Martinskirche (Altenhaßlau)

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Martinskirche

The Martinskirche is the Protestant parish church of Altenhaßlau , a district of the parish of Linsengericht in the Main-Kinzig district ( Hesse ).

architecture

The late Romanesque complex was built around 1230. It stands in an elevated position in the middle of a circular walled former churchyard . The mighty west tower is crowned with a pointed helmet over four slanted gables . A ribbed vault rests on bud consoles in the chancel . On the south side there is a small late Gothic sacristy . From 1752 to 1753 the nave was rebuilt and new windows were installed and the roof was re-covered. The galleries and the cove ceiling were redesigned. The Romanesque portals on the south and west sides were walled up. A rosette-like five - pass window is inserted in the west gable . Several tombstones with coats of arms date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The church is now a listed cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

First mentioned in 1402, the church is now the oldest building in the village. The villages of Eidengesäß , Großenhausen , Ziegenhausen ( Geislitz ), Lützelhausen and Ettengesäß (today: desert ) were parished here. The patronage was in 1279 with the Lords of Trimberg , since 1377 with the Lords of Hanau . In the medieval church organization, the church of Altenhaßlau belonged to the archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg and its regional chapter Rodgau .

The Reformation in the County of Hanau-Münzenberg , to which Altenhaßlau belonged, initially developed in the Lutheran direction. Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg, however, carried out a second Reformation in 1597 , with which he brought his regional church to the Reformed denomination , which also applies to the St. Martin's Church.

Worth knowing

For the Lutheran congregation, which later emerged again, the master builder Christian Ludwig Hermann created 1724–26 from a hunting arsenal of Count Johann Reinhard III from Hanau . its own church building, the Reinhardskirche . The need for a separate place of worship for the Lutherans came to an end when the two Protestant churches in the Principality of Hanau were united with the Hanau Union in 1818 . From 1961 onwards, only the Martinskirche was used as a parish church in Altenhaßlau, while the Reinhardskirche was initially converted into a youth center and later as a parish hall.

literature

  • Ludwig Bickell : The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel . Volume 1: Alhard von Drach: Gelnhausen district . Marburg 1901, pp. 116-119.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . 1st edition Munich 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '22 "  N , 9 ° 11' 57.1"  E