St. Jakob (Langenstein)
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The Protestant village church of St. Jakob is a Gothic hall church in the Langenstein district of Kirchhain in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse . It belongs to the parish of Langenstein-Niederwald in the Kirchhain parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and is known for its unusual vault shape, a double-shell net vault, which is rarely found in village churches.
History and architecture
The place Langenstein was originally located in the churchyard of the fortified church since 1135, in 1358 half of the property and the patronage was with the Teutonic Order . The Archbishop of Mainz (1476) and the Landgrave of Hesse (1576) are later named as patron saints. The church is a hall church with a narrower, slightly elongated choir with a three-eighth end . The core of the flat-roofed nave dates from the first half of the 13th century, the remaining parts were rebuilt in the 15th century. The roof turret with hood was built in the 18th century. A walled-up Romanesque arched portal has been preserved in the north. The south wall shows finely designed late Gothic tracery windows , the north wall has no windows.
In the choir, the two-layer net vault is inserted, which can be found in a similar form in the castle church of Meisenheim and in the Salvatorchörlein at the Leonhardskirche in Frankfurt am Main . A second shell of net ribs is arranged floating freely under a conventional net vault. Such a rib vault occurs now and then in the late Gothic period, but is rare in the rib configuration with hexagons that is present here. Vault paintings from 1522 accentuate this virtuoso vault shape in that the vault caps are painted with tendril paintings and the two rib systems are color-contrasted. The window frames are also painted. The gallery parapets were hand-painted in the baroque period.
Furnishing
The baptismal font was created in 1630. The richly decorated pulpit is designed in rustic, strongly plastic baroque forms from the end of the 17th century, comparable to that of Oberrosphe . The organ was built in 1854/55 by Friedrich and Jakob Karl Ziese.
Surroundings
Rough Romanized, figural stone reliefs from the late Gothic period are attached to both west corners of the church. The churchyard wall has a barrel-vaulted vestibule from the 16th century. A prehistoric, probably Stone Age , 4.75 m high giant stone ( menhir ), to which the place name is attributed, is placed next to the entrance to the approximately circular churchyard .
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. 537-538.
Web links
- Website of the community of Langenstein
- Evangelical Jakobskirche Langenstein on the website of the Kirchhain church district
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Langenstein community. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 56.7 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 27.9" E