St. Anna (Gronau)
The Protestant St. Anne's Church in Bensheim district Gronau is under monument protection standing cultural monument from the 19th century. The origins of the church in the center of Gronau at Märkerwaldstrasse 89 go back to the late 14th century.
history
A church in Gronau was mentioned for the first time in 1387. When this building was constructed is unknown. The altar was dedicated to Saint Anne . In 1509 the building was completely renovated.
The church was in the age of Reformation Lutheran. The first Reformation-minded pastor was Peter Lesch, who had held the pastor's post since 1519 and from 1539 preached in accordance with the Reformed Confession. In 1544 there was an iconoclasm in the churches of the Counts of Erbach , in which the old ornaments and liturgical implements were removed from the churches and sold or destroyed. The extent to which the church in Gronau was also affected by this is not documented. But today there is no old church decoration except for the Gothic glass window. The churches under Erbach patronage law were formally reformed in 1560.
The building fell into disrepair over the centuries. In 1773 the church was declared dilapidated.
In 1827 the late Gothic church was torn down and replaced by a new classical building. The new building was built from 1831 to 1834 according to plans by the then district architect and later cathedral master builder Ignaz Opfermann . Originally, the building was to be built in the Gothic style and the old choir integrated. Sacrificial man then relied on a completely new building. Only the sandstone pillars that support the gallery in the new church and still come from the old one are preserved. Since one of the pillars was not used in the new church, it was divided and one half was set up as a baptismal font in the new church. The Gronauer Gassenbrunnen was built from the other .
Since the interior of the new building was very dark, this was remedied during a renovation in 1894. The church was renovated for the 100th anniversary in 1934.
The names of the pastors of the church since 1503 have been passed down without gaps. The first known pastor was Martin Knapp from Heidelberg, who preached in pre-Reformation times. His successor Peter Lesch, who was at the church from 1519 and joined the Reformation in 1539, was the longest-serving clergyman in the church with 40 years in office until 1559. At that time, church registers began to be kept in 1551. During the tenure of his successor Egidius Waldus from 1559 to 1561, the Reformation was formally carried out. None of the pastors stands out of supraregional importance, although some of them later took up more important pastoral positions or were court preachers of the Erbach counts . Pastor Johann Georg Kummerell came from Rimbach to Gronau in 1636 , but owed the confusion of the Thirty Years' War , he retained the pastor's position in Rimbach. He was later consistorial councilor in Erbach. Pastor Conrad Textor, in Gronau from 1664 to 1680, was then city pastor in Worms until the city was destroyed. Pastor Johann Rudolph Pagenstecher, in office from 1735 until his death in 1771, came from a well-known family of scholars and is also one of the longest serving pastors in the town. He was also court preacher and consistorial councilor in Erbach.
description
architecture
The church was built from rubble stones and is plastered. The roof is flat as a gable roof running, the one in the west octagonal roof skylights with spire bears. A vestibule with a barrel vault , flat gable roof and ox-eye with clock forms the entrance area to the church.
Furnishing
The furnishings, such as the church organ, benches, sandstone baptismal font and pulpit with sound cover, date from the construction period in the 19th century.
The painted glass window remained from the previous building and dates from the Gothic period around 1470 to 1490. It shows the offering of Jesus in the temple and came back to the church in 1934 when the church was renovated.
In the bell tower there are two bells from the Frankfurt foundry Schneidewind from 1706 and 1769 respectively.
literature
- Eberhard Kühner: The village in the Green Aue. Gronau throughout history . Bensheim 1989.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Evangelical parish Bensheim-Gronau / Zell
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Kunz: The oldest church ordinance of the County of Erbach from 1560 . In: Bergsträßer Heimatblätter , No. 1, 1979.
- ↑ DenkXweb - detailed view. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: Ev. Parish Church , accessed May 25, 2008
- ↑ Kühner 1989, pp. 170-174.
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 22.5 ″ E