into the church. In 1925 Otto Kienzle painted the church, and in 1937 the tower was renovated.

Around 1950 the bells that were previously hanging on the third floor of the tower were mounted on a metal bell cage in the tower helmet. During the tower renovation in 1982, the figure relief on the southern side of the tower was lost and was replaced by a copy. The church remained unplastered until the 20th century. In 2009 the church received a new exterior plaster. Further renovation measures totaling 350,000 euros were completed in June 2013.

architecture

South side of the church

The church was built on a slight elevation. The undivided three-story, Romanesque west tower of rubble stone -masonry with Lung stone -Eckquadern on square base of 6.7 meter x 6.7 meter receive unplastered and largely. The wall thickness is 1.9 meters. There are narrow window slots on the first floor and small arched windows on the second floor. The arched windows on the third floor, coupled on three sides, point to the Romanesque origin and served as acoustic arcades for the bells until the 20th century. The bell tower is closed by a pyramid helmets that have been slipped into place, the shape of which dates back to Romanesque times and which is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock. A round arched portal on the south side provides access to the tower. Three basalt stone portraits of unknown origin are embedded in the masonry of the tower. A head of Christ with a halo is walled in on the west side, two standing figures of a man and a woman (the donor couple?) On the south side and above the south portal of the tower is a heavily weathered relief depicting a head. The dating of the paintings, which are difficult to interpret, ranges from the early Romanesque to the Gothic period.

The east-facing , rectangular, single-aisled hall church and the slightly recessed and slightly lower, rectangular choir are plastered. The ship is 11 meters long, 10.2 meters wide and since the increase in nachromanischer time 5.6 meters high and is powered by a gabled roof completed. On the ground floor, a round arch portal 2 meters wide and 1.9 meters high connects the tower with the ship through the 1 meter thick inner wall. A baroque passage has broken through that leads from the west gallery to the first floor of the tower. The slightly ogival, late Gothic south portal has double tiered walls . The late medieval west gable of the nave probably dates from the 15th century, when the outer walls of the Romanesque nave were raised. The rectangular windows with red sandstone walls sometimes reach under the eaves.

The rectangular, originally vaulted choir is 6.75 meters long and about 8 meters wide and is topped off by a gable roof that is lower than the nave. On the east side of the choir there is an oculus above the rectangular window and a small, early Gothic lancet window made of lavatuff, which may date from the 13th century, in the gable triangle.

Furnishing

Interior to the west

Today, the flat-roofed interior is not vaulted. The three-sided, wooden gallery from the Baroque period rests on round marble columns and serves as an organ gallery on the east side. Since Hisgen's parapet paintings were in poor condition, they were painted over blue during an interior renovation. On the south side of a loose up mehrtüriger wood is in unison Pew castellated Akanthus incorporated -Rankenwerk leading to the cockpit staircase. The polygonal pulpit dates from the baroque era. Perhaps it was created together with the galleries during the major interior renovation in 1669.

The old cafeteria made of Lavatuff measures 1.4 meters by 0.7 meters and is 0.2 meters thick. It is sloping downwards and dates from Romanesque or Gothic times. The simple baptismal font made of basalt with a round rod on the upper edge dates from the first half of the 13th century and is now placed in front of the church. Pastor Heinrich Christoph Kirchner's († 1699) tombstone is in the church.

organ

Heinemann organ (around 1790)

The single manual organ was built by Johann Andreas Heinemann in 1792 with eight registers . The work was carried out by his son-in-law and successor Johann Peter Rühl from Gießen. In 1862 Adam Karl Bernhard added a backward pedal and swapped a register (Salicional 8 ′ instead of a third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′). Incidentally, the work including the two old wedge bellows is original. In the five-part prospectus , the raised, central round tower is flanked by two low flat fields that lead to the outer corner towers. The side organ has nine registers.

