Evangelical Church (Grebenhain)
The Evangelical Church in Grebenhain is a late Gothic - late Baroque hall church in the district of the same name in the municipality of Grebenhain in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse . The tower of the church dates back to the late Gothic period, while the current nave was built in 1784. The church is a branch church of the parish Crainfeld of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) .
history
The choir tower was built in the late Gothic period and is thus by far the oldest building in Grebenhain. The place belonged from the beginning to the parish of Crainfeld founded in 1011 by Archbishop Erkanbald of Mainz . In 1527 the Reformation was introduced in the parish . In the report of a visitation in 1628, the church was described as derelict, but was then repaired. The construction obligation on the Church was responsible in the 17th century not the church box , but civil parish Grebenhain.
During the Thirty Years War , Grebenhain was almost completely destroyed on July 1, 1646, the fifth Sunday after Trinity . The village, then fortified by moats and earth walls, was stormed, looted and set on fire by Swedish soldiers. The church, into which some of the residents had fled, was also destroyed by flames. Of the village's 45 riders , 42 were destroyed. The reconstruction of the church began in the same year.
In 1784 the dilapidated nave was demolished and rebuilt in the same place. A major renovation of the church took place exactly a hundred years later, in 1884.
architecture
The location of the church is on the southern edge of the old town center of Grebenhain, right next to the historic dance area , which in the past was often wrongly interpreted as a courtroom . In fact, the seat of the court with the court square, like the mother church , was in the neighboring Crainfeld.
The Grebenhainer Church clearly shows two construction phases from different time periods. The late Gothic choir tower has pointed arched windows, on the upper floor somewhat larger with tracery . The slated spire was put on in 1646 when the church was rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. In the upper part it changes from a square to an octagonal shape.
The rectangular nave with its slate hipped roof connects to the west of the choir tower. It was built in 1784 instead of a dilapidated previous building. It has two rectangular windows each with a segmental arch on the north and south sides . The church is plastered except for the corner blocks and the window frames, which are made of red sandstone.
Furnishing
The interior of the nave is about haunches covered flat. There are wooden galleries with painted parapets on the north, west and east walls. The east gallery is located high above the choir arch. The choir in the tower closes with a flat wooden ceiling without a vault. The masonry altar is also located here . In front of the pastor's lodge on the south wall is the pulpit, richly decorated with angel heads, twisted corner columns and shell niches . It rests on a wooden column with a Corinthian capital .
In the church there is also a memorial plaque from the 19th century for the local participants in the fighting during the Revolution of 1848 , the German War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870–1871). Another plaque in memory of those who fell in the two world wars dates back to the time after 1945 .
literature
- Wilhelm Diehl : Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 8 ). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935, pp. 369-370.
- Evangelical Church Crainfeld (Ed.): 200 years Grebenhainer Church 1784-1984. Festschrift for the 4th community festival, August 25/26, 1984 . Self-published, Crainfeld 1984
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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 17.5 " N , 9 ° 20 ′ 11.8" E