Evangelical Church Ostheim (Nidderau)

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Church in Ostheim from the north-west
View from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Ostheim in the municipality of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district ( Hesse ) is a central Gothic hall church from the 13th century. The listed church with a three-tiered dome roof turret from 1725 in the west and a three-sided east end was given its current baroque appearance in the course of a thorough renovation in 1738 .

history

A priest ( sacerdos ) is recorded for the year 1245, a pleban for the year 1314. Around the middle of the 13th century, today's church was built in the Gothic style. In the pre-Reformation period, Ostheim was an independent parish and mother church of Windecken , which was parish off to Ostheim in 1325 and around 1435 and was raised to a parish in 1489. In the late Middle Ages, Ostheim was subordinate to the Deanery Roßdorf in the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz . The patronage is unknown. A side altar on the east wall of the church was dedicated to St. Catherine .

With the introduction of the Reformation , the place gradually changed to the evangelical creed. The first Protestant pastor was Johannes Acker, who worked in Ostheim from 1540 to 1548. In the following years the Augsburg Interim of 1548 was valid. The parish accepted the Reformed Confession and in 1818 became a united parish as part of the Hanau Union . The small Lutheran congregation in Ostheim belonged to the Lutheran congregation in Windecken until 1818. As a result of the Reformation, the altar and baptismal font were placed in front of the church and sold in 1595. A wooden communion table took the place of the altar. The choir shirts were abolished, the sacrament goblets were replaced and the choir stalls were removed, and after 1600 also the pictorial representations that remained.

When Ostheim was largely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1634/1635 , the church also suffered severe damage. The building was not repaired until 1663. The appraisal of the dilapidated canopy ridge in 1711 led to the result that “the work is very dangerous and should probably not take long”. When the old tower was demolished, the master carpenter Johann Georg Baron fell to his death on May 15, 1725. It was not until 1737/1738 that the nave was comprehensively renewed and the formerly smaller choir was brought to the width and height of the nave. The Gothic north portal was converted into a window and a north portal was created further east and a south portal opposite.

The turret and the church roof were renovated and re-slated in 1925, and the weathercock and tower cross were replaced in the process. The big bells for the armaments industry were delivered in the two world wars. The small bell was preserved, but was sold when the community bought a new three-bell ring made of steel from the company JF Weule in Bockenem in 1949 . A fundamental interior renovation between 1967 and 1969 led to a redesign of the interior. Remnants of Gothic windows and frescos on the long sides were uncovered, the latter were restored in 1979/1980. The former pointed arch north door without jamb was changed into a rectangular portal with frilly border, south portal and east windows were bricked up. The church received a new sandstone altar instead of the previous wooden one that was placed in the parish hall. The floor, church ceiling, interior plaster, heating and gallery were renewed. The pulpit, which was moved from the southeast corner to the east gallery, and some pews were taken over from the old church furnishings .

architecture

Different pointed arch windows in the northern long side

The precisely east-facing church is built in the center of the village as a rectangular structure made of sandstone and limestone. The building is plastered white; only the base area is left open. It reaches a length of almost 30 meters and is more than 10 meters wide, the walls on average 1.5 meters thick. The Gothic hall, the masonry of which was probably partly taken over, had a roof tower, an attached sacristy and a recessed and lower choir.

The hall church has an eastern three-eighth closure . It is covered by a sloped roof, on which an eight-sided, slated roof turret is attached to the west . This rises from a cube-shaped shaft, above which three storeys taper upwards. The two basement floors each have four sound openings with arches for the bells . The clock face of the tower clock is attached to the north side of the first floor. The upper floor is designed as an open lantern with eight sound openings. The Welsche Haube is crowned by a large tower knob , a richly decorated cross and a gilded weathercock. In the 16th century the church apparently had a solitary bell house, which was also the bell-ringer's home and which was not structurally connected to the church. A sacristy does not seem to have survived the Thirty Years' War either.

