List of listed churches in the district of Gießen

The list of listed churches in the district of Gießen includes all listed church buildings in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ).

Of the 107 sacral monuments in the district , all except for the Roman Catholic main church St. Bonifatius in Gießen, which was the last church to be built before the Second World War in 1936 and belongs to the diocese of Mainz , are all Protestant. 93 historic churches in the district are part of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The churches in the community of Wettenberg are assigned to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , as are some Langgöns churches ( Dornholzhausen Niederkleen , Oberkleen ) and those in Lützellinden , Odenhausen (Lahn) and Salzböden . Only the church in Winnen belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . The Zionskirche in Allendorf (Lumda) , consecrated in 1950, belongs to the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church . The late Gothic chapel Lollar was canceled in 1971 and in the Hessenpark translocated .

The old church in Watzenborn-Steinberg and Schiffenberg monastery are owned by the city and are used for casualia and cultural events, but no longer for regular Sunday services. The Nordecker Burgkapelle is privately owned. Six half-timbered churches have been preserved in the district of Gießen : in Climbach , Klein-Eichen , Königsberg , Lardenbach , Lauter and in Reinhardshain . The chapel at the old cemetery is placed a half-timbered upper floor. As for monastery and collegiate churches in the district, in addition to the Marienstiftskirche Lich, there is also the Arnsburg monastery church, of which only Paradise has been preserved, and the basilica of Schiffenberg monastery, which was elevated to a cultural monument of national importance in 2012 .

The oldest parts of the church in Großen-Linden go back to the 10th century. The oldest largely preserved churches from the 11th century are the Romanesque churches in Odenhausen (Lahn) , Odenhausen (Lumda) , Queckborn and Mainzlar . The churches in Großen-Linden and Kirchberg were important medieval send churches .

Architecturally outweighs the type of the church hall . In the district there are Romanesque basilicas on the Schiffenberg, in Odenhausen / Lahn and Muschenheim and a neo-Gothic one in Gießen / St. Bonifatius, hall churches from different epochs in Großen-Linden, Kirchberg, Lich / Marienstiftskirche, Londorf , Münster / Laubach and in Gießen / Johanneskirche . In Bellersheim , Langsdorf and Wißmar emerged classical cross churches . Two-storey sermon churches can be found in Hungen , Laubach and Rödgen . In the district there are more than 40 roof turrets and more than 60 towers of different shapes, including 25 choir towers , two crossing towers (Laubach and Schiffenberg) and two southern flank towers (Kirchberg and Treis an der Lumda ). West towers predominate in the church towers as attached structures.

image	Church name	Place (location)	Municipality or city	Denomination	Establishment	Remarks
	Protestant church	Albach ( )	Fernwald	Ev.-luth.	1774	Single-aisle hall church on a rectangular floor plan with a crooked roof , slender roof turret with octagonal dome and square substructure
	Protestant church	Allendorf / Lahn ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	13th century ?/1521	The core of the gothic hall church with ridge turret, pointed buttresses , recessed polygonal choir from 1521
	Protestant church	Allendorf (Lumda) ( )	Allendorf (Lumda)	Ev.-luth.	14th century / 1730-1731	Well-fortified Gothic choir tower in the east with a three-storey hooded helmet from 1731, simple hall construction from 1731 including older parts, pounded gable roof
	Zion Church	Allendorf (Lumda) ( )	Allendorf (Lumda)	SELK	1949-1950	Simple hall construction with a steep pitched roof and integrated church tower on the southwest corner
	Protestant church	Allertshausen ( )	Rabenau	Ev.-luth.	1905-1906	Hall church by an unknown master builder, who took up Art Nouveau forms in his own way and gave the small village church an unusual shape, semicircular choir closure in the west, eight-sided roof turret with a Welscher hood and next to it a polygonal, tower-like structure on the southeast corner
	Protestant church	Alten-Buseck ( )	Buseck	Ev.-luth.	13th century	Early Gothic nave with a straight east end and a slim west tower. Above the masonry tower shaft, the slate spire consists of a cube-shaped basement made of half-timbering , two octagonal middle floors and a French dome.
