Lower Church (Bieber)
The lower church in Biebergemünd - Bieber in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis ( Hesse ) is the former Reformed church of the place.
history
The medieval village church of Bieber became Lutheran during the Reformation in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century . A second church, the Lower Church , was built in 1766/67 for the faithful of the Reformed denomination , especially miners who had moved in since 1632 and formed their own congregation since 1721 . Until then, their services took place in the hall of the district court .
With the Hanauer Union , the merger of the two Protestant regional churches in 1818, one of the church buildings became superfluous. The Evangelical Laurentius Church has only served as a cemetery chapel and special worship events since 1966 . The lower church is today the parish church.
Building
The church was built according to a design by Friedrich Hoffmann, which was revised by Viktor Eggena, in a simple, classicist -looking baroque style. The hall church has a three-sided final with a central, behind the altar arranged pulpit . A gallery runs around three sides of the nave . The construction equipment is largely preserved. A two-story roof turret with a hood replaces a church tower.
The church is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
organ
In 1767 Johann Conrad Bürgy built a small new organ with five registers . The Ratzmann brothers completely replaced the plant in 1910 on the basis of pneumatic cone chests and also changed the prospectus . When Bernhard Schmidt made an expansion in 1967, a second manual with an electric action was added (II / P / 11). In 2003 Andreas Schmidt built a new organ, integrated six Ratzmann registers and based himself on the old prospectus, of which only individual parts were preserved. The basis was a photo by Ludwig Bickell of the non-preserved organ in Birstein by Peter Schleich (Lohr), to whom the organ from 1767 has meanwhile been ascribed. Today's disposition with 14 registers is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- R = Ratzmann
Bells
Before the First World War, the lower church had two bronze bells made by Henschel & Sohn , Kassel, which were melted down for war purposes in 1917. After the war the Lower Church received a steel bell Fa. Buderus in Wetzlar, which was simultaneously acquired with the two bells of the neighboring church of St. Lawrence. When the lower church was named a parish church in 1966, the cast steel bell was supplemented by two bronze bells from the Rincker brothers' bell and art foundry in Sinn. The bell hangs in a steel bell cage on straight steel yokes and is driven by chimes from Herford's electric motor works (HEW). The two bronze bells were cast in a heavy rib in order to be able to hold their own against the steel bell in the plenum. The bell expert at the time, Lingemann from Edertal , particularly praised the high reverberation values of the larger of the two instruments in his acceptance report. The steel bell from 1920 was originally planned as an a'-bell, but was a semitone too high. When planning the new bells, a later exchange of the steel bell for a bronze bell with the nominal a 'was taken into account, which is why the unusual disposition of the current bells came about. Thus, the overall tone sequence of the bells of both Protestant churches in Bieber, which are used as a coherent ringing, is d '- f sharp' - a sharp '- h' - e ''.
| No. | Surname | inscription | Caster | material | Casting year | Diameter in mm | Weight in kg | Nominal |
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| 1 | Annunciation Bell | "O country, hear the word of the Lord"
"Op. v. Buderus Wetzlar & FW Rincker Sinn " |
Buderus / FW Rincker | Chilled iron | 1920 | 960 | ais' | |
| 2 | Thank you bell | "Shout all over the world in honor of God" | Gebr. Rincker, Sinn | bronze | 1966 | 860 | 381 | h '+5 |
| 3 | Praise bell | "Praise and praise the Lord you peoples" | Gebr. Rincker, Sinn | bronze | 1966 | 675 | 201 | e '' +6 |
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt. (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer et al.), 3rd edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 77.
- Waltraud Friedrich: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse, Main-Kinzig-Kreis II. Konrad Theiss, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 185.
- Biebergemünd History Association in cooperation with the Protestant parish of Bieber (publisher): 250 years of the Reformed Church in Bieber 1767–2017. Bieber 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio, 2008, p. 77.
- ↑ Friedrich, 2008, p. 185.
- ^ Organ in Bieber , accessed on January 16, 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 34.8 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 39.7 ″ E