Evangelical Church Reiskirchen (Hüttenberg)

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Church from the southeast

The Evangelical Church in Reiskirchen , a district of Hüttenberg in the Lahn-Dill district ( Central Hesse ), is the oldest building in the town. It consists of two originally separate structures. The western chapel from an unknown construction time was given its present shape in 1652. The eastern extension, a former home for a teacher, has a timber-framed upper floor and was connected to the western part in 1651/52 or 1724. The hall church with a hooded ridge characterizes the townscape and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

Church from the southwest
Romanesque font

In the 12th century a church is first detected, when the Lords of Eppstein Reiskirchen with church after the death of Count Gerhard of Nürings to fief received. Ernst von Eschborn is attested as the first pastor in 1226, another with the name Johann Weigel in 1366. At that time, 120 acres of arable and pasture land belonged to the church, which was expanded by 60 acres in 1568 when it was merged with Niederwetz. The corresponding stately parish income involved a great deal of management work and often led to negotiations and disputes about the amount of the " tithe ". At the end of the Middle Ages, Reiskirchen belonged to the parish of Büblingshausen and Oberrechtebach in the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar of the Archdiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Diocese of Trier . The right of patronage was exercised by the Counts of Munzenberg in 1226 , Philipp von Falkenstein in 1360 and the Lords of Buseck in 1536/38 .

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1526, Reiskirchen switched to the evangelical creed. Around 1530 a vicar Jakob Lich from the Wetzlar monastery preached Protestant.

The cemetery wall is dated to the year 1614, which refers to the construction of the wall or the "fool's house", a small detention cell with chain and collar that was removed in 1830. It cannot be proven when the chapel and the house were built. The roof turret is younger than the church and was added later. According to an inscription, the church was built or rebuilt in 1652 during the reign of Pastor Melchior Lucas. In essence, however, it probably goes back to older parts. The teacher's house to the east of the church, which originally had three to four rooms and an attic, was attached to the church in 1651 or 1724. The basement functioned as a (lower) choir as early as 1692 . In a visitation protocol it says that a teacher Zickel from Cleeberg and a teacher Johann Wilhelm Schmidt had his apartment "on the church", which was accessible through an outside staircase. During the great fire in the village on April 27, 1706, only the church and a few buildings were spared. The wife of Johann Jost Schmidt, known as "Kochhansin", was suspected of being an arsonist and a witch. For a while, the teacher kept school lessons in his upper apartment. When a new school was completed in 1724, the ceiling between the floors was broken through ("thrown in"), which resulted in a significant increase in the size of the church. The west wall of the apartment was removed and the two buildings connected.

Until the 18th century, the Reiskirchen parish had a high economic income, allegedly 2000 to 2500 Reichstaler annually. The pastor received a handsome salary. Prince Karl August ended the situation with a parish in the Atzbach office in the area of ​​the Walpurgis monastery in Weilburg . In an ordinance of 1742, he adjusted the parish salaries and forbade the pastors to farm, which, according to oral tradition, goes back to an encounter with Pastor Martin Imgarten. When the prince was out hunting on the Stoppelberg , he was amazed when a four-horse carriage pulled up. When it was explained to him: “It is the pastor Imgarten von Reisskirchen who is invited to the hunt”, the prince is said to have replied: “The command of Jesus to his apostles was to go all over the world; I will see to it that the successors of the apostles obey this order and no longer go to chaise . "

In 1772 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the pastor in Reiskirchen with Charlotte Buff and her sister. The encounters found their literary expression in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther . With the Congress of Vienna (1814/15) Reiskirchen was added to the Wetzlar district of the Koblenz administrative district and thus became Prussian after 500 years of Nassau rule. The parish has been part of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland since then . Although the place has belonged again to Hessen-Nassau since 1932, it remained in church terms with the Rhenish Church.

In the course of a renovation in 1949/50, the church received a new stone floor and the west side an additional entrance with a canopy. The western south entrance was closed. In addition, the sacristy, organ loft and the “men's stage” were enlarged, as space was created by relocating the entrance.

Reiskirchen and Niederwetz form a common parish. This is connected to the parish of Vollnkirchen / Volpertshausen / Weidenhausen and belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

East side with half-timbered upper floor

The roughly east-facing hall church in the middle of a walled cemetery on the southern edge of the village consists of two originally separate structures that were subsequently connected to one another. The western nave has a two-storey roof turret that is slated off. The eight-sided floor, on which the clock face and small sound holes are attached, rises above a cube . The roof turret ends with a hood, which is crowned by a tower button, a decorated cross and an angel blowing a trumpet as a weather vane. The southern long side is illuminated in the lower area through a large arched window, in the upper area through four rectangular windows. The west gable side and the north side are windowless. On the south side, between the windows and the eaves, there is half-timbering with the building inscription from 1652: “ANNO 1652 · 10 MAR IIII XIRUCIUM EST. HOC TEMPLI AEDIFICIUM PASTORE MELCHIORE LVCIO WETZTLAR ÆDILIB. PHILIPPO CRAFTEN, ET PHILIPPO REULN OPIFICE WENkelern-brother-in-law NIDE [?] ”. A round-arched south portal with a slated canopy is located in the very east of the ship, another entrance with a round arch, which is painted sandstone-colored, on the west side. The keystone is marked with the year 1949. This west entrance has a small wooden porch with a slated gable roof. A wooden cross is attached to the slated gable side.

