Evangelical Church Odenhausen (Lumda)

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Church from the south

The Evangelical Church in Odenhausen , a district of the municipality of Rabenau in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), is a narrow Romanesque hall church from the end of the 11th century with a squat Gothic choir tower from the 13th century. The Hessian cultural monument is one of the oldest preserved churches in the district.

history

Bricked up south portal

The church was parish near Londorf from the beginning. In the Middle Ages, Odenhausen belonged to the Londorfer Send district and was ecclesiastically assigned to the Archdiaconate St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz . The church was dedicated to St. Alban . With the introduction of the Reformation (1528 in the Lumdatal ), the place changed to the evangelical confession, but held services for St. Exit Alban.

After the damage caused by the Thirty Years' War , these were removed in the 1660s. During the renovation in 1734, the church roof and the galleries were enlarged and painted parapets. The northern choir gallery with a coat of arms in the parapet was built in 1734 at the instigation of Georg Moritz von Nordeck zur Rabenau , who was born here in 1702 by Anna Maria. Nordeck zur Rabenau married. This is indicated by the inscriptions “G · M · V · N · Z · R” and “A · M · V · N · Z · R”. In 1858 a renovation took place in which windows and doors were replaced and the parapet paintings were painted over. In addition, the community purchased an organ and built in the eastern choir gallery for this purpose. In 1908 the interior was renovated, in which the low Gothic flat ceiling was raised and made of stucco. In the course of this, the paintings on the gallery parapet were exposed again. In 1924 Odenhausen was raised to an independent parish and Geilshausen, Rüddingshausen and Weitershain became parish. Damage to the wall in the tower was repaired in 1977. After the organ was sold in 1978, the choir galleries were removed and a second-hand organ positive was placed in the south-west corner of the nave gallery. In 2017, the church roof was renovated, replacing damaged wooden beams from the 12th century.

architecture

North side with herringbone bond
East side of the tower

The church is built on a hill on the northwestern outskirts of field and quarry stone masonry from the local basalt. The divisions consist of Londorfer basalt lava (Lungstein). A compact choir tower is attached to the narrower rectangular church on the east side.

The walled-up tower shaft with an inclined base on a rectangular floor plan approaches a cube shape. The slated pyramid helmet from the early Gothic period is interrupted in the middle by vertical walls in which coupled rectangular sound holes are made. It is crowned by the tower knob, cross and weathercock. The belfry houses two bells. In its broken shape, the roof resembles that of the church in Grossen-Buseck . The original roof structure from the 12th century has been preserved. The south door of choir towers is characteristic of the 13th century, as is the ribbed vault with profiled ribs on consoles and the round keystone , which is covered with a lamb and cross flag. The originally round triumphal arch was later raised into a pointed arch. It is stepped on the side of the choir and has a 0.17 meter wide bevel towards the nave . The cranked fighter stone has a slab over a slope. The originally pointed south door was renewed in the 19th century. The ogival east window has two-part tracery with a three-pass and dates from the first half of the 14th century, a late Gothic north window from the early 16th century and a round-arched south window from the 19th century.

The herringbone bond in the masonry of the nave (especially on the north side) suggests that it is older than the tower. Furthermore, the original roof slope of 40 °, which can be read in the tower masonry, indicates that it was built in the Romanesque period. The current, steeper collar beam roof dates from the Gothic period. The flat ceiling that was drawn in in 1906 has a girder that ends freely in front of the triumphal arch. The original windows have not been preserved. The south portal is walled up secondarily and no longer has the keystone. The walls of the round arched windows and the west portal date from 1858. Only in the south wall is a small late Gothic window with a curtain arch .

Furnishing

Interior facing west
Looking east

The colored stucco reliefs from 1734 in the vaulted cap of the choir show the four evangelists with their corresponding symbols . The angled gallery in the nave from 1692 on the north and west side was extended a little later by the south pore on three sides and the north gallery extended in 1734 to the triumphal arch. It rests on square wooden posts. The paintings on the gallery parapets show script cartouches with sentences from the creed alternating with figures of the apostles and Christ.

The walls in the nave and choir bear consecration crosses all around . The walled-up block altar stands on the central axis in the choir. The wooden altar crucifix from 1702 has been placed in a niche in the north wall next to the pulpit. The arched niche shows the remains of medieval paintings in the form of flowers and tendrils, which church painter Faulstich discovered and uncovered in 1953. The octagonal pulpit on the north archway rests on a square foot. The pulpit fields are structured by strips. The tombstone of Eleonore von Waldenheim (* March 10, 1716 - February 18, 1777) is embedded in the north wall of the choir (0.96 meters wide, 1.87 meters high).

organ

Noeske organ

Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard, son of Johann Hartmann Bernhard , built an organ with seven registers on the newly built east gallery in the choir in 1858 . The flat prospectus was divided by three round arches, the middle of which was slightly elevated, and closed off at the top by a flat gable. After the organ was sold in 1978, the community bought a used instrument from Dieter Noeske that had been built around 1960. The single-manual instrument has five registers. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Tube bare 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sharp II – III 12
Pedal C – f 1
Pommer 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 a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 735.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 409.
  • 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 , pp. 502-503.
  • Hartmut Miethe, Heinz-Gerhard Schuette: Gothic paintings . Ed .: Förderkreis Kunst-Mensch-Kirche (=  Christian art in Upper Hesse . Volume 1 ). Grünberg 2010.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 294–298.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, pp. 146–147.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Odenhausen  - 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. 503.
  2. Allertshausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 7, 2014 .
  3. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 146.
  4. a b Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 409.
  5. Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 298.
  6. ^ Organ in Rabenau-Odenhausen , accessed on June 7, 2014.
  7. Gießener Anzeiger from May 20, 2017: After repairs, safe until 2817 , accessed on May 20, 2017.
  8. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 502.
  9. Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 295.
  10. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 735.
  11. Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 297.
  12. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 147.
  13. ^ Miethe, Schuette: Gothic paintings. 2010, [p. 66].
  14. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 759 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '42.3 "  N , 8 ° 53' 25.9"  E