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Catholic Church of St. George in Mainz-Kastel (Wiesbaden city district) in Hesse. Outside the church is the so-called Pestmauer.

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mid-14th Century existed in the center of Kastel probably already a "Assumption Chapel", the forerunner of today's Catholic church. This chapel is occupied by a measurement foundation of 1490th A Gothic windows and the board with the foundation charter of the Good Friday sermon of 1498 of today's temple "St. Georg "in the Great Church Street are from the" Mary's Assumption Chapel. On 16 May 1587 consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, the "Mary of the Assumption Chapel," which are in the following years more and more to the church developed. 1689 Swedish soldiers burned the "Mary the Assumption Chapel down. This chapel was "in the late 15th Century dedicated to St. George. 1690 was celebrated at St George's Day in the ruins of the church "St. George "the Eucharist again. In 1696 there arose a new and larger church. 1746 consecrated Archbishop Johann Friedrich Carl von Ostein the new Church of St. Georg. 1793 is proclaimed in this church, the French Constitution. The time of the siege of Mainz, the church served as a flour magazine. Originally a cemetery surrounded by baroque church was founded in 1935 to the west by a three-nave hall with Choir and a slight extended vestibule. The Bishop of Mainz Dr. Albert Stohr wide extended church on 20 Nobember 1935. During an air attack on 8 September 1944, the entire village of Kastel - and with it the Church of St. George "- destroyed. From the church, only the foundations remained, and there are some concrete support. At that time, we removed the debris inside, erected an altar, placed benches under the open sky, and vowed to rebuild the church. After the end of World War II in 1945 began the rebuilding of the temple. On 3 July 1977 ended with the establishment and expansion of the altar consecrated by Hermann Cardinal Volk. The Baroque altar of St. Georg contains "valuable Part of the altar of the former monastery Arnsburg in the Wetterau. This altar was mounted in 1946 in Mainz-Kastel, and later stored in the Mainz Cathedral Museum.

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