	Protestant church	Altenhain ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	1906	Former school building from the years 1905/1906 in the style of the historicist castle building, richly designed east side with open vestibule, integrated staircase and bell tower on the south side
	Protestant church	Annerod ( )	Fernwald	Ev.-luth.	1879	Wilhelminian style, simple neo-Gothic style made of Main sandstone, cross-shaped hall church with open roof, polygonal west choir and east tower
	paradise	Arnsburg Monastery ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	1197-1260	Front church of the destroyed basilica made of ashlar masonry on a rectangular floor plan and flat hipped roof , served as a sheepfold for decades after the secularization in 1803, and again for church services since 1877
	Protestant church	Bellersheim ( )	Hunger	Ev.-luth.	1810-1813	Classicist transverse church based on the model of Langsdorf Church (1782), two-storey preaching church with gabled central risalits on the long sides, flat-roofed, simply furnished interior, slender east tower with pointed helmet
	Protestant church	Beltershain ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	End of 15th century	Late Gothic hall church with six-sided roof turret, which was rebuilt several times; Eastern half-timbered gable from Gothic times
	Protestant church	Bersrod ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	13./14. Century / 1763	Basically a Gothic hall church with a square choir in the eastern third and eight-sided roof turret, symmetrically designed south facade from 1763 in the classicism style
	Evangelical Reformed Church	Bettenhausen ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	13th century / 1748	Three-storey early Gothic east tower from the 13th century with a semicircular east apse, late Baroque nave from 1748, corner pilasters and south and west portals made of sandstone
	Protestant church	Beuern ( )	Buseck	Ev.-luth.	1354/1847	Nave as a successor to the demolished medieval fortified church, from which some pieces of equipment were taken; Late Gothic west tower from 1354 with loopholes and renewed helmet
	Protestant church	Birklar ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	1819	Classicist, two-story hall church on a square floor plan with three window axes and three-story north tower; Building made of stones from the library building of the abolished Arnsburg monastery rebuilt in a modified form
	Protestant church	Burkhardsfelden ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	First half of the 13th century	Narrow single-nave hall building on a rectangular floor plan with a straight east end and a small pillar-like tower in the southwest with a three-storey curved helmet structure
	Protestant church	Cleeberg ( )	Langgöns	Ev.-luth.	Middle of the 14th century	Saalkirche steep gable roof and Schopfwalm and 5 / 8 -Chorabschluss (1500) of the same width, but slightly higher than the vessel; In 1855 slim roof ridge added
	Protestant church	Climbach ( )	Allendorf (Lumda)	Ev.-luth.	1783	Slated half-timbered church in north-south orientation, donated in memory of Karl von Nordeck zur Rabenau, hipped gable roof, six-sided roof turret with Welscher hood, northern polygonal choir closure
	Evangelical Reformed Church	Village manure ( )	Pohlheim	Ev.-ref.	1737	Baroque, built of quarry stone Saalkirche on a rectangular ground plan with gotisierendem 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss at the highest point of the built-up floor space of the place, three-story skylights
	Protestant church	Dornholzhausen ( )	Langgöns	Ev.-luth.	1717	Hall church, the nave and chancel of which are united under a common, steep gable roof, slated roof turret, two-storey half-timbered porch in the west
	Protestant church	Eberstadt ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	14th century, 1693	Medieval tower shaft in the West with Baroque, three-storey tower helmet, baroque Saalkirche of 1693 with 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss, Baroque pulpit 1693
	Protestant church	Ettingshausen ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	13th century	Hall church with hipped roof and eastern choir tower from the transition period between Romanesque and Gothic, slated two-tier pyramid roof from the late Gothic period
	Protestant church	Fellingshausen ( )	Biebertal	Ev.-luth.	1900	Hall church in the style of historicism with a retracted rectangular choir, aisle and flank tower with a graceful roof turret
