Evangelical Church Lauter (Laubach)

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South side of the church
View of the west gallery

The Evangelical Church in Lauter , a district of Laubach in the district of Gießen ( Hessen ), is a baroque half-timbered church from the year 1773 to 1779. The hall church with roof turrets and half-timbering, which is untypical for Upper Hesse, is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

The previous building dates back to the pre-Reformation period and is first documented in 1448. Originally it was probably a subsidiary of Grünberg . With the introduction of the Reformation (1527 in Grünberg) the parish changed to the Protestant confession. It was parish in Queckborn around 1550 and was raised to an independent parish in 1577, but later again a branch of Queckborn.

Since the old, stone curate chapel, which served the pastoral care, stood unfavorably on a swampy meadow area near the Lauter by the old cemetery and was sold in the first half of the 18th century, the parish converted a petition to the landgrave on July 5, 1747 Support by means of ten oak trunks for a new building: “Our little church is one of the most miserable in the whole of the Principality”, so that “when the water floods you either do not have to go into it at all or you risk it; What is more, it is so damaged that there are many cracks in the wall, which threatens to be invaded every day ”. The community was unable to comply with the request to first erect the stone plinth for financial reasons. In 1750, for example, a collection was asked for, which the landgrave approved on March 12, 1751. Due to the Seven Years' War and the passage of various armies through the town, the new building was postponed. After a gable wall collapsed in 1763, it was initially repaired. In 1771 the dilapidated chapel was demolished. From then on, services were held in barns. It was not until 1773 that the financial resources made it possible to lay the foundation stone . The first baptism in the not yet completed church is attested to in 1774. The new church was located on a southern slope above the former village and was completed in 1777/1778. A bell from 1751 was taken from the old church. After the facility was completed in 1779, the new church was consecrated on October 6, 1779.

A second bell was cast in 1792. With the acquisition of a new organ, the angled gallery was expanded to include the east gallery in 1801. Both bells were delivered to the armaments industry in 1917. One bell was replaced in 1920 and the second in 1928. After the Second World War, the delivered bells were replaced in 1949 and 1959. The originally shingled half-timbered church was plastered in 1926. In 1963 an electric heater was installed, and from 1975 to 1977 the interior and exterior were renovated. After the half-timbered structure had been exposed except for the north side in 1977, the weather side was covered with shingles in 1997. Wooden shingles have been protecting three sides of the church since 2010.

architecture

North side of the church

The hall church is raised on the outskirts on a southern slope. The rectangular floor plan with beveled corners, which is unusual for the region, may be traced back to the Gießen landgrave master builder. The half-timbered structure has been shingled on three sides since 2010 and plastered on the north side. The tiled roof is hipped in the four corners. The framework rises above the square base and the threshold rim in a strictly symmetrical post construction with four transoms in five zones. Two struts are attached to each of the sturdy corner posts that extend from the threshold to the eaves and go through two zones. The sloping side walls feature two-zone struts, St. Andrew's crosses, diamonds and V-motifs. The long sides are divided by three narrow arched windows. The building is accessed in the west and south through rectangular portals with a small canopy.

The mighty, slated roof turret is placed in the west and houses three bells. Above the four-sided bell storey, a curved monopitch roof covered with small dormers leads over to the two-tier, octagonal Welsh hood , which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock.

Furnishing

Baptismal font
pulpit

The simply designed interior is closed off by a flat ceiling that rests on two round columns in the west. The pillars include the gallery and support the roof turret. The three-sided gallery is supported by round wooden columns. The fillings in the gallery balustrades, apart from the organ balustrade, are plain, and the vertical frames are decorated with Rococo decorations. The polygonal wooden pulpit was taken from the old church. It has a circumferential, profiled cornice with a frieze above and below. The round arched panels of the pulpit are painted in one place with the Christ monogram .

A modern carved oak chest by master carpenter Otto Tröller is richly decorated with inlays . The wood-covered church stalls leave a central aisle free. The massive cafeteria (plate over incline) rests on a wooden frame. The six-sided, Gothic baptismal font made of red sandstone was taken over from the previous church. On the sides it has tracery panels with a three-pass and a small cross-shaped leaf ornament.

organ

Organ from 1904

In 1801 the congregation purchased a new organ for the new church . The instrument was replaced in 1904 by a new organ from the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus with a classicist prospect on the east gallery. Four pilasters in the gallery parapet continue in the upper part and divide three round-arched pipe fields. The middle field is elevated and is closed off by a triangular gable supported by two Ionic capitals . The sideways movement has a pneumatic action with a cone chest and eight stops , which are distributed over a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Drone 8th'
octave 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

  • 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. 489 f.
  • Festival committee "700 years Lauter" (ed.): The history of the community Lauter. Louder 2000.
  • Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg (ed.), Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 , p. 73.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , pp. 319-321.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 267–269.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 112 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Lauter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Lang (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. 2008, p. 321.
  2. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 489.
  3. ↑ Louder. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 1, 2014 .
  4. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 112.
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1935, p. 490.
  6. ↑ Festival committee "700 years Lauter" (Ed.): The history of the community Lauter. 2000, p. 50.
  7. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 113.
  8. ↑ Festival committee "700 years Lauter" (Ed.): The history of the community Lauter. 2000, p. 55.
  9. ↑ Festival committee "700 years Lauter" (Ed.): The history of the community Lauter. 2000, p. 59.
  10. ↑ Festival committee "700 years Lauter" (Ed.): The history of the community Lauter. 2000, p. 58.
  11. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Lang (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. 2008, p. 320.
  12. ^ Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg (Ed.): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . 1987, p. 73.
  13. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 269.
  14. ^ 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. 572 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 2.2"  E