Katharinenkirche Gleiberg

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Church from the southeast

The Protestant Katharinenkirche in Krofdorf-Gleiberg , a place in the municipality Wettenberg in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ), was built in front of the former main entrance of Gleiberg Castle. The Gothic choir dates back to the second half of the 14th century, the L-shaped nave was completed in 1621. The church forms a special ensemble with the castle and is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

View from the south
North portal with inscription

Around 1230 the Gleiburg had a castle chapel from the Merenberg era . In the second half of the 14th century, a chapel was built in the mountainside in front of the castle, presumably in place of a Romanesque previous building. At the end of the Middle Ages, the community was assigned to the Wetzlar deanery of the Archdeaconate of St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Trier diocese . The church was originally dedicated to Catherine of Alexandria .

With the introduction of the Reformation , Gleiberg switched to the Protestant creed. Justus Breul was the first Protestant pastor to work here from 1546 to 1560. The long nave was added between 1619 and 1621. Above the north portal is the inscription: “Anno Domini 1619, July 5th, the first corner stone was laid.” The originally vaulted choir was renovated in 1743 and received a flat ceiling. An inscription reads: "Anno Christi 1743 Is this Kohr Renovieret worten H. Johan Heinrich Schmitborn The time pastor johan Adam is the borrowing master Johannes filious [?] Body Adam boss Johannes Feuser Casimir body ruler and builder."

The war damage in 1945 was caused by an air raid and the occupation. The damaged roof was renewed from 1947 to 1950 and the interior was extensively renovated from 1960 to 1965. The choir paintings whitewashed after the Reformation were partially exposed and restored, the parapet paintings were also freed from later layers of paint and the western external staircase renovated. The church was only consecrated again in 1965.

An exterior renovation took place in 1979. As part of a church renovation in the years 2003 to 2005, the roof structure was raised and individual ailing beams replaced and partitions renewed. The interior of the church was repainted. However, the frescoes were left as they are. A toilet was installed in the north-west corner and the sacristy was moved into the church space by a row of benches and a glass front was inserted in the northern entrance area. In 2015 the bell cage was renovated.

architecture

View into the choir room

The unplastered church made of quarry stone masonry with corner blocks made of lung stone is raised on the northeastern hillside of the castle on an L-shaped floor plan above the village. It consists of two structures with their own story. Since the gothic, east-facing chapel was built into the cliff, an extension of the building was only possible with a nave facing north-south. In this way, the choir became the south-eastern end. The basalt subsoil also ruled out a burial place below the church.

Buttresses support the choir with a 5/8 end and originally served to dissipate the thrust of the vault. The choir is illuminated through four tracery windows. In 1619 the choir received an eight-sided, slated tower structure. The bell chamber rises slightly tapered above the shaft, above which a curved pent roof leads to a small lantern, which is closed by a hood. The tower is crowned by a gilded tower knob, a wrought iron cross and a gilded weathercock. A large round arch, painted with bosses , connects the choir with the nave. At the same time it takes up part of the weight of the tower.

The high rectangular hall facing north-south is closed off by a crooked roof. The stone staircase running on the west side enables ground-level access to the first gallery through a pointed arched portal with walls made of lung stone. The pointed arch portal with red sandstone walls to the upper gallery bears a coat of arms and has been walled up since the 1960s. A pointed arch window with tracery between the two west portals is also walled up, so that the west side is windowless today. On the east side of the nave, a rectangular window is let into the pulpit on the left, still within the arched niche. Another narrow pointed arched window with a soffit is installed in the north east wall and one above the north portal.

Furnishing

Longhouse facing northwest
Choir arch

The preserved services point to a choir vault. A flat ceiling in the choir is supported by a central, wooden round column. The wall paintings between the choir windows, uncovered in 1961/62, show the Virgin Mary on the globe, St. Jerome , St. Catherine and fragments of the Last Judgment behind the pulpit. The window reveals have baroque portraits from 1743.

The interior of the ship is closed off by a flat beamed ceiling. Among the cross-beams runs a joist , the wooden of three round columns Kopfbügen is worn. The middle round post is marked with the year 1621 and has the old painting with olive-green vines and grapes. The other two round posts are painted red and date from 1809. The two-storey galleries dominating the space on the west and north sides date from the first half of the 17th century. The lower gallery shows olive-green parapet paintings with ornaments, pictures and Bible verses, the upper one has turned docks . The parapet with carvings on the bench in front of the south wall is the remainder of a mansion's chair and shows the four evangelists with their symbols under five round arches and in the middle field King David , who in a prayer position foresees the resurrection of Jesus Christ in a visionary way.

The stone altar mess comes from medieval times. The pulpit from 1643 is decorated with valuable carvings and bears the slogan: “Whoever wants to abide by this Stvl, mvs teach, were, suffer, avoid.” On the sound cover is the Bible verse “Mal. 2. The priest's lips are to keep the doctrine that one seeks the law out of his mouth ”and“ Psalm 51: Lord, thve my lips avff, that my mouth proclaim thine rvhm; Anno 1643. "

The large, massive oak chest with iron fittings from 1588 was used to store documents. Only a table of contents of the documents on the rights of the parish and the donated income was preserved. Two tombstones with inscriptions from 1666 and 1695 are placed in the chancel, another from 1790 under the pulpit.

organ

Organ built in between the galleries

An organ was first mentioned in 1836, when its condition was described as poor. The missing positive had five registers and is said to have been 200 to 300 years old in 1842, according to the Treisbach organ builder Peter Dickel . In 1846 Dickel built a new work with twelve voices on one manual and pedal . After the organ was destroyed in 1945, Günter Hardt from Möttau created a small new organ with six registers in 1968. The disposition is as follows:

Manual C–
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′

Bells

The bell cage houses a triple bell. The Gothic Ave bell comes from the pre-Reformation period. A large bell is marked 1571 and was cast by the Frankfurt bell caster Göbel. In 1978, donations made it possible to purchase a bell from Rincker to complete the ringing. The sound structure consists of two minor thirds, which together comprise a tritone .

