Kirchhain town church

City Church

The Protestant town church St. Michael is a church building in Kirchhain in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .

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history

Even before 1238 there was a chapel on the site of today's church. The current church building dates from the 15th century. In 1555 a fire ravaged the city and the church. During the Thirty Years' War the church was badly damaged and renovated from 1666 to 1669, the vaulted ceiling was replaced by a beamed ceiling. From 1929 to 1936 the church was extensively renovated, including the addition of a choir.

organ

In the middle of the 18th century the organ was renewed by Johann Andreas Heinemann , from whom the prospectus still comes today . The actual organ work was built in 1930 by the organ builder Richard Schmidt from Gelnhausen with 25 sounding stops on two manuals and a pedal behind the historical front.

local community

The Protestant parish church grove, which belong to the Evangelical Christians of the Catholic majority dominated neighboring town Amöneburg, belongs to the parish of Kirchhain in Sprengel Marburg in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . The parish has two parishes, another church building in the parish is the Martin Luther Church , built in 1968 .

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Kirchhain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City tour Kirchhain ( Memento from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://kirchenkreis-kirchhain.de/kirchengemeinden/amoeneburg-kirchhain

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '13.1 "  N , 8 ° 55' 7.7"  E