Katharinenkapelle Steinheim (Hungen)

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Chapel from the west
Gable side from the south

The Katharinenkapelle in Steinheim , a district of Hungen in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ), is the local Protestant church. The early Gothic choir tower was built in the second half of the 13th century. The new stone building of the nave from 1962 replaces a half-timbered church from the 17th century. The small church with the massive tower is characteristic of the town and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In medieval times, Steinheim was a branch of the mother church in Rodheim in the archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . Central church authorities were the Rodheim Send District and the Friedberg Deanery. In the second half of the 13th century a chapel was built in Steinheim and, according to oral tradition, St. Consecrated to Catherine . With the introduction of the Reformation , the place changed to the Protestant creed.

At the end of the Thirty Years War, the village burned down completely in 1646. Only the church tower remained. Instead of the medieval nave, a half-timbered church was built in 1696, of which no remains have been preserved. The rectangular floor plan was 5.00 × 6.40 meters. Two small rectangular windows each provided the church with light. The interior of the half-timbered church was completed by a flat ceiling with a joist , which was decorated on both sides by a stucco rosette with leaves and fruits. Wooden galleries were built into the two western sides, the parapets of which were painted in marbled style. The triumphal arch was painted bright red with white double joints. The pulpit was attached to the south corner of the triumphal arch. After this church had become more and more dilapidated since the beginning of the 19th century, it was abandoned as a place of worship for worship and worship was held in the newly built Steinheim school. The half-timbered church served as a warehouse and fell into disrepair. In the parish chronicle it says: “ Every farmer better keeps his pigsty in order. There are broken stalls, fragments of the pulpit, fallen piles of clay, next to them are drainage pipes and agricultural equipment, fire escapes and other beautiful things . as well as a money collection by Pastor Heymann in 1919. The church was torn down in 1962 and replaced by today's stone building in the dimensions of the previous building. In the same year the tower was plastered for the first time.

architecture

Choir vault with south-east window

The church is built on the eastern edge of the old village in a north-easterly direction. The massive choir tower made of quarry stone with corner blocks made of lung stone has a square floor plan of 4.30 × 4.30 meters. The vaulted chancel has grooved, late Gothic cross ribs from the 15th century without consoles and remnants of old paintings. The keystone is covered with a disk. The wall thickness of more than one meter, the six well-documented but no longer preserved consecration crosses and the narrow, round-arched triumphal arch with a clear width of 2.20 meters, which has no fighters , speak against the dating of the tower to the 15th century . The three small arched windows on the three free sides below the cornice probably date from the time it was built, the late Gothic tracery windows on the ground floor with lung stone walls, pointed arches and noses and the roof work from the 15th century. The slated helmet structure consists of four equilateral triangular gables made of half-timbering, which lead into an eight-sided pointed helmet, which is crowned by a tower button, cross and weathercock.

The ship from 1962 is powered by a gabled roof finished and exposed on the long sides by two small rectangular window. The chapel is accessed through a rectangular entrance with a slated canopy on the gable side.

Furnishing

altar
Interior to the southwest

The tower houses a bronze bell from 1492, cast by Wipert Becker and dedicated to St. Cyriacus was consecrated. It has a diameter of 745 mm and bears the inscription between cross-arch friezes : "ciro acus heys ich wipert becker goys mich do man schreyp m cccc lxxxxii".

The interior is simply furnished. On the walls of the chancel there are remains of late medieval paintings, including a consecration cross , but only fragments have been exposed. In the choir, there is a cuboid altar made of red sandstone, which is closed by a slab. There is a wooden crucifix of the three-nail type , two simple candlesticks and the altar Bible from 1965. On the left in the triumphal arch there is a six-sided wooden baptism with a brass bowl. The baptismal bowl shows a dove in the middle and the word of Jesus on the edge: "Let the little children come to me" ( Mk 10.14  LUT ). On the right in the arch there is a lectern with a turned foot.

The flat-roofed western part is closed off by a dark wooden ceiling. Two rows of four wooden chairs each leave a central aisle free. The narrow, wooden west gallery serves as the installation site for the small organ . In 1966 the Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a positive with four registers .

Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
octave 1'

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 / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 860.
  • Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931, p. 342 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 , p. 179 f.
  • Ulrich Schütte (Ed.): Churches and synagogues in the villages of the Wetterau. (= Wetterau history sheets 53 ). Verlag der Bindernagelschen Buchhandlung, Friedberg (Hessen) 2004, ISBN 3-87076-098-2 , p. 532 f.
  • Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part . Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1933, pp. 393–395.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 176 f.

Web links

Commons : Katharinenkapelle Steinheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 180.
  2. ↑ Steinheim. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 14, 2013 .
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 173.
  4. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1931, p. 394.
  5. ^ Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes. 1931, p. 342.
  6. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 176.
  7. ^ Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 860.
  8. ^ For example, Heinrich Walbe: Annual Report of the Preservation of Monuments 1913–1928 , p. 276, quoted in Diehl: Construction book for the evangelical parishes. 1931, p. 342.
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2008, p. 179.
  10. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 177.
  11. ↑ Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions (PDF file; 37.7 MB), in: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, 1884, pp. 475-544, here: p. 532.
  12. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 175.
  13. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.2 . Part 2 (M – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 907 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 33.4 "  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 34.5"  E