Herrnhaag

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Two buildings of the Herrnhaag

The Herrnhaag is a settlement in the area of ​​the Büdingen district of Lorbach in the Hessian Wetteraukreis . It lies between the districts of Lorbach, Diebach and Vonhausen .

history

The Herrnhaag was founded in 1738 by the Count of Zinzendorf , who found refuge here with the Herrnhuter Brethren , a Lutheran - Pietist denomination . After the exile from Saxony in 1736, the religious refugees initially found shelter on the Ronneburg . When space there became too scarce after two years, the brothers moved to the Herrnhaag, which is within sight, at the invitation of Count Ernst Casimir zu Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen .

Herrnhaag settlement 1745

The conception of the building and the settlement followed the plan of realizing the “life” of a living and service community by largely eliminating class differences. People lived and worked according to their situation in life, e.g. B. single or widowed, together in so-called choir houses. But there were also family houses.

When Count Gustav Friedrich von Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen , the son and successor of Count Ernst Casimir, demanded an oath of subjects from the fellow believers in order to bind the economically and missionarily successful congregation to the County of Büdingen, all members of the congregation refused. In an emigration edict of February 12, 1750, the count ordered the dissolution and expulsion within a period of three years. The community, which then comprised 18 houses and around 1000 people, was therefore dissolved again in 1753.

The Herrnhaag was the place of training and departure for further missions of the Brethren in different parts of Africa, Greenland and North America. After the politically forced abandonment of the Herrnhaag, the residents dispersed around the world and founded missions in North, Central and South America, in Europe and in northern India, among other places.

Since then the settlement has served as a

Todays use

  • Association of Friends of the Herrnhaag
  • The Herrhaag Society (an ecumenical partnership of the Brothers Unity ( Moravian Brethren ))
  • the Herrnhaag youth workshop (member of the Diakonisches Werk Hessen-Nassau)

Concerts and cultural events take place regularly in the baroque hall of the Grafenhaus des Herrnhaag. The Grafenhaus as a whole is a venue for leisure time / set-up times. The Herrnhaag partnership lives in an open house for guests in the former so-called “sister house”.

Protestant church

View of the Evangelical Church in Herrnhaag

Not far from the settlement is the Evangelical church in Herrnhaag with the cemetery. The late classical hall church was built in 1834 and extensively renovated in the 1950s.

Personalities

literature

  • Hans-Walter Erbe: Herrnhaag. A religious community in the 18th century. Wittig, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8048-4350-6 .
  • Klaus-Peter Decker: 'Common of the Lamb' or 'State within the State'? The Herrnhaag as a political model and its end from 1747–1750. In: Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association, ISSN  0341-9126 , 52, 2001, pp. 25–51.
  • Ulrike Carstensen: Herrnhaag - a baroque planned town. The building history of Herrnhaag from 1738 to 1753. In: Unitas Fratrum. Journal for History and Contemporary Issues of the Brethren, 51/52 2003, pp. 9-20.
  • Claus Bernet : The Heavenly Jerusalem as a Central Belief in Radical Pietism in the Eighteenth Century: Ronsdorf and Herrnhaag. In: The Covenant Quarterly , 63, 4, 2005, pp. 3-19.
  • Matthias Graf: Herrnhuter in Hessen. The Herrnhaag in the county of Büdingen. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-631-54560-6 .
  • Claus Bernet: The city of God in the Wetterau. The story of Herrnhaag as a utopian attempt at settlement in the context of radical pietism . In: Unitas Fratrum. Journal for History and Contemporary Issues of the Brethren, 59/60, 2007, pp. 135–172.
  • Siegfried RCT Enders: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Department: Architectural Monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis I. Ed. By the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , pp. 171f.
  • Gustav (?) Simon: The Herrenhuter in Isenburg . A lecture given in the Society for Science and Art in Gießen. In: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. Edited from the writings of the Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse by Ludwig Baur, Volume Ninth, Darmstadt 1859, p. 31 ff.

Web links

Commons : Herrnhaag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Wagner: The Herrnhuter on Herrnhaag in the Wetterau in the newsletter of the home office Main-Kinzig, Volume 4, 1979 (Issue 2)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Köhler in: Büdinger Allgemeine Anzeiger of March 16, 1933

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E