Evangelical parish church Langenselbold
The Evangelical Parish Church in Langenselbold was built between 1727 and 1735.
Its foundation stone was laid on May 23, 1727 by Count Wolfgang Ernst von Isenburg-Birstein . The architect was the builder of the neighboring County of Hanau , Christian Ludwig Hermann , who worked on this project and for the parallel construction project for Langenselbold Castle for Count Wolfgang Ernst. During the construction of the church, that at the castle was obviously interrupted. Church and palace complex relate to one another.
The church was built unplastered in red sandstone - quarry stone masonry . The floor plan is an oval with four cross arms. The southern cross arm carries the tower, which is located in one of the long sides and emphasizes the cross-church shape of the floor plan. There is an entrance in each of the four protruding cross arms. Inside, the room is transversely oriented. The pulpit is opposite the main entrance on the north wall. Above the main entrance, opposite the altar and pulpit, was the stately box. The interior is determined by a mighty gallery , which swings far into the room and is two-story in the west and east. The building is crowned by a high tent roof. This is clearly based on the formal language of the Walloon-Dutch Church in the Neustadt Hanau and the Reinhard Church in Steinau an der Straße , which was started in 1725 , the latter also by Christian Ludwig Hermann.
The building has largely been preserved in the condition in which it was erected. The interior of the church was changed several times in the 19th century. The colored windows date from 1911. In 1959/60 massive interventions were made: the old church stalls were removed and the pulpit wall changed. The last renovation took place in 2005/06.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt. 3rd edition Munich 2008, p. 539. (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf)
- Margarete von Isenburg: The Protestant Church in Langenselbold . In: Festschrift 225 years of the Evangelical Church in Langenselbold. 1960.
- Inge Wolf: Christian Ludwig Hermann. Construction director at Hanauer Hof . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 30, 1988, pp. 445ff, 482-486.
- Rainer Haas: Brief Church History of Langenselbold. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3883095929 .
- Kathrin Ellwardt: Church construction between evangelical ideals and absolutist rule. The cross churches in the Hessian area from the Reformation century to the Seven Years War . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-34-0
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 '30.7 " N , 9 ° 2' 16.8" E