Evangelical Church Rödgen (Giessen)

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Church from the north
Tower from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Rödgen , a district of Gießen in the district of Gießen in Central Hesse , is a two-zone preaching church , which was built in 1811 in the Baroque tradition instead of a medieval building. The choir tower, which is essentially Gothic, dates back to the 13th century in the oldest parts. The church with its mansard roof and the two-storey French dome characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the high Middle Ages, Rödgen belonged to the archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the diocese of Mainz and the other half to the archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the diocese of Trier . Accordingly, Rödgen had to be broadcast partly to Großen-Linden and partly to Großen-Buseck. In the 15th century Rödgen was an independent parish. Annerod has been a parish since 1838.

With the introduction of the Reformation , Rödgen switched to the evangelical creed. The first Lutheran pastor was Michael Becker von Großen-Buseck, who worked here from 1554 to 1556.

In 1683 the dilapidated tower was repaired. The tower hall was still in use in the 17th century and was given its current height during this time when the Gothic ribbed vault was broken out. In 1739, the entire tower was probably rebuilt, including the old western wall. There is evidence that the northern tower door, which is marked 1739, was broken in that year and windows with segmental arches were let in. In addition, the tower received its two-story, baroque dome.

The missing nave was demolished in 1811 and replaced by a larger ship. The congregation bought a new organ in 1900 and repaired the church in the process. In 1961 and 1977, exterior renovations were carried out on the masonry and roof.

architecture

West side

The church is built on a small elevation in the center of the village and is surrounded by a cemetery wall made of quarry stone masonry (lung stone). The nave is built on the west side of the squat choir tower . The undivided tower shaft has a north portal and segmented arched windows in sandstone walls, which illuminate the formerly vaulted tower hall. In the high tower hall a wooden staircase leads over a gallery into the tower spire. A closed sacristy is built into the west side , which allows access to the pulpit. On the upper floor there are very small rectangular windows on the three free-standing sides. The two-tier, eight-sided helmet structure rises above the medieval shaft. The bell storey has round-arched sound holes and a canopy. It houses a triple bell from the Rincker company , a bell from the 1920s and two bells from the 1950s. The open lantern with a Welscher hood is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weathercock.

The nave is designed symmetrically outside and inside. The rectangular windows in simple sandstone walls are divided into two zones, three windows each on the long sides and one on the west side. The ship is accessed through a rectangular central portal in sandstone walls with a skylight on the north side and a corresponding portal on the west side. The mansard roof is equipped with small dormers in the west and north.

Furnishing

Interior to the east
pulpit

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling and has a simple design. The four-sided coffered gallery in light blue frame rests on brown marbled wooden pillars. The organ stands on the east gallery and hides the walled up choir arch from the 17th century. The altar wall made of 0.12 meter thick half-timbering is not placed in the choir arch, but in front of it. The principal pieces of the altar, pulpit and organ are arranged in a central axis. The bricked-up block altar is covered by a plate that served as a side altar in Arnsburg Monastery and was taken over from there. The octagonal, curved pulpit with flat ornaments is said to be modeled on the Rococo pulpit of the Langsdorf church . The pulpit is marbled brown and has gold-plated profiles. The sound cover is attached to the organ gallery and is decorated with small gold-plated bells at the bottom. A curved wooden structure with a gold-plated tip forms the top.

The wooden, eight-sided baptism rests on a profiled foot that corresponds to the top. The wooden, light blue painted church stalls have curved cheeks and leave a central aisle free. A picture of Luther is hung on the south wall.

organ

Förster & Nicolaus organ

An organ was purchased in the 1730s. Organ builder was the Rödger teacher JK Grimm, who also played the instrument. It is unclear whether this organ was taken over into the new church. A repair was carried out in 1846, another in 1876 by Johann Georg Förster . The successor company Förster & Nicolaus created a new work as Opus 90 in 1900, which was overhauled by the same company in 1979. The organ has eight stops on a manual and pedal and pneumatic cone chests . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Drone 8th'
octave 4 ′
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / P; Sub-octave coupling, super-octave coupling
  • Playing aids : Fixed combination (ff)

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. 775.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 406 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. University town of Giessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlagsgesellschaft Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 , p. 564 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 311–313.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 158 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Rödgen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 565.
  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. 204.
  3. ↑ Rödgen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. Vol. 1. 1938, p. 311.
  5. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 158 f.
  6. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 564.
  7. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. Vol. 1. 1938, p. 312.
  8. ^ 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. 820 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E