Evangelical Church of Graefenhausen
The Evangelical Church of Graefenhausen is a Protestant parish church in Graefenhausen in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg .
Architecture and history
The small medieval village church was built in the 13th century. In 1815 it was replaced by a hall building with a retracted rectangular choir while retaining the tower . The renovation was carried out according to plans by Georg Moller . High, arched windows structure its facade .
The late Romanesque tower in front with a square floor plan has coupled arched windows. The tower is crowned by a modern pointed helmet over the gables .
The interior of the flat-roofed hall is surrounded on three sides by wooden galleries that rest on fluted Doric stone columns. In the triumphal arch there is a pulpit altar with an organ prospect . The organ brochure by Philipp Ernst Wegmann dates from around 1771. On the parapets of the organ gallery there are frieze and grisaille paintings by the Darmstadt court painter Josef Sandhaas .
Monument protection
The church is of architectural, architectural and site historical reasons under monument protection .
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literature
- 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. 552.
Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 0.4 ″ E