	Protestant church	Frankenbach ( )	Biebertal	Ev.-luth.	Gothic / 17th Century	Simple Gothic saloon church with narrow rectangular choir and mighty roof turret; Wall painting in the choir and on the choir arch from the 15th century
	Protestant church	Open lakes ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1773	Early Gothic choir tower (defense tower) with two-storey late baroque nave from 1773, the Rococo furnishings of which have been completely preserved
	Protestant church	Sheaf pond ( )	Pohlheim	Ev.-luth.	12th century	Single-aisle hall church with rectangular choir closure and roof turret with pyramid helmet
	Protestant church	Geilshausen ( )	Rabenau	Ev.-luth.	15th century / 1953	Squat Gothic choir tower, battlement with battlements and four machicolations ; one of the latest Gothic choir towers in the district; simple rectangular hall church from 1953
	Chapel in the old cemetery	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1623-1625, 1860-1862	Two-storey hall building with strictly symmetrical half-timbered upper storey, massive basement from the Renaissance by the city master builder Johannes Ebel zum Hirsch, upper storey with a crooked roof and roof turrets in the style of historicism by Hugo von Ritgen
	St. Boniface	to water ( )	to water	Roman Catholic	1902-1936	Neo-Gothic, three-aisled basilica on a cross ground plan with a polygonal choir closure, the portal side designed with two towers, but only the full height of the south tower with decorative gables, corner turrets and conical apex
	Johanneskirche	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1893	Hall church made of dark lungstone and light sandstone ribbons and garments with a south aisle under two transverse gables and a dominating tower (72 meters high) on the southwest corner in a historicist mixed style of Gothic and Renaissance
	Lukas Church	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1952-1953	Complex complex consisting of two structures, a parish and rectory on the street side with a hipped roof and ridge turrets and a church with a round apse behind it
	Pankratius Chapel	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1949	Emergency church according to plans by the church architect Otto Bartning , hall church in timber frame construction with five-eighth connection . The nearby late Gothic tower of the town church , which was destroyed in 1944, belongs to the Pankratius parish and serves as a bell tower.
	Petruskirche	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1960–1962	Church of Alfred Schild made of reinforced concrete with natural stone cladding on a parabolic floor plan with a straight, fortress-like western end and a free-standing, steep bell tower
	City church , tower chapel	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1484 to 1520	Three-storey Gothic tower on a square floor plan with a three-storey helmet structure (reconstructed in 1979), a landmark of Giessen, inaugurated in 1952 in the tower
	Vitos Chapel in Giessen	to water ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1912	White-plastered hall church, portal and windows with red sandstone cladding, massive tower in the northeast with vestibule
	Protestant church	Gonterskirchen ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	13th century	In the nucleus early Gothic Saalkirche with hipped roof and a massive chorus tower whose Südportal Blend niche in the unusual shape of a relay gable has
	Protestant church	Grossen-Buseck ( )	Buseck	Ev.-luth.	12th century	Nave church with powerful West Tower, 5 / 8 -Chor and obliquely connected cross house, resulting in a cross-like shape; a tower chapel above the groin vaulted tower hall
	Protestant church	Great Linden ( )	Linden trees	Ev.-luth.	10-13 Century	Two-aisled Romanesque hall church made of quarry stone masonry, transept with crossing tower and rectangular choir closure, two slender round towers in the west, west portal with Romanesque figure frieze; medieval Sendkirche
	Hospital Church	Grünberg ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1723-1740	Baroque hall church without a tower, which shows individual elements of classicism; high, narrow windows, recessed rectangular choir, which was originally intended as a tower
	Evangelical town church	Grünberg ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1853	Neo-Romanesque hall church, three-storey west tower with an octagonal pointed helmet
