List of cultural monuments in Bad König

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The following list contains the cultural monuments identified in the monument topography in the area of ​​the city of Bad König , Odenwaldkreis , Hesse .

Note: The order of the monuments in this list is based first on the districts and then on the address, alternatively it can also be sorted according to the name, the number assigned by the State Office for Monument Preservation or the construction time.

The basis is the publication of the Hessian list of monuments, which was created for the first time on the basis of the Monument Protection Act of September 5, 1986 and has been continuously updated since then.

Cultural monuments according to districts

Bad King

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Bad König complex	location	The entire complex includes the complex of the former residence of the Counts of Erbach-Schönberg with the old and new castle, farm buildings and the pleasure garden behind the Protestant church, as well as the historic town center in its original extent. The entire complex is bounded in the south by the former pleasure garden, in the west by the farm buildings of the castle, the northern Schulstrasse and Bachgasse, in the north by Bachgasse as well as the Alexanderstrasse 5 and 6 properties and the course of the Kimbach. In the east, the original border runs between Kimbach and Mühlbach. The western Elisabethenstrasse and the northern Alexanderstrasse are excluded from the overall complex because the structure there is significantly disrupted by demolitions and new buildings.		11781   DDB
Image wanted	Gasthaus "Zum Roß"	Alexanderstraße 3 Location hall: 1, parcel: 29/2	Two-storey traufständiges verschindeltes half-timbered building , on the facing the street eaves with central dormer . The core of the building dates from around 1700. The baroque half-timbering of the upper floor and the dwelling has been preserved under the shingling . The ground floor was massively bricked up in the 19th century. The Zwerchhaus once had a wooden balcony, which has recently been lost, perhaps in the course of shingling.	around 1700	11782   DDB
	Residential building	Alexanderstraße 4 Location hall: 1, parcel: 310	Two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with cantilevered storeys. Dated 1680 on the corner stand and marked with the Wagner trade mark. The framework shows figures and in the parapet fields Turkish crosses and St. Andrew's crosses . The ground floor was renewed in massive masonry. A historic goal post by the house dates from 1786.	1680	11783   DDB
	Cemetery chapel with cemetery and Jewish cemetery	At the churchyard (Friedhofsweg), Bad König outside 7, at the churchyard location hall: 14, parcel: 89/1 and 90/3	The cemetery goes back to an old chapel that was built on a slight hill in the Kimbacher Valley. The chapel is evidenced by a walled up portal with a triangular lintel and a typical window in the south wall of Carolingian origin and has been rebuilt several times over the years. Presumably it is the second oldest church building in the northern Odenwald after the Einhards basilica . Its late Gothic vestibule is dated 1514 on the lintel of the portal. The chapel has a later extended choir and is covered with a steep gable roof together with the vestibule and choir. The cemetery by the chapel was laid out in 1771. Numerous historical gravestones have been preserved in the cemetery and in the cemetery wall, including those of Count Auguste Caroline von Erbach-Schönberg († 1815), Dean Johann Adam Groh (1824–1881), and polar explorer Karl Weyprecht (1838–1881) and the Lien family of manufacturers. The chapel and cemetery form a whole, which also includes the small Jewish cemetery, which was only established in the 1920s.		11793   DDB
	Bildstein base	Bad König external 13, the Pfarrgewann location hall: 15, parcel: 1/2	Remnants of a wayside shrine that was broken off and smashed on the orders of the count in 1608 and which is said to have become the object of superstitious veneration. More recently, a small iron cross has been mounted on the base.		11815   DDB
Image wanted	Weyprechtstempel	Bad König external 13, on the Galgenberg location hall: 12, parcel: 316	Octagonal open viewing pavilion with a pagoda-like roof made of sheet zinc, built in 1882 by the Odenwald Club at a delightful vantage point on the northern slope of the Galgenberg.	1882	11819   DDB
Image wanted	railway station	Bahnhofplatz 1 position hallway: 9, plot: 407/19	The station once belonged to the Odenwaldbahn and was built around 1870 at the same time. Originally a two-storey building made of exposed brickwork with an ornamental structure through colored bricks and a lively roof landscape with dormers and turrets. The middle wing was extended over time, so that the small side wing now protrudes from a higher main facade as a two-story risalit . The roof landscape has been greatly simplified. The low side wing , which once had a hipped roof with a bat dormer window, only received a flat roof . The topped main building received a simple gable roof without turrets and dormers. The exposed brickwork disappeared under plaster.	around 1870	11821   DDB
Image wanted	Gasthof "Wacht am Rhein"	Bahnhofstraße 8 Location hall: 1, parcel: 720/2	Built shortly after 1900. Corner building in a location that characterizes the townscape, two-story half-timbered building with hipped roof and small dormers, a representation of the Rhine Valley on the sloping corner of the building, above a corner bay with a raised polygonal roof. Bay windows and dormers are slated.	around 1900	11785   DDB
