St. Georg (Oberreifenberg)
St. Georg is the Roman Catholic Church in Oberreifenberg in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis . It is dedicated to Saint George . The building is a listed building .
Church history
From the beginning of the 13th century, Reifenberg belonged to the parish Arnoldshain . In 1419 the independent parish of Reifenberg was established. With the Reformation , the ties to Arnoldshain ended for good: While Arnoldshain became Protestant, Reifenberg remained Catholic. In addition to Ober- and Niederreifenberg, Schmitten and Seelenberg also belonged to the parish of Reifenberg. In 1893 Schmitten and 1901 Niederreifenberg were split off as parish vicariate. In 1921 Schmitten and 1953 Niederreifenberg were raised to their own parish. In 2006 the parishes were dissolved and the Oberreifenberg parish became part of the new pastoral area of Schloßborn / Schmitten. In 2012 the pastoral rooms were enlarged again and Oberreifenberg was now part of the pastoral area Usinger Land / Schmitten-Oberreifenberg. At the beginning of 2014, all pastoral rooms in the Usinger Land were merged into a new type of parish called St. Franziskus und Klara - Usingerland and the central parish church of St. Marien in Neu-Anspach. St. George is now a church in the parish.
Reifenberg originally belonged to the diocese of Mainz and became part of this new diocese when the diocese of Limburg was founded . In the diocese of Mainz, Reifenberg belonged to the Mainz archdeaconate of St. Peter and there to the deanery of Eschborn. In the diocese of Limburg, Oberreifenberg was part of the Königstein dean's office. Today it belongs to the Hochtaunus district .
construction
The St. Otmar Chapel originally existed as a parish church since 1419. This chapel was attached to the castle wall and was demolished in the 17th century. The services now took place in the great hall of the castle until a new church was built under Anselm Franz von Ingelheim in 1684 . This church was in poor condition in the middle of the 19th century and also too small.
Therefore, under Pastor Johann Petry, a new church was planned on the site of the old cemetery, which was cleared in 1844.
The Church of St. George was built between 1845 and 1855. The church was designed by the Diez architect Heinrich Velde . Half of the construction costs of 26,000 guilders were borne by the poor community and half by the diocese. However, the inauguration took place on May 19, 1862 by the then Bishop of Limburg Peter Josef Blum .
In 1955 the church was renovated for the first time. With this measure, the church made of field stone received its external plaster. Further renovations took place in 1977 and 2001.
Bells
In 1859 the church tower received three bells from Ph. Bach from Windecken , but two of them were confiscated and melted down during the First World War . Two new bells were purchased under Pastor Martin Geis. But they shouldn't stay in St. Georg either. On the feast of Corpus Christi in 1942, two bells were again taken from the tower. It was not until six years later that two new bells were added to the tower, and in 1962 the civil parish completed the ringing for the centenary church festival with a fourth bell with the Salve Regina motif. Due to the statics and the tightness of the tower, all bells ring on cranked steel yokes.
| No. | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1962 | Gebr. Rincker , Sinn | c ′ |
| 2 | 1948 | Gebr. Rincker, Sinn | e ′ |
| 3 | 1859 | Philipp Bach , Windecken | G' |
| 4th | 1948 | Gebr. Rincker, Sinn | a ′ |
organ
The organ comes from the organ builder Christian Friedrich Voigt from Wiesbaden and cost 2,110 guilders when the church was built . Originally, a small organ with 14 registers at a price of 1200 guilders was planned. A larger organ with 24 registers was purchased on the basis of a report by the state government's expert on organ building, the Usingen seminar music teacher Karl Markus Feye. The largest wooden pipe is 4.8 meters long, the smallest 7.5 centimeters. The tin pipes are between 2.74 meters and 16 centimeters in length. The organ can produce notes between the Contra C and the 5-bowed A. The tin pipes are visually visible under a gable decorated with acroters and Romanesque arcades. The wooden pipes are not visible.
Pastor
The following pastors worked in the church:
- Philipp Denk (1812-1837)
- Jakob Hannapel (1838-1851)
- Johann Petry (1851–1868)
- Josef Wenz (1868–1890)
- Ludwig Abt (1890-1891)
- Johannes Keller (1891–1893) (Parish Administrator)
- Peter Kilburg (1893-1914)
- Martin Geis (1914-1932)
- Theodor Zentgraf (1932–1936)
- Josef Ebenig (1936–?)
literature
- Handbook of the Diocese of Limburg, as of January 1, 1958, p. 198 (Oberreifenberg church), 197 (Niederreifenberg church).
- Our common path: 150 years of the Diocese of Limburg, 1977, ISBN 3-7820-0399-3 , p. 191 and map p. 194.
- Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt: Five village communities on the Hohe Taunus. A social statistical study of small-scale farming, domestic industry and folk life, Leipzig 1883, p. 114 PDF file 38 MB
Web links
- St. Georg Oberreifenberg at the Pastoral Room Usinger Land / Schmitten - Oberreifenberg ( Memento from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Oberreifenberg, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 3, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Parish Church of St. Georg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Salt Berger: "It is time for a restoration"; in: Taunuszeitung, July 30, 2011, p. 15
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 51.3 ″ E