Evangelical Church Stockhausen (Grünberg)

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Church from the southwest
Church from the northwest

The Evangelical Church in Stockhausen , a district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), is the town's former school, which was built in 1890 and converted into a church in 1982.

history

In the Middle Ages Stockhausen was assigned to Flensungen Grünberg in the Archdiakonat St. Johann in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation , Grünberg and Stockhausen switched to the evangelical confession in 1526. With the resignation of Pastor Erasmus von Flensungen in 1553, the parish with its branches in Ilsdorf , Stockhausen and Weickartshain was reorganized and Flensungen was united with Merlau .

Because of the ties to the mother community, the residents of the branch villages had to attend church and school in Flensungen. Church services were probably held in the Stockhausen school hall from 1928 onwards. The school building was built in 1890 and consisted of a small apartment with three rooms on the upper floor for a total of 31.7 square meters for an unmarried teacher. Church services have been held there once a month since 1946, with baptisms if necessary. After the village community center was built in 1954, it served as a place of worship.

On June 16, 1969, the school was given up and used as a club house in the following years. The parish of Flensungen acquired the building on April 18, 1978. On March 19, 1980, the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau approved the conversion of the school into a church. After the stairwell was torn down, the room on the ground floor was extended towards the street. The upper floor was removed, redesigned a little lower and converted into a community center, with the roof turret, which had previously been removed with a crane, placed further in the middle. The church was consecrated on the 1982 harvest festival.

Not all of today's Stockhausen belongs to the parish of Flensungen, but only the actual village, which is located west of Bundesstraße 276 . The district east of the main road, today also Stockhausen, but at that time "Stockhäuser Hof", has belonged to the parish of Lardenbach since it was founded in 1717 and before that to Freienseen. The parish of Lardenbach was raised to an independent parish in 1717 with the neighboring settlements of Solms- Ilsdorf , Flensunger Hof and Stockhäuser Hof . The same applies to Ilsdorf. Today's Ilsdorf includes the former Solms-Ilsdorf (belonging to Lardenbach) and Darmstädtisch-Ilsdorf (belonging to Flensungen); the brook in between formed the border. From a pastoral point of view, the village of Stockhausen has been supplied by Lardenbach since 1978 and on January 1, 1982 it was raised to an independent parish and parish connected with Lardenbach.

In 2001/2002 an interior renovation followed, with the ceiling and window frames were given a new color and the altar area was redesigned.

architecture

View from the west

The school is built in the center of the village. The two-storey building is closed off by a gable roof, on which a turret was originally placed further east. The roof turret, which has been in the middle since 1982, houses a bell. The entire ground floor serves as a worship service meeting room. The flat-roofed room is lit on the south side through arched windows. The northern windows are walled up. The middle colored leaded glass window from 1982 on the west side facing the street was designed by Erhardt Klonk and executed by him and his workshop. On the outside it shows a cross of flames in bright colors, on the inside a tree of life. A white cross is attached to the window reveal. The two western outer windows are provided with Christian symbols, Α and Ω ( Alpha and Omega ) and the Christ monogram ☧ .

Furnishing

Altar area with pulpit and organ

The entire altar area with pulpit, altar and organ has been raised by one step on a wooden pedestal since 2002. The wood-sighted, polygonal pulpit was created by the Giessen youth workshop. It has coffered fillings. The wooden altar table with turned legs replaces an earlier school table. The Bible pad and the altar cross are handmade. The single chairs offer space for around 70 visitors.

At first there was a harmonium in the church , which was replaced by a small loan organ. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a new organ in 1992 for 52,800 DM. The instrument has four stops on one manual; the pedal is attached.

literature

  • Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 350 years of the Evangelical Church in Lardenbach. 75 years Protestant church Weickartshain, 25 years Protestant church Stockhausen. Self-published, Lardenbach 2007, pp. 4–21.
  • Johannes Hofmeister ( edit. ): Festschrift 650 Years Stockhausen 1340–1990. Stockhausen 1990.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, p. 344 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Stockhausen (Grünberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 345.
  2. ↑ Stockhausen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 1, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 4, 14.
  4. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 21.
  7. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Ev. Parishes Lardenbach / Klein-Eichen, Stockhausen and Weickartshain (ed.): Festschrift about our churches. 2007, p. 7.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '31.8 "  N , 9 ° 1' 47.9"  E