	Protestant church	Grüningen ( )	Pohlheim	Ev.-ref.	12th century	Church made of stone masonry, two aisles extended with double choir, early Gothic choir tower with two-storey, slate-covered spire from the Baroque era
	Protestant church	Harbach ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	Around 1250	The core is a Romanesque hall church with a long, recessed rectangular choir; Roof turret with bell from the 14th century and late Romanesque west portal with battlement plates over the slope; Baroque style in 1775, walls of nave and choir raised
	Protestant church	Hattenrod ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	14./15. Century / 1952	Hall church from 1952, Gothic tower from the 14th or 15th century with a three-storey helmet structure from the beginning of the 18th century, late Gothic painted winged altar (after 1489)
	Protestant church	Hausen ( )	Pohlheim	Ev.-luth.	13th century	A hall church from the 13th century with a separate choir and roof turret, predecessor church from the Carolingian era (9th / 10th century) has been archaeologically proven
	Martinskirche	Hypocritical home ( )	Hypocritical home	Ev.-luth.	13-15 Century	Choir tower church, the four structures of which were built between the 13th and 15th centuries, a striking tower with four stone gables and a three-storey helmet structure; late Gothic altar of Mary around 1500
	Evangelical Reformed Church	Holzheim ( )	Pohlheim	Ev.-ref.	13./14. Jhd./1631-1632	Two-storey medieval tower shaft in the West with Baroque two-storey building with curly helmet dome, baroque Saalkirche with 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss
	Evangelical town church	Hunger ( )	Hunger	Ev.-ref.	12th century to 1608	Reformed sermon church with four structures in the style of the castle architecture around 1600, lower tower shaft 12th century, upper floors 13th century, late Gothic choir between 1514 and 1518, nave in the style of the Renaissance between 1596 and 1608, spiral staircase with Welscher dome
	Protestant church	Kinzenbach ( )	Hypocritical home	Ev.-luth.	1863	Neogothic Saalkirche of red sandstone with pre-, West slender tower and 5 / 10 -Ostabschluss
	Protestant church	Kirchberg (Lahn) ( )	Lollar	Ev.-luth.	1495-1508	Late Gothic hall, Chor on an approximately square ground plan with 3 / 8 Accounts, southern edge tower refers parts of a Roman predecessor tower; medieval Sendkirche
	Protestant church	Small oaks ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	End of the 16th century	In sub-Seibertenrod erected 1738 to Klein Oak translocated Fachwerkkirche, saddle roof with octagonal ridge turret with spire, one of the smallest churches in Oberhessen
	Protestant church	Kleinlinden ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1864-1866	Neo-Romanesque hall church with gable roof, slender roof turret with pointed helmet on the northwestern gable tip from 1964
	Protestant church	Koenigsberg ( )	Biebertal	Ev.-luth.	1654	Rectangular building made of slated half-timbering, north side massively renewed in 1961, octagonal roof turret over the south-western gable side
	Katharinenkirche Gleiberg	Krofdorf-Gleiberg ( )	Wettenberg	Ev.-luth.	Second half of the 14th century / 1621	Gothic Choir with 5 / 8 -Schluss and octagonal tower assembly 1619, L-shaped semi nave from 1621, which was oriented north-south because of the rock slope, Rechtecksall with hipped roof
	Margaret Church	Krofdorf-Gleiberg ( )	Wettenberg	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1513	Late Gothic hall church with a Romanesque core, an important example of a Hessian wooden pillar church, steep saddle roof with slender roof turret, low, rectangular choir end
	Protestant church	Krumbach ( )	Biebertal	Ev.-luth.	Romansh / 18. Century	The core of the Romanesque rectangular building with remains of corn masonry , rebuilt in the Gothic and Baroque periods; mighty choir tower with bricked-up tower shaft, above it cubic, slated half-timbered floor and two-tier baroque helmet structure
	Protestant church	Langd ( )	Hunger	Ev.	13./15. Century / 1864	Early Gothic choir tower, late Gothic sacristy , historicist hall church
	James Church	Lang-Göns ( )	Langgöns	Ev.-luth.	Around 1500 / 1970s	Late medieval choir tower on an almost square floor plan with eight-sided baroque helmets from 1690, rectangular nave with a steep hipped roof, flat community rooms enclose the nave in a horseshoe shape on three sides.