Image wanted	Workers house	Bleichstraße 7 position hall 1, hall unit: 78/4	Two-zone half-timbered building from the late 18th century. The left half is a two-story extension to the neighboring building with a strongly protruding upper floor. The right half is a one-story porch made of simpler structural framework with an original entrance door. During a renovation in the 1990s, the half-timbered house was clad.	18th century	11786   DDB
Image wanted	Laufbrunnen ("Big Fountain")	Elizabeth Street (corner Frankfurter Straße) Location Village: 1, plot: 994/1	At the most important intersection of the place, the fountain was built in 1877 in historicizing forms. It has an octagonal stone well basin with a coffered parapet. The also octagonal fountain column is decorated with wrought iron tubes and a crowning lantern.	1877	11791   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Elisabethenstraße 4 Location hall: 1, parcel: 739/1	Gable-independent half-timbered house with a gable roof, residential house with a three-sided courtyard. The ground floor was massively renewed, the gable side was shingled on the upper floors. The original half-timbering from the early 18th century with a wide stand can only be seen on the eaves side facing the courtyard. Two old leaded glass windows have been preserved on the gable end.	18th century	11787   DDB
	Gasthaus "Zum Hirsch"	Elisabethenstraße 5 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 318/3	Two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with a half-hip roof. The building, dated 1807 on the stone plinth, was shingled on the gable side facing the street for a long time, on the rear gable side the building was recently extended with a half-timbered extension. The wrought-iron pub sign from the construction period comes from master locksmith Franz Schmucker (1776–1858) and shows a jumping deer and a lion, along with the guild symbols of the brewers and cooperators. Due to its dimensions and its corner location, the building is of great importance for the street scene, which is severely impaired by vacant lots.	1807	11788   DDB
Image wanted	Former Protestant parsonage	Elisabethenstraße 10 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 735/2	Two and a half story plastered building with a mansard roof and dormer windows. The building has three window axes towards the street and five towards the courtyard. The staircase leading to the courtyard was recently reconstructed during a restoration. The building, together with the church, was one of the first to be built after the Counts of Erbach-Schönberg took over the place.	1759	11789   DDB
Image wanted	Residential and commercial building	Elisabethenstraße 12 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 734	Gable-mounted two-story plastered half-timbered building with a high solid base and a half-hip roof. The building, built in the late 18th century, has only recently been fitted with a shop window for a shop on the basement floor. The massive building with its baroque shape forms the end of the older buildings in the town center, which characterizes the street scene.	18th century	11790   DDB
Image wanted	Villa Lien	Frankfurter Straße 33 Location hall: 1, parcel: 420/7	The villa was built from 1896 to 1900 according to plans by Arthur Wienkoop for the manufacturer Georg Lien . The plastered building, which is dimensioned for a large city, has structure and decor made of sandstone . At the left corner of the building there is a castle-like corner tower with a half-timbered structure, in front of which a risalit crowned by a tail gable protrudes from the facade. The right end is a polygonal corner tower with a Welscher hood . In front is a porch with a resulting from the balcony of the risalit Altan . The southwest gable side has another tail gable. The building has recently been converted into a health clinic, although the original interior has been lost. The park-like garden and the enclosure with a neo-baroque entrance gate date from the construction period.	1896-1900	11792   DDB
Image wanted	Former head forester's office	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 10, 10a Location floor: 11, parcel: 27/7 and 27/8	The villa, built in 1901 as a chief forester's office, is a two-story plastered building with a half-hip roof. Corner blocks, door and window frames are made of sandstone. A rectangular stair tower with a polygonal half-timbered structure is built in front of the building in the middle on the eaves side, with a wooden veranda on the upper floor to the left. With a tower, veranda, dormers and various heels, there is an extremely lively roof landscape. The building has a large park-like garden with a coach house in a simpler design, but of a similar quality to the main building. The building was converted into a health clinic around 1970.	1901	11794   DDB
Image wanted	Hofmanns cigar factory	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 30b Location floor: 11, parcel: 39/8	Representative two-storey solid construction	1871	675108
Image wanted	Villa "Tramontana"	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 40, 42 Location floor: 11, parcel: 50/11 and 50/12	The villa (No. 40) and the neighboring studio building (No. 42) were built in 1905 for the artist couple Mühlhäuser. The villa is a multiply structured, richly shaped building with stylistic features of historicism and art nouveau. The villa has numerous architectural decorations, including a. Reliefs of animals and women's heads in the bosses of the base. There are also numerous architectural decorations inside the villa, including carved fairytale figures in the paneling of the stairwell. The neighboring studio is an inconspicuous functional building, but with the carved pillars of its portico, it also announces the builder's sense of art.	1905	11795   DDB
