Protestant Church Rambach
The Evangelical Church in the Rambach district of Wiesbaden stands on a hill. It towers over Rambach and shapes the townscape according to this location. It is 33 meters long, 13 meters wide and 26 meters high up to the ridge . It was built with green stone from the local quarry. One of the four bells of the peal comes from the year 1483. This 220 kg bell was adopted after the end of the Second World War as the "godfather bell " and in 1952 baptized the peace bell .
history
Defense tower
On the hill on which the church stands today, a defense tower was originally set up. This served to secure the Eppsteiner property in Rambach, first mentioned in 1264, opposite the house of Nassau . Nassau entertained in neighboring Sonnenberg The Sonnenberg Castle , threatened as the Eppsteiner dominion. There are no remains of this fortified tower today, only traces of the terrain still indicate its existence at the time.
Predecessor churches
Today it is assumed that the church had two previous buildings, which, however, were not in the same place, but rather were built in the Rambacher Talgrund. This was once a small chapel that burned down in a devastating fire in Ober-Rambach in 1546. It was replaced by a wooden church in 1680, but nothing more is known about the history of its origins. This wooden church was declared dilapidated in 1887 and demolished in 1891. Among other things, it is said to have been badly damaged in wars.
Today's church
The present church was consecrated on September 15, 1893 after 14 months of construction. The community bought the churchyard for 20 marks . The building was managed by the Rambach master bricklayer Philipp Christian Schneider and the Herborn architect Ludwig Hofmann (1862-1935). The construction costs were below 40,000 marks .
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- Where the defiant defense tower stood In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt from September 14, 2003
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 56.9 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 22.7 ″ E