Evangelical Church Westerfeld
The Evangelical Church in Westerfeld was built in 1720 and is a listed cultural monument.
history
Westerfeld was part of the Laurentius Church in Usingen. In 1585 a small chapel was built (this was first mentioned in a document in 1604) and the cemetery was laid out. This chapel had become dilapidated at the beginning of the 18th century. Regent Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Usingen approved the construction of the Westerfeld Church in 1718.
The design of the building was for a long time attributed to Johann Georg Bager, the son of the site manager at the palace in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Johann Jakob Bager . Stylistic comparisons led to the assumption that the master builder was actually the Nassau court master builder Benedikt Burtscher . The Huguenot Church in Usingen , built by Burtscher, has similar features (pointed arched windows, wooden tracery). In the meantime, Burtscher's role has also been consolidated through archival material.
The church was consecrated in 1720 in the presence of the Hereditary Prince Karl von Nassau-Usingen . In 1816 Westerfeld was temporarily a branch church of Anspach. Since 1982 the connection to the second parish in Usingen has been broken. Currently (as of June 2020) the parish is connected to the parish in Hausen-Arnsbach and belongs to the Hochtaunus deanery in the Rhine-Main provost of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
construction
The church was built in a central location on the hillside over a cross-shaped floor plan in the style of rural baroque . The small building has sloping hipped roofs and an eight-sided, also slated roof turret with Welscher hood , helmet-shaped attachment, knob, delicate wrought-iron cross and weather valve.
The exterior view with the lightly plastered exterior walls still corresponds to the time it was built. In the deep and red painted window reveals there are pointed arch windows. Inside there is a wooden barrel vault basket that is plastered today. It is separated from the wall surfaces by a wooden cornice. The three sides stand on wooden pillars. They come from the same time as the pulpit on a neo-Gothic base. A special feature is the original church stalls in the nave. Each row of benches has a door with iron fittings.
The east gallery was built in the 19th century. 1964–1967 the interior was renovated. The color scheme inside was changed in the style of that time. A further renovation from October 2005 to Palm Sunday 2006 meant that the church was given its original color scheme based on historical findings.
organ
The organ loft takes up the entire length of the transept. The organ was built by Daniel Rassmann in 1835 .
literature
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 407 .
- Church leader Hochtaunus, p. 44/45, online
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Kirchberg 1 - Ev. Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Website of the Evangelical Church Community in Westerfeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 47 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 35" E