Sankt Vitus (Oberhöchstadt)
Sankt Vitus is the Catholic parish church in Oberhöchstadt , a district of Kronberg im Taunus . It is listed as a cultural monument . The church is dedicated to St. Vitus .
Since 1684 the old church of Oberhöchstadt on the Stuhlberg was considered dilapidated. In 1719 it was finally a ruin . In 1722/23, under the Archbishop of Mainz Lothar Franz von Schönborn, today's church was built as a new building at the end of the village. The old church was used as building material. The new church now held around 250 believers and was thus similar in size to the previous one. It is a three-axis hall building with a narrow, vaulted choir closed on three sides. She owns a statue of Mary by the Frankfurt sculptor Cornelius Andreas Donett (1683–1748), grandfather of the Speyer bishop Matthäus Georg von Chandelle (1745–1826).
Churchyard
In 1822 the churchyard was expanded. In front of the wall is the memorial for the inhabitants of Oberhöchstadt who died in the First World War and those of the Franco-German War in 1870/71. The memorial consists of a cuboid crowned by a steel helmet and sword . The names of the fallen are given on the sides.
literature
- Helmut Bode (Ed.): Oberhöchstadt in twelve centuries, 1982, ISBN 3782902637
- Herbert Alsheimer (Ed.): Faith Preserved: 275 Years St. Vitus Church in Oberhöchstadt, 1998, ISBN 3782904915
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 366-367 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 57 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 31.4 ″ E