St. Johannes Chapel (Limburg an der Lahn)
The Gothic St. Johannes Chapel (also the chapel in the Erbach ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Limburg an der Lahn ( Limburg-Weilburg district ) in Hesse .
history
The simple chapel was built between 1322 and 1324 for the Erbacher Hof , the Limburg branch of the Eberbach Cistercian monastery . The patronage of St. John the Baptist has been documented since 1783 . After secularization in 1802, the chapel was initially used as a salt store and granary, and from 1822 as a store for seltzer water. From 1831 onwards, Duke Wilhelm I of Nassau left the sacred building to the Evangelical Uniate community of Limburg. In 1867 this growing community moved into a new, larger church at the station . The chapel was then taken over by the Jewish community and used as a synagogue until 1903, when the Jewish community also moved into a new place of worship . From this point on, the district office used the chapel as a file repository. From 1948 it found a sacred purpose as a place of worship for the Old Lutherans . In 1958 the original paintwork was completely renovated and reconstructed, and in 1981 it was given a bell. In 2002 the Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation, which belongs to the Hesse-South church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church , bought the chapel from the State of Hesse.
literature
- Verena Fuchß: Cultural monuments in Hessen: City of Limburg. Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse . Theiss , 2007. ISBN 978-3-8062-2096-4 , p. 316
- Christoph Waldecker : Limburg on the Lahn. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2332-2
- Christoph Waldecker: A short history of the chapel in Erbach. Stadtarchiv (self-published), Limburg an der Lahn 2019, without ISBN
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): In der Erbach 2–3 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- St. Johannes parish Limburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '22.6 " N , 8 ° 3' 55" E