Niedergründau mountain church

Niedergründau mountain church

View from the southeast

The Bergkirche Niedergründau is a Protestant church on the Schieferberg (in the Niedergründau district ) in the municipality of Gründau in the Main-Kinzig district in southern Hesse . The core of the massive west tower dates back to the 12th century and was rebuilt in 1556/1557. The hall church was built in 1840 in the classicism style. It belongs to the Protestant parish "Auf dem Berg" and is the central church for the population of the Gründau districts and the former community of Roth , today a district of Gelnhausen . To the west of the church building is the rectory, to the south the Glöcknerhaus / Küsterhaus and several outbuildings, mostly for agricultural purposes; around the church and especially to the east of the churchyard and outside a former brick hut .

history

History of the church district and the church building

Walled-in Celtic head

The church consecrated to St. Peter was first mentioned in a document on August 15, 1217 ( Friedrich II .: Parrochialem ecclesiam in Grinda ) and was probably owned by the Selbold monastery , from which the clergy took care of the pastoral care in the surrounding villages. Countess Gisela must have founded the church on the mountain before 1170. A Celtic sandstone head, which was walled up as a spoil , suggests an earlier sanctuary at the site, but this has not yet been proven. During archaeological investigations in November 1998 on the occasion of the installation of a new heating system, the outline of the choir of the previous church came to light. A north-south wall of the first verifiable church shows herringbone bond from the 11th / 12th centuries. Century on. This could be the church donated before 1170, which after its presumed destruction was replaced by a half-timbered church in post-and - beam construction before the current building was built.

The sending judgment took place at the church on the mountain and was first mentioned in 1260 ( in iudicio Grindaha ). The parish of the church on the mountain included the towns of Gettenbach , Haingründau (only until 1581), Kaltenborn (today part of Haitz ), Lieblos , Mittelgründau , Niedergründau , Roth , Rothenbergen and the submerged town of Rodenborn . In the late Middle Ages, Niedergründau was part of the Deanery Roßdorf to the Archdiakonat St. Mariengreden in the Diocese of Mainz . Selbold Monastery retained its rights to the church until 1543, after which the patronage rights were transferred to the Ysenburgers .

With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish under Pastor Nikolaus Molitor (Müller) switched to the Protestant confession in the county of Isenburg-Ronneburg before 1549 and, after it died out, ultimately to Isenburg-Büdingen . After an occupation by Hessen-Darmstadt during the Thirty Years' War (the Lutheran Darmstadt Landgrave had become administrator for all of Hesse), there was a change to the Lutheran creed and, after the dispute was settled, the return to the Reformed creed.

After repairs to the tower roof in 1553, today's tower was rebuilt in 1556/1557 in the Gothic style and inaugurated on October 15, 1557. After the Thirty Years War, extensive repairs were necessary. In this move, the community had the church stalls, the galleries ("Bohrkirchen") and the pulpit rebuilt in 1651 . During the 19th century the church became more and more dilapidated; In addition, it was no longer sufficient for the parish, which had grown to 2,500–3,000 members. Parts of the gallery floor broke through in the 1820s and fell on the women seated below.

The current nave was rebuilt on March 5, 1838 in the classical style and consecrated on November 8, 1840. The core of the late medieval predecessor ship probably came from the original construction from the Romanesque period. The nave had a small arched window on the north side, which resembled the window of the attached sacristy on the north side. The straight end of the choir was later rebuilt in the Gothic style with pointed arched windows, cross vaults and buttresses. A few weeks after the inauguration, the first damage appeared in the church, mainly from moisture. A major renovation was carried out on August 8, 1884: “Nothing has remained of the church but the walls, the organ and the pulpit. The 24 pillars - 8 in the ship and 16 on the walls - are standing. "

In 1920 the church was electrified. As part of a renovation in the 1930s, the windows in the altar area were walled up. The tower was renovated in 1933. During the interior renovation of the church from 1950–1954, the churches in the aisles were lowered. Between 1996 and 1999 the church was extensively renovated, with the side aisles being restored to their original height. The window panes were renewed and the floor dug and refilled. Today's color version was based more on the original. In order to have flexible space for larger events, the altar was made movable. The interior renovation was completed with the organ renovation in 2006–2008.

