Evangelical Church Frankenhausen (Mühltal)

Evangelical Church Frankenhausen (2016)

Plaque on the church (2016)

The Evangelical Church Frankenhausen is a church in Frankenhausen in the southern Hessian Odenwald community of Mühltal .

Architecture and history

The small chapel was built in the years 1708–1710 on the eastern slope of the village of Frankenhausen as a hall building with a 3/8 end.

A square roof turret with a pointed eight-sided bent hood rises above the gable of the chapel . The hood is crowned by a wrought iron cross . Rectangular window openings with flat arches and simple sandstone walls are embedded in the quarry stone walls .

Inside the chapel has a flat wooden beam ceiling . There are wooden galleries on two sides, with a small baroque organ on the back . The year 1709 is carved into the wooden door frame of the chapel.

Because of its architectural and historical importance, the small church of Frankenhausen is a cultural monument .

The Evangelical Parish of Frankenhausen, which is parishly connected to the neighboring parish of Nieder-Beerbach , belongs to the Darmstadt-Land Dean's Office of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Siegfried RCT Enders et al .: Darmstadt-Dieburg district. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06235-5 , p. 338.