Paradiesgärtlein (Lang-Göns)

House of Paradise Garden

The Paradiesgärtlein house , at Obergasse 1–3 in Lang-Göns , is a half-timbered house with an exterior dating from 1782. It is a Hessian cultural monument and a place of interest. In the previous building, a miraculous event is said to have occurred in 1624 during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

building

Under a as Schopfwalm formed roof, the so united houses 1 and 3 are the upper lane of a highlighted point on the corner of Pinggasse. The base of the house is made of quarry stone and is stepped. The half-timbered structure on the gable side facing Pinggasse is symmetrical and, like the rest of the framework, dates from the time it was built. On the first floor, on the eaves side facing Obergasse, there are fully developed floor-to- ceiling male figures . To the left and right of the guild sign with blacksmithing tools, dated 1782, you can still see the two former and now walled entrances. The wooden reveal of the left gate is completely preserved and tells of a miracle in the transom above the entrance. On the left frame, which has been shifted slightly to the right, the right gate is a double-ornamented notch cut and deaf band . In addition to the man figures, the corner posts of the house with fine carvings and the profiled half-timbered sleepers and filler wood are particularly remarkable . Buildings and extensions are cultural monuments due to their urban, historical and artistic conditions.

wonder

In the Thirty Years' War, after the victories of the Catholic military leader Tilly in the Lower Palatinate at the beginning of the 1620s, Catholic soldiers came to Friedberg, Wetzlar, Braunfels and also to Lang-Göns. At that time, a miracle is said to have happened in the previous building, which was then an inn . In 1624 a Spanish lieutenant loyal to the Pope is said to have taken away from his trumpeter an evangelical book of edification, an edition of the Paradies Gärtlein by Johann Arndt , which the trumpeter had previously found in the Lang-Göns rectory and later read, and thrown into the oven of the inn. After an hour, however, the landlady is said to have pulled the book unharmed from the flames. The landgrave had the book brought to the princely library in Butzbach, where it is lost.

The first edition of Paradies-Gärtlein appeared in 1612. Editions published after 1624 contained a chapter after the foreword with finally 14 [16] miracle stories about the book, which are said to have happened in other places. The miraculous event in Lang-Göns always remains the original. The Langgöns municipal archive has an edition from 1756, the nearby Jakobuskirche (Obergasse 21) an edition from 1694, both of which report on the event. The “miracle” in “Longogins” is mentioned as early as 1625 in the French (and thus Catholic) magazine Mercure Francois .

and display information about the image

Anno 1624 the 7th of January in the previous house the little
paradise garden should be burned but because of God's omnipotence it was not done

literature

• Karlheinz Lang; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 .
• Alfred Messerli: The rescue of the little paradise garden from fire and water shortages . In: Fabula , Volume 38, Issue 3-4, September 2009, pp. 253-279, ISSN  1613-0464 (Online), ISSN  0014-6242 (Print), doi: 10.1515 / fabl.1997.38.3-4.253
• Philip Hofmann: Lang-Göns, a village book from Hüttenberg, Verlag der Gemeinde, Lang-Göns, 1955
• Georg Philipp Harsdörffer: 102. Joh. Arnds Paradiss-Gärtlein . In: The large arena of lustful and instructive history , second volume, fifth part, 1664, at zeno.org
• Jean Richer, Théophraste Renaudot: Livre Lutherié ietté au feu, puis tiré sans estre brûlé . In: Mercure Francois , Volume 10, Paris 1625, pp. 308-309 (French); Text archive - Internet Archive
• Various miracle stories, so it is with Hn. Joh. Arnds sel. Paradiess-Gärtlein in the fire . In: Johann Arnd: Paradieß-Gärtlein full of Christian virtues , Frankfurt 1694 (on Wikisource )

Web links

Commons : Paradiesgärtlein (Lang-Göns)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The paradise garden . langengunse.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lang: Cultural monuments in Hesse. 2010, p. 280
2. ↑ Sights ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Langgöns municipality. 
3. ↑ Chr. Diemer: Johann Arndts Paradieß-Gärtlein , in: Hofmann: Lang-Göns, a village book from the Hüttenberg , 1955, pp. 343-345
4. ↑ The "Paradise" in the archive - transfer of a copy of the "Paradiesgärtlein" by Johann Arndt from 1756 to the Langgöns community archive (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 10 kB), Langgöns community archive, 2011