Waldensian Church (Gottstreu)
The Waldensian Church is the Protestant church of Gottstreu , a district of the Wesertal community in the Hessian district of Kassel .
The village of Gottstreu, founded in 1722 for Waldensian religious refugees from France by Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel together with the neighboring village of Gewissenruh as a "colony", received its own church in 1730 after the plan to build a common church for both villages by the Karlshafen master builder Friedrich Conradi to let was given up. The inscription above the portal names the two builders of the church, Landgrave Karl, and his son King Friedrich of Sweden in initials (CHL 1730 FRS) . In contrast to the other Huguenot churches of the Landgraviate of Kassel, the Waldensian Church of Gottstreu is built as a plastered stone building in the Weser Baroque style. Until 1825, the divine service in Gottstreu was held in French by the pastor of the French Reformed community in Karlshafen. Today Gottstreu belongs together with Gewissenruh to the Lippoldsberg parish in Ev. General Association of Oberweser.
literature
- Jochen Desel: Huguenot churches in Hessen-Kassel . Publishing house of the German Huguenot Association, Karlshafen 1972, pp. 100-103.
Web links
- Information on the website of the Ev. General Association of Oberweser
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 39.5 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 9.3" E