Kirchditmold Church

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The Kirchditmold Church is a Protestant church in the Kirchditmold district of Kassel . The classicistic hall church was completed in 1792.

history

In the Middle Ages, Kirchditmold was the political and cult center in the early Middle Ages before the establishment of the royal court in Kassel. The chronicles describe that in the then independent village of Kirchditmold there was a baptistery and an old, neglected church. There are suspicions that the neglected church was built on the site of a pagan sacrificial site that was located at a spring that still exists today. The baptistery is considered to be the predecessor church. It stood on a hill in a place that was visible from afar. This grew in importance with the foundation of the Weissenstein Monastery in 1134, as Kirchditmold from then on belonged to the extensive church game Weissenstein-Kirchditmold, which served the Schauenburg counts to secure territorial dominance in northern Hesse against the advancing Thuringian landgraves. In return, the Thuringian landgraves founded the Ahnaberg monastery .

It is known from old chronicles that the itinerant preacher Heimerad , who was born in Messkirch in Swabia and is considered the founder of Hasungen Monastery , preached here and that Heimrad died in 1019. In the eleventh century Kirchditmold was subordinate to the Counts of Schauenburg near Hoof. Two centuries later, rule passed to the von Dalwigk family. This was no longer associated with the state guardianship of the Counts of Schauenburg, but only with the offices of Kirchditmold as patrons. Nevertheless, the patronage lasted for many centuries and only expired when the last owner gave up in 1942.

On April 26, 1780 the tower of the church collapsed and damaged the church building considerably. The building inspector Hisner was commissioned with a design for the reconstruction of the church at the old location. The plan was presented to the General Directorate by the church game Weißenstein in 1780 in order to obtain the approval of an aid to cover the costs. After the plan was rejected for cost reasons, it was submitted again in 1782. According to this plan, the costs were estimated at 6,000 thalers, the church funds were estimated at 482 thalers, and the political community of Kirchditmold wanted to contribute 40 thalers to the costs. The Landgrave was asked whether he wanted to inject the necessary funds. The answer from the Landgrave on September 13, 1782 was that the church should be repaired as best as possible and should be provided with a tower. After years of controversial negotiations, the Kassel court builder and architect Simon Louis du Ry was commissioned by Landgrave Friedrich II to examine the church in 1786 . On October 21, 1786 he came to the conclusion that the church could no longer be repaired. Based on this assessment, the church building was demolished.

The construction of the new church began in June 1787 according to plans by Louis du Ry and was consecrated on June 3, 1792.

Despite the increase in the budgeted construction costs, the funds were insufficient to bring the church tower to its planned height. A pointed spire was placed on the first floor. This is attested by the sound hatches on the middle floor. Instead of the planned four dials for the tower clock, there were only two due to the financial problems. In 1910, following a fire in the tower, it was decided to raise it and equip it with four dials.

architecture

The simple, unplastered hall church is designed in the classicism style. A flat hip roof covers the church. The two-story windows are structured by pilaster strips that end in a circumferential profiled cornice . In the lower area the windows are rectangular and in the upper area they are arched.

The west tower is in front and is closed off by a tapered, octagonal, slated upper floor with a tent roof, which is crowned by a pommel with a cross.

A building inscription in the church commemorates the inauguration in 1792: “Thanks to the generous support of Mr. Landgrave Wilhelm IX. this church was built. The inauguration took place on June 3rd, 1792 in the absence of Sr. Hochfürstl. Your Highness during the campaign in France at that time. Was the secret Budget Minister von Wittorf present as a princely delegate at the solemnity of the inauguration. The early pastor Cuntz held the inauguration sermon on Psalm XXVI verse VIII, which was requested for printing. Which attended a meeting of more than two thousand people from this area. "

organ

Church bills in 1678 and 1680 for organ repairs indicate the existence of an organ at this time. In the course of the new church building, this instrument was given away to Heckershausen and later replaced. Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy built a new organ for Kirchditmold in 1791/1792 for 968 thalers. It probably had 18 stops , which were divided between two manuals and a pedal . The five-axis prospect has an elevated, round central tower and two pointed towers on the outside, in between lower flat fields, all of which are topped with profiled cornices . The veil boards have gilded foliage, the flanking blind wings gilded tendrils with volutes and fruits that stand out from the white frame of the case.

