List of churches in the Vogelsbergkreis

The list of churches in the Vogelsbergkreis includes the preserved church buildings in the Vogelsbergkreis ( Central Hesse ).

The Vogelsbergkreis comprises around 160 churches; even small villages often have their own place of worship. The district is known for its many half-timbered churches , around 45 of which have been preserved. After the Thirty Years' War , many churches were built in the style of the Baroque three-sided circuit and hoods roof rider . About 70 baroque churches have been preserved. There are relatively few Roman Catholic churches in the district; the approximately 20 buildings stand opposite about 140 Protestant churches. Most of the Catholic churches were built after the Second World War due to the large number of refugees and displaced persons from Eastern Europe.

image	Place (location)	Church name	Municipality or city	Denomination	Establishment	Remarks
	Allmenrod	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1728-1729	Shingle half-timbered church, hall building with a three-sided end and roof turret
	Alsfeld	Christ the King	Alsfeld	Roman Catholic	1963
	Alsfeld	Trinity Church	Alsfeld	Ev.	14th century	former Augustinian monastery church, two-aisled Gothic hall church
	Alsfeld	Walpurgis Church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1473	Gothic hall church, in the core 13th / 14th centuries Century
	Altenburg	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1748-1750	Transverse building with bevelled corners, church tower in the middle on the long side, two-zone rows of windows
	Altenschlirf	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1753-1755	Hall building with east tower
	Angersbach	Catholic Church	Wartenberg	Roman Catholic	1962
	Angersbach	Protestant church	Wartenberg	Ev.	1763	Choir tower from 1498
	Appenrod	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1888
	Arnshain	City Church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1886-1887	neo-gothic
	Atzenhain	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	Gothic
	Berfa	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1748	Baroque hall church, tower over rectangular choir
	Bernsburg	Protestant church	Drift Valley	Ev.	Romanesque	Renewed in 1510 and 1674
	Bernshausen	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	1725	Hall building with hipped roof and canopy roof turret
	Betzenrod	Catholic Church	Bulkheads	Roman Catholic	1950s?
	Betzenrod	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1663	Half-timbered church with a former school on the upper floor, five-sided recessed choir extension (18th century)
	Bees	Protestant church	Grebenau	Ev.	19th century	Half-timbered building with a canopy roof turret, combined with a former school
	Billertshausen	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1702-1703	Hall building with a three-sided end, medieval core, renewed 1702–1703, medieval west tower with baroque dome
	Bleidenrod	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	16th century	Half-timbered church
	Blitzenrod	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1926	by Heinrich Walbe
	Bobenhausen II	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1765	Single-nave Rococo hall church with a fortified tower from the 1st half of the 13th century
	Brauerschwend	Protestant church	Schwalmtal	Ev.	1748	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Brauerschwend	St. Elisabeth	Schwalmtal	Roman Catholic	1955-1956
	Breungeshain	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1708-1715	Half-timbered church with west tower from 1952
	Castle Gemünden	Protestant church	Gemünden	Ev.	1749-1750	Gothic core, hall church with roof turret
	Burkhards	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1754-1757	Hall-like hall construction with a three-sided end and staggered roof turret
	Busenborn	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1633/1789	Half-timbered church, western part from 1633, eastern part with a three-sided end from 1789
	Bussfeld	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1700	Half-timbered church
	Crainfeld	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	around 1300, 1860	Gothic hall church renovated 1625–1629 and 1667, historicizing west tower from 1860
	Dannenrod	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1706-1707	Half-timbered church, extended by a rectangular choir in 1741
	Ceiling brook	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1789	Hall building with canopy ridge
	Dirlammen	Protestant church	Lautertal	Ev.	1704-1705	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end
	Acorn saxons	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1722-1723	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Oak rod	Catholic Church	Bulkheads	Roman Catholic	Early 1950s
	Eifa	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	late Gothic	Rectangular building, the vaulted choir was demolished around 1800
	Einartshausen	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	13th century	Early Gothic choir tower, nave renewed after fire from 1856–1862
	Eisenbach Castle	Castle Church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1671-1675	above the substructure of the previous chapel from 1440
	Elbenrod	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	12th century	Romanesque hall church, half-timbered rectangular choir from 1715
	Engelrod	Protestant church	Lautertal	Ev.	1854	Classicist hall construction
	Erbenhausen	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1782	Hall building with a three-sided end and west tower
	Ermenrod	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1735	Half-timbered church, renovated in 1776
	Ash rod	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1914-1920	after the half-timbered church was demolished in 1914 in baroque forms with a polygonal apse and dome turret
	Eudorf	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	13th century	Late Romanesque hall building with choir tower, rebuilt in the late Gothic, 1502 sacristy extension
	Eulersdorf	Protestant church	Grebenau	Ev.	1749	Half-timbered church with roof turrets and onion dome
	Field crutches	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1734	Shingled half-timbered church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Solutions	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	14th century	Gothic hall church with central turret, 1932 southward expansion
	Fraurombach	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	2nd half of the 12th century	Romanesque hall church, probably a late Gothic rectangular choir added around 1522
	Freiensteinau	Protestant church	Freiensteinau	Ev.	1721-1724	Baroque hall with hipped roof, late Gothic choir tower from the 2nd half of the 14th century
	Frischborn	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1702-1705	Hall building with a three-sided end and west tower
	Gleimenhain	Protestant church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1529	Hall building with a three-sided end, expanded in 1592
	Idols	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1826	Half-timbered church, former cemetery chapel made of Schotten, which was converted in 1826; The crooked roof and ridge turrets
	Grebenau	Protestant church	Grebenau	Ev.	1768	including older walls
	Grebenau	Holy cross	Grebenau	Roman Catholic	1955-1956	Rebuilt 2001–2003
	Grebenhain	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	1784	late baroque church with hipped roof, late Gothic choir tower
	Grebenhain	Assumption Day	Grebenhain	Roman Catholic	1968
	Large oaks	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	1746-1747	Baroque hall church with a canopy over a three-sided choir
	Groß-Felda	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	13th century	Hall building with west tower and square choir
	Groß-Felda	Filial church of St. Johann Baptist	Feldatal	Roman Catholic	1956	Conversion of an inn
	Gunzenau	Protestant church	Freiensteinau	Ev.	1705-1706	Half-timbered church with a canopy turret
	Haarhausen	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	around 1700	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Hainbach	Protestant church	Gemünden	Ev.	1775	Half-timbered church with a crooked roof and roof turret
	Hartershausen	Nikolaikirche	slot	Ev.	13th century	small Gothic hall with roof turret
	Hattendorf	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1856-1858	Classicist hall church with hipped roof and integrated tower
	Liftless	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1711	Half-timbered church with roof turret
	Heidelbach	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1786	Hall church with three-sided east end and roof turret over the west portal
	Heimertshausen	Protestant church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1699-1700	Hall building with canopy ridge
	Heisters	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	1882	1842–1843 enlarged by a third
	Helpershain	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1908	Hall construction with roof turret
	Inhibit	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	1821	Gothic hall with roof turret
	Herbstein	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1882	Tower added in 1888
	Herbstein	St. James	Herbstein	Roman Catholic	around 1400	late Gothic hall church, choir with 5/8 end, rebuilt in baroque style
	Herchenhain	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	1882	Hall building with a three-sided end, crooked roof and a north tower in front
	Hergersdorf	Protestant church	Schwalmtal	Ev.	1770	Half-timbered church
	Höckersdorf	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	1737	Half-timbered church
	Homberg	City Church	Homberg	Ev.	1256	Romanesque basilica with a Gothic choir
	Homberg	St. Matthias	Homberg	Roman Catholic	1960-1961
	Hopfgarten	Protestant church	Schwalmtal	Ev.	Romanesque, 1734	Romanesque hall building extended to the east in 1734, end on three sides, Romanesque south portal and Romanesque font with reliefs
	Hopfmannsfeld	Protestant church	Lautertal	Ev.	1733-1737
	Hutzdorf	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	Early 18th century	Hall building with hipped roof and canopy roof turret
	Ilbeshausen	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	1765-1766	late baroque hall church, roof turret over the west portal
	Ilsdorf	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	Mid-16th century	Half-timbered church, moved from Bernsfeld in 1984
	Kestrich	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1772-1773	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Kirtorf	City Church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1725-1731	Hall building with a three-sided end and west tower
	Kirtorf	Filial church of St. James	Kirtorf	Roman Catholic	1957
	Köddingen	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1807-1810	classical hall church
	Kölzenhain	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1592?	Shingled half-timbered church on a field stone base, expanded in 1858
	Landenhausen	Protestant church	Wartenberg	Ev.	1747-1748	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Landenhausen	Catholic branch church	Wartenberg	Roman Catholic	1973
	Lance Grove	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1630-1631	Shingled half-timbered church, conversion and extension of a three-sided choir in 1770, tower from 1786
	Lauterbach	St. Michael	Lauterbach	Roman Catholic	1894	simple hall construction
	Lauterbach	City Church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1763-1768	Early Rococo Sermon Church
	Lehrbach	Protestant church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1895-1896	neo-Gothic hall church with retracted polygonal choir in the south and high tower structure in the north
	Leusel	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1696-1697	Baroque hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Liederbach	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	15th century?	Gothic core, renewed in 1773
	Lingelbach	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1793	according to plans by JA Engelhardt
	Maar	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1815-1825	classicistic hall church with western front tower
	Maulbach	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.		Expanded in 1701 and rebuilt in the 20th century
	Meiches	Protestant church	Lautertal	Ev.	1627	shingled half-timbered church with roof turret
	Merlau	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	1853-1857	classical hall church
	Michelbach	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1663	Half-timbered church with roof turret
	Nieder-Gemünden	Protestant church	Gemünden	Ev.	1755-1756	Hall building three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Nieder-Gemünden	Appearance of the Lord	Feldatal	Roman Catholic	1955-1956
	Nieder-Moos	Protestant church	Freiensteinau	Ev.	1784-1790	Hall church with front tower
	Nieder-Ofleiden	Protestant church	Homberg	Ev.	1737-1741	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Nieder-Stoll	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	1680	small half-timbered church with dome roof turret
	Ober-Breidenbach	Protestant church	Romrod	Ev.	late Gothic	1699 heightened in half-timbered construction, in 1870 neo-Gothic extension in the east with roof turrets
	Ober-Gleen	Protestant church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1753-1754	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Ober-Moos	Protestant church	Freiensteinau	Ev.	1910	Small hall church with a turret roof after the half-timbered church was destroyed by lightning in 1909
	Ober-Ofleiden	St. Martin	Homberg	Ev.	1737-1741	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Ober-Ohmen	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	1792-1794	Hall church between late baroque and classicism, choir tower from the late Romanesque / early Gothic transition period with wall paintings from the 14th century
	Ober-Seibertenrod	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1866	Half-timbered church, tower from 1902
	Ober-Wegfurth	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	Romanesque, 1701	Romanesque core, on a cross-shaped floor plan, rebuilt in the late Gothic period and in 1701
	Ohmes	Holy Family	Drift Valley	Roman Catholic	1903
	Otterbach	Protestant church	Gemünden	Ev.	1833	Half-timbered church with a graceful canopy ridge, under one roof with a former school
	Pfordt	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	1616	older in core, on a cross-shaped floor plan, west tower from 1894
	Queck	Nikolaikirche	slot	Ev.	1727	Hall building with hipped roof and east tower
	Rainrod	Protestant church	Schwalmtal	Ev.	1660-1673	Half-timbered church with a crooked roof and ridge turret
	Rimbach	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	1727	with hipped roof and ridge turret
	Rixfeld	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1951-1954
	Romrod	Protestant church	Romrod	Ev.	1664-1690	Gothic-style hall church of the Baroque style made of exposed quarry stone with a three-sided end and west tower
	Romrod	St. Joseph	Romrod	Roman Catholic	1970	Tent church
	Rudingshain	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1673	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Rudless	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1691	one of the smallest half-timbered churches in the Vogelsberg
	Rülfenrod	Protestant church	Gemünden	Ev.	1749-1750	Hall building with two-zone rows of windows and canopy roof turrets
	Ruhlkirchen	St. Michael	Drift Valley	Ev.	1820-1824
	Ruppertenrod	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	1711	Half-timbered church, baroque hall church with a three-sided end and two-storey canopy roof turret
	Sandlofs	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	around 1500	late Gothic choir tower church
	Bad ways	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1703	Half-timbered church, hall building with crooked roof, two-zone rows of windows and tabs
	slot	Sand church	slot	Ev.	1612	oldest transverse church in Hesse
	slot	City Church	slot	Ev.	12th century	square choir room with apse and side chapels as well as parts of the transept and the east tower Romanesque, Gothic nave, early Gothic tracery windows and west portal from 13th century, tower added by 1500, stair towers added in 16th century and conversion to the sermon church
	Bulkheads	Sacred Heart Church	Bulkheads	Roman Catholic	1952
	Bulkheads	Church of Our Lady	Bulkheads	Ev.	1350-1385	Gothic hall church, former pilgrimage church
	Schwabenrod	Protestant church	Alsfeld	Ev.	1755
	black	Protestant church	Grebenau	Ev.	1774-1774	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Seibelsdorf	Catholic Church	Drift Valley	Roman Catholic	1936-1938
	Sellnrod	Half-timbered church	mosquito	Ev.	1697-1698	Half-timbered church, baroque hall building with a three-sided east end and hooded roof turret in the west
	Steinfurt	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1775	Half-timbered church with a crooked roof, first floor for the former school and teacher's apartment
	Stockhausen	Protestant church	Herbstein	Ev.	1846
	Storndorf	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1753-1755	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Strebendorf	Protestant church	Romrod	Ev.	1701	1741 conversion of a bakery into a church and schoolhouse; shingled half-timbered church with roof turret
	Stumpertenrod	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1697-1712	Half-timbered church with a three-sided choir closure and canopy roof turret
	Udenhausen	Laurentiuskirche	Grebenau	Ev.	Romanesque	Retracted rectangular choir, 17th century ridge turret on a steep gable roof
	Üllershausen	Valentine's Church	slot	Ev.	16th century	Rectangular construction and canopy ridge
	Ulrichstein	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1858-1861	Hall building in Romanesque style with 5/8 end and front tower
	Unter-Seibertenrod	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1738-1739	Half-timbered church, single-nave hall church with four-eighths closure and canopy roof turret
	Utzhausen	Nikolaikirche	slot	Ev.	1720	Half-timbered church with a canopy turret
	Vadenrod	Protestant church	Schwalmtal	Ev.	1720	Hall church with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Vockenrod	Catholic Church	Drift Valley	Roman Catholic	1908	neo-Gothic, interior partly in Art Nouveau
	Volkartshain	Protestant church	Grebenhain	Ev.	Early 19th century	Half-timbered building from the conversion of a former tithe barn
	elections	Protestant church	Kirtorf	Ev.	1779-1761	Hall building with a three-sided end and canopy roof turret
	Weidenau	St. Mary Rosary Queen	Freiensteinau	Roman Catholic	1927
	Wernges	Protestant church	Lauterbach	Ev.	1796-1798	still in baroque tradition
	Races	Protestant church	mosquito	Ev.	End of 15th century	renovated in 1740s
	Willofs	Protestant church	slot	Ev.	End of the 16th century	Rectangular building with integrated west tower
	Windhausen	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1840-1842	neo-Romanesque hall building
	Wingershausen	Protestant church	Bulkheads	Ev.	1904
	Living area	Protestant church	Ulrichstein	Ev.	1785-1787	Half-timbered church with a three-sided end
	Zeilbach	Protestant church	Feldatal	Ev.	1668	Half-timbered church with a canopy turret
	Cell	Protestant church	Romrod	Ev.	13th century	Late Romanesque hall building, roof turret from the 16th / 17th centuries Century

literature

• Irmgard Bott et al. (Arrangement): Half-timbered churches in Hessen . Ed .: Förderkreis Alte Kirchen e. V., Marburg. 4th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-7845-2442-7 .
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 451.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Vogelsbergkreis II. 2 vol. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3055-0 .

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