Manual C – e 3
Principal 4 ′
Gedact 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Floeta 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Oktava 2 ′
mixture 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Pedal C-f 0
Sub-bass 16 ′

Pastor

Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns have shared a parish office since 1916. The following evangelical pastors are proven:

  • 1541  : "Mr." Ebert0000
  • 1555  : "Lord" Johannes0000
  • 1570–1586: Joshua Keufler
  • 1586–1596: Martin Wicelius
  • 1596–1597: Erasmus Orlettius
  • 1598–1638: Joseph Dünchius (Dünch)
  • 1637–1640: Georg Vigelius
  • 1641–1647: Johannes Zysenius
  • 1647–1648: Konrad Zysenius
  • 1684 : Johann Friedrich Schulze0000
  • 1685–1688: Johann Wilhelm Brumm
  • 1688–1699: Heinrich Christoph Kirchner
  • 1700–1751: Johann Erich Müller
  • 1751–1758: Johann Heinrich Rübsamen
  • 1758–1762: Daniel Kornmesser
  • 1762–1798: Georg Heinrich Christoph Borke (Borcke)
  • 1799–1832: Christian Andreas Eckhardt
  • 1834–1868: Christian Daniel Langsdorf
  • 1869–1893: Ludwig Christian Ritsert
  • 1894–1908: Heinrich Kalbhenn
  • 1908–1916: Friedrich Hellwig
  • 1916–1929: Ludwig Naumann
  • 1929–1931: Administration by Ludwig Franz Karl Gustav Wilhelm Wahl, Lang-Göns
  • 1931–1934: Adolf Kalbhenn
  • 1935–1940: Otto Schaad
  • 1941–1943: Special Vicar Hans Stenger
  • 1943–1949: Hermann Stöppler
  • 1950–1980: Otto Opper
  • 1980–1986: Thomas Ortmüller
  • 1987–1994: Wolfram Blödorn
  • 1994–1998: Thomas Eberl
  • 1999–2001: Ms. Alke Witte
  • since 2002 0 : William Thum

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, pp. 159-160 ( online ).
  • Edgar Binzer: Family book Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns from 1610. (Deutsche Ortssippenbücher; 689). Cardamina-Verl. Breuel, Plaidt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86424-054-6 .
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. Administrative districts Gießen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 241.
  • Village Chronicle Committee (ed.): 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. Butzbach-Kirch-Göns 2000.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , p. 415f.
  • Katja Lowak: Church and parish life at the beginning of the 20th century in Kirch-Göns . In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter , Volume 88, 1993, pp. 2-4.
  • Kirchgöns municipality (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Kirchgöns municipality. Butzbach 1950.
  • Marie-Luise Westermann, parish council of the Evangelical parish in Großen-Linden: Romanesque Church in Großen-Linden . Evangelical parish, Fernwald-Steinbach 1998.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Kirchgöns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  2. ↑ 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, p. 51.
  3. ^ 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. 198.
  4. ↑ 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, pp. 11, 50.
  5. ↑ Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district Gießen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 104.
  6. ↑ Wionski (ed.): Cultural trails in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. 1999, p. 422.
  7. ↑ "Kirch-Göns, Wetteraukreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  8. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 241.
  9. ↑ a b c d 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, p. 54.
  10. ↑ a b 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, p. 57.
  11. ↑ Wetterauer Zeitung of June 4, 2013: Church renovation has "cost nerves, strength and money" , seen June 22, 2013.
  12. ↑ a b 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, p. 53.
  13. ↑ 850 years of Kirch-Göns. A village chronicle. 2000, p. 12.
  14. ^ Gail and Winfried Schunk: Chronicle of Butzbach. Timeline for Butzbach and its districts. 2nd Edition. History Association for Butzbach and the Surrounding Area, Butzbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809778-3-8 , p. 30.
  15. ^ 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. 520 .
  16. ^ Binzer: family book Kirch-Göns and Pohl-Göns. 2012, p. 9f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 11 ″  E