Gißlingskirche

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The ruins of the Gißlingskirche

The Gißlingskirche is the ruin of a village church from the 14th century in the deserted Gosselndorf near Bad Hersfeld , in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northern Hesse . The massive stump of the church tower stands on a meadow at the edge of the forest south of the A4 motorway between Bad Hersfeld and Friedewald . It's easy to see from the Autobahn. A notice board on the eastbound lane indicates the ruin.

Geographical location

The former church is located about 7.7 km east-northeast of Bad Hersfeld and 3.3 km west of Friedewald in the district of Kathus . The former settlement was west of the Hahnebalz mountain at 297  m above sea level. NHN Höhe in the so-called Geusensdorf Graben, the valley of a small brook that flows into the Breitzbach not far north of the motorway . The Altstrasse once ran through the short Hesse region nearby .

history

Gosselndorf was first mentioned in a document in 1312, but according to this source it was inhabited not long ago, but not anymore. The climate change that caused bad harvests in the early 14th century was probably the reason for the abandonment of the place. In the same century, however, the place was repopulated, and in 1363 the church in the place was consecrated . 1386 the church received from the Bishop of Wurzburg the funeral right : John Opfinger, OFM , Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Diocese of Würzburg, authenticated on 18 August 1386, he consecrated the cemetery chapel in Gosselndorf and those believers who for the feast days of the church patrons and go to the holy days mentioned, walk around them, say the prayers mentioned and support their maintenance with pious donations, have given an indulgence of 40 days and a year of penance.

It is not known when the place was left. In the Forstsalbuch of the Landgrave Hessian Office Friedewald in 1561 only the ruins of the "Geussendorf Kirch" are mentioned, and the place was probably already deserted for a long time. The Friedewalder Salbuch from 1579 reported that next to the Krumbacher auw underm sand mountains by the water, called the Breizbach, was the deserted Guessendorf . The church ruins are called Gösslerskirche in 1636 and Giesslingskirche or Gießlingskirche on more recent maps.

The ruin

Of the former church, only the two-story stump of the church tower remains, made of broken sandstone. It has an almost square floor plan and, as the remains of the attachment points of the rib arches show, it was vaulted and accessible from the no longer existing nave. On the side facing the ship there is a large pointed arch at ground level , and a small round arched window on the upper floor . On the side facing away from the church, which has a neatly framed arched window in the basement, both corners are smoothly made with red sandstone blocks. The two side walls, from which short remnants of the former ship wall protrude, are also broken through by a round arched window on the ground floor; on the north side there is a very small rectangular window, more like a hatch, on the upper floor.

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 49"  E

Footnotes

  1. ^ Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desolate places in the Electorate of Hesse ... Fischer, Kassel, 1858, p. 342
  2. ↑ a b c Gißlingskirche, at Museum Friedewald
  3. ↑ Charter: Document 56 (773-1743) (old: MI Reichsabtei Hersfeld) 610 in the European document archive Monasterium.net .

Web links

literature

  • Klaus Sippel: The foundry church near Friedewald, district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg: Guide sheet to the deserted Gosselndorf and other medieval village places in the western Seulingswald. (Hessen Archeology, Archaeological Monuments in Hessen, Issue 46), Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-89822-046-X
  • Ellen Kemp: Cultural monuments in Hesse: District Hersfeld-Rotenburg II, Ludwigsau to Wildeck. 1997, p. 535
  • Thomas Wiegand: Cultural monuments in Hesse: District Hersfeld-Rotenburg III, City of Bad Hersfeld. 1999, p. 392