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Gießen District

Evangelische Stadtkirche Dillenburg

Gießen District

Evangelische Stadtkirche Dillenburg

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Evangelische Stadtkirche Dillenburg

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Location: Dillenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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1. Dillenburg Historical Trail

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2. Haigerer Tor Shelter – Kornberg Panoramic Viewpoint loop from Dillenburg

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3. Kornberg Panoramic Viewpoint – Dillenburg Old Town loop from Dillenburg

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Manuela

October 8, 2021

A very old church, consecrated in 1491.

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Stefan Rüger

January 14, 2021

The new building of the Dillenburg parish church, consecrated in 1491, goes back to an older Marienkapelle, first mentioned in 1454. The new building shows the image of a single-nave late Gothic church building with a vaulted chancel, flat-roofed nave and west tower. The chancel has a star vault with simple hollow profile ribs resting on brackets. The chancel is elevated to the nave. Under the choir loft there is a burial place for numerous rulers of the Nassau family, including the important Counts Wilhelm der Reiche and Johann VI. A crypt chapel was added to the south side of the choir around 1680; above it is the princely box, which is accessible from the outside at ground level. There are other tombs from the 16th and 17th centuries in the chancel; Particularly noteworthy is a late Gothic epitaph from 1479 for the heart of Count Johann von Nassau. The interior of the nave with pointed arch windows and flat buttresses is defined by the two-story galleries, which were built in the course of the conversion carried out by Conrad Rosbach in 1594-97 into a Protestant sermon church. The upper galleries continued into the choir. The pillars of the gallery parapets have sconce carvings. Another gallery was added on the south side of the nave at the end of the 18th century. The interior of the nave includes the neo-Gothic pulpit with a sound cover from the 17th century, as well as pews and choir screens from the early 19th century.

Cultural monument for historical, artistic and urban reasons.

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Oranienstadt Dillenburg

February 16, 2023

In addition to the castle chapel, there was a Marienkapelle in Dillenburg (mentioned in 1454).

However, the Sunday service had to be attended in the mother church in the neighboring village of Feldbach. The arduous path in winter as well as the poor protection against fire and robberies during the longer absence of the citizens, whose number was also constantly growing, called for a remedy. With a reasoned request to the Archbishop of Trier, to whose diocese our church district belonged, the Dillenburg Count Johann V. achieved that from 1490 the service with all the sacraments could finally be held in the church of Dillenburg.

At that time, a much larger new building was being built on the site of the Marienkapelle on the Kirchberg. On June 3, 1491, the "Johannis Church", named after John the Baptist, was consecrated. After the Reformation had been introduced in the County of Nassau-Dillenburg from 1530, the church was given two galleries at the end of the 16th century. The "Walpurgis bell" has been ringing since 1510, now accompanied by 3 steel bells from 1919.

The tombs of the ancestors of the House of Orange-Nassau are located in the choir room. The parents of Wilhelm von Orange, Wilhelm der Reiche (†1559) and Juliane von Stolberg (†1580) and his brother, Count Johann VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg (†1606). A gem of late Gothic stonemasonry is the heart-shaped tombstone for John IV from 1479. In the side crypt the visitor will find four mighty lead coffins in which the last princely family of Dillenburg Castle found their resting place (early 18th century).

For the 500th anniversary in 1991, the interior was renovated and many parts of the organ were rebuilt and expanded by the Oberlinger company. In the meantime, more than 30 registers can be heard, plus a Rückpositiv. The baroque prospectus, which once adorned the organ from 1719 to 1880, but was installed at a different location in the meantime, has returned to its old place in the town church. From 2014 - 2016 the church roof was extensively renovated and the exterior plaster renewed.

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Location: Dillenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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1. Dillenburg Historical Trail

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