History of the Höhenstraße

The church was on the road of the empire from Frankfurt to Leipzig ( Via Regia ), which is also a Way of St. James . This pilgrimage route is marked with a scallop shell . The section Bergstrasse from Langenselbold to Gelnhausen (Langenselbold: die Abtshecke, Niedergründau: the Schieferberg = Schiwwerberg and through the southern part of the Büdinger Forest over the Hohlweg Dürich , above the city of Gelnhausen and through the Obermarkt and the Leipziger Strasse of the free imperial city) was until at the beginning of the 19th century a difficult stretch of the old Reichsstrasse from Frankfurt to Leipzig. The course of the Reichsstraße was relocated to the ( Kinzig ) valley at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century (approx. 1798 to 1810) (probably not only because of the numerous complaints from merchants, but also because of the complaints of the military, who had difficulties with the transport of the increasingly heavy military equipment over the hills ).

With the new valley road (via Rothenbergen , the Neue Herberge south of Lieblos and Roth to Gelnhausen) the troop transports - including those of Napoleon's army - shifted to the valley, although the pursuers of the emperor's army during the retreat from the Leipzig Battle of the Nations the French - a Russian Cossack unit of General Tschernyschow with approx. 8,000 men - used the area from the mountain church to the chicken farm near Gettenbach in 1813 as a field camp. The new valley road could be easily monitored from the higher ground. A poignant report on the French retirade and the fate of three infant soldiers (one of whom was probably later slain near Mittelgründau), who the pastor's widow - despite the danger that also threatened her and her children (including the later theologian and historian Anton Calaminus ) - Hidden in the difficult-to-reach tower of the mountain church in the last three days of October 1813, has been handed down.

Parish school in the Glöcknerhaus

Bell ringer / sexton house

After the introduction of the Reformed Confession, the pastor on the mountain was responsible for instructing the children and adults in the entire parish in the new doctrine (catechism, prayers and songs). Therefore, classes took place every Sunday after the service. Anyone who did not participate should be punished every time ( Kirchen disciplin and policey order of 1643). After the bell ringer was initially only an assistant to the pastor, the lessons gradually passed entirely to him (schoolmaster). At the end of the 17th century, the number of pupils increased significantly, so that the rulers (Georg Albrecht zu Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz ) agreed to employ another village schoolmaster for the children of Roth and Lieblos. Around 1730 the villages of Rothenbergen and Mittelgründau also set up local schools (the old Mittelgründau had perished in the Thirty Years War, the remaining inhabitants had to settle in Buchen, which was later renamed Mittelgründau). The village of Roth also set up its own school after separating from Lieblos - the village school had become a common phenomenon throughout Germany.

architecture

South portal

The east- facing hall building is in a prominent location on the Schieferberg, a flat hill in the rolling hills of Ronneburg , made of red quarry stone masonry on a rectangular floor plan on the northeastern outskirts. It is located in the middle of a formerly fortified churchyard, to which the rectory and the sexton's apartment were attached. The current parsonage from 1908/1909 replaces a parsonage from 1751. The old half-timbered building, which was used as a bell ringer and sexton house until 1974, served as a school building for the Gründau court until 1813 and as a confirmation hall on the western upper floor until around 1915. Today it is used as a youth center. C. Michelmann built a well house in 1815. To supply the rectory with water, miners from Bieber dug a well about 50 meters deep, which was operated by means of a pedal bike. Instead of the parish barn from 1680, a parish hall was built in 1969/1970.

The nave measures 35.50 mx 19.30 m. It has a base and corner blocks made of red sandstone and is closed off by a flat hipped roof. On the long sides, the two portals are axially located in a protruding, high-rectangular frame made of sandstone blocks. Under the cornice there is an inscription: "THE ETERNAL". A round arch with a window is attached above the cornice. The interior is illuminated on the long sides through six high arched windows. The east south window is walled up as well as the two east windows.