Image wanted	Temple "Karolinengrün"	Großeichels (at the foot of the acorn) Corridor location : 25, parcel: 1/1	Small, open shelter with stairs and conical roof on pillars, which Count Ludwig von Erbach-Schönberg had his wife built in 1837 at the edge of the forest out of thanks for the grateful reception.	1837	11817   DDB
Image wanted	Catholic Parish Church of St. John	Jahnstraße 12 Location floor: 1, parcel: 670/5	The Johanneskirche, built in 1929 according to plans by the local architect Mühlhäuser, is a block-like structure clad all around with sandstone rust and ends in a squat, indented tower in the west. The church takes up design elements of the Werkbund, in that the massive structure expresses the weight of the material used. The ceramic crucifixion group attached to the tower was designed by Reinhold Ewald from Hanau and made in the local Walther pottery.	1928/29	11796   DDB
Image wanted	Hamburg cigar factory	Kimbacher Straße 79 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 125/5	Ten-axis brick building on a basement made of sandstone. The factory was built by the Hamburg manufacturer Carl Mühle and offered space for 120 people. The building was used as a cigar factory until 1936.	1894	404452
Image wanted	Groh Mill	Kimbacher Straße 215, near Grohmühle location hall: 14, parcel: 211/1, 512	The Groh mill is the oldest mill in Bad König. It was mentioned in a document as early as 1477 as Kraen moln . The core of today's mill building is still from the late Middle Ages, but it was mainly built in the 18th century as a one-story half-timbered building on a solid base with a hip roof. The basement contained a stable and cellar. The mill technology was located in a massively walled-up transverse wing with a half-timbered gable on the ground floor. The remains of the mill moat have also been preserved near the mill.		11797   DDB
Image wanted	Künzels mill	Kimbacher Straße 217 Location hallway: 14, parcel: 208/2	A previous building was mentioned as the New Mill as early as 1554. The current building was erected in the 19th century as a half-timbered construction on a massive base, the half-timbering is partially clapboard. The mill wheel and grinder with different grinding speeds have been preserved.		11798   DDB
Image wanted	pavilion	Mozartstraße 4 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 812/4	Remains of a rectangular garden pavilion from the former Count's gardens in the garden of a newly built house.		11820   DDB
Image wanted	Former inn "Zur Sonne"	Mühlstraße 16 Location floor: 1, parcel: 36	Massive two-story half-timbered house with carved balusters on the corner posts of the upper floor. The half-timbered house dates from 1681 and is one of the oldest buildings in the town in an important urban area. In the meantime plastered, the original framework structure is still largely intact. The windows, too, still have the small dimensions of the construction period and were not later enlarged as in other houses.	1681	11800   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Mühlstraße 18 Location floor: 1, parcel: 53/1	Two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with a significant overhang of the storeys and a gable roof on the square-like extension of Mühlgasse, which is important for urban planning. The house from 1751 was the residence of an otherwise abandoned court.	1751	11801   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Mühlstraße 20 Location floor: 1, parcel: 53/1	Two-story half-timbered house with a gable roof, the corner post dated 1738. The house forms an attractive half-timbered ensemble with the neighboring building at Mühlstrasse 18 and also represents a structural block within the upper village.	1738	11802   DDB
Image wanted	Residential stable house	Mühlstraße 22 Location floor: 1, parcel: 43	Single-storey residential barn from the 18th century, designed as a half-timbered building over a massive basement used as a cellar and stable with sliding stone in the cellar window. The house has recently been improperly plastered and has newer additions to the side and back. Because of its location in the line of sight of Mühlgasse and because of its benchmark character for the upper village, the house is a cultural monument.	18th century	11803   DDB
Image wanted	Former town mill	Mühlstraße 28, Mühlstraße 11 Location floor: 1, parcel: 19/4, 19/5	With the Mulln in the village , a mill was mentioned in 1477. The current building was built shortly before 1800 and is designed as a two-story half-timbered building with a crooked hip roof. The mill wheel has been preserved on the east side of the building. The mill has a neighboring stable barn of the same age of a similar construction type with wooden gate beams curved like a basket arch. In front of the former mill there is a historic house garden, which has a fence made of padded sandstone posts. Together, the historical ensemble forms the upper end of the square-like extension of Mühlgasse.		11804   DDB
