Gustav-Adolf-Church (Hanau)
The Gustav Adolf Church is the parish church of the Protestant community in Großauheim . It belongs to the parish Kirche am Limes of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .
location
The church is located at Paul-Gerhardt-Straße 17 directly on the banks of the Main above the medieval old town of Großauheim and forms a striking ensemble with the neighboring Catholic Paulskirche .
history
Großauheim was historically a Catholic place because it belonged to Kurmainz . It was not until industrialization at the end of the 19th century that the first Protestants moved to Großauheim. After a Protestant elementary school was founded in Großauheim in 1893, a simple prayer room for around 400 believers was built in a former iron foundry in 1896. For the purpose of building a church, the Johanneskirchgemeinde Hanau , to which Großauheim belonged until its own parish was founded in 1898, acquired a piece of land in the area of today's Lindenau School . However, the site was sold again shortly afterwards because it turned out to be unsuitable for a church, and the decision was based on the fact that Großauheim would develop mainly along the Main and not inland.
So it came to the acquisition of today's property directly on the Main river, the laying of the foundation stone took place on September 19, 1909. The church was opened on January 22nd, 1911. It was only named in 1956 in honor of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk , which largely financed the construction of the church. As early as 1910, the Großauheim parish was acquired as an auxiliary parish, and in 1914 it was then a regular parish.
The church and rectory suffered severe damage in the Second World War. During the subsequent renovation, the windows facing the Main were bricked up. The last time the church was completely renovated in 1985/86.
Today the Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is the parish church of the parish Kirche am Limes , which includes Großauheim as well as the neighboring Großkrotzenburg . In addition to the Gustav Adolf Church, the parish has a prayer room in the parish hall built in 1968 in the Waldsiedlung; in Großkrotzenburg the former synagogue continues to be used as a church. Today around 2900 Protestants live in Großauheim, who thus continue to represent a (albeit large) minority compared to the Catholics; 1500 Protestants live in Großkrotzenburg.
The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Furnishing
The Gustav-Adolf-Kirche is a hall church with a side aisle . Unlike the neighboring Paulskirche, it is oriented across the Main in a north-east-south-west direction.
The church originally had three bronze bells, but two of them were melted down during the First World War . Due to the economic situation in the Weimar Republic, the parish had to exchange the remaining bronze bell for three cast iron bells in 1922. It was not until 2002 that the original bells could be restored with three bronze bells.
The organ comes from the work of the organ builder Wilhelm Ratzmann in Gelnhausen . It was last restored in 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Caroline Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006, p. 239ff. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , pp. 334f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 26 " N , 8 ° 56 ′ 16.2" E