The massive Gothic west tower made of unplastered quarry stone masonry with corner blocks is divided into floors of different heights by circumferential cornices. It measures 32.20 meters to the top of the roof, 35.00 meters with the steeple. The west portal with its blunt pointed arch and simple sandstone walls serves today as the main entrance and leads into the tower hall with its ribbed vault. A half rosette is embedded above the portal. The tower has only a few small windows. The upper floor serves as a bell room and houses a four-way bell. The tower clock mechanism by JF Weule from 1899 has been preserved, including the clock faces of the tower clock. The massive walled-up tower is closed off by a round arch frieze that indicates a former battlement. The octagonal pointed tower rises above it and is crowned by the tower knob, cross and weathercock. On the west and south sides, dormer windows with the clock faces of the tower clock are placed above the eaves .

Furnishing

Pulpit altar

Interior to the east

The flat-roofed interior is simply furnished. He is of slender wooden columns and wall supports in light brown version controlled, stabilized by steel braces. The round headbands , which form a pointed arch above the galleries, give the impression of a three-aisled hall church. The free-standing columns include the gallery running around three sides. In the parapet, some of the light, upright rectangular panels are painted with Christian motifs: the communion chalice, ears of wheat, cross and dove. The west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ.

The organ corresponds to the pulpit altar on the east side , both of which stand out from the rest of the church furnishings through their red version . The five-sided pulpit is framed by two pilasters with architraves and a flat triangular gable. A row of stylized lilies crown the polygonal sound cover. The Altarmensa is surrounded by a wooden parapet with neo-Gothic tracery . The colorful, gold-plated altar cross by Bernd Wilfer has been decorating the altar since the 1st of Advent 2007. In this context, the entire altar decoration was redesigned.

The simple church stalls leave a central aisle free. The parish and presbyter's stands erected to the side of the altar are structured on pilasters.

Organs

Ratzmann organ from 1839

Organ console

The main organ on the gallery was built in 1839 with the help of Georg Franz Ratzmann and his son Wilhelm August Ratzmann from Ohrdruf . In the 19th century a register was exchanged and the metal prospect pipes were delivered during the First World War. The company Förster & Nicolaus carried out a partial restoration in 1981, reconstructed the lost prospect pipes and restored the action that was moved around 1900 . From 2006 to 2008 Orgelbau Waltershausen extensively restored the organ and refurbished wind chests , keyboards and mechanics. This was made possible by an organ support association. The largely preserved sliderchest -instrument has 31 stops on two manuals and pedal in a case in red and pink version.

According to the Thuringian organ building tradition, the organ has a high proportion of wooden registers. Is unusual in that the side-intensive game table is installed behind a circular arc in the lower housing so that the organist in the midst of his instrument sitting. The pipes of the register Untersatz 32 ' are made of wood and are partly in the prospectus in the lateral, arched pipe fields between pilasters . In order to match them to the other prospectus pipes, they were rounded at the front and painted with metal paint. The middle, two-storey round arch fields are structured by four mighty half-columns with gilded Corinthian capitals . The three lower, larger pipe fields have filigree veils . The gray pillars stand on a profiled console supported by six smaller half-pillars. The instrument is tuned a whole tone above normal pitch.

I main work C – f 3 Bourdon 16 ′ Principal 8th' Hollow flute 8th' Gamba 8th' Bourdon 8th' octave 4 ′ Pointed flute 4 ′ Hollow flute 4 ′ octave 2 ′ + 1 ′ Mixture IV Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′ Trumpet 8th'

II Oberwerk C – f 3 Quintad 16 ′ Principal 8th' Flute travers 8th' Harmonica 8th' Silent 8th' Salizional 8th' Forest flute 4 ′ Flauto travers 4 ′ octave 4 ′ octave 2 ′ + 1 ′ Mixture IV Vox cael. 8th'

Pedals C – d 1 Pedestal 32 ′ Principal 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Violon 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Viola da gamba 8th' trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P

Chest organ from 1992

The mobile chest organ by Förster & Nicolaus from 1992 is in the chancel. Opus 685 has five stops and the following disposition:

I Manual C – f 3 Dumped 8th' flute 4 ′ Principal D 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Zimbel II

Peal

The medieval "Osanna" is the third largest and oldest bell. It was cast in 1509 by master Hans from Frankfurt am Main and bears the inscription OSANNA HEIS ICH MEISTER HANS CZW FRANCKFORDT GOS MICH MCCCCCIX . It serves as an hour bell. In 1673 two bells were stolen by the Imperial and French troops. Johann Peter (I.) Bach and his eldest son Johann Georg Bach from Windecken in 1779 cast a new medium bell and Philipp Heinrich Bach in 1853 a small bell. Both Bach bells were melted down in 1917 and two bells from 1933 in 1942 for war purposes. In 1954 three new bells (prayer bell, peace bell, baptismal bell) were cast by the Bachert bell foundry and inaugurated in the same year. Today's four-note bronze chime sounds on a completed E-flat minor chord.

