Evangelical Church Labor
The Evangelical Church of Wehen is a classicist hall church on the edge of the old town center of today's Taunusstein district of Wehen . It was built from 1810 to 1812 according to plans by the senior building officer Carl Florian Goetz and, together with the St. Dionysius Church in Kelkheim-Münster, is the oldest classicist church in the Duchy of Nassau and most likely the oldest classicist church in the EKHN . Today it is a listed building.
History of origin
The first church in Wehen was a chapel from 1359 , which was assigned to the Bleidenstadt monastery . In 1731 the chapel was enlarged and rebuilt. Due to dilapidation , it had to be demolished in 1809. Besides, the old church had become too small. In 1782 at the latest, the considerations to repair or rebuild the church began. In 1805, building councilor Carl Florian Goetz was asked to check on site whether and at what cost the church should be repaired. According to Goetz, “the old church could not be repaired”.
They looked for a new building site on which a larger church based on Goetz's design should be built. A suitable place for a new building was found on the site of the former royal hunting arsenal in front of the city wall. The old city fortifications were used as a quarry for building churches.
Other sources were also found to reduce the cost of the new building. The abolition of the monasteries was a welcome opportunity for many royal courts and churches to appropriate their furnishings. Building director Goetz (from 1805 together with Christian Zais ) supervised the dismantling of the Rheingau monasteries and thus had the first access to the inventory . From Eberbach were sandstone columns fetched and panels, from the Klosterkirche Marienhausen originating organ , pulpit , stalls , bell and clock tower , from the convent Gottesthal 24 Pews .
The church was inaugurated on October 11, 1812. It was then, as now, the largest church in the Untertaunus after the Union Church in Idstein. The Idstein cantor Johann Christian Herrmann composed the inauguration cantata, which was accompanied by a “full” orchestra. The text for this was written by Wehen bailiff Carl Ibell .
building
The simple hall structure has a wide nave and a low hipped roof ; on the east side there is a narrower semicircular apse and a tower with a flat tent roof . The west facade is structured by a central projectile with a triangular gable and the portal surrounded by two pairs of Ionic columns. The design of the west facade indicates the influence of Christian Zais . Both side doors show classical ornaments. Inside, slender wooden columns support the gallery running around on three sides. The proportions of the golden section can be demonstrated both in the floor plan and in the side view of the church .
The black altar made of Lahn marble is a gift from Prince Carl Wilhelm von Nassau in 1722 and was taken over from the previous building. A special feature is the cast-iron balustrade that separates the apse from the nave.
In 1912 - for the 100th anniversary of the church - a major interior renovation took place. The architect and church builder of the Ev. Church in Nassau Ludwig Hofmann planned this work. The church was now richly painted: coffered ceiling, floral ornamental painting in the gallery fillings and wall paintings in the apse. Another interior renovation took place in 1958. Today's color scheme dates from 1977.
The baptismal font with its late Romanesque diamond work is the oldest piece in the Ev. Church pangs. He has only been in labor since 1975; he was found during excavations in Bitburg , restored and acquired by the community.
organ
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| General | |
| place | Ev. Church pangs |
| Organ builder | Heinrich Voigt |
| Construction year | 1889 |
| Last renovation / restoration | 1999 by Orgelbau Hardt |
| epoch | romance |
| Organ landscape | Hesse |
| Technical specifications | |
| Number of pipes | about 700 |
| Number of registers | 12 |
| Number of rows of pipes | 15th |
| Number of manuals | 2 |
| Wind chest | Cone drawer |
| Tone tract | Mechanically |
| Register action | Mechanically |
The first organ in the Ev. Wehen church came from the Marienhausen monastery church (organ builder unknown until now). A maintenance contract was signed with the organ builder Embach from Rauenthal in 1835. At Christmas 1898 the instrument completely stopped working.
In 1899 the organ, built by Heinrich Voigt in 1890 for the old Catholic community of Wiesbaden, was acquired. It is one of the few original instruments made by the Wiesbaden organ builder. In 1952 the organ was rebuilt by the organ builder Katzer from Bleidenstadt. An electric fan was installed. The organ was rebuilt according to the taste of the time: the string registers and the mixture were removed and replaced by new, neo-baroque registers. In October 1999 it was restored by Orgelbau Hardt and returned to its original condition.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P.
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Playing aids : Tutti
- Remarks
- o = original 1889
- r = reconstruction by Hardt 1999
- z = reconstruction by Hardt in 1999 with contemporary pipe material from Voigt and Raßmann
Web links
- Homepage of the Ev. Parish Wehen
- Description of the Voigt organ on the Taunussteiner Kirchenmusik website
- Classicist churches in the former Duchy of Nassau: A picture album on Flickr
literature
- Gottfried Kiesow: The misunderstood century. Historicism using the example of Wiesbaden. German Foundation for Monument Protection, 2005, ISBN 3-936942-53-6 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II.
- Hartmut Heinemann: End and new beginning: Eberbach after 1803 in: Eberbach im Rheingau: Cistercian culture wine. Eltville 1987.
- Caroline Forst, b. Ibell: Memory sheets from the life of my grandparents, parents and my brother, written down in Braubach in 1835. Wiesbaden 1854.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church Wehen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Department 270 No. 453: Letter from Baurat Goetz from July 30, 1805
- ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Dept. 136 No. 2397: Invoices and receipts for the newly built church 1810–1812
- ↑ Caroline Forst, b. Ibell: Memory sheets from the life of my grandparents, parents and my brother, written down at Braubach in 1835, Wiesbaden 1854, p. 35f
- ↑ thick. architects & engineers Ev. Church in Tsst. Contractions, proportions, color versions and reconstructions ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen October 22, 2011.
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '14.9 " N , 8 ° 11' 5.9" E