In the 19th century, a profound renovation was carried out by an unknown organ builder who replaced the positive with an echo mechanism with soft voices. In 1925 there were changes in the sense of the organ movement and in 1950 another register exchange by Willi Peter in order to make the sound baroque. Another renovation in 1963 by the Bosch company , which was equivalent to a new building, included an extension of the instrument with a Rückpositiv . Its sober shapes made up of five simple, upright rectangular boxes are not linked organically to the historic Wilhelmi Prospect, which was still carried out in the baroque tradition. The other works also received additional registers, the range of the keyboard was expanded in 1969. The pedal mechanism and swell mechanism have been placed behind and protrude on the sides. A relocation of the gaming table to the Rückpositiv at the request of Kantor Fenner led to a stiff action and had to be reversed. Since 1963 the disposition has comprised 30 registers and is as follows:

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Pipe pommer 8th'
2. Pointed flute 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Zimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
6th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
7th Quintad 16 ′
8th. Principal 8th'
9. Reed flute 8th'
10. octave 4 ′
11. Smalled up 4 ′
12. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Pointed flute 2 ′
14th Mixture VI
15th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
16. Dumped 8th'
17th Principal 4 ′
18th recorder 4 ′
19th octave 2 ′
20th Sif flute 1'
21st Terzian II
22nd Sharp IV
23. Rohrschalmei 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
24. Pedestal 16 ′
25th Sub-bass 16 ′
26th Principal bass 8th'
27. Flute bass 8th'
28. octave 4 ′
29 Mixture IV 2 ′
30th trombone 16 ′

Choir organ

A small organ built by Wolfgang Bosch in 1988 is available in the choir room for accompanying tasks .

Manual C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. recorder 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
Fifth
( preliminary print from No. 4) 		1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
4th Mixture II
Pedal C – f 1
5. Rankett 16 ′

Kirchditmold Cantorei

The Kirchditmold Kantorei was founded in 1911. She regularly participates musically in church services and gives choral symphonic concerts at home and abroad. Examples are the invitation to the "Leiturgia" music festival in Jerusalem in 1997/98 and a diploma for excellent concerts at the international music festival "music sacra praga" in 2003 in Prague. It currently has around 100 members.

literature

  • Werner Wölbing (Ed.): 200 years Kirchditmold Church. Information center of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, 1992.
  • Walter Klonk: On the history of the village and today's Kassel district Kirchditmold. Self-published, Kassel 2009.
  • Heinrich Heinemann: Kirchditmold as it used to be . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1985, ISBN 3-925277-21-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kirche Kirchditmold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Schich: The emergence of the city of Kassel . Friends d. Stadtmuseum Kassel 1989. p. 5.
  2. ↑ Werner Wölbing in: 200 years Kirchditmold Church . Information center of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, 1992. p. 7.
  3. ↑ Werner Wölbing in: 200 years Kirchditmold Church . Information center of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, 1992. p. 8.
  4. ^ Regiowiki.hna.de: Kirchditmold Church , accessed on October 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Prautzsch: The organs of the Kirchditmolder church. In: Wölbing (Ed.): 200 years Kirchditmold Church. 1992, p. 38.
  6. ↑ Ludwig Prautzsch: The organs of the Kirchditmolder church. In: Wölbing (Ed.): 200 years Kirchditmold Church. 1992, p. 39.
  7. ^ Organ in Kirchditmold , accessed on July 7, 2015.
  8. ^ History of the Kirchditmold Kantorei

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 22.4 "  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 40.8"  E