The eastern extension is wider than the nave and is made of quarry stone in the basement and half-timbered on the upper floor. On the south side, two mighty struts support the building. Both floors have two rectangular windows on the south side. On the gable side there is a small rectangular window in the basement, two rectangular windows on the upper floor and two very small rectangular windows in the gable triangle. On the north side, on the upper floor of the half-timbered building, you can see the locked entrance door, which was previously accessible through an external staircase. The inscription on the gable side takes up the saying of Jesus about the children from Mt 18,3  LUT : "VNOVI NON ACCEPERIT REGNVM DEI TANQVAM PVELLVS HAVDQVAQVAM INGREDIETVRIN ILLVD MARCI X · ÆDILES MAG [ister] SCHOEFFER TAC MACK".

On the north side, a small sacristy is built in the middle with a saddle roof that extends to the ridge of the church. A rectangular door and a small rectangular window are located on the west side, in the gable triangle another rectangular opening with a board door.

Furnishing

Interior facing east

The flat-roofed interior has a girder with wooden wall supports and a cove . The three-sided gallery rests on bulbous Tuscan columns with high, square bases and simple, cube-shaped capitals. On the east side, where the teacher's apartment used to be, it serves as an organ gallery. The stalls have carved cheeks and leave a central aisle free.

The oldest piece of equipment is a large Romanesque baptismal font with a horseshoe frieze. The polygonal baroque pulpit dates from the end of the 17th century, the parish chair from the 18th century. They are connected by a common substructure and end at the same height. The parish chair has openwork latticework in the upper area. The pulpit is divided into two zones and has round arches in the upper fields, while the lower ones are coffered.

organ

Historical organ prospect from around 1700

When Johann Georg Bürgy built a new organ in Melbach from 1816 to 1823 , the Reiskirchener bought the old organ for 250 florins in 1815.  The single-manual organ had seven stops and no pedal. The instrument probably goes back to the organ builder Grieb from Griedel. The prospectus corresponds to the "Central German normal type" with an elevated, polygonal central tower, two pointed towers on the side and low flat fields that connect the towers. The continuous lower cornice is richly profiled, in the same design the crowning cornices. The pipe fields are finished with carved veils, which flank the organ on both sides in the form of "organ ears". In 1872 organ builder Weller added an attached pedal. The organ builder Eichhorn from Weilmünster added a separate pedal with two voices in 1884. In 1952, EF Walcker & Cie. a new work including the old prospectus and keeping the old disposition .

Manual C – c 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 1'
Mixture III
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

Bells

Göbel bell from 1573

The roof turret houses two bronze bells. The small bell by Laux Rucker from 1596 shattered in 1882 and was cast over by Georg Hamm, Kaiserslautern. After it was confiscated in World War I, FW Rincker cast a new bell to replace it. It was given up in World War II and replaced by Rincker in 1950.

No. Casting year Foundry, casting location Chime
1 1573 Conrad Göbel, Frankfurt (Main) h 1
2 1950 Gebr. Rincker , Sinn

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, pp. 93-97 ( online ).
  • 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. Evangelischer Presseverband, Kassel 1987, p. 163.
  • Gustav Biesgen: "The final whistle". Memories of 40 years of pastor in the country. Weinbach [around 1979].
  • Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former government district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.2 . Part 2 (L – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 , p. 724 .
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 764.
  • Maria Wenzel; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill District II (old district of Wetzlar). (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1652-3 , p. 341.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Reiskirchen (Hüttenberg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c kirche-reiskirchen.de: Die Kirche zu Reiskirchen , accessed on April 9, 2018.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. 2003, p. 341.
  3. ↑ a b Bezzenberger: churches worth seeing. 1987, p. 163.
  4. ↑ Biesgen: "The final whistle". [1979], p. 13.
  5. ^ 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. 203.
  6. ^ Reiskirchen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 13, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Biesgen: "The final whistle". [1979], pp. 25f.
  8. ↑ a b Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 764.
  9. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 97 ( online )
  10. ↑ See the regulation in Abicht: The Wetzlar district, presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 230 ( online )
  11. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 96 ( online )
  12. ↑ Biesgen: "The final whistle". [1979], pp. 20f.
  13. ↑ Biesgen: "The final whistle". [1979], pp. 27f.
  14. ^ Frank Rudolph: 200 years of evangelical life. Wetzlar's church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tectum, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8288-9950-6 , p. 27.
  15. ↑ 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. 30.
  16. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/2. 1975, p. 724.
  17. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 140.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 41 ″  E