Lang-Göns, Kr. Gießen, Hessen

Farmers have been living in the area of Lang-Göns since the Stone Age (around 3000 BC). During the Thirty Years' War, the village of Lang-Göns was destroyed.

From 1703 to 1806, Lang-Göns was located in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt.

Today, Lang-Göns is administratively part of the municipality of Langgöns.

Church:

Neugasse 6
35428 Langgöns

The first chapel in Lang-Göns is mentioned in 1235. Remnants of this structure were still visible until 1968-69 when it was demolished to make way for another building. The church tower was built around 1500. A tower clock was installed by watchmaker M. F. Pliska in 1816. It was refurbished in 1952.

The nave was destroyed by fire in 1546, and the replacement also burned in 1568. Another fire in 1690 destroyed the helmet of the tower and the church roof. Following an eighteen-month reconstruction, the basic church that one sees today was completed.

As early as 1600 there was a organ in the church. It was expanded to nine registers in 1661 by H. Johann Wilhelm Schaum. This organ was not destroyed in the 1690 fire, but was replaced by Johann Georg Bürgy in 1839 and eventually had eleven registers. A new organ with 14 registers was built by Förster & Nicolaus in 1920 and replaced in 1977 by an organ featuring 19 registers by the same builders.

The church was named after St. James (Jakob in German) the Elder. The name of Jakobuskirche was lost over time, but was rediscovered in the 1990s. The church's name was officially re-established in 1997.

Lang-Göns joined the Reformation in the 1530s. There was thereafter no Roman Catholic church in Lang-Göns until 1955 when St. Joseph parish was created.