Evangelical Church Schwalbach (Schöffengrund)

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Evangelical Church Schwalbach
View from the northeast

The Evangelical Church in Schwalbach in Central Hesse in the municipality of Schöffengrund is an early classical hall church from the years 1763 to 1767. The representative building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical, artistic, urban and scientific importance .

history

The place is referred to in the Lorsch Codex in 795 as "Sualbacher marca". In 1305 a church and in 1368 a parish is proven. The parish was a branch of Bonbaden in the Middle Ages and belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archidiakonat St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

The Reformation was probably introduced in 1549 under Pastor Johannes Geissler from Bonbaden. After the old church collapsed in 1760, the current church was built from 1763 to 1767. It is stylistically influenced by the architects Julius Ludwig Rothweil and Friedrich Joachim Stengel and resembles the Atzbach church , which was also completed in 1767. In 1887, 1957–1959 and 1986 the community had extensive renovations carried out.

Until the end of 2018, the parish belonged to the Braunfels church district in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , which was merged into the Evangelical church district on Lahn and Dill in 2019 . The parishes of Schwalbach, Neukirchen and Bonbaden, which had been in a parish office for most of the time since the Reformation , joined forces on January 1, 2020 to form the parish of Bonbaden-Schwalbach-Neukirchen.

architecture

Stained glass window from 1896

The transversely directed , high hall with a hipped roof is built in the center of the town from unplastered quarry stone masonry. The interior is illuminated by rows of windows on two levels, which are rectangular below with flat arches and above as standing ovals. The figurative glass paintings in the historicism style were made in 1896 by Henning and Andrés from Hanover. They have ornamental ribbons on the side and in the stitch arch. The window above the west portal shows the Agnus Dei with the victory flag, the window above the east portal shows a red cross over a cup of communion and the two high south windows each have three quadrilateral frames, in the middle of which Moses and Christ are depicted.

In the middle of the north side, a church tower on a square floor plan with an open lantern and onion dome is integrated into the hall . The tower hall serves as a sacristy and staircase to the pulpit . Round-arched sound openings for the bells are let into the bell chamber on the top floor .

Furnishing

Interior to the west
Altar with pulpit

The wooden church furnishings have a uniform gray frame , from which red and white marbled panels with gold-plated profiles stand out. Inside, the flat ceiling rests on two longitudinal beams supported by four pillars painted in red and white marbled. The two western columns were built in 1793 for static reinforcement. The three-sided gray gallery probably dates from the 19th century and is supported by octagonal posts. The gallery parapet has rectangular panels that are also painted red and white marbled. The stairways are built into the two southern corners. The north side remained without a gallery because the pulpit was built here.

The wooden, polygonal pulpit from the late 18th century is mounted on a pulpit wall in front of the tower hall. The pulpit wall has rectangular panels in the lower third, openwork diamondwork in the middle and glazing above. The pulpit has concave fields with trapezoidal fillings, a back wall with fillings conveys the sound cover , which is decorated on the underside by an eight-pointed star and crowned by a volute crown and tendrils, some of which are gold-plated. The altar table is in front of the pulpit . The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ . The church stalls face the pulpit and the altar from three sides. The parapet of the stalls has rectangular panels. A late Gothic chest has been preserved in the sacristy.

organ

Organ brochure from 1872

The organ was built by Guido Knauf from Gotha in 1872. The work comprises 17 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1970 Günter Hardt built a new building behind the historic prospectus . The disposition has since comprised 16 registers and is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Spindle flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zimbel II 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′ + 2 ′
trombone 16 ′

Peal

Dilman Schmid cast a bell in 1692, which was taken over into the new building. A second Dilman bell from 1701 (as ′, 270 kg) was exchanged from Braunfels in 1830 for a surcharge of 50 florins for another bell. This was confiscated during World War II and suffered damage - although it was preserved until the end of the war - and was recast in 1950.

No. Casting year Caster Dimensions diameter Chime inscription
1 1950 Rincker brothers 646 kg G' "I AM ENTERING THE SUCCESSION / THE SISTERS WHO JUMPED / IN 1701 AND 1945 / I CALL AS YOU CONTINUE / COUNTRY COUNTRY HEAR THE MORD'S WORD"
2 1692 Dilman Schmid 220 kg 790 mm b′-
3 1961 Rincker brothers 200 kg c ′ ′

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part: 2. The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 134-135 ( online ).
  • 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 .
  • Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955].
  • 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 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, pp. 194, 205.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 , pp. 446-451.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Schöffengrund-Schwalbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Evangelical Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  2. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955], [p. 27].
  3. ↑ Archivum Laureshamense digital: Lorscher Codex , accessed on July 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, pp. 194, 205.
  5. ↑ Schwalbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on July 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ Homepage of the parish , accessed on July 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b c Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008.
  9. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 747 .
  10. ^ Chronicle of the Schwalbach parish.
  11. ↑ 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. 141.

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 11.8 ″  E