Evangelical Church Krumbach (Biebertal)

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Church from the south
View from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Krumbach in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ) is a Romanesque hall church with remains of corn masonry . It was rebuilt in Gothic and Baroque times. The mighty choir tower consists of a walled-up tower shaft, above a cubic, slated half-timbered floor and a two-tier baroque helmet structure. The Hessian cultural monument characterizes the townscape.

history

In the Middle Ages Krumbach formed a sending district in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar, which was subordinate to the Archdiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier . There is evidence of a clergyman in Krumbach around 1325. The patronage of Maria Magdalena is attested for the year 1483.

With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. The first Lutheran pastor was Nikolaus Heunius von Södel, who worked here until 1574. As a result of the Reformation, the parishes of Frankenbach and Krumbach were connected to the parish. The pastor had his seat in Krumbach.

Around 1700 a three-sided gallery and a pulpit were built.

In 2012, an interior and an exterior renovation took place.

architecture

Corn masonry on the north side

The non geostete but oriented to northeast unplastered hall building of rubble masonry on a rectangular base is increased in the north to the old town and dropped from further development built. The corn masonry, the mighty walls and two walled up arched windows in the choir tower point to the Romanesque origin. The adjoining half-timbered rectory with a crooked roof was built in the 18th century and forms a structural ensemble with the church and the surrounding cemetery.

The square choir tower consists of a massively walled-up tower shaft, on which a cube-shaped, slate half-timbered floor is placed, which shows the clock face of the tower on the south side. A two-tier, eight-sided helmet structure from the Baroque style concludes. Both floors have eight arched sound holes and a Welsche hood . A top with a tower pommel, a wrought-iron cross and a trumpet angel form the top. The ground floor has a Gothic pointed arch window on the south side, and a small walled-in round arched window in the north and east.

The simple nave is illuminated on the north side through a window with a stab arch and on the south side through two high rectangular windows in the west and a square window above the portal. The western triangular gable also has a square window. The rectangular south portal with a straight lintel is marked 1744. The west side has a slated porch with a window and entrance area. The porch is open to the south and rests on a wooden post.

Furnishing

Interior towards the organ gallery

The interior is closed off by an ogival wooden barrel from the beginning of the 17th century with belt and cross ribs . On the north side there are remains of paintings in the vaulted cheeks . As a secondary support, a longitudinal girder painted with tendrils was probably installed in the 18th century . The girder rests on a round central column that is painted in marble. A pointed arched choir arch from 1938 opens the choir to the nave.

The oldest piece of furniture is the eight-sided late Gothic font. The galleries from around 1700 on the west and north sides and the east organ gallery in the choir arch have coffered panels and have remains of parapet paintings that have not been exposed. The polygonal, wooden pulpit on the south side of the chancel arch dates from the same period. It is decorated with coffered panels in the pulpit fields between corner pillars and rests on a wooden post with curved arches, which stands on an octagonal stone column base . The delicate sound cover is crowned with small tips and carvings. A wooden table with a wooden altar cross with a crucifix of the three-nail type serves as the altar . The wooden church stalls with flat carved cheeks leave a central aisle free.

Outside there is a baroque tombstone from 1731 made of red sandstone and to the right of the west entrance two iron crosses from the 19th century.

organ

Walcker organ from 1928

In 1846 Johann Georg Förster built a new organ for 700 florins , which had seven stops on a manual and pedal. The community described it as missing in 1928 and asked for a new building. In the same year, EF Walcker & Cie. a new organ with eleven registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedal. It stands on the east gallery in the choir arch. The Freipfeifen prospectus stands in front of a wooden openwork diamond work. The Krumbacher organ has a pneumatic action and the following disposition :

I Manual C–
Principal 8th'
Dulciana 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
II Manual C–
Horn flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Vox coeleste 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 527.
  • Dünsberg Association Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 3. Edition. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei Gießen 1989, ISBN 3-9800654-1-3 .
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Karlheinz Lang (Ed.): Kirchstrasse 6, Ev. Church In: Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Giessen III. The communities Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , pp. 115-116.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Krumbach (Biebertal)  - Collection of images, 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. 116.
  2. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 293.
  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. 199.
  4. ↑ Krumbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 302.
  6. ↑ Homepage of the parish , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  7. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 115.
  8. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 527.
  9. ↑ Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal e. V. (Ed.): The Dünsberg and the Biebertal. 1989, p. 300.
  10. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 535 .
  11. ^ 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. 532.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 7.8 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 57"  E