Image wanted	Running fountain	Mühlstraße (in front of No. 28) Location hallway: 1, parcel: 998	The fountain in front of Mühlgasse 28, at the point where the now rotten Mühlbach once flowed open, dates from the middle of the 19th century and is the oldest fountain in Bad König. The water flows from a rectangular sandstone fountain column with an abacus plate and a spherical crown into two large cast-iron tubs on the side. The fountain has been moved slightly in the recent past.	19th century	11805   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	7 dead end position hall 1, hall unit: 33/1	Two-story half-timbered house with a gable roof, dated 1667 under the shingling of the upper floor on the corner post. The ground floor has recently been rebuilt with brick and pumice concrete. The building dates from the time the farmhouses were rebuilt after the Thirty Years' War and is the oldest house in Bad König, which is why it was elevated to a cultural monument despite the disfigurement of the ground floor.	1667	11807   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Schloßplatz 1 Location hall: 1, parcel: 22	The two-storey half-timbered building on a massive base was built in 1792 by the mayor and later mayor JM Schick. The building is also variously referred to as the "old rectory".	1792	11799   DDB
	Former town hall and rent office	Schloßplatz 2 Location hall: 1, parcel: 5	The seven-axis quarry stone building with a hipped roof and a large central round arched entrance with a square frame on the ground floor was erected in 1804 as the last manorial building on Schlossplatz. The building was initially the rent office of the Counts of Erbach-Schönberg and later the town hall. A comprehensive renovation of the building took place in 1985/86.	1804	11808   DDB
more pictures	Castle with pleasure garden	Schloßplatz 3, 5 and 6, Schloßplatz Location corridor: 1, parcel: 2/2, 2/3, 3, 759 / 3–7	The palace complex in Bad König was the seat of the counts and later princes of Erbach-Schönberg until around 1927. The center of the castle complex is the old castle on a stone lower floor from the 15th or 16th century, which was changed around 1625 and received new plastered half-timbered upper floors in the second half of the 18th century. The two-story building has 15 window axes on the first floor facing north to Schlossplatz and is covered by a roof that is hipped towards the front. The old castle has two transverse wings to the south. Inside there is a remarkable stucco garden room from 1792/93. It has served as the town hall since 1993. The old castle is connected to the new castle (also called Graf-Christians-Bau ), which served as the town hall before 1993. The two-storey, late-baroque plastered building with subtle ashlar structure, nine window axes and a mansard roof with a central gable bay window was built in 1792/93 according to plans by Franz Ludwig von Cancrin by foreman Johann Adam Becker from Miltenberg. Inside, the wooden stairs and the stucco ceilings are remarkable. The surrounding farm buildings as well as the pleasure garden, which was laid out in 1794, which was initially laid out in Italian style and was redesigned as a landscape garden in the 19th century, are from the same construction period as the New Palace. In the Lustgarten there is still some old trees and a war memorial for those who fell in the war of 1870/71.		11809   DDB
more pictures	Protestant church	Schloßplatz 4, 2 Location hall: 1, parcel: 1, 5	The oldest part of the church, which once formed a walled fortified district above the old castle, is the tower stump, which was built in 1479 under Schenk Georg von Erbach. The old crenellated crown of the tower is still preserved under the saddle-up tower structure with a pointed helmet. The nave of the church was built in the late Baroque style in 1750/51 under Georg August von Erbach-Schönberg and has largely retained its original features, including the organ built by Johann Georg Hugo from Aschaffenburg in 1751 .	1479/1750	11810   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Schulstraße 2 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 758	Two-storey half-timbered house with cantilevered storeys and a gable roof, dated 1710 on the corner post. The building has the simple half-timbering typical of the Odenwald with storey-high struts and only contains a single St. Andrew's cross in one of the parapets of the upper storey. The associated barn was built in 1810. Due to its corner location on Schlossplatz, the building is important in terms of urban planning.	1710	11811   DDB
Image wanted	Old school	Schulstraße 7 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 744	Three-storey building with a tent roof, the portal dated 1852. The two lower storeys are made of unplastered sandstone, the second upper storey of clapboard half-timbering. The building, planned with strict classical style, has three window axes. A two-storey side wing with a gable roof connects to the northwest.	1852	11812   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Pool street 8 location hall: 1, parcel: 579/2	Two-storey half-timbered building with slightly protruding storeys and a half-hip roof with dormers. The building, dated 1810 at the basement, is the residential building of an otherwise abandoned courtyard and has an extension to the rear with a ground floor arbor. The west facade of the building is shingled. Due to its location in line of sight to the old town, the building is of urban significance.	1810	11813   DDB
	Signpost	From Hanau to Eberbach (road to Zell (“Leuersruh”)) Location corridor: 2, parcel: 162/10	The approximately 1.70 meter high square pillar made of sandstone was erected around 1820 and shows two hands pointing the way, carved in relief, as well as the distances to Michelbach and Kirchbrombach in hours.	around 1820	11818   DDB
Image wanted	Part: beer cellar	Weyprechtstraße 29 Location hall: 1, parcel: 665/2	Earth cellar with quarry stone facade under a building, at the apex of the arched portal are the initials PJD and the date 1841 as well as the guild mark of the brewers. Since such cellars are rare in the area, it was protected as a cultural monument.	1841	11814   DDB

