Evangelical Church Lumda (Grünberg)

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Northwest side of the church
East view

The Evangelical Church in Lumda , a district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), is a late classicist hall church that was built in 1847/1848. With its eight-sided roof turret, the church shapes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the Middle Ages, Groß-Lumda was a branch of the Saasen mother church in the exemten Großpfarrei Wirberg . This was assigned to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1527, the monastery was abolished and the parish of Groß-Lumda switched to the Protestant creed. Since then, the place has belonged to the newly formed parish Wirberg.

In the second half of the 17th century, the stone, medieval predecessor building in Groß-Lumda was increased by a half-timbered upper floor . Around 1750 Groß-Lumda got its own cemetery and every two weeks there was a service in the chapel on Sunday afternoons, while the residents of Klein-Lumda still had to go to the services in Nieder-Ohmen and from 1843 to Wirberg. The chapel in Groß-Lumda was dilapidated at the beginning of the 19th century and was finally demolished in 1842. The community began with a new building in 1847, which was inaugurated on June 18, 1848. At the 8000 guilders construction costs, the Gustav-Adolf-Verein acquired a 1,600 guilders.

The big bell was cast in 1861 and delivered to the armaments industry in 1917. A new bell from 1920 suffered the same fate during World War II and was replaced in 1951. Lumda was connected to Grünberg in 1903, so that church services and official acts were carried out by the Grünberg pastors. At the beginning of the 1930s, the interior of the church was renovated, in which a gallery was built behind the pulpit wall, onto which the organ was moved. Since 1973 Lumda was a branch of Grünberg and legally separated from the parish Wirberg. In 2001 Lumda was connected to the parish of Stangenrod / Lehnheim in the parish of Grünberg and has belonged to the parish of Wirberg again since 2017 .

architecture

Portal in the northwest

The aisle church, made of unplastered quarry stone masonry made of basalt, is oriented from northwest to southeast and is built in the center of the village.

The hall church on an almost square floor plan has a flat saddle roof, on which a ridge turret is placed in the northwest. The architectural style combines neo-Romanesque with classicist elements. The interior is lit through arched windows, three each on the long sides and three on the north-western gable side. In the center of the symmetrically designed north-west side there is a round arched portal above which a bezel window is attached. The window above is larger than the two flanking arched windows. There is a four-pass window in each of the gable triangles .

The eight-sided roof turret has round-arched sound holes , above which small, steep, gothic ornamental gables lead to the slipped pointed helmet. The bell chamber houses two bronze bells. The older one dates from 1510 and bears the Latin inscription: "NOS CUM PROLE PIA BENDIC VIRGO MARIA MVX" (may the Virgin Mary bless us with her loving descendant 1510). The larger bell was cast by Rincker in 1951 with the following inscription: “MEMORY OF THE DYING, I CALL YOU ALL MEMORY, EVEN THOSE WHO FALLEN”. The crowning glory is the tower pommel, wrought-iron cross and weathercock.

Furnishing

Pulpit wall
Galleries and arched windows in the southwest

The interior is closed off by a flat slab, which is supported by a cross girder in the northwest, where the roof turret is placed. Starting from the transverse girder, two T-shaped branching girders run to the northwest wall and are supported there by brackets. A three-sided gallery with coffered panels is built into the room and rests on square, marbled wooden posts that run through to the girder in the northwest. The north-east side is empty.

The south-eastern gallery serves as an organ gallery and is closed at the bottom by a wooden pulpit wall with panels, which separates this area as a sacristy with an adjoining room. On the central axis of the altar area, which has been raised by two steps, the three principal pieces altar, pulpit and organ are arranged one above the other. The block altar is raised by one step. The polygonal wooden pulpit has a pulpit staircase on the left side. The church stalls leave a central aisle free. The floor is covered with red sandstone slabs.

organ

Altar, pulpit and organ

The first organ for the new church was purchased second-hand after a new church had been completed for the Evangelical Church of Beuern in 1847, which received a new organ. The instrument from the old church in Beuern dates back to the first quarter of the 18th century. Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard repaired the work and moved it to Lumda, where it was in service until 1893. In the same year, the Bernhard brothers delivered a new organ with mechanical cone chests . In 1917 the tin pipes in the prospectus were delivered for armament purposes and after the war replaced by pipes made of zinc. At the beginning of the 1930s, today's organ loft was installed and the organ moved there. An electric motor from Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau has been supplying the instrument with wind since 1959 . Extensive renovations followed in 1985 and 2007.

The organ has six registers , which are distributed over a manual and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Progressio harmonica III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

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. 601.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 495.
  • 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. 220 f.
  • Heinz P. Probst: The architectural and art monuments in the greater community of Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, pp. 47-49.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 291.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 126 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.), Lang (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 221.
  2. ↑ Lumda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 48.
  4. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 220.
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 495.
  6. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 126.
  7. ↑ Web presence in the Wirberg parish , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  8. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 127.
  9. ↑ Probst: The architectural and art monuments. 2001, p. 49.
  10. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. Vol. 1. 1938, p. 491.
  11. ↑ Wetterauer Zeitung of November 7th, 2018: 450 whistles sound in the church , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  12. ^ 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. 629 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '2.4 "  N , 8 ° 56" 33.1 "  E