Evangelisches Gotteshaus aus dem Jahr 1710

The church is a place of worship built in a north-south direction and can accommodate 120 worshippers. It is 15.30 m long and 8.30 m wide. The height from the entrance step to the ridge top is about 12 m, plus one metre for the outside staircase in front of the entrance portal and 9 m for the tower and the cross. The octagonal tower, erected as a ridge turret, is covered with slate and has a diameter of 2.20 m. The total height up to the weathercock is 22 m. The entire church bears baroque building elements. The flat mirrored ceiling has a coving and stucco ornaments. In the first decades, the church was without a bell. It was not until 1766 that the faithful could be called to worship by bells, when the Offstein baker Johann Peter Wittmann donated the first bell. This bell still hangs in the belfry of the church today. It was spared from being taken away during the wars in 1917 and 1942. Parallel to the Lutheran church in Wormser Straße, there was a Reformed church on the corner of Engelsbergstraße and Kindergartenstraße. This was abandoned after the unification between the Lutheran and Reformed congregations and was auctioned off against bids from 1839 and completely demolished. The bell of the Reformed congregation was transferred to the tower of the former Lutheran church as the second bell. To complete the ringing, a third bell was installed at the end of the 19th century. In December 1950, a new organ was also purchased. It was built and installed by the firm of Förster and Nicolaus from Lich/Hesse. A special feature are the stained glass panes in the middle section of the two choir windows. They were commissioned by the Protestant Women's Aid in 1942 and completed before the end of the war. They were taken over and installed at the end of 1945. The altar and the pulpit date from 1773 and 1777 and were delivered by the master carpenter Paul Ruth from the Wetterau. The wooden cross in the chancel is a replica of a depiction of the Crucified created by a Frankish master in the Baroque period; it was acquired in 1968 thanks to a donation from the confirmands and the Women's Aid. The original painting and decoration of the church has not survived the passage of time. Only a fresco below the gallery to the right of the entrance from the first century of the church was saved during renovation work in 1986. It is an inscription from the 84th Psalm: "How lovely are your dwellings, O LORD of hosts...". This Psalm was the focus of the 300th anniversary of the church in 2010. The church has been a listed building since 1972. Excerpts from the commemorative publication for the 300th anniversary by Helmut Zorn in 2010. Compiled by Erich Weber.

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