Fürstengrund

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Residential building	Fürstengrunder Straße 4 Location hallway: 3, parcel: 106/3	Two-story half-timbered house on the gable with a half-hipped roof from shortly after 1800. Originally part of a four-sided courtyard. The south and west facades are shingled.	around 1800	10656   DDB
Image wanted	basement, cellar	Fürstengrunder Straße 14 Location hall: 1, parcel: 275/4	Vaulted cellar with a round arched portal at ground level. The portal design with chamfered walls suggests that it was built before the Thirty Years War, so that the cellar is the oldest building in the village.		10657   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Fürstengrunder Straße 36 Location floor: 1, parcel: 155/1	Two-story half-timbered house with a half-hipped roof from the 19th century, clad on all sides. The residential building in a four-sided courtyard at the bend in Fürstengrunder Straße has a defining character.	19th century	10658   DDB
Image wanted	Former school	Fürstengrunder Straße 40 Location floor: 1, parcel: 70/1	The two-story schoolhouse was built in 1870 as a sandstone block by the district architect Häusel. In the basement there is a syringe depot and cellar, while on the floors above there is a school hall and teacher's apartment. On the front gable of its gable roof, the building has a roof turret supported by bracket stones.	1870	10660   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Fürstengrunder Straße 43 Location floor: 4, parcel: 195/5	Two-storey half-timbered building with a half-hipped roof, residential building of a Hubenhof somewhat off the road. The building is lathed on all sides; due to the natural window situation, an original timber-frame structure can be expected under the lathing.	around 1780	10661   DDB
Image wanted	Running fountain	Fürstengrunder Straße 51 Location floor: 4, parcel: 201/1	The running fountain consists of an old rectangular fountain column from the 19th century with a profiled cover plate, from which the water pours into a new tub and from this into a new, larger, stone-enclosed system. As a village well, the complex is of historical importance.		10659   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Fürstengrunder Straße 92 Location hallway: 5, parcel: 397/3	Two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered building with a half-hipped roof, residential building of a Hubenhof slightly away from the street. The building is dated 1803 on the lintel and the south and west facades are clad. The half-timbered structure is exposed towards the courtyard and reveals a peculiar herringbone-like framework on the upper floor.	1803	10662   DDB
Image wanted	Day laborer's house	Fürstengrunder Straße 109 Location hall: 5, parcel: 391/2	Single-storey, gable-free half-timbered house on a hillside on a high, massive base and with a gable roof, built in the late 18th century. The west side is shingled, the gable in the north reveals the half-timbered structure.	18th century	10663   DDB

