Sellnrod half-timbered church

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Half-timbered church Sellnrod from the west

The half-timbered church Sellnrod is located in the district of the same name in the municipality of Mücke (Hessen) in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse . The baroque hall church with a three-sided east end and hooded roof turrets in the west was built between 1697 and 1698. Today the half-timbered church is completely clad.

history

With the introduction of the Reformation , Sellnrod switched to the evangelical creed, probably from 1527 under Johannes Schmierer, pastor of Bobenhausen. Sellnrod was a branch in the parish of Bobenhausen until 1637 and was then elevated to an independent parish church.

In 1697/1698 today's church was built in the middle of the village by the carpenter Hans Georg Haubruch from Herbstein . The state master builder Johann Ernst Müller from Gießen had the planning . A cooperation between the two took place at the half-timbered churches in Breungeshain and Dirlammen .

architecture

The church portal with the Hessian coat of arms

The east-facing church, clad on all sides, is covered by a roof that is hipped off to the west. The framework in frame construction has five continuous bars that are reinforced by V-shaped struts. The higher basement has four levels, the upper floor two levels. In the entire first floor, the struts through neck bolts and cleats for Hessen man expanded motif. The man motif is only found in a large form in the middle of the south side, where it occupies the four lower levels. Otherwise, the basement has V-struts of different heights, but always symmetrical. The long sides are designed differently, as there is no gallery on the south side.

The interior is lit on all four sides through two arched windows with lattice structure. In the gable area on the west side and on the north side below the eaves there are two small, high-rectangular windows each to illuminate the attic.

A special structural feature is the "tallest and slimmest roof turret of the Vogelsberg " on the west side above the baroque portal . The fully slated, eight-sided roof turret is tiered several times and is crowned by a tower knob, cross and gilded weathercock.

The arched portal itself is richly decorated with a pilaster-like frame in the style of folk art and marked with the year 1698 in the lintel . The gussets are decorated with winged angel heads. Above that, in a triangular gable, is the coat of arms of the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt , held by two soaring lions. The landgrave's coat of arms can also be found above the portals in Büßfeld and Breungeshain .

Furnishing

Staggered galleries to the west
View of the altar area

The interior is closed off by a flat ceiling supported by wall supports and a longitudinal girder . A column on the west gallery supports the girder and also the roof turret. The longitudinal and transverse porches inside the church are staggered three times on top of each other. On the north side, the fillings of the balustrade show Christ, who is surrounded by eleven apostles with their symbols. Simon Petrus takes the place on the far right of the west gallery. The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The fillings of the transverse galleries are painted with tendrils. The upper galleries have wooden docks. The area below the organ loft is separated from the community room by a wooden barrier, which has openwork lozenges in the upper part, and serves as a sacristy .

The wood-sighted, late Mannerist pulpit on the elevated south side is a specialty , as it is older than the church and dates back to 1608. The pulpit fields of the polygonal pulpit cage have slim round arches between conical pilasters, which are characteristic of the early 17th century. On the sound cover stands a long-legged pelican , which in Christian iconography symbolizes the death of Christ, who sacrifices his blood for humanity.

The simple block altar is covered by an overhanging canteen plate over a slope. On it is a wooden altar cross with a folk art crucifix of the three-nail type from the baroque or post-baroque period.

On the walls of the long sides there are some baroque tombstones made of light sandstone. They are divided into several fields, which mostly show a representation of the crucified with the deceased and his family and a writing field in an oval cartouche.

organ

Förster organ from 1889

Almost nothing is known about the previous organ. It was given in payment for 24 marks in the course of the new acquisition in 1889. The community initially considered buying a used instrument from Heinrich Bechstein (Groß-Umstadt), but then decided to build a new one in a public tender. Offers were received from Adam Karl Bernhard and Johann Georg Förster . In May 1888, Förster submitted two options. The contract was signed on October 1, 1888, the inauguration took place on June 15, 1889. The cost was 1,686 marks. In 1897 Förster repaired the bellows that had swollen from moisture. Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau carried out repairs in 1980 and replaced the prospect pipes delivered for armament purposes during the World War . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Bourdun 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flauto travers 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture Cornett III 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I. Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Ulrich Grimminger: Repair of the primary construction at the Protestant church in Mücke-Sellnrod, Vogelsbergkreis. In: Christoph Henrichsen (Red.): Repairs and static securing on historical wooden structures. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1830-7 , pp. 134-144.
  • Dieter Großmann u. a .: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 6th edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-008466-0 , p. 431.
  • Georg Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart / Aalen 1972, ISBN 3-8062-0112-9 .
  • Ernst Otto Hofmann: Half-timbered churches of the master carpenter HG Haubruch. Four examples from the Vogelsberg. In: Hessian homeland. 24, 1974.
  • Karl Zulauf: History of the Church in Sellnrod. In: Kasseler Sonntagsblatt , Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 1935.

Web links

Commons : Church (Sellnrod)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sellnrod. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 23, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ernst Otto Hofmann: Half-timbered churches of the master carpenter HG Haubruch. Four examples from the Vogelsberg. In: Hessian homeland. 24, 1974, pp. 6, 8, 9, 12, 26, 28 f.
  3. ↑ a b Großmann: Hessen. Art monuments and museums. 1987, p. 431.
  4. ↑ a b Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 137.
  5. ↑ Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . Ed .: Förderkreis Alte Kirchen eV, Marburg. 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 , p. 28 .
  6. ^ Bott: half-timbered churches in Hessen. 1987, p. 26.
  7. ^ Kratz (ed.): The district of Alsfeld. 1972, p. 108.
  8. ^ Günter E. Th. Bezzenberger: Worth seeing churches in the church areas of Hesse and Nassau and Kurhessen-Waldeck, including the Rhine-Hessian church districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels. Evangelical Press Association, Kassel 1987, p. 180 f.
  9. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 871-873 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '53.51 "  N , 9 ° 5' 49.16"  E