Ascension Church (Altengronau)

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Ascension Church
View of the chancel

The Protestant Church of the Ascension of Christ is a church building in Altengronau , a district of the municipality of Sinntal in the Main-Kinzig district , ( Hesse ) that characterizes the town. The building stands in the middle of a walled cemetery.

history

The existence of a church in Altengronau is historically documented for the first time in 1167. 1167 the church belongs to the parish Ramholz, later to Neuengronau (last as a branch). More recent research assumes that the church was not built before the year 907. Around 1500 a new church was built by Friedrich von Hutten, to which the previously existing sacred building had to give way. The county of Hanau-Munzenberg was Protestant in the 16th century and explicitly reformed in 1593 under Count Philipp Ludwig II. During the Thirty Years War the church was reduced to rubble. A chronicle from the year 1663 reports, "... that this church is ruined and decayed by the leydige war system, that without the bare walls, it had to be erected completely ...". Locals and other donors made the reconstruction possible from 1668 onwards. In 1727 the church was enlarged. It got a new tower in 1800. In 1904 the church was torn down except for the choir to make way for an enlarged new building, as it can still be admired in Altengronau today.

Description and architecture

The rectangular choir from the 16th century , which was renewed in 1727, characterizes the architecture of the neo-baroque hall church built in 1904. A sacrament niche and the baptismal font from 1579 have been preserved from the previous building. The building is accessed through a portal in the pointed tower . The pulpit is to the left of the altar . In the interior, open beams support the wooden barrel vault , with galleries on two sides . Also noteworthy is a covered stone table that stands in front of the church.

Furnishing

Grave slabs

The church contains the burial places of the two founders of the Hutten zu Gronau lines named after them, namely Alexander von Hutten († 1576) and Sebastian von Hutten († 1577); two portrait grave slabs made of white sandstone are attached behind the altar, depicting the deceased as venerable knights in full armor. In addition to other Hutt tombstones on the outside wall of the church, the church houses the tomb of Sebastian's daughter-in-law Margareta Amalia von Berlichingen, which shows the close connection to the noble family of the Lords of Berlichingen, whose most famous representative Götz von Berlichingen became through Goethe's play of the same name.

Baptismal font

Cyriax Eitel von Hutten († 1576) is said to have donated the sandstone baptismal font in today's church in memory of his ancestors. Its upper part can be dated to 1579 and can be ascribed to the sculptor Valentin Hep. The baptismal font is genealogically noteworthy and unique in the region: The ancestral sample of the eight gender coats of arms incorporated provides information about the women by marriage and their ancestors. The following noble families are represented: Hutten , Boyneburg-Lengsfeld , Schleyer called Schlegerer, kitchen master zu Wächtersbach, Rückingen zu Berstadt , Gailing von Altheim and Röhrenfurth .

organ

View of the organ

The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1737. When the old organ was rebuilt in 1905 by Wilhelm Ratzmann from Gelnhausen, the baroque case of the unknown organ builder was preserved. Due to some traces of craftsmanship (circular saw and planing machine brands on the inside) it would have to be examined more closely whether the housing was not renewed in 1905 in a historicizing manner. The instrument was equipped with a pneumatic action and a cone chest. In 1957 an electric fan was installed by the organ builder Hoffmann from Ostheim vor der Rhön , which rebuilt the organ in 1963 to its current disposition in the neo-baroque era .

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Hollow flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Plant C – f 3
7th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
8th. Flauto dolce 4 ′
9. recorder 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
10. Sub-bass 16 ′
11. Violon 8th'
  • Coupling : I / I Super, II / I, II / I Sub, I / P, II / P

literature

  • Dehio, Georg : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen II: The Darmstadt administrative region . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ascension Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • History on the pages of Altengronau

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Altengronau, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Ev. Ascension Church built around 907. In: zeitgeschichte-altengronau.de. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Dehio, Georg : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II: The Darmstadt administrative region . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 .
  4. ^ Georg-Wilhelm Hanna : Ministeriality, power and mediatization. The knight nobles von Hutten, their social position in church and state until the end of the Old Empire = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 44. Hanau, 2007. ISBN 3-935395-08-6 = Diss. Bamberg 2006, page 360 on the OPUS server , PDF 7,024 kB
  5. ↑ Franz Joseph Goldmann: Taufstein - ancestral samples on stone witnesses. In: zeitgeschichte-altengronau.de. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  6. ^ Georg-Wilhelm Hanna: Ministeriality, power and mediatization. The knight nobles of Hutten, their social position in church and state until the end of the Old Kingdom (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter , 44). Hanau 2007, ISBN 3-935395-08-6 = Diss. Bamberg 2006, p. 362 opus-bayern.de (PDF; 7 MB)
  7. ↑ Gottfried Rehm , Uwe Pape (ed.): North German organs . 2nd Edition. tape 10 : The organs of the former Schlüchtern district . Pape, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-921140-14-5 , pp. 29 ff .
  8. ^ Grave slabs, pulpit and organ

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '4.4 "  N , 9 ° 37' 11.4"  E