Kimbach

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Residential building	In Kimbachtal 28, 28a location floor: 1, parcel: 328/2, 328/3	Two-storey half-timbered building, which forms the north-eastern end of a courtyard. There are two half-timbered floors above the high, massive basement with a dated basement portal (1812) and a half-hipped roof above. The two-flight flight of stairs underlines the representative character of the building, which is considered a high-quality example of late baroque farmhouses.	1812	10666   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	In Kimbachtal 32, 32a location floor: 1, parcel: 327/3	Single-storey half-timbered house with a gable roof. The high basement, in front of which a two-flight flight of stairs extends, is massive and contains cellars and stables. At the cellar arch, dated 1765, the building is the oldest in the village. The windows of the half-timbered floor were subsequently redesigned into groups of three. In front of the building there is a row of standing stones that are worth preserving.	1765	10667   DDB
Image wanted	Touchstones	Odenwaldbaumstraße 36 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 155/1, 156	The row of stones forms the well-preserved boundary of a former vegetable garden, which once also housed a barn. The marking stones should prevent game and pigs from entering the garden. In the Odenwaldkreis, this row of stones is the one that is furthest north.		10668   DDB

Momart

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Signpost	On the wrong track means (on the eastern outskirts) Location Corridor: 1, parcel: 398	Sandstone stele with directions in Gothic letters to Vielbrunn, König and Weiten-Buttocks.	19th century	10674   DDB
Image wanted	Material part: mill	Heuselsmühle location hall: 1, parcel: 499/2	In the back of the house from 1841 there is a functioning mill that is driven by a water wheel on the outside.	1841	10676   DDB
Image wanted	Part: pigeon house	Hohe Straße 20 Location hall: 1, parcel: 6/1	Two-story half-timbered building with a tent roof and weather vane. The tabernacle is located in the courtyard of a larger homestead and was renovated in its old form after the Second World War. As a rare example of rural culture, it was placed under monument protection despite its late construction date.		10670   DDB
Image wanted	Bakehouse	Hohe Straße (between no. 38 and 40), corridor location : 1, parcel: 26/1	One-storey building made of quarry stone and brick masonry, with a beaver-tail tent roof and a chicken coop integrated into the side. On the gable side, the bakery has curved X-shaped wall anchors.		10671   DDB
Image wanted	Draw well	Hohe Straße 45 Location hall: 1, parcel: 88/1	Draw well from the 18th / 19th centuries Century, with a round opening set in sandstone and (broken) sandstone cover plate. As a rare example of a once widespread type of fountain under monument protection.		10672   DDB
Image wanted	Bakehouse	Talblickstraße 22 Location hall: 1, parcel: 288/3	A bakery made of quarry stone with a beaver tail tent roof, with sandstone stairs and sandstone walls for the chicken coop on the basement floor, attached to the rear of another building.		10673   DDB