	Evangelical Reformed Church	Langsdorf ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	13th century, 1780–1782	Transverse church from 1782 in the Rococo style, choir tower from the 13th century, square corner pilasters and garments made of red sandstone, gabled central projection on the eastern face, slated mansard roof , tombstone of Johann Jacob von Zwierlein
	Protestant church	Lardenbach ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1657	Idiosyncratic half-timbered church in post construction with horizontal roof structure; Hall church on a narrow rectangular floor plan with octagonal roof turrets
	Evangelical town church Laubach	Laubach ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1700–1702	Romano Gothic eastern part (Choir with 5 / 8 Accounts, Vierungsturm verschieferten with gables and cross-ship), and nave of 1702 Predigtkirche on a square plan view; significant furnishings such as grave monuments and baroque organs, wall paintings (14th century / around 1500/1563)
	Protestant church	Launsbach ( )	Wettenberg	Ev.-luth.	15./16. Jhd./1617-1620	The core of the Gothic hall church, which was given its definitive shape after several renovations in the years 1617 to 1620, eight-sided roof turret
	Protestant church	volume up ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	1778	Baroque half-timbered church with half-timbering atypical for Upper Hesse, clad on three sides with wooden shingles, hall church on a rectangular floor plan with beveled corners, roof turrets in the west
	Protestant church	Loan yesterday ( )	Linden trees	Ev.-luth.	15./16. Century, 1908	A hall church made of quarry stone masonry in Art Nouveau style with two southern transverse gables, a late Gothic four-storey choir tower with a slate spire and four polygonal guard houses
	Marienstiftskirche	Lich ( )	Lich	Ev.-luth.	1510-1537	Three-nave, siebenjochige church hall in the transition style from Gothic to Renaissance, aisles with mesh vault, 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss with skylights; 44 grave monuments from the 14th and 15th centuries, including the Falkensteiner and the Solmser, life-size crucifix from 1511, sacrament house (1536), organ front from 1624/33, princely chair (1714), baroque pulpit with four prominent church fathers taken from Arnsburg monastery (1774)
	Protestant church	Lindenstruth ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	1370/1741	Basically a Gothic hall church, rebuilt and expanded in the Baroque style, since then the protruding hipped roof with six-sided roof turret, south window and interior fittings have been renewed at the end of the 1950s
	Evangelical Lutheran Church	Londorf ( )	Rabenau	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1861-1864	Three-aisled neo-Gothic hall church, commonly referred to as the “Rabenau Cathedral”, early Gothic west tower from the 13th century, each side aisle has four small transverse roofs, followed by a larger one in the east, pointing to a transept.
	Protestant church	Lumda ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1847-1848	Late classicist hall church with arched windows on an almost square floor plan, eight-sided roof turret with ornamental gables
	Protestant church	Lützellinden ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	14./15. Jhd./1893	Late medieval western part with roof turret was extended in 1893 by a higher eastern part. High transept and straight end of the choir, red sandstone corner cuboids and walls, small tower on the north side
	Mainzlar Church	Mainzlar ( )	Staufenberg	Ev.-luth.	Around 1100, 1992-1993	Small hall church on a rectangular floor plan, which was rebuilt several times, steep saddle roof, eight-sided roof turret with Welscher hood, retracted rectangular choir, reconstructed in 1993
	Protestant church	Muenster ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	12./15. Century	Late Gothic three-aisled hall church from the 15th century, the core of the 12th century, massive west tower from the 12th century, the stump of the original pyramid roof has had a pointed helmet since the 16th century, the south aisle with three gables, the choir of the central nave and the south side choir have straight ends .
