Sprendlingen, Kr. Offenbach, Hessen

Today, Sprendlingen is administratively part of the municipality of Dreieich. It is located about 10 kilometers south of Frankfurt am Main in the German State of Hessen.

Church:

A church building in Sprendlingen dates from at least 880.

The Reformation reached Sprendlingen in 1528, and Erasmus Alberus was appointed the first pastor there by Landgrave Philipp of Hessen. Erasmus Alberus had been a student and friend of Martin Luther himself.

The church building today was built from 1716-1718 on the foundation of the preceding building which had been dedicated to St. Lawrence. The choir and some of the exterior walls date to this previous church and a baroque wooden statue of St. Lawrence is still located in the church. In 1933-34, a Catholic Church was built in Sprendlingen, and it took the name of St. Laurentius (St. Lawrence). The Protestant church is now known as the Erasmus Alberus Church.

It was extensively renovated in 1832 and again in 1986. As part of the 1986 renovation, paintings that date from the 1739 were restored.