Evangelical Church Bad König

Evangelical parish church

Gravestone of Lucius Sextius Valens , walled up in the church tower. Original on the left, copy on the right.

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Bad König , a town in the Odenwaldkreis ( Hesse ).

History and architecture

The stately defense tower with three storeys was built in 1479, it comes from a previous building. The crenellated wreath is built in neat cuboids under the pointed helmet that was later put on . A Roman tombstone was set into the masonry. It is now in the gate of the Rentmeisterei and has been replaced by a copy.

The church was initially part of a fortified cemetery , later it was integrated into the complex of the Bad Königer Castle , which was expanded as the seat of a branch line of the County of Erbach . Count's pews from the 18th century are still in the church.

The hall building with a three-sided end and a flat ceiling was built between 1750 and 1751. The Erbach coat of arms is attached above the south portal with two putti . There are oculi above the windows . The three-sided galleries are two-storey in the west, they date, like most of the furnishings, from the 18th century.

The castle church with its 450 seats is the main church of the Evangelical parish of Bad König, which has 3,100 members and belongs to the Odenwald deanery of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . On Sundays, 80 to 110 believers take part in the service.

Furnishing

The organ from around 1750 was built by Joh. Jost Schleich
Under the Rückpositiv the organ is at the sacristy wall , the rococo pulpit

literature

Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966
Hans Teubner and Sonja Bonin: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Odenwaldkreis. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1998 ( Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany ), ISBN 3-528-06242-8 , p. 74.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Bad König - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Story and photo
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Church Bad König In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Individual evidence

↑ Inscription: CIL 13, 06521 ; Monument: Marion Mattern: Roman stone monuments from Hesse south of the Main and from the Bavarian part of the Main Limes. Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani . Germany vol. 2,13, Mainz 2005, publisher of the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum; Commissioned by Habelt, Bonn, ISBN 3-88467-091-3 , p. 146 and plate 89.
↑ Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald. Verlag Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 , p. 150f.
↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 47 .

49.741228 9.007735Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 28 " N , 9 ° 0 ′ 28" E

[1] Inscription: CIL 13, 06521 ; Monument: Marion Mattern: Roman stone monuments from Hesse south of the Main and from the Bavarian part of the Main Limes. Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani . Germany vol. 2,13, Mainz 2005, publisher of the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum; Commissioned by Habelt, Bonn, ISBN 3-88467-091-3 , p. 146 and plate 89.

[2] Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald. Verlag Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 , p. 150f.

[3] Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 47 .