	Protestant church	Muschenheim ( )	Lich	Ev.-ref.	13th century	Late Romanesque, basilica church from the 13th century, roof towed low over the north aisle, east choir tower with a baroque spire
	Protestant church	Nieder-Bessingen ( )	Lich	Ev.-luth.	15th century	Late Gothic tower of the 15th century in the West, hall church with a 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss 1738 converted to 1742, trough vault with stucco
	Protestant church	Niederkleen ( )	Langgöns	Ev.-luth.	1728	With the inclusion of parts of the previous medieval building, baroque Saalkirche with slightly inset, partly Romanic 3 / 8 -Chorabschluss, three-story skylights with octagonal hood
	Evangelical Reformed Church	Nonnenroth ( )	Hunger	Ev.-ref.	13th century / 1775	Well-fortified choir tower from the 13th century, baroque tower dome with a pointed helmet (medieval remains), square nave from 1775
	Nordecker castle chapel	Nordeck ( )	Allendorf (Lumda)	Ev.-luth.	12th century	The core of the Romanesque hall building within the walls of the outer bailey, the square community room only slightly larger than the square choir, eight-sided roof turret in the west, 1708 extension to include an extension between the church and the northern castle wall
	Protestant church	Obbornhofen ( )	Hunger	Ev.-ref.	13th century / 1741-1742	Square choir tower from the 13th century with slated, late Gothic half-timbering, rectangular hall church from 1741/42, inside stucco ceiling
	Protestant church	Ober-Bessingen ( )	Lich	Ev.-luth.	Around 1400	Late Gothic Saalkirche with 5 / 8 -Chorabschluss and skylights
	St. Michaelis	Upper clover ( )	Langgöns	Ev.-luth.	15th century / 1769	Baroque hall church with three-sided east end, late Gothic defensive tower in the west, eight-sided pointed helmet with four characteristic guard houses, sacristy added to the north
	Protestant church	Odenhausen (Lahn) ( )	Lollar	Ev.-luth.	11th century	Romanesque pillar basilica (11th century), steep saddle roof with slate, eight-sided roof turret from the Baroque, Gothic choir polygon in the east (15th century)
	Protestant church	Odenhausen (Lumda) ( )	Rabenau	Ev.-luth.	End of 11./13. Century	Narrow Romanesque hall church, partly with herringbone structure , compact choir tower with broken pyramid helmet from the early Gothic period
	Protestant church	Oppenrod ( )	Buseck	Ev.-luth.	15th century ?/1785	At its core a Gothic rectangular room with a turret without a choir, remodeled in 1785, in 1978 a transept-like extension on the south side
	Protestant church	Queckborn ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	End of 11./15. Century	Romanesque hall church with retracted rectangular choir, oldest parts from the end of the 11th century, decisive shape in the 15th century, two-storey baroque roof turret
	Protestant church	Reinhardshain ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1617	The oldest half-timbered church in the district, a hall church clad on two sides with a six-sided roof turret on a high base made of quarry stone
	Protestant church	Reiskirchen ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	Around 1300/1771	Hall church from 1771 with a late Gothic choir tower, the nave stylistically at the transition from late baroque to classicism
	Protestant church	Rödgen ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	1811	Two-zone preaching church in baroque tradition with a mansard roof , designed strictly symmetrical outside and inside, the squat choir tower on the west side probably rebuilt in 1739, two-storey helmet structure with a Welscher hood
	Evangelical Church Rodheim	Rodheim-Bieber ( )	Biebertal	Ev.-luth.	13./16. Century	Gothic hall church widened to the north and south in the 16th century, slated hipped roof, late Romanesque choir tower, over which a slated half-timbered floor and a three-storey tower structure were built in the Baroque era
	Protestant church	Rodheim ( )	Hunger	Ev.-luth.	First half of the 13th century / 1776	Romanesque choir tower, early classical hall building with simple interior
	Protestant church	Röthges ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	1879	Hall church in neo-Gothic pointed arch style , recessed 5/8 choir in the north, slender tower on a square floor plan integrated into the south side of the nave
	Protestant church	Ruddingshausen ( )	Rabenau	Ev.-luth.	1768	Baroque hall church with gothic, three-sided east end, slated gable roof with two-storey roof turret