Nieder-Kinzig

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Running fountain	Brunnengasse location hall: 1, parcel: 255/3	Running fountain from the middle of the 19th century, rectangular sandstone fountain column with cover plate. High water marks from 1872 and 1924 are carved into the fountain column. The well dried up around 1970, but was later reactivated.	around 1850	10679   DDB
Image wanted	Four-sided courtyard	Darmstädter Str. 45 Location corridor: 1, parcel: 203/2, 206	Former double farmstead that forms a large four-sided courtyard. The two-storey half-timbered residential building, built on a hillside, clad on the whole side, has one storey towards the street, but two-storey towards the courtyard, where the building can be recognized as a double house through the two front doors above a stair landing. The half-timbered barn from the 18th century, which was added at a right angle, stands in the northern part on an old vaulted cellar, which is dated 1584 on the arched portal. There is a former butcher's shop between the house and the barn.	18th century	10680   DDB
Image wanted	Powder mill	Darmstädter Straße 85, in the lower village location hall: 4, parcel: 40/1, 47/17	Four-sided courtyard. The two-storey half-timbered house from 1806 has a half-hipped roof. The framework is divided into three zones and shows the double head braces typical of the western Odenwald. In the western part of the house there is still a mill. The sandstone barn from 1820 was extended by a pillar loggia in 1875. The southern end of the courtyard is a massive sandstone stable building from 1860, which was increased in the 20th century. The cowshed in it has an unusual three-aisled pillar hall with spherical cap vaults. The old mill was Princely Löwenstein-Wertheimisches Hofgut from 1845 to 1896 . There is still a stately coat of arms on the north wall of the barn.		10681   DDB
Image wanted	Factual part: basement	Sandbergstraße 2 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 60/6	Old vaulted cellar in the east part of a restaurant, with level access through a round arched portal, the beveled sandstone walls of which are illegibly dated in the apex area (1560 or 1660). On both sides of the portal there is a basement window with sliding stone decorated in relief from the time of construction.		10682   DDB

Ober-Kinzig

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Ziegelhütte (drying hall)	At the lime kiln 24 position hall: 4, parcel: 26	Open three-aisled half-timbered hall, filled in at the gable, built towards the end of the 19th century. The hall is one of the last drying halls that still documents the artisanal brick production and is therefore a cultural monument.	around 1890	10684   DDB
	Stone cross	The lower buttocks (on the old road to Nieder-Kinzig) Location hall: 7, parcel: 81/1	So-called spinning girl cross . Stone cross made of sandstone, 175 cm high, with bevelled edges. In the intersection area, the cross has a round bas-relief on both sides, which is designed as a disc on one side and a wheel with spokes on the other. In the head of the cross a disc cross, probably the professional mark of a miller.		10689   DDB
Image wanted	Hamlet of Gumpersberg	Gumpersberger Straße 17 Location hall: 1, parcel: 18	Single-storey half-timbered house in a former four-sided courtyard with a high basement plinth, courtyard-facing dwelling and a single flight of stairs. The south side is partially solidly bricked. Some old slug panes have been preserved from the construction period. The associated farm buildings are in poor condition or have already been partially demolished.	around 1800	10691   DDB
Image wanted	Hamlet of Gumpersberg	Gumpersberger Straße 18 Location hallway: 1, parcel: 47/1	Single-storey day laborer's house in shingled half-timbered construction, partly with a cellar, west side renewed with solid masonry, with historical beaver tail covering and old front door. There is also a small barn. Due to the recessed position at the bend in the street, the building has a character that defines the townscape; as a poor day laborer's house, it is also of socio-historical interest.	around 1800	10692   DDB
Image wanted	Factual part: basement	Hummetröther Straße 47 Location floor: 4, parcel: 14	Vaulted cellar with round arched sandstone portal, dated 1554, next to it a window with a stone cellar slide. The half-timbered house above the cellar has been largely modernized.	1554	10685   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Hummetröther Straße 49 Location hall: 4, parcel: 13/4	Two-storey half-timbered house in a courtyard in a three-zone, simple structural framework. The south and west sides of the house are clapboard. The steep, standing roof structure is covered with plain tiles. Under the western part of the house is an older cellar, the sandstone portal of which is dated 1683. The associated barn from 1807 completes the historic courtyard.	around 1780/1800	10686   DDB
Image wanted	Old mill / part: house stones	Nieder-Kinziger Straße 69, 69a, Kinzig location hall: 8, parcel: 43, 126	Three house stones dated 1589, 1725 and 1845 in the rubble stone west wall of the mill building. The house stones document the old age of the mill, which has often been rebuilt. The oldest stone in the house also bears a stonemason's mark. The stones were probably extracted in the former wedge quarry located directly below the mill.		10687   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building	Rehweg 8 position hallway: 6, plot 51	Two-storey half-timbered house, remains of a courtyard outside the village. Simple half-timbered construction with protruding upper floors. The building from the last third of the 18th century was expanded to include a modern extension to the west. The windows were subsequently enlarged. As the oldest well-preserved half-timbered building in the village, it is considered a cultural monument for historical reasons, despite its simple construction.	around 1780	10688   DDB
	Stone cross	At the Palatinate Courtyards	70 cm high stone cross made of sandstone. The cross bar is designed as an inscription tablet on both sides. The inscription on one side says that the cross was erected for a boy who died in an accident in 1793, the inscription on the other side reproduces a song verse from the Hessian hymn book.	1793	10690