No.	Casting year	Foundry, casting location	Diameter (mm)	Height (mm)	Mass (kg)	Chime	inscription
1	1954	Bachert bell foundry , Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf	1270	930	1300	it 1	" CHRIST SPEAKS: I AM THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE, BROTHERS BACHERT, 1954, MOUNTAIN CHURCH 1954 "
2	1954	Bachert bell foundry, Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf	1060	800	775	ges 1	" DEDICATED TO PEACE, I CALL TO BLISS "
3	1509	Master Hans, Frankfurt am Main	1020	820	550	as 1	" OSANNA.HEIS.ICH.MEISTER.HANS.CZW. FRANCKFORDT.GOS.MICH.MCCCCCIX "
4th	1954	Bachert bell foundry, Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf	840	630	375	b 1	" LET THE KIDS COME TO ME AND DO NOT PROTECT THEM "

Parish

The Protestant parish is divided into four parish districts, each of which is supplied by a parish office. With around 8,000 members from all parts of Gründau and Gelnhausen-Roth , it is the largest parish within the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . In 1977 the parish of Hain-Gründau , which until then was independent and belonged to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , joined the church on the mountain. In 2017, the district of Breitenborn was also incorporated into Niedergründau.

Regular events

In addition to the church services, organ concerts and other cultural events are held throughout the year. Once a year in spring, the motorcycle church service takes place in the mountain church. From there, the exit also takes place, which ends at the festival square in Gelnhausen as the meeting point. The event is considered one of the largest motorcycle meetings in Germany.

Pastor

Various priests and plebans are known by name from the 13th century . With the Reformation, the parish accepted the Lutheran creed, Count Wolfgang Ernst zu Isenburg and Büdingen introduced the Reformed creed in 1601. During the Thirty Years War there were Lutheran pastors from 1635 to 1643, then reformed ones again. From 1818 the parish was united.