	Protestant church	Ruppertsburg ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	1750-1757	Late Baroque hall church with hipped roof, transverse church with a tower in front of it to the north with a high, two-story dome, strictly symmetrical building based on the Dutch Reformed model of a Protestant preaching church
	Protestant church	Saasen -Veitsberg ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	1st half of the 13th century / 1751/1965	Angular structure: medieval nave in the west with a gable roof and turret, choir added in 1751 in the eastern third on a square floor plan, southern transverse building from 1965 with hipped roof
	Protestant church	Salt soils ( )	Lollar	Ev.-luth.	13./16. Century	Originally only an early Gothic defense tower with two slit windows in the south, slated half-timbered upper floor with hipped roof, two five-sided roof bay windows (16th century), in the 16th century an elongated choir of the same width with three-sided east end was added
	basilica	Schiffenberg Monastery ( )	to water	city	1130-1150	Romanesque, originally three-aisled pillar basilica with transept, octagonal crossing tower, south aisle demolished after secularization ; semicircular west apse, flanking round towers added in the course of the 12th century, which are almost completely destroyed; Roof structure in the choir dendrochronologically dated to 1142 and in the nave to 1162 and thus possibly the oldest roof structure in Germany; 2014 foundations of an eastern choir apse and a cloister discovered
	Protestant church	Rod rod ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	Around 1100/14. Century	Romanesque hall church from around 1100, which was rebuilt several times; For this time in Upper Hesse an unusual west tower on a square floor plan and irregular four-sided Gothic east end
	Protestant church	Steinbach ( )	Fernwald	Ev.-luth.	1845-1848	Neo-Romanesque hall church on a rectangular floor plan with a flat saddle roof and five-storey tower with Lungstein corner blocks
	Katharinen Chapel	Steinheim ( )	Hunger	Ev.	13th century / 1962	Squat early Gothic choir tower with vaulted chancel, new ship from 1962 with simple interior
	Protestant church	Trais-Horloff ( )	Hunger	Ev.-luth.	14th century / 1740	A hall church from the 14th century rebuilt several times, two-zone arched windows, baroque east tower with slated hood, organ from 1776
	Protestant church	Treis on the Lumda ( )	Staufenberg	Ev.-luth.	13th century	Single-aisle hall church with square east choir and southern flank tower with late Romanesque and Gothic style elements, three-storey tower with a final battlement and eight-sided pointed helmet over triangular gables, valuable grave monuments from the Renaissance of the Schutzbar family called Milchling
	Protestant church	Villingen ( )	Hunger	Ev.-luth.	13./14. Jhd., 1696/1697	Medieval choir tower, 5 / 8 -Chorabschluss of the 14th century, late Gothic nave with baroque half-timbered increase
	Old church	Watzenborn-Steinberg ( )	Pohlheim	city	13th century at the latest	Single-aisle Romanesque hall church with roof turret and three-sided, flat chancel end, extended by a Gothic western part in 1490, sacristy under a sloping roof added in 1958
	Protestant church	Weickartshain ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1931-1932	A hall church with tall, narrow rectangular windows and a six-sided roof turret was built in the historicizing Heimat style
	Protestant church	Weitershain ( )	Grünberg	Ev.-luth.	1876-1877	Neo-Gothic hall church with five-sided closure; Projecting, stone roof turret with pointed helmet and crowning finial
	Protestant church	Weather field ( )	Laubach	Ev.-luth.	Around 1300 / 1747–1749	Baroque hall church with crooked roof and choir tower from around 1300, three-storey tower structure with open lantern
	Evangelical Michaelskirche	Wieseck ( )	to water	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1493	Romanesque nave with a steep pitched roof, choir tower with a three-tiered dome, 1493 enlargement of the nave by moving the south wall to the outside; instead of a wooden iro-Scottish church from the 8th century
	Protestant church	Win ( )	Allendorf (Lumda)	Ev.-luth.	13th century / 1320	Early Gothic choir tower in the east on a square floor plan (13th century), nave completed in 1320 and expanded in 1908, sacristy extension in the north (15th century)
