Evangelical City Church (Wanfried)
The Protestant town church in Wanfried , a town in the Werra-Meissner in Hessen , is in neo-Gothic style held sacred . It belongs to the Protestant parish Wanfried in the Eschwege parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . The architecture and furnishings are almost in the same style and correspond to the Eisenach regulation of 1861.
history
At the place where the town church is today, the St. Vitus Church, which was also called Vitus Church, stood until its demolition ; it can be traced back to a small log house built as a chapel in the 7th century.
In the first half of the 19th century, the state master builder Mathei from Eschwege spoke out against the renovation of the St. Vitus Church and for a new building for economic reasons. The initiator and most important sponsor of the new building project was the royal chamberlain, Karl Xaver von Scharfenberg. The master builder was Hermann Rüppel, a student of the Wanfried-born architect and master builder Georg Gottlob Ungewitter . Construction lasted from 1884 to 1888 and cost 186,000 gold marks (around 1,833,960 euros).
architecture
The three-aisled east - facing hall church with transept is a natural stone work in the neo-Gothic style . The stones of the ribs come from Altenburschlaer, those of the pillars from Madelunger sandstone quarries. The vault was made of tuff stones.
The church has a square crossing and a wide transverse frame. Five keystones make the vault self-supporting. Finely crafted capitals sit on the pillars . The early Gothic forms appear playful in some places. The peaks in the quatrefoil the choir windows cross each other, the columns have a double whirl, the aperture in the side aisle are broken.
Southeast view
Interior room with chandelier
Interior and equipment
ornamentation
The ornamentation is consistent in the wall and ceiling painting, in the lead glass windows , on the stalls , altar and pulpit as well as on the gallery . Above all, it shows climbing vine leaves, but also ears, ivy and oak leaves.
Capital west side
Altar and pulpit
The altar, made of oak and decorated with carvings in the Gothic style, is only decorated with a painted golden cross without a corpus, surrounded by tendrils and lilies, following the ban on images of the Reformed Church .
The pulpit, in its design corresponding to the altar, is (as of spring 2019) under restoration.
altar
Patronage office
To the right of the altar is the patronage room . The walls and ceiling are richly decorated with elaborate carvings, ornate wood paneling, paintings and painted textile wall coverings. In the two outer walls there are three small tracery windows with colored lead glazing , which also show the coat of arms of the von Scharfenberg family and that of the von Diergardt family .
Church window
The design of the tracery windows with lead glazing was created by the glass painting workshop Ely ( Nantes and Kassel ). From the west, the decoration of the windows towards the choir becomes thicker and richer. The kaleidoscopic ornamentation of the large windows in the transept is very similar to the ornamentation in the windows of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris . Above the altar is the only window with a picture showing Christ at the top, including depictions from the work of St. Boniface and the coats of arms of the German Empire, Prussia, Hesse and the city arms of Wanfried.
Detail tracery window
Epitaphs
In the back of the church there are richly decorated epitaphs , including the grave slab of Wanfried Petrus Paganus (1532–1567), an important writer of his time. Paganus was appointed poeta laureatus in Vienna in 1560 , the laurel-crowned poet. One of his best-known works is an elegiac address to the crucified Christ.
Memorial plaques
The offset and lithographic printing Peter Israel and the Historical Society Wanfried donated 1,921 commemorative plaques to the fallen of World War I, which later was followed by those of the Second World War. These are printing stones made from Solnhofer slate, written manually by lithographers .
organ
The Peternell brothers from Seligenthal near Schmalkalden built the organ and installed it in 1888. The Peternell Organ Workshop was known for its romantic-sounding organs. In keeping with the rich decoration, the sound of this organ emphasized the romantic effect of the church. The organ case was kept in "neo-Gothic style". The instrument includes 1736 pipes made of tin, zinc and wood. The instrument has 26 sounding registers on two manuals and a pedal .
The original intonation was approximated in the 1960s to the then prevailing neo-baroque , overtone and fundamental tone poor sound concept. After the reconstruction by the Krawinkel company in 1988/1989, each register was re-voiced in order to regain the powerful and grave sound. The previous "romantic" intonation of the historical registers formed the basis for this measure.
The organ was tuned to the normal pitch of 1 : 439.7 Hz at 15 ° C.
In 2017 the organ was cleaned of mold and ventilation was installed. The loop pull magnets were replaced and the electrical system renewed. The slider drawer instrument today has a mechanical game action and an electrical stop action . The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Organ of the Evangelical City Church in Wanfried
Bells
Bell jar
Bells ringing of the Evangelical City Church in Wanfried on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 2 p.m.
The Wanfrieder Church always had three bells . The oldest came from the 15th century, the third from 1503. It bore the inscription: “A + O W. +++ Anno MD III” (= “Alpha + Omega: I am the beginning and the end; after I belong to Wanfried; In 1503 ”). In the years 1703 to 1815 these had to be poured over gradually.
In 1917, two bells were melted down for war purposes. After one last ring, the bells were broken. And "the resounding lamentation of destruction spread over all the roofs and streets of the city and brought tears to the eyes of many," says the chronicle. On September 30, 1921, two new bells were received at the Wanfrieder train station. But also during the Second World War, in January 1945, the bells from 1815 and 1921 were broken to pieces and thrown out of the tower.
Two new bells were inaugurated on Christmas Eve 1950. One bears the inscription: "Violence passes, the sword breaks, God alone leads through hardship and light, O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord."
gallery
tower
Choir room
Patronage office
Entrance patronage room
Leaded glass window patronage room
Choir window
literature
- Helmut Umbach: Sacred Spaces - Gates of Heaven. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89971-240-4 .
- Karen David-Sirocko: Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and the picturesque neo-Gothic in Hesse, Hamburg, Hanover and Leipzig. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 1997, ISBN 3-932526-03-1 .
- Ernst Hollstein: History of the city of Wanfried 1608–1908. Lithographic institute Peter Israel, Wanfried 1908.
- Karl Emil Otto Fritsch (ed.): The church building of Protestantism from the Reformation to the present. Berlin 1893, p. 237ff.
- Walter Henze: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Wanfried. Keitz & Fischer, Eschwege 1988.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Henze: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Wanfried . Keitz & Fischer, Eschwege 1988, p. 9 .
- ↑ Reinold Strauss: Chronicle of the city of Wanfried . Carl Braun, Wanfried 1908, p. 170 f .
- ↑ Ernst Hollstein: History of the city of Wanfried . Ed .: Arthur and Carl Israel. Lithographic institute and lithographic printing company Peter Israel, Wanfried 1908, p. 112 f .
- ^ Karen David-Sirocko: Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and the picturesque neo-Gothic in Hesse, Hamburg, Hanover and Leipzig . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 1997, ISBN 3-932526-03-1 , p. 191 ff .
- ↑ Walter Henze: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Wanfried . Ed .: Keitz & Fischer. Eschwege 1988, p. 10 .
- ^ Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz: Petrus Paganus Poeta Laureatus from Wanfried . Ed .: Karl Braun. Hessenland-Verlag, Wanfried 1974, p. 13 .
- ↑ Walter Henze: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Wanfried . Keitz & Fischer, Eschwege 1988, p. 20 .
- ↑ Walter Henze: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Wanfried . Keitz & Fischer, Eschwege 1988, p. 48 ff .
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 4.1 ″ E