• 1340–1353 Gerlach von Büches
• 1357–1372 Hermann von Rückingen
• 1384 Bechtold von Bünau
• 1398–1410 Friedrich Schatz
• 1411–1416 Hartmann Klüppel
• 1424–1430 Johann Forstmeister
• 1431 Ulrich
• 1436 Friedrich Menger
• 1440–1454 Wilhelm Brunsack gen v. Dorsten
• 1458 Johann Forstmeister
• 1459–1461 Conrad Brelle
• 1462–1468 Johann von Breidenbach
• 1469–1481 Johann (es) Appel
• 1509–1517 Conrad (von) Hanau
• until 1542 Heinrich Acker
• 1543–1553 Nikolaus Molitor (Müller) († 1559)
• 1554–1559 Henn Kotzer called Kunshen
• 1560–1576 Georg (Jörg) Gropp
• 1577–1582 Michael Eichler
• 1582–1583? Johannes Wankel
• 1591 Johannes Griplebius
• 1594–1597 Daniel Altenbach († 1616)
• 1597–1598 Kaspar Kahl († 1610)
• 1602–1609 Jakob Keller (Cellarius)
• 1610–1611 Heinrich Degen († 1611 on the mountain)
• 1613–1618 Kaspar Münch
• 1618–1635 Nikolaus Oberlin
• 1644–1648 Johannes Seicius (Seizius)
• 1648–1649 Johann (es) Heilmann
• 1650–1651 Georg Wolfgang Heilmann
• 1651–1652 Philipp Nikolai
• 1653–1655 Johannes Selzius
• 1655–1657 Peter le Pleige
• 1657 Johann Konrad Münch (Gründau and Meerholz)
• 1658–1675 Johann Adam Romeuser (* 1638 in Hanau; † 1697 in Rodheim vor der Höhe)
• 1675–1679 Johann Georg Capsius
• 1680–1693 Johann Georg Repp (1654–1702)
• 1693–1699 Johann Georg Beck
• 1699–1704 Johann Heinrich Geller (* 1671 in Büdingen; † 1737 there)
• 1704–1735 Wilhelm Moritz Geller (* around 1666 in Büdingen; † 1735 on the mountain)
• 1735–1745 Johann Otto Richter
• 1745–1767 Johann Georg Ludwig Melchior Rüffer (* 1712 in Schlüchtern, † 1767 on the mountain)
• 1768–1790 Johann Ludwig Calaminus (* 1715 in Wächtersbach; † 1790 on the mountain)
• 1790–1813 Franz Ludwig Christian Calaminus (* 1760 in Niedermittlau; † 1813 on the mountain) father of Anton Calaminus
• 1814–1859 Ludwig Maximilian Reutzel (* 1779 in Wächtersbach, † 1859 on the mountain), parish administrator or pastor
• 1860–1885 Karl Friedrich Reutzel (* 1812 in Niedermittlau, † 1887 in Rothenbergen), 1838 adjunct, 1852 parish administrator
• 1885–1928 Adolf Georg Schilling (* 1858 in Apelern near Rinteln, † 1943 in Hanover)
• 1928–1950 Wilhelm Handwerk, assistant pastor or pastor (Heidelberg Catechism, Confessing Church from 1935 )
• 1951–1959 Reinhard Thiele
• 1960–1994 Arnold Braatz (1931 in Karzig (Gardzko) / Neumark; † 2008)
• 1994–1999 Brigitte Bannasch
• 1999–2010 Burkhard Kalden (born March 19, 1952 - † July 17, 2010)
• since 2011 Ligaya Jardas (* 1981), shared pastoral position since 2017
• since 2017 Caroline Miesner, half pastor's office

literature

• Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1968. Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Volume 33). Elwert, Marburg 1984, ISBN 3-7708-0788-X , pp. 478-488.
• Ludwig Bickell (ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel. Volume 1: Gelnhausen district. Text tape. Elwert, Marburg 1901, pp. 165–166 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 617.
• Jürgen H. Frickel: The pastors of Gründau on the mountain 1340–1600. In: Hessian family history. Vol. 21, 1992-1993, ISSN  0018-1064 , col. 143-154.
• Nikolaus E. Pfarr: The Ratzmann organ of the evangelical mountain church Niedergründau (= The organ builder family Ratzmann from Ohrdruf, Thür. - Gelnhausen and their work. Vol. 10). Self-published, Hanau / Main-Steinheim 2008.
• Erwin Rückriegel: The mountain church (= Niedergründau ). In: Homeland and History Association Niedergründau. Issue 4, 5th edition, Niedergründau 2017.
• Erwin Rückriegel: The mountain church in Niedergründau. In: Gelnhauser Heimat-Jahrbuch. 2003, pp. 2-3.
• Erwin Rückriegel (Ed.): Festschrift 800 years Niedergründau. 1217-2017. Historic center of Gründau. The Grinner e. V., Gründau 2017.
• Erwin Rückriegel: Church buildings "Auf dem Berg" in Niedergründau. In: Center for Regional History (Gelnhausen). Newsletter. Vol. 39, 2014, ISSN  0940-4198 , pp. 26-32.

