Trinity Church (Dauernheim)
The Evangelical Trinity Church is a Gothic hall church in the Dauernheim district of Ranstadt in the Hessian Wetterau district . It belongs to the community network of Dauernheim and Blofeld in the Büdinger Land deanery of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
History and architecture
The Dauernheimer Dreifaltigkeitskirche was built in 1252. The church rises on a hillside above the village and is surrounded by a fortified churchyard wall. The nave and the tower on the north side with a renewed pointed helmet date from the second half of the 13th century. A tall, slender choir consisting of a yoke with a five-sided end and the sacristy annex were added towards the end of the 15th century; the late Gothic tracery windows and the portal on the south wall of the nave date from the turn of the 15th to the 16th century, the rectangular window under the west gallery is dated 1697. Reticulated vaults have been preserved in the choir . The oldest representation of the church can be found on the north side of the gallery, the landscape paintings are dated to 1697. On the north wall of the choir there is a heavily restored fresco depicting St. Gregory's mass .
Furnishing
The late Gothic sandstone wall tabernacle is flanked by two angels, and Levite niches have been preserved. The crucifix behind the altar is a work from around 1520. A medieval altar plate and several tombstones are kept in the sacristy with ribbed vaults, including a portrait in relief for the pastor Johannes Draudt († 1662) and his wife († 1668) as well as the family of the deceased under the cross. Among the tombstones from the 17th / 18th centuries Century in the nave and on the northern cemetery wall are several of the von Brombach family with ancestral coats of arms.
The organ is a work by Johann Andreas Heinemann from 1794, which after several revisions in 1925 and 1953 and a restoration in 1980 today has 15 stops on a manual and pedal .
Surroundings
Historical tombstones have been preserved around the cemetery. A defensive tower from the 15th century is a relic of the old fortifications in the parish garden. The late Gothic rotunda has an arched frieze and battlements and dates from the middle of the 15th century. Two disc cross tombstones date from 1561 and 1567 and were found in 1970. At the foot of the Kirchberg there are many rock cellars, some of them on several floors, with the entrances bearing the dates from the end of the 17th to the first half of the 19th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen II. The administrative district of Darmstadt . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , pp. 179–180.
Web links
- Website of the parishes of Dauernheim and Blofeld
- Website of the parish in the Evangelical Dean's Office Büdinger Land
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 49.3 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 23.2" E