St. Aegidius (Grove)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Aegidius is a church in the Bavarian Hain , a district of the village Poppenhausen in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt . It belongs to the architectural monuments in Poppenhausen and is registered under the number D-6-78-168-18 in the Bavarian list of monuments . The church is consecrated to St. Aegidius .
history
Hain belonged as a branch to the parish of Ebenhausen , but is now looked after by the parish of Poppenhausen.
Before the construction of today's St. Giles Church there was a chapel in the village, in which new altars were consecrated in 1585.
In its current form, the St. Giles Church, whose steeple was built around 1650, was built in 1870 with the construction of the neo-Romanesque nave .
description
The massive but low church tower in the style of Julius Echter is built as a choir tower east of the nave.
The sacristy is located on the south side of the church tower.
Furnishing
The church's baptismal font, dating from the 16th century, still comes from the town's former chapel.
The organ was created in the 18th century by the Würzburg organ builder Johann Ignaz Samuel Will.
In the church tower hang three bells with the tones a ′ - h ′ - cis ″.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, reviewed and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 421
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 54.2 ″ E