Evangelical Church Meineringhausen
The Protestant church is a listed church building in Meineringhausen , a district of the district town of Korbach in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . It is located in the old town center in the east of the village and consists of a core Romanesque tower on the west side and a nave built in the years 1745–1755 with three bays and four buttresses on each side as well as a triangle .
Building history
An "ecclesie parochialis" in Meineringhausen was first mentioned in writing in the period from 1336 to 1359, but a church was probably built in the 10th or 11th century. The current building, a baroque hall church , was built around the middle of the 18th century using older parts. The laying of the foundation stone is dated June 18, 1745, and according to an inscription carved in stone above the church door , the church was completed in 1755. The church tower, 15.5 m high and dating back to the 17th century, is older than the nave and only slightly towers above the ridge of the church roof.
In the years 1995–2002, the masonry of the church tower and nave were extensively renovated and the roof was re-covered. The tower received a new tower ball on its slate-covered gable roof. In order to secure the statics of the building, the roof structure was renovated and the base points of the trusses were secured by tie straps visible in the church space under the vaulted ceiling . In 2003/2004 an extensive interior renovation followed, including new electrical installation and installation of a new heating system.
Interior
The relatively large sanctuary with three-eighths closure in the east contains the altar , pulpit and baptismal font . Pulpit, pulpit staircase and “pastor's seat” are made of wood and date from the time the church was rebuilt. The sandstone font has an eight-sided cup shape and dates from the 17th century.
The altarpiece on the sub-structure consisting of sandstone blocks was created by the baroque sculptor and carver Josias Wolrat Brützel , probably between 1679 and 1690. The small size and the rather simple and somewhat stiff design in architecture and jewelry speak for an early period, it but there are also similarities with later works by Brützel. The openwork gable with fruit pendants, angel's head and ray cartouche as well as the side parts with winged angels' heads already indicate the altarpieces in Fürstenberg and Neerdar , and the pairs of columns standing one behind the other under the cranked entablature show echoes of Brützel's works in Kohlgrund and Nieder-Ense . The angels sitting on the gable corners are typical of Brützel's baroque altarpieces. The painting between the columns, oil on canvas, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus probably dates from the 19th century. The altar itself was painted over in the middle of the 19th century, but in 1946/1947 the original paint was exposed during restoration work and the altar was redesigned in the original colors.
On the gallery opposite the altar 1846 of the Orgelbaumeister Jacob Vogt from Korbach built organ , the third work piece from the workshop 1845 founded. It was overhauled in 1989 by Orgelbau Böttner from Frankenberg (Eder) .
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 56 ′ 48 ″ E
literature
- Rolf Ortwein (Ed.): Meineringhausen 1890 - 1990. A Waldeck village in the course of a hundred years. Wilhelm Bing, Korbach 1990.
Footnotes
- ↑ This construction period, which is unusually long for a village church, is supported by two other inscriptions above the church door: Pastor Walter Nellen greets those entering on the left, Franz Christoph Nellen saying goodbye to those emerging on the right; Walter Nellen was pastor from 1712 to 1750, i.e. when the foundation stone was laid, and his son Franz Christoph was pastor from 1750 to 1759, i.e. also in 1755.
- ↑ Charlotte Nieschalk: The Waldeck baroque sculptor Josias Wolrat Brützel (= museum books Waldeck-Frankenberg. Book 1). Photo documentation: Jens Kulick. Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein e. V. et al., Waldeck et al. 1984, ISBN 3-87077-048-1 .