Evangelical Church Münster (Butzbach)

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Church from the East

The Evangelical Church in Münster , a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district in Central Hesse , consists of two structures. The transverse choir with a dome turret was completed in 1631, the classical nave in 1832. The hall church is characteristic of the town and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the Middle Ages, Münster was the seat of a parish and the broadcasting court . In 1341 a pastor is proven. Ecclesiastically, the place was assigned to the Deanery Friedberg in the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . In the medieval church of Munster, an altar was dedicated to St. Valentine .

With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. The first Protestant pastor was Hermann Stecher, who probably worked in Münster from 1536 to 1548. Probably influenced by the progressive Philip III. the old medieval church was torn down in 1630 and a three-aisled basilica with a rectangular choir was built in the same place , which had a Protestant character. Jakob Wustmann is presumed to be a princely builder. The inauguration took place on May 1, 1631.

After several repairs and modifications, the main nave and side aisles had become dilapidated in the 19th century. Initial plans to downsize the church were discarded and instead, between 1830 and 1832, a classical hall was built according to plans by the Giessen master builder Hofmann. Critics of the new building described the main nave, where the women found their seats, as a “dark, damp, cellar-like room”, while the men sat “on utterly unsuccessful gallery stages”. During a church renovation in 1912, the roofs of the tower and choir were renewed, the nave was repaired and the whitewashed wall slogans in the choir were exposed by the church painter Hermann Velte.

The parish of Münster, together with the parish of Fauerbach, belongs to the parish of Münster, which has around 1350 members. She is assigned to the deanery Wetterau in the provost of Upper Hesse in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Vaulted choir

The roughly east- facing , white plastered hall church on a rectangular floor plan on the eastern edge of the village is built in the middle of an oval churchyard, which is enclosed by a wall made of quarry stone .

The shape of the transverse choir on a rectangular floor plan with a straight end is unusual. The interior is illuminated in the lower zone through three coupled arched windows in the broad east side and through two each in the north and south. In the upper zone there are three smaller arched windows. The choir is covered by a steep hipped roof, the ridge of which dominates the long building. On the south side it is equipped with one and in the north with two small dormers. A fully slated, eight-sided roof turret with two floors is attached to the roof . The bell chamber protrudes slightly from the shaft. Shed roofs lead over to the small upper floor, which is covered by a curved hood and crowned by a tower knob, a wrought-iron cross, a weather vane and a weathercock.

The classicistic nave is covered by a lower and flatter gable roof and illuminated in the gallery area through large arched windows, two in the west and five each on the long sides.

Interior

Interior to the west
Richly carved pulpit

The interior of the nave is closed off by a flat slab supported by two longitudinal beams . These rest on six mighty, dorising round columns made of plastered wood, which include the three-sided gallery. The west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ and is supported by two narrower round columns. The gallery parapet has coffered panels. A round-arched triumphal arch on two square pillars opens the choir from the nave. It is completely glazed and integrates a door. The two side arched openings are now closed.

The baroque, polygonal, wooden pulpit on the northern supporting masonry of the triumphal arch is richly decorated with fittings . It rests on a square foot and has a sound cover with a profiled cornice. The pulpit is structured by Ionic free columns, the recessed fields are decorated with shells. Like the pulpit, the octagonal baptismal font on the southern supporting masonry dates from around 1630. It is decorated with a frieze with winged angel heads and fruit bunches. The figure of John the Baptist stands on the high-altitude baptismal lid, and a dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit is depicted under the lid . On the altar is a wooden crucifix of the three-nail type . The simple wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.

The interior of the choir is lower than the nave and has cross vaults that rest on two Tuscan round columns with high cuboid bases. In the north-west corner there is a wooden parsonage with openwork latticework. A block altar is walled up in the middle on the east side. Bible verses in cartouches with figurative representations are painted on the walls . In the crypt under the choir, accessible behind the old altar table , is Anna Elisabeth von Sachsen-Lauenburg buried.

organ

Rococo organ prospectus

An organ was built into the previous building in 1630 . In the second half of the 18th century, an unknown organ builder created a new instrument. The organ was moved around 1816/1818 and repaired by Gustav Raßmann in 1852. In 1948, the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau built a new interior with a pneumatic cone store behind the Rococo prospect . Nine registers are distributed over two manuals and pedal . The five-axis prospectus has an elevated central round tower and two pointed towers on the outside, with low flat fields in between. The characteristic design points to Johann Friedrich Syer . The veil boards, lateral blind wings and case superstructures are richly decorated with tendril ornaments. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Wooden principal 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
II Manual C-g 3
Sing. Dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
flute 8th'
Night horn 4 ′

literature

  • Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Province of Upper Hesse. Friedberg district. Arnold Bergstraesser, Darmstadt 1895, p. 167 ( online ).
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 592.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (= Hassia sacra , Bd. 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, pp. 296–298.
  • 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. 431.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Münster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , accessed on July 5, 2019.
  2. ^ 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. 26.
  3. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 296.
  4. ↑ Münster. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 5, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 592.
  6. ↑ a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 297.
  7. ↑ Internet presence in the Evangelical Dean's Office Wetterau , accessed on April 10, 2019.
  8. ^ A b Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1895, p. 167 ( online )
  9. ^ 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 29.2 . Part 2 (M – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 648 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '26.82 "  N , 8 ° 37' 10.65"  E