Cell

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
	Mangoldstein	On high mountain (cemetery wall) Location Village: 3, parcel: 68/2	Upper part of a former wayside shrine that was subsequently embedded in the cemetery wall. The shaft of the wayside shrine shows an incised hammer, so that the wayside shrine is seen as the foundation of a medieval hammer master.		10698   DDB
	Maul paper mill and residential building	House Finkenberg, ST. Zell outlying 2, Jacob Maul-Straße 17 Location hallway: 1, 3, parcel: 115/8; 9/5	The building complex of the Maul paper factory goes back to a paper mill founded by the Counts of Erbach in the early 18th century and was built in its present form around 1926/30 by the Zell architect Georg Peter Klein. On the opposite slope is the associated factory owner's house as a three-storey stone building with a crippled hipped roof and porch with a diagonal corner tower . The house shows echoes of style elements from the Werkbund and Expressionism .	1926/30	10696   DDB
	Gasthaus "Zur Krone"	Königer Straße 1 Location hall: 1, parcel: 40/4	The northern main wing was built in 1904 as a two-storey building with a half-hipped roof and a dwelling according to plans by the architect Georg Peter Klein from Zell. The ground floor is massive, the upper floor is built in a shingled half-timbered construction. In 1928, the building was again given a similar extension to the south, based on plans by Klein, which ends with an octagonal corner tower.	1904/28	10695   DDB
Image wanted	Former ban mill	Momarter Straße 9, Am Mühlweg, Mühlgraben Location floor: 1, parcel: 236, 237/1, 378, 381	The ban mill in Zell has been documented since the 16th century. The bricks of today's residential and mill building are dated 1801. It is a two-storey, angular half-timbered building with a crooked hip roof. The ground floor has been massively renovated in parts, the south gable is shingled. Shortly after the construction of the main building, the associated barn was also renewed in 1802, in the substructure of which the mill wheel and mill were still located until 1816, before they were moved to the main building. Milling continued in the mill until 1975.	1801	10697   DDB

Lost cultural monuments

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Object no.
Image wanted	Keilstein Bridge (demolished)	Bad König, Mümling location hallway: 10, parcel: 304	A round arch bridge from the 19th century built in traditional sandstone construction over a branch of the Mümling. The bridge was demolished in the late 20th century.	19th century	11816   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building (demolished)	Bad King, Dead End 3 Location Village: 1 parcel: 61/2	The two-story half-timbered building from the 18th century, clad on all sides, was part of a still existing courtyard and, with its rear view, formed the eastern border of the old town. The house has recently been torn down and replaced by a new building.	18th century	11806   DDB
Image wanted	Residential building (demolition approval granted)	Momart, Hohe Straße 28-30, location hall: 1, parcel: 14 and 15			10675
	Bridge over the Kinzig (demolished after 1986)	Nieder-Kinzig, Brunnengasse hall: 1, parcel: 255/2	House stone bridge from the late 19th century. Sandstone slabs rounded at the sides lay on a narrow, massive central pillar and on a support structure made of railroad tracks. The bridgeheads were held in the form of low pillars. The bridge had an iron railing. The type of construction and execution was extremely rare, so that the bridge was considered a cultural monument not only for historical, but also for technical reasons. After the bridge was damaged in 1986, it was demolished.	around 1890	10678
Image wanted	Building (demolition approval granted)	Ober-Kinzig, Nieder-Kinziger Straße 28 Location floor: 5, parcel: 58			11893
	Building (demolished Aug. 85)	Ober-Kinzig, hamlet of Gumpersberg			10693
	Mümling Bridge	Zell corridor: 1, parcel: 314/4	Destroyed in 1987		DDB

literature

• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Odenwaldkreis. Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 48-97.

Web links

Commons : Kulturdenkmäler in Bad König  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (ed.): Cultural monuments in Bad König In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen