Evangelical Church Nieder-Beerbach

The evangelical church Nieder-Beerbach is a church in Nieder-Beerbach in the southern Hessian Odenwald community of Mühltal .

Architecture and history

Inside the old, almost circular fortified cemetery , on which some historic grave stones are and through a pointed arch closed portal is deferred, stands on the eastern slope of the old castle hill the church.

The ship , which was renovated in 1861/1862, stands on a long rectangular floor plan . The square Gothic choir tower with a slate bell- shaped chamber , above which an eight-sided drawn-in pointed helmet is located, comes from the previous building. Inside the church, the nave and choir have a flat ceiling. A three-sided circumferential wood gallery has in the parapet fields partly neo-Gothic tracery and tendrils painting . A wooden pulpit in neo-Gothic style is located on the triumphal arch .

As the former grave church of the Lords of Frankenstein , the church still contains three sandstone tombs from the 16th and 17th centuries:

the tomb of the knight Georg in the choir; a standing knight figure with armor , almost fully sculpted , flanked by two coats of arms

A grave slab with a standing figure of a knight, holding a shield with a coat of arms, is embedded in the outer wall

a tomb with a semi-plastic female figure in a round-arched closed niche with entwine ornate column and in the base two full Crest

The Nieder-Beerbach church, including the furnishings, is a cultural monument for architectural and historical reasons .

Siegfried RCT Enders ao: Darmstadt-Dieburg district. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06235-5 , p. 341.