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry
casting location 		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
  		image
 
1 Resurrection bell, baptism bell 1571 Nikolaus Göbel, Frankfurt am Main 885 375 h 1 two medallions depicting the capture and burial of Christ Evangelical Katharinenkirche Gleiberg 43.JPG
2 Prayer, Last Supper and wedding bells 1978 Rincker , Sinn 185 d 2 “ O COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD + JER. 22.29 " Evangelical Katharinenkirche Gleiberg 42.JPG
3 Ave bell, baptism bell, resurrection bell 1350 610 150 f 2 “ In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apud deum. ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum et b [enedicta] “, relief shows Mary with the child. Evangelical Katharinenkirche Gleiberg 39.JPG

Parish and pastor

The evangelical church community Krofdorf-Gleiberg has about 2600 members. In addition to the Katharinenkirche, she uses the Margarethenkirche Krofdorf . The parish belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill within the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . A “Monument Foundation Ev. Churches Krofdorf-Gleiberg ”serves to preserve the two listed churches.

The names of 17 priests are mentioned from the pre-Reformation period, the first being a pleban Johannes, who was responsible for Launsbach in 1289. Since the time of the Reformation, the pastors can be completely proven.

  • 1546–1560: Justus Bruelius (Breul)
  • 1560–1573: Laurentius Stephani
  • 1573–1587: Friedrich Heun from Södel
  • 1587–1605: Matthias Stutzius
  • 1605–1628: Daniel Arcularius
  • 1629-1646: M. Martin Stephani
  • 1646–1683: Johann Philipp Schmidtborn
  • 1683–1732: Georg Philipp Schmidtborn
  • 1732–1782: Johann Friedrich Schmidtborn
  • 1782–1795: Georg Philipp Schmidtborn
  • 1796–1824: Georg Jakob Reuss
  • 1824–1851: Karl Christian Raßmann
  • 1851–1857: Friedrich Wilhelm Imhäusser
  • 1857–1858: Johann Philipp Ludwig Geibel (administration)
  • 1859–1862: Peter Reinhard Eduard Züllig Bornemann
  • 1862–1871: Hermann Julius Adolf Bode
  • 1872–1875: Gerhard Goebel
  • 1875–1901: Johann Philipp Ludwig Geibel
  • 1902–1929: Heinrich Knieper
  • 1929–1930: Adolf Bausch
  • 1930–1934: Bernhard Wiebel
  • 1935–1939, 1945–1949: Ernst Teichmann (war pastor and imprisonment during World War II)
  • 1944–1945: Hans-Philipp Zitelmann (administration)
  • 1949–1959: Franz Roth
  • 1959–1994: Hanns-Christoph Barnikol (1959–1961 administration)
  • since 1994 0 : Georg-Christoph Schaaf

literature

  • Hanns-Christoph Barnikol: Evangelical parish. In: Jürgen Leib: Krofdorf-Gleiberg between tradition and progress. Home book for the 1200th anniversary of the community of Krofdorf-Gleiberg. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei, Gießen 1974, pp. 294–354, 360–381 [Notes].
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 525 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 , p. 306.
  • Jürgen Leib: Krofdorf-Gleiberg. 774-1974. Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary. Krofdorf-Gleiberg [1974].
  • Manfred Schmidt; Protestant parish Krofdorf-Gleiberg (ed.): In the year of the Lord 1513. 500 years nave of the Protestant Margaret Church in Krofdorf. Bender, Wettenberg 2013.

Web links

Commons : Katharinenkirche Gleiberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 306.
  2. ^ Krofdorf-Gleiberg. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 4, 2013 .
  3. ^ Barnikol: Evangelical Church Community . 1974, p. 347.
  4. ^ Barnikol: Evangelical Church Community . 1974, p. 347 f.
  5. ^ Barnikol: Evangelical Church Community . 1974, p. 346.
  6. ↑ a b c Uta Barnikol-Lübeck: L-shaped floor plan characterizes Gleiberger church . In: Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from September 28, 2019, accessed on December 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c Barnikol: Evangelical Church Community . 1974, p. 349.
  8. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 525.
  9. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 526.
  10. ↑ Schmidt: In the year of the Lord 1513. 2013, p. 21 f.
  11. ↑ Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar, presented historically, statistically and topographically. Volume 2. Wetzlar 1836, p. 39 ( online ).
  12. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former administrative district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.1 . Part 1 (A – K)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 375 f .
  13. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 135.
  14. ↑ Evangelical Church District an Lahn and Dill: Kirchengemeinden , accessed on August 18, 2018.
  15. ^ Homepage of the parish: Monument Foundation , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  16. ↑ Schmidt: In the year of the Lord 1513. 2013, p. 32.
  17. ^ Barnikol: Evangelical Church Community . 1974, pp. 296-346.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 55.2 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  E