Web links

Commons : Bergkirche (Niedergründau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish "Auf dem Berg"
• Erwin Rückriegel: Flyer Bergkirche and Kirchberg Niedergründau
• The mountain church on niedergruendau.de
• Niedergründau. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 8, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bickell (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel. 1901, p. 165 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Erwin Rückriegel: Flyer Bergkirche and Kirchberg Niedergründau ; accessed on December 24, 2019.
3. ↑ Rückriegel: The mountain church. 2017, pp. 10–11.
4. ↑ Gustav Schöner: History of the village of Hain-Gründau - sketch. Self-published (printing: A. Heller'sche Hofbuchdruckerei), Büdingen 1891, p. 8; Re -edited for the 750th anniversary of Klaus von Berg in 1998 in: Grindaha - Publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V. Issue 7. Gründau 1997, p. 20.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Niedergründau. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 8, 2019 . 
6. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau. Volume 16). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 41.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 617.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Bickell (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel. 1901, p. 166 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
9. ↑ The messenger from the mountain. Community letter from the Protestant parish "Auf dem Berg". (PDF) 3/2015, p. 26; accessed on December 24, 2019.
10. ↑ See the model and the floor plan of the previous building in: Ludwig Bickell (Hrsg.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler in the administrative district of Cassel. Volume 1: Gelnhausen district. Atlas. Elwert, Marburg 1901, plate 261 ; accessed on December 24, 2019.
11. ↑ The messenger from the mountain. Community letter from the Protestant parish "Auf dem Berg". (PDF) 3/2015, p. 15; accessed on December 24, 2019.
12. ↑ The messenger from the mountain. Community letter from the Protestant parish "Auf dem Berg". (PDF) 3/2015, pp. 16-17; accessed on December 24, 2019.
13. ↑ Via Regia ; accessed on December 23, 2019.
14. ↑ Gelnhausen History Association e. V .: Kulturweg Gelnhausen , accessed on December 27, 2019.
15. ^ Adolph Henke: Presentation of the campaign of the allies against Napoleon in 1813. New edition, 1814, p. 377 ff.
16. ^ Karl-Heinz Wiederhold (editor): Memories from the days of the battle near Hanau at the end of October 1813. Transferred from the handwritten original of a contemporary witness and compiled in 1985. In: Grindaha, Publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V. Issue 2.1 ( modified edition ), Gründau 1993, No. 2, pp. 1–14 and appendix: photocopies of the original report (eleven pages).
17. ↑ Dieter Zimmerer: When the Glöcknerhaus was still a school ... Contributions to the history of the parish school in Grindau uffm bergh - . In: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Heimat-Jahrbuch 1979, annual calendar for family and home in town and country between Vogelsberg and Spessart, published by the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, main administration office Gelnhausen, Gelnhausen 1978, pp. 118-121.
18. ↑ Friends of the Ratzmann organ in the Niedergründau mountain church: History of the Ratzmann organ ; accessed on December 8, 2019.
19. ^ Ratzmann organ Bergkirche Niedergründau. Edited by the Evangelical Church Community "Auf dem Berg" and the Ratzmann Organ Friends' Association, 2017.
20. ↑ Comprehensive information: The Ratzmann organ in the Bergkirche Gründau (Niedergründau). Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
21. ↑ The mountain church on Niedergruendau.de ; accessed on January 30, 2020.
22. ^ Homepage of the Gelnhausen church district: Evangelical church community. On the mountain ; accessed on December 24, 2019.
23. ↑ Thousands of motorcyclists open the season . In: Hessenschau . April 23, 2017 ( hessenschau.de [accessed December 8, 2019]).
24. ↑ Rückriegel: The mountain church. 2017, pp. 81–84.
25. ↑ Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district. 1984, p. 478.
26. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Claminus: The mountain church in Gelnhausen. In: Grindaha, publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V. Issue 3.1, Gründau 1993, 13 pages (no consecutive page numbering).
27. ^ Ludwig Maximilian Reutzel (from 1818 to 1859 parish administrator or pastor on the mountain ); Wilfried Günther (edit.): Statistical survey of Rothenbergen from 1856 of the community of Rothenbergen, Gelnhausen district. In: Grindaha - annual books of the Gründau e. V. Issue 14, Gründau 2004, pp. 77–111.
28. ↑ Erwin Rückriegel: The Niedergründauer members "of the agricultural association of the Meerholz office and its surroundings" (in 1850) . In: Grindaha, publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V. Issue 2.1 (modified edition), Gründau 1993, No. 7, pp. 1–4 and two pages of photocopies as an appendix.
29. ^ Hans Kreutzer, Erwin Rückriegel (editor): Pastor Wilhelm Handwerk - Memories 1926–1951. In: Grindaha, annual books of the Gründau e. V. Issue 14, Gründau 2004, pp. 21–42.

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 47.5 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 43.9 ″  E