Evangelical Church Freiensteinau

Church in Freiensteinau

The Evangelical Church in Freiensteinau , a community in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse , was built from 1721 to 1724. The church is a protected architectural monument .

architecture

The church was built according to the plans of the Hanau master builder Johann Christian Starck . The hall building was added to the late Gothic choir tower from the 2nd half of the 14th century . In the rib-vaulted choir substantial fragments of late Gothic mural painting. The nave is spanned by a stucco cove ceiling and has a three-sided gallery . The pulpit is located next to the triumphal arch , which is provided with a stone coat of arms of the patron saint , Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach . The round baptismal font dates from 1594.

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hessen I. Administrative districts Gießen and Kassel . (Editor: Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf), Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , pp. 247–248.

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