Jakobuskirche (Hanau)
The Jakobuskirche is the oldest surviving church in today's Hanau district of Großauheim . Today the Roman Catholic church building is a branch church of the Großauheim parish of St. Jakobus in the diocese of Fulda .
location
The church is located in the middle of the old town of Großauheim. The previous building was originally oriented towards Pfarrgasse, which is still reminiscent of the street name, but due to the new church building, the church is structurally and postally assigned to the thoroughfare through the old town of Großauheim, Langgasse (today Alte Langgasse), from where the elevated church can be accessed via a staircase is to achieve.
The church is surrounded by the former churchyard, which was abandoned in 1813 in favor of the cemetery located outside the community (today's old cemetery); a few graves are still preserved.
history
The forerunner of today's church, the Jakobuskapelle, is mentioned in a document for the year 1331. From the documents received, it is not clear whether the chapel was a parish church or just a subsidiary church : a pastor is documented twice for the years 1439 and 1475, while two documents from the years 1482–83 only come from a subsidiary church speak. On September 20, 1500, the chapel was granted an indulgence of 100 days, which the Archbishop of Mainz confirmed on June 10, 1503. In 1513 there is said to have been another pastor in Großauheim.
The chapel and the surrounding churchyard were surrounded by a defensive wall and were therefore repeatedly the target of attacks. In the Thirty Years War , the chapel was destroyed except for the tower. The chapel was rebuilt by 1631. Today little is known about the exact appearance of the chapel because the contemporary representations of the chapel are very imprecise and contradict each other in details. The most abundant sources are church accounts, which prove that a sacristy was added to the chapel and that the chapel had a gallery . Next to the chapel there was an ossuary that was demolished with the construction of today's church.
The chapel was structurally in poor condition, so a new church was planned. The work was supposed to start in 1754, but could not be carried out due to the Seven Years' War . Finally, in 1766, construction began with the demolition of the old chapel, the stones of which were used to repair roads in the area. The current church was consecrated in the same year. In 1792 the spire had to be erected again after a storm, in 1800 the rear church window was bricked up to protect the organ, initially provisionally and later permanently. In the years 1889 and 1920 the church was completely renovated. At the end of the Second World War , the church suffered considerable damage in combat operations in March 1945, which could only be repaired in 1950.
With the construction of the Paulskirche in 1907, the Jakobuskirche lost its status as a parish church, but it is still used regularly by the parish of St. Jakobus in Großauheim for services.
Today the Jakobuskirche is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act.
Interior
The high altar in the church was a gift from the Bartholomäusstift Frankfurt am Main in 1768; From which church he originally came can no longer be traced today.
The Jakobuskirche has two church saints: one is St. James, who also leads the patronage of the Church, on the other hand St. Valentine. Both have their own altar dedicated to each.
Today's organ comes from the organ builder Adam Joseph Oestreich from Oberbimbach and was built in the church in 1836. Since then it has been restored several times, most recently in 1955 by the organ building company Gebr. Späth Orgelbau .
swell
- Großauheim - From the history and life of the Catholic parish. Festschrift of the Catholic parish in Großauheim 1956
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 13.4 ″ N , 8 ° 56 ′ 36 ″ E