Marienkirche (Wehrshausen)

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Church (Wehrshausen)
inside view
organ

The Protestant Marienkirche is a Gothic hall church in the Wehrshausen district of Marburg in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse . It belongs to the Elnhausen parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

History and architecture

The former Marienkapelle was donated in 1339 by knight Werner Döring and his wife Mechthild von Gambach. The chapel served as a station for the pilgrimage on the way to the Elisabeth Church in Marburg , first attested in 1474 ; due to the corresponding influx, high income was possible in connection with the image of grace. In 1483 donations came from Landgrave Heinrich III. von Hessen , who organized a procession to Wehrshausen to ask for a victory in the Neuss feud . After the introduction of the Reformation in 1526 and damage in the Thirty Years War, the chapel was made usable again in 1732. In 1888 another restoration took place.

The existing building is a three-bay church from 1472 or 1475 with an equally wide, two-bay choir that ends in a five-eighth end. On the north side is a small, three-sided closed Anne chapel from the late Gothic period. The main nave is crowned by an octagonal ridge turret with a pointed helmet over small gables. The masonry of the ship with the walled-up north portal still largely comes from the founding construction in 1339. After the building had been obstructed by a farm for a long time, it was made accessible again after its demolition in 1966/1967 and used for church services.

Inside, the structure is closed off by ribbed vaults on consoles; in the choir the vaults rest on wall services . The vaults are provided with keystones adorned with coats of arms , the year 1475 is given in the choir. The colored painting with decorative vault paintings was restored in the ship around 1953 according to the original findings.

Interior view to the west

Furnishing

The remarkable late Gothic furnishings include a narrow stone altar shrine with a gable top, which is provided with twisted corner columns, tracery panels and iron lattice doors. A large rectangular sacraments niche is decorated with bars and also has the old grating. There is also a stone shrine with a crenellated frieze on the altar of the Annenkapelle. The associated altarpieces of the fortified houses Madonna (1523) and St. Anna (1520/1524) were sold to the Elisabethkirche in Marburg in 1853. Today they are in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the University of Marburg in Marburg Castle .

The baroque pulpit from 1732 is decorated with flames. The one-manual organ is a work with eight registers by Wolfgang Böttner from 1981.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen I. Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 917–918.

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Information about the church on the website of the parish of Elnhausen. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 42.3 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 27.4"  E