Evangelical town church Langen

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Evangelical City Church Langen (2011)

The Protestant City Church Langen is a Protestant city ​​church in Langen in Hesse .

Architecture and history

The neo-Gothic hall church made of red sandstone with the 54 m high tower dominates the cityscape on an elevation in the old local area of ​​Langen. The town church was built in the years 1879-1883 according to plans of the grand ducal building councilor Johann Christian Horst. It replaced a church that was built in 1365 on the site of a previous building that was mentioned in 834 and consecrated to the Apostle James . This church, next to which was a fortified tower dating back to Romanesque origins and which existed until the 19th century , had to be closed and demolished in 1875 due to its dilapidation.

The current building is based, among other things, on the Elisabeth Church in Marburg , for example in the proportions of the church tower . The 39 m long and 14 m high nave is shaped like a Latin cross .

In 1962 the Oberlinger (Windesheim) organ building company built a new organ into the old case. The slider chest instrument has 33 registers (2392 pipes) on three manual works and a pedal. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I breastwork C – g 3
1. Singing dumped 08th'
2. Cane quintad 04 '
3. Principal 02 '
4th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
5. Cymbel IV
6th Krummhorn 08th'
7th Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
8th. Pommer 16 '
9. Principal 08th'
10. Reed flute 08th'
11. octave 04 '
12. Smalled up 04 '
13. recorder 02 '
14th Sesquialter II
15th Mixture V-VII
16. Sounding Cymbel III
17th Trumpet 08th'
Tremulant
III Oberwerk C – g 3
18th Dumped 08th'
19th Willow pipe 08th'
20th Principal 04 '
21st Coupling flute 04 '
22nd Pointed octave 02 '
23. Sif flute 01'
24. Terzian II
25th Scharff V
26th English horn 08th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
27. Principal bass 16 '
28. Sub-bass 16 '
29 Octave bass 08th'
30th Principal flute 04 '
31. Night horn 02 '
32. Mixture VI
33. trombone 16 '
34. Clarine 04 '
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Effect register: Cymbelstern
  • Playing aids: 640-fold electronic setting system (2002)

The interior was redesigned in 1959, with a gallery built in and the windows replaced. During a later renovation in 1996/97, the original appearance was largely restored. In a side chapel there is a crucifix from around 1700. In 2016, four glass windows were installed in the transept of the church, designed by the Langen glass artist Johannes Schreiter and manufactured by the Derix Glasstudio in Taunusstein .

With the inauguration of the town church in 1883, Grand Duke Ludwig IV raised Langen to town .

The town church of Langen is a cultural monument because of its architectural and historical importance .

Picture gallery

  • Evangelical City Church (2007)

  • Evangelical City Church (2012)

  • Evangelical City Church (2012)

  • Tower of the previous building, the Jakobskirche, photograph 1874

literature

  • Dagmar Söder et al .: Offenbach district. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-528-06237-1 , p. 202.
  • Evangelical town church Langen . Edited by the parish council of the Evangelical parish of Langen. 2006 ( PDF file ).
  • Angelika and Karl Baeumerth: The Langen city church and its architect . In: Magistrat der Stadt Langen (Ed.): Langen 1883 - 1983; 100 years city church, 100 years city rights . Contributions to the history of the city. tape 2 . Langen 1983, p. 62-100 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website
  2. ^ New Schreiter window for church in FAZ of December 31, 2015, page 47
  3. ↑ New Schreiter windows decorate the city church , op-online.de, October 29, 2016, accessed on April 23, 2018

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 22.4 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 53"  E