The church is accessed through a pointed arch portal in the west and a rectangular portal in the north. The south portal and the east choir window are walled up. Large baroque arched windows with lattice structure on the south side and in the choir illuminate the interior. On the north side of the nave, there are four pointed arch windows of different sizes and at different heights, which indicate a period in the Gothic era. The low window at ground level is probably the remainder of the original north portal. A small round window has a rose window in the western gable end . A small boiler room with a hipped roof is attached to the eastern south wall .

Furnishing

Altar and pulpit
Equipment towards the altar area
The Archangel Michael with the scales and devils on a fresco

The interior is closed off by a coffered flat ceiling. In the 1960s, a four-sided gallery with rectangular surfaces was built into a steel construction that rests on slim columns. The west gallery has served as the installation site for the organ since 1970 and is trapezoidal in shape. The corners of the gallery are sloping to the east. Stairways in the southeast and northwest allow access to the galleries. The floor was covered with slabs of red sandstone at the end of the 1960s and wooden parquet in the area of ​​the church stalls .

In the choir, the altar area is raised by one step. The block altar made of red sandstone is covered by a mighty canteen plate. The wooden polygonal pulpit at the height of the gallery is the only piece of inventory from the Baroque period. It rests on a high twisted column and is accessible via the east gallery. The gray-marbled, upright rectangular panels of the pulpit fields are set off with gold-plated profile strips. The profiled cornices above and below are marbled brown with individual gold stripes. During the interior renovation in 1968, the octagonal sound cover was not taken over.

A simple wooden cross is attached to the windowless east wall. At the end of the 1960s, Gothic frescoes were uncovered on the long sides, dating back to the 13th century and representing the only remains of the medieval furnishings. On the north wall they show the winged Archangel Michael with the scales of the soul and several devils and spirits and on the south wall on a blue background under a yellow round arch frieze the adoration of the kings . Christ in a red robe holds out his hands to them. Further to the left, Mary and Christ are depicted with a halo.

In the nave , the simple wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free. Most of the pews date from 1968, with some older pews in the back of the church.

organ

Bosch organ from 2005/2006

As a replacement for a one-manual organ by Johann Georg Zinck from 1741, Jean Ratzmann built in a new organ in 1872, which had 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal . It was replaced in 1970 by an instrument from the Stehle Brothers from Bittelbronn with the same number of stops. In 2005 Werner Bosch Orgelbau built a new organ on the west gallery. Matthias Weis designed the three-part brochure made of oak and maple under a large round arch. The instrument initially had twelve registers , which were supplemented by four more in a second construction phase at the end of 2016. The organ has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Cornett III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III-IV 2 ′
II Hinterwerk
(swellable) C – g 3
Bourdon 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flauto amabile 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'
Octave 4 ′

literature

  • Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1968. Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 33). Elwert, Marburg 1984, ISBN 3-7708-0788-X , pp. 291-303.
  • 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. 665.
  • Wilhelm Figge, Wilhelm Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. In: Helmut Brück (Red.): Chronicle Ostheim. A district of Nidderau in 2000 (= Nidderauer Hefte. Volume 9). Nidderau 2000, ISBN 3-9801873-8-1 , pp. 177-215.
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). Elwert, Marburg 1937, reprint 1984, p. 42.
  • Frank Schmidt: The Ostheimer Church. In: Helmut Brück (Red.): Chronicle Ostheim. A district of Nidderau in 2000 (= Nidderauer Hefte. Volume 9). Nidderau 2000, ISBN 3-9801873-8-1 , pp. 217-221.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schmidt: The Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 218.
  2. ↑ a b c Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district (“Hanauer Union”) until 1968. 1984, p. 291.
  3. ^ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization. 1984, p. 42.
  4. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 179.
  5. ↑ Ostheim. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 181.
  7. ↑ a b Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 177.
  8. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 202.
  9. ↑ a b Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 665.
  10. ^ Schmidt: The Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 221.
  11. ^ Homepage of the parish : Church history Ostheims , accessed on October 15, 2017.
  12. ^ A b Schmidt: The Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 217.
  13. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 178 f.
  14. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 211.
  15. ^ Schmidt: The Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 219.
  16. ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , p. 139.
  17. ↑ Figge, Pieh: Our Ostheimer Church. 2000, p. 214.
  18. ^ Organ in Ostheim , accessed on October 16, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 29.7 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 38.1 ″  E