Lettgenbrunn Church
The Lettgenbrunn Church is a double church in Jossgrund - Lettgenbrunn, consecrated on July 25, 1954 .
history
Lettgenbrunn was declared a bomb-dropping training area for the Gelnhausen-Rothenbergen air base in 1935 , and the residents had to leave the place. The original Gothic church from the 15th century, changed in Baroque style in 1658, was completely destroyed by the bombs after 1937. The furnishings (a high altar with a crucifixion group from the school of Tilman Riemenschneider , a Mary's altar and a baptismal font ) had previously been cleared out and are now in the Church of St. Peter in Mernes .
After the Second World War , refugees from the Sudetenland , Silesia and East Prussia repopulated the completely destroyed place in 1947 . These initially used an American Nissen hut as a simultaneous church . In 1953/54 today's church was built as a double church. About a third of the construction cost was a donation from collections among members of the 12th Infantry Regiment of the US Army stationed in Gelnhausen . The villagers raised the building blocks from the village's own red sand quarry themselves.
building
The church building consists of two worship rooms - one for the Protestant and one for the Roman Catholic local congregation - which are structurally connected by a common church tower. The church was built in the native style. The crossroads in the Roman Catholic church are from August Peukert . The Catholic half of the church is consecrated to Saint James , the Protestant half is named after the Apostle John . The church is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Communities
- The Roman Catholic parish belongs to the parish of St. Martin in Bad Orb, Diocese of Fulda .
- The Protestant parish belongs to the Lohrhaupten parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .
literature
- Waltraud Friedrich: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse, Main-Kinzig-Kreis II . Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 804.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '59.7 " N , 9 ° 25' 5.1" E