Gemünden, Rhein-Hunsrück - Culture and Sightseeing - Buildings

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

• Evangelical church, Schloßstraße – tower’s lower floors Late Romanesque, earlier half of the 13th century; Late Gothic quire, about 1450; nave and – tower’s upper floors 1905/1906; Classicist monument, after 1822
• Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul), Hauptstraße – two-naved hall church, mixed Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival forms, 1899, architect Lambert von Fisenne, Gelsenkirchen, tower 1900/1901
• Schloss Gemünden, Schloßstraße 20 – older castle house, about 1300 (?), partly in ruins, arcade gallery “new building” mentioned about 1417, extensively restored in 1520, rectangular building with corner towers, after 1689 destruction rebuilt as three-floor building, 1718-1728, Electoral-Trier Court master builder Hans Georg Judas; commercial estate, early 18th century; whole complex of buildings with the Schlossberg (mountain)
• Auf der Hohl – electrical substation tower; three-floor quarrystone building, marked 1927
• Burgweg 1 – one-floor plastered villa, about 1930
• Hauptstraße 13 – timber-frame building house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, about 1700
• Hauptstraße 19/21 – Forellenhof (“Trout Estate”); timber-frame house, partly solid, earlier half of the 18th century
• Hauptstraße 54 – timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1700
• Kaisergