Martinskirche (Wehrda)

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Martinskirche Wehrda
Aerial view

The Evangelical Martinskirche is a baroque hall church with a Gothic defense tower in the center of the old town center of Wehrda . The Hessian cultural monument is the landmark of the town that is incorporated into Marburg .

Location in the district

The church stands above Wehrdaer Straße in the core of the older part of Wehrda. It can be reached either from Mengelsgasse via Gässchen An der Martinskirche or from the southern part of Wehrda via Im Hain and then via Lärchenweg. The next bus stop is in Mengelsgasse.

history

The Countess Sophie awarded in 1250 the patronage of the parish church of the Teutonic Order in Marburg , the old and the newly constructed present Martin Church were incorporated 1363-1809 in the Teutonic Order. The first Protestant pastor was Johann Schmidt, who worked in the community from 1527 to 1533.

Martinskirche has existed in its current form since the nave was built from 1770 to 1774. The previous church was a parish church that had been occupied since 1232 and had its own pastor. The community belonged to the Vicariate of Goßfelden since 1509, to the Vicariate of Cölbe since 1638 , and to Goßfelden again since 1690. In 1927 it joined forces with Cölbe for the last time until it became an independent municipality in 1963.

tower
Wall

The current church tower served as a defense tower to protect the population. On its southern side, two trenches should make a storm more difficult. The area around the church was fenced, the walls contained Gaden . The earlier function can still be clearly recognized through numerous key loopholes. The church was extensively renovated inside and out in 2000 and equipped with a tower clock with two dials.

architecture

The roughly east-facing hall church consists of the baroque nave and the medieval west tower. The entire church is made of rubble stone, the hipped roof covered with slate shingles. The doors, building corners and window frames are made of hewn stones. The arched main entrance with a slated canopy is located on the western front of the tower; On the north side of the ship there used to be a rectangular side entrance, the doors of which are still there from the outside. Inside, however, this was walled up at an unknown time, probably in order to be able to set up the pews up to the outer wall and thereby gain more seats. The windows of the nave with flat arches consist of slug panes with hexagonal lead frames . An approximately 50 cm wide and 15 cm high date stone from a previous building on the north side of the nave bears the year 1490 ("ANNO DOMI MCCCCLXXXX").

The former defense tower made of quarry stone with corner blocks in Gothic style is five storeys high. It was renovated from 2003 to 2004 both inside and out. The lower three floors have loopholes, the fourth floor has two-lane tracery windows that are walled up in the lower part. The top floor is set off by a surrounding cornice . There you will find the clock, whose gold-colored Roman numerals are attached to a black circle on a wine-red, square background. There are two dials, but only one movement. The clock was installed in 2004 by the Rincker company . The eight-sided wooden helmet structure is clad with roof shingles. It houses the belfry for the glockenspiel and is crowned by a low, curved dome in an octagonal shape. At the top of the bell tower, a sheet metal weathercock shows the wind direction. The tower is accessible, but not open to the public.

Interior

Nave of the Martinskirche Wehrda with galleries and organ
Carved altar of the Martinskirche Wehrda, made around 1500

The interior of the church consisted of baroque elements until the restoration in 1965 , which were replaced by simple gray wooden benches and a pulpit about two meters high. The altar and pulpit are white with gold-plated decorative elements. The hall also has a gallery built into the west and south sides.

Pulpit and baptismal font of Martinskirche Wehrda

The middle shrine of a late Gothic carved altar has been preserved from around 1500 , the altar wings were lost in 1762. When exactly the altar was built is unknown, it shows the passion of Jesus . The altar shrine contains carved groups of figures, a calvary in the middle and four passion scenes to the side (flagellation, crowning of thorns, carrying the cross and resurrection). The sculptural group is bordered on its sides by decorated pillars, above which there are many other small decorations. All figures and decorative elements are made of lime wood and are partially covered with canvas. The rear of the altar is made of glued oak, all of the representations and elements on the front are screwed to this surface. The bezels and hinges for the wing suspensions still exist. The altar was azurite blue and colored with gilding and silvering. The heavily soiled altar was restored in the 1980s by the State Office for Monument Preservation of Hesse .

In 2010 the church received a baptismal font with an image of the church tower incorporated into the base.

Bells

Bell (a) from the clockwork of Martinskirche

The church has a chime with six bells, which are provided with information boards in the church. All bells have inscriptions. The oldest of the bells, tuned in F sharp, dates from the 13th or 14th century and was active until Advent in 1988. It broke out of its holder and has not been rung since then. It weighs 145 kilograms and contains an inscription with reversed, upside-down old Gothic characters. The bell tuned to a ′, also called Marienglocke, is by far the heaviest at 530 kilograms. It is dated to the 15th century and its inscription reads: "O KING OF GLORY / CHRIST COMES IN PEACE / MARY". The bells tuned to h ', cis' 'and e' 'were purchased in 1957, the bell on h' weighs 344 kilograms and bears the inscription "BE HAPPY IN HOPE", the cis "- bell with" PATIDIG IN TRÜBSAL “Weighs 228 kilograms; the inscription on the e ′ ′ bell, which weighs 172 kilograms, reads: “STOP AT PRAYER”. The bells strike the time every day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The youngest and lightest bell from 1992 weighs 120 kilograms. Their inscription reads: "PEACE ON EARTH".

organ

In 1829/1830 the Martinskirche received a single manual organ with nine registers , which Heinrich Dickel from Treisbach (Wetter) , father of Peter Dickel , created. It has been rebuilt several times, most recently in 1952 by Wolfgang Böttner . Today's organ was built by Karl Lötzerich from Ippinghausen in 1966. In 1990 the organ was renovated by the builder's workshop, in which the case was lowered so that the intermediate ceiling above could be closed. In addition, two new registers were built into the organ. The organ has slider chests with mechanical play and register contracture and is in a voice pitch of 440 Hz equally- tuned. It has 15 registers, which are distributed over two manuals and pedal.

Lötzerich organ of the Martinskirche in Wehrda
I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Metal dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 ′
II subsidiary work C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff III 1'
Cromorne 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Metal dacked 4 ′
Back set III 2 2 ⁄ 3 
Fallen memorial

cenotaph

On the north side of the church there is a cenotaph for the fallen citizens of the Wehrda in the First World War . A German soldier kneels on a pedestal, his eyes lowered. The names of the fallen are engraved on the sides, on the front there is an iron cross and underneath the inscription: "Erected by the community of Wehrda their heroes who fell in the World War 1914-18 - consecration heart and hand to the fatherland".

local community

The Martinskirche is still used as a place of worship, service takes place every Sunday at 10 a.m. A small building erected in the 1970s about 20 meters north of the church at the end of the wall serves as the sacristy. It is also occasionally used for children's services, provided that these do not take place in the community hall. The parsonage with the attached parish hall and parish office is about 200 meters as the crow flies in Huteweg 4. Other events such as prayer, parish groups, senior citizens' afternoons etc. are held there. The Protestant parish of Martinskirche Marburg-Wehrda belongs to the Marburg parish.

The first known priest was Bernhard von Holzhausen on August 11, 1232, since then seven pastors and one pastor have been recorded:

  • 1527–1533: Johann Schmidt (first Lutheran pastor),
  • 1927–1944: Bernhard Heppe
  • 1947–1957: Fritz Wupper
  • 1958–1963: Horst Hoobner
  • 1963–1970: Wilhelm Baum
  • 1971–1993: Kurd-Hartmut Ickes
  • 1994–1998: Elisabeth Balzer
  • since 1999: Armin Wehrmann

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Martinskirche (Wehrda)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Wehrda, Marburg-Biedenkopf district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 22, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Ellen Kemp (Ed.), Annekathrin Sitte-Köster (Red.): City of Marburg II. 2013.
  3. ^ Sophie Gräfin Matuschka-Greiffenclau: On the restoration of the late Gothic altar from Wehrda , accessed on July 13, 2014
  4. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse; 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 249 .
  5. ^ The free organ database: Organ in Wehrda , accessed on July 12, 2014.
  6. ↑ Disposition in the spelling at the gaming table, recorded on August 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b registers added in 1990

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 9.8 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 34.7"  E