Rehehausen village church
The Protestant village church Rehehausen is located in Rehehausen in the Burgenland district . It was built as a village church in the center of the village.
history
The first mention of a church in Rehehausen goes back to the year 1268. 1278 mention documents with Ad vicariae Petri et Pauli in Rogehusen! a vicarie . According to parish records from 1615, the roof was clapboard and the walls were made of clay. There was no paving or flooring inside the church. Due to the Lißbach flood, the floor in front of the altar was badly damaged and the walls of the church were washed away. As a result, the altar collapsed and was completely destroyed. During this time the bell was also procured from Erfurt .
During the Thirty Years War , the place was plundered three times (1632, 1635, 1637), each time the church was badly damaged. On December 28, 1637, a fire destroyed the church. After the pastor had collected money in 1650 for the reconstruction and in 1652 the following foundations by the sovereign, the elector and the king of Saxony, the new building was completed, with no splendid furnishings . The year 1648 on the bell in the tower , cast by Hans Berger, Weimar , according to Dehio (p. 707). Dehio gives wrong year number (1684, number rotator)
In 1662 the church was repainted, the following year "the interior was straightened out". In 1705 the responsible pastor Haubold complained that the church was "a desert [...] and no longer resembled a house of God". In 1714 the church was completely rebuilt, which by the year had already undergone a first complete restoration of the interior. The organ was installed between 1763 and 1784, but of poor quality due to the lack of money.
In 1807 the bell foundry in Apolda produced a second bell for the church. In 1813, in the course of major renovations and extensions, the lower gallery was extended and a second one was installed. During the First World War , the organ pipes and the bronze bell were melted down for war purposes. In 1927 the organ was rebuilt and the interior of the church was completely renovated. The church received new leaded glass windows after being donated by the children of Pastor Röder .
During and after the Second World War , no more maintenance measures were carried out on the church building. It was not until 1993 that the leaky and partly collapsed roof was repaired as part of the village renewal, and the tower and clock tower were restored in 1999. However, no church service was possible until 2002. Thanks to the initiative of the citizens of Rehehausen, it was finally renovated and repaired and reopened on November 17, 2002.
Web links
- Description of the village church on the pages of the parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 48 " N , 11 ° 38 ′ 33.5" E