Evangelical Church Berndshausen

The Evangelical Church Berndshausen is a listed church building in Berndshausen , a district of the Knüllwald community in the Schwalm-Eder district ( Hesse ). She belongs to the Ev. Parish of Beisheim-Berndshausen in the Fritzlar-Homberg parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

The hall building with a three-sided end was built in 1729. It is located in the middle of a well-preserved, Gothic fortified cemetery . The circular wall has been preserved in its entirety and its original height of up to six meters with loopholes and the approach of the battlement . At a later time, a small prison building was added to the north side of the defensive wall.

Extensive renovation work began in 1999 due to the risk of collapse.

In front of the churchyard there is a court square with a stone court table under two powerful court linden trees .

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  View from northeast with church over churchyard wall

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  Cemetery wall in the west from the town side with a Gothic archway (chamber gate)

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  Chamber gate in the west over the churchyard with wooden gate and approaches to the pincer walls

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  Court square in the west linden tree with wooden beam supports for the branches and judges' table with benches

literature

• Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments : Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966, p. 75

Web links

• Photo of the church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the parish ( memento of the original from August 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 48 ″  E