	Protestant church	Winnerod ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	12th century	Nave from the 12th century, rebuilt in 1950 after the collapse of the roof turret, Romanesque-Gothic choir on a square floor plan was added by the middle of the 13th century at the latest
	Protestant church	Wirberg (monastery) ( )	Reiskirchen	Ev.-luth.	1754	Baroque hall church with three-sided east end and two-storey roof turret; eight-sided baptismal font and Francis bell from the 14th century
	Protestant church	Wissmar ( )	Wettenberg	Ev.-luth.	1830	Late classicist transverse church by Friedrich Louis Simon with a flat hipped roof , two-storey walled tower shaft in front to the west, shingled helmet structure made of half-timbered with pointed spire, cross-shaped floor plan with three-axis central projection in the east and west tower

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
• Wilhelm Diehl (Hrsg.): Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 5). Self-published, Darmstadt 1931.
• Wilhelm Diehl: Construction book for the Protestant parishes of the sovereign lands and the acquired areas of Darmstadt. (Hassia sacra; 8). Self-published, Darmstadt 1935.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. University town of Giessen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Verlagsgesellschaft Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 .
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Karlheinz Lang (Red.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2177-0 .
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 .
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen III. The communities of Allendorf (Lumda), Biebertal, Heuchelheim, Lollar, Staufenberg and Wettenberg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-8062-2179-0 .
• Heinz P. Probst: Early village churches in Hessen. A contribution to the formation and archeology of medieval small churches. In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association. NF Volume 89, 2004, pp. 213-260.
• Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessian Monument Archive, Darmstadt 1938.
• Heinrich Walbe : The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 3. Southern part without Arnsburg. Hessian Monument Archive, Darmstadt 1933.
• Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Giessen 1979.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the parish of Winnen , accessed on December 3, 2014.
2. ↑ Minister opens "Open Monument Day" on Schiffenberg . Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung . September 10, 2012. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved on July 21, 2014.
3. ^ Marie-Luise Westermann, parish council of the Protestant parish in Großen-Linden (ed.): Romanesque Church in Großen-Linden. Documentation of the building history . Evangelical Church Community, Linden 2008, p. 5.
4. ↑ Johannes Kögler: The late Gothic parish church of Kirchberg an der Lahn. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. NF Volume 53, 1995, pp. 35-99, here: p. 51.
5. ↑ For the architectural typology see: Heinz P. Probst: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler in der Großgemeinde Grünberg. Issue 1. Churches. (= Series of publications of the Verkehrsverein 1896 Grünberg eV Local History Series , Vol. 2). Grünberg-Queckborn: Heinz Probst, 2001, pp. 7-20.
6. ↑ Karl Naumann: The Johanneskirche in Giessen. Festschrift to celebrate the inauguration on Thursday, November 30, 1893. Münchow, Gießen 1893, p. 72 (reprinted in: Evangelische Johannesgemeinde, Evangelische Lukasgemeinde (ed.): 1893–1993. 100 years of St. John's Church. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of St. John's Church Giessen. Giessen 1993, DNB 961452331 ).
7. ↑ Georg Ulrich Großmann: The half-timbered churches of Lardenbach and small oaks . In: Hessian homeland . tape 28 , 1978, ISSN  0178-3173 , pp. 92–95, here: p. 95 .
8. ↑ Roswitha Kaiser: New findings on the roof structure of the basilica on the Schiffenberg near Gießen . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 1/2013, p. 41 f.
9. ^ Heinz P. Probst: Early village churches in Hessen. A contribution to the formation and archeology of medieval small churches. In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association. NF Volume 89, 2004, pp. 213-260, here: 241-243.

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