Marienkirche (Ortenberg)
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The Protestant Marienkirche is essentially a Gothic hall church in Ortenberg in the Wetterau district in Hesse . It belongs to the Protestant parish of Ortenberg in the Büdinger Land deanery of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The altar of the church, today replaced by a copy, comes from the master of the Ortenberg altar .
history
The current shape of the church is determined by six construction periods:
- From a cruciform, Romanesque building from the 12th century (which had a single nave with a transept and an apse ), the west wall of the nave, the north and east wall of the northern transept arm and the south wall of the nave in the area of the tower have been preserved, the southern one Cross arm was proven by excavation.
- Presumably in the first half to the middle of the 13th century, the building was extended by a rectangular choir (possibly with an apse) and the addition of a north aisle in line with the north transverse arm. The north wall of the choir and the arcade to the side aisle have been preserved.
- The tower with a helmet, which was dendrochronologically dated to 1368 (d) (one of the oldest preserved tower roof trusses in Germany), was added.
- The choir that exists today was rebuilt from around 1380, provided with a roof from 1392 (d) and then vaulted.
- Then the nave was rebuilt and rebuilt, starting with the south aisle from around 1430–1450 (by the same stonemasons as the nave of the Hirzenhain monastery church ); afterwards, possibly after a construction interruption, the older parts were rebuilt, the central nave and the north aisle were vaulted and some new arcades were installed.
- After a storm damage, the building was fundamentally renovated between 1700 and 1704, with the north aisle, which had been demolished in the meantime, being rebuilt. The Romanesque northern transverse arm was preserved. Furthermore, the roof over all three nave naves was renewed.
architecture
The building is a three-aisled Gothic hall church with naves of different widths, a two-bay choir in the width of the central nave with a five-eighth end that deviates slightly to the north from the axis of the main nave. The roof over the nave and choir has the same ridge height. The tower stands at the west end of the south aisle and is finished with a pointed helmet over four gables, similar to the tower of the church of Selters . In the west wall of the tower there is a large niche with a gable top. A simple stepped portal from the Romanesque church leads to the central nave in the west. To the south of the west portal is a late Gothic niche with memorial inscription for Dorothea Weiß, possibly a medieval lamp for the dead . The north wall of the former transept has square edges, a narrow window and portal. A walled-up window is visible in the north choir wall. The tracery windows in the south aisle show fish bubble shapes . In front of the south portal there is a rib vaulted vestibule from around 1450, which may have been executed by the master Stephan von Irlebach and shows the Eppstein coat of arms in the steep, crab-covered keel arch . In addition to the pinnacles are gargoyles mounted.
Inside, the central nave is closed off with ribbed vaults, the broad south aisle with octagonal pillars with net vaults; the north aisle is closed with wall pillars and vaults in the north transverse arm and flat-covered in the west. The figural keystones partly show the Eppstein coat of arms. In 1952, late Gothic vault paintings from the second half of the 15th century were uncovered on the vaults. The choir is finished with a ribbed vault, the sacristy with a barrel vault. The choir is similar in shape to that of the Hirzenhain monastery church, but in Ortenberg the vaulted services are supported by consoles above the Romanesque north wall. The segmented arched door to the sacristy is decorated with a rich tracery tympanum . It was probably built as a burial place of Eberhard von Eppstein († 1382), whose coat of arms stone and a stylistically similar light house are walled in next to it. Two similar sacrament houses and a Levite niche are also preserved. The walled-in fragment of a stone relief from the 15th century with half-figures shows three women with ointment vessels.
Furnishing
Today's retable is a copy from 1958 by Hans List; The original of the Ortenberg Altar from around 1420 is in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . The unusual retable is characterized by a drawing of the figures from gold and silver surfaces. A wooden crucifix with an old frame restored in 1956 dates from around 1500. The early Gothic octagonal baptismal font probably dates from the 13th century. A stone Gothic pulpit was created towards the end of the 14th century. The choir stalls are decorated with symbolic, rustic carvings of St. Christopher, the Eppstein coat of arms and animal motifs and were created towards the end of the 14th century. Numerous tombstones, mostly from the 16th century, are mostly provided with ancestral coats of arms, the figurative one of the bailiff Ziegler († 1581) should be emphasized. A Romanesque lecture cross in the three-nail type shows the evangelist symbols at the ends in three-pass form .
A small organ brochure by Johann Andreas Heinemann was created in 1784. Today's organ is a work by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau from 1940 with 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal . Two of the bells date from 1686, one of them presumably, the other certainly from Anthonius Fell and Johann Jakob Rincker; another is medieval.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen II. The administrative district of Darmstadt . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , pp. 661–662.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '31 " N , 9 ° 3' 27.8" E