Evangelical Church Oberwalgern

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Church from the southeast
View from the southwest

The Evangelical Church in Oberwalgern , a district of the large community of Fronhausen in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , is an essentially Romanesque hall church that was changed around 1500 and 1900. The church is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In Oberwalgern there was evidence of a pleban for the year 1238 . In 1577 Holzhausen and in 1613 Stedebach were incorporated into Oberwalgern. From 1604 the parish church of Fronhausen was supplied. The place belonged in the district of Oberweimar deanery Amöneburg of St. Stephan in the diocese of Mainz .

In 1500 the church in the late Gothic style was changed, of which the pointed arch windows and doorways with jambs drop of red sandstone testimony. With the introduction of the Reformation (probably 1527), the parish changed to the evangelical confession. In 1630 Oberwalgern was a parish and since 1661 Vicariate of Niederwalgern . Around 1900 the church was rebuilt again, followed by a renovation in 1957, during which the baroque parapet paintings were exposed.

The parish of Niederwalgern-Oberwalgern is assigned to the places Holzhausen and Stedebach, which do not have their own church buildings. The community belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the parish of Marburg .

architecture

inner space

The east-facing church is made of unplastered quarry stone masonry from Grauwacke with sandstone corner blocks in the north of the old village center. It stands in the middle of an enclosed churchyard, the Romanesque walls of which are still partially preserved. On it are some 18th century gravestones made of red sandstone. The hall church has a semicircular apse . The gable roof has a small dormer on each side and a ridge turret in the east . Portals and windows are clad in red sandstone.

The nave on a rectangular floor plan is illuminated on the southern long side through two large and one small high-seated pointed arch windows and on the north side through three small high-seated pointed arched windows from the Gothic period. On the south side a walled up wall of a narrow, ogival portal can be seen, in the top of which a small window is let. In the center of the north side, a small, deep-seated rectangular window with drapery has broken into, which is enclosed by a round decorative arch. The church is accessed through a pointed west portal, the walls of which are chamfered in the pointed arch . The windowless west side is slated in the top of the gable. The four-sided roof turret in the east of the gable roof is completely slated. There are two small rectangular sound openings in each side of the shaft. The octagonal pointed helmet develops from four triangular gables on which a small point is attached, which suggests a dormer. The helmet is crowned by a tower pommel, a wrought iron cross and a gilded weathercock.

The retracted apse is lower than the nave and is covered by a slated hipped roof. The chancel is lit through four pointed arched windows with three-pass arches . A small quatrefoil is set in light sandstone in the apse .

Furnishing

Pulpit with parish chair
altar

The nave is closed off by a flat ceiling with longitudinal girders, which is supported by three octagonal wooden posts with simple headbands . A wooden, staggered angular gallery is installed on the west and north sides, which bends again on the south wall. It rests on octagonal wooden posts with headbands, one of which is marked with the year 1600. The gallery parapet has coffered fillings that show two biblical words and a filling with ornamental tendrils and flowers in the west and only tendrils with flowers in the north. The baroque paintings were uncovered during an interior renovation in 1957. At the top of the staircase a memorial plaque commemorates the soldiers from Oberwalgern, Holzhausen, Stedebach and Etzelmühle who fell in three wars of the 19th century (1814/1815, 1849, 1870/1871). The writing tablet between two pilasters with architraves is enclosed by a large oval with a painted laurel wreath.

A large round arch opens the choir to the nave. In the area of ​​the fighters , a wooden lintel beam is inserted, which is decorated with carved diamonds and rows of holes. The choir is raised by one step and covered with square tiles that alternate in black and white with cross-shaped quatrefoils. A square niche is set in the east wall, and a sacrament niche with segmental arch from the late Gothic period in the north wall of the choir. Gilded coats of arms are attached above. A baroque wooden crucifix of the three-nail type , which was made in the 18th century , stands on the block altar, which is covered by a slab over a slant .

The wood-carved, polygonal pulpit in front of the southern archway rests on a volute wall pillar that stands on a square stone base. The pulpit fields have round arch fields that are divided by pilasters that are decorated with inlays . The upper, profiled cornice has a tooth cut frieze . The polygonal sound cover with a circumferential serrated frieze is profiled and bears the psalm verse from Ps 51.17  LUT as an inscription . Between the pulpit and the sound cover on the south wall the Bible verse from Jn 6,68-69  LUT can be read. The pulpit is accessible via the attached parish chair . It has coffered panels at the bottom and openwork latticework at the top. The pilaster strips have a scale pattern and the upper cornice has a tooth-cut frieze like the sound cover.

In front of the west portal is a large round stone baptismal font, which probably dates from the Gothic period.

organ

Bosch organ from 1962

In 1801/1802 Johann Caspar Ruetz built a new organ for Oberwalgern, one of his few new structures. Today's small positive from 1932 comes from Werner Bosch . The instrument is set up in the east of the north gallery and has four registers on one manual. The pedal is attached.

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – c 1
attached

literature

  • Günter E. Th. Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck, including the Rhine-Hessian church districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels. Evangelical Press Association, Kassel 1987, p. 100.
  • 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. 702.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Helmuth K. Stoffers (Red.): District of Marburg-Biedenkopf II (communities Ebsdorfergrund, Fronhausen, Lohra and Weimar) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3550-0 , pp. 378–379.

Web links

Commons : Oberwalgern Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 702.
  2. ↑ a b Oberwalgern. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: District of Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017. p. 379.
  4. ^ Homepage of the parish , accessed on November 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: District Marburg-Biedenkopf II. 2017. p. 378.
  6. ↑ a b Bezzenberger: churches worth seeing. 1987, p. 100.
  7. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse; 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 279 .
  8. ↑ Organ in Oberwalgern on OrganIndex , accessed on November 4, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '37.95 "  N , 8 ° 39' 55.53"  O