Evangelical Church Wixhausen

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Evangelical Church in Wixhausen, view from the south (2011)

The Evangelical Church Wixhausen is a Protestant church in Darmstadt-Wixhausen .

history

The Wixhäuser rectory of the evangelical parish is a self-contained, listed ensemble that emerged over eight and a half centuries from a knight's seat from the Middle Ages. The Romanesque church tower from 1150 was once the core of a lowland castle and is the oldest preserved architectural monument in the city of Darmstadt . In the church tower there is a tower hammer from 1517 and the St. Blaise bell of Steffans von Frankfurt from 1519. The church tower is approx. 18 m high.

The restored hall church with its 21 gallery paintings, which was expanded in baroque style between 1774 and 1776 , still has medieval buildings on the north side with a former early Gothic nave from 1295 and a Gothic high choir from 1370 to 1410. The parapet painting in oil on wood on the choir gallery was created around 1774 and shows the passion story in seven pictures.

The Dreymann organ , designed in baroque style , was installed in 1827.

In addition to a Gothic panel from 1541 and the Gothic tabernacle to art is our time: A fresco Eberhard Schlotter 1951 on the north wall and two "Physics window" Thomas Duttenhoefers 1997, the equally to the basic research of the local Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) relate like a third round window by Hans-Eberhard Ruhl in the neighboring children's house, which honors the discovery of the Darmstadtium element .

In the rectory in front of the church there is Duttenhoefer's stele from 1986, a 2.20 m high bronze cross, which in its time signs also pays tribute to the discovery of the elements Bohrium , Hassium and Meitnerium in the Darmstadt-Wixhausen district.

In addition to the church, the ensemble of the historic rectory includes the baroque rectory of Matthias Clauseckers from 1761/62, the neighboring Wixhäuser village museum and the late Baroque parish barn from 1827. The interior of the parish barn was converted into a parish hall.

A former barn was postmodern converted into a children's house together with the GSI.

literature

  • Günter Fries and others (arrangement): City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 689.
  • Hans-Eberhard Ruhl: Darmstadt-Wixhausen. Key data and basic lines of its history. Festschrift 1995, published by the parish council of the Evangelical Church Community Wixhausen in Darmstadt
  • Hans-Eberhard Ruhl: Signs of the times. Thomas Duttenhoefer's stele. In: Incidence of light. Frankfurt / Main 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magistrate of the City of Darmstadt, Press and Information Office
  2. ^ Günter Fries, Nikolaus Heiss: City of Darmstadt = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 689
  3. ↑ Organ is completely overhauled. echo-online.de from May 14, 2013 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  4. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 998

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '0.3 "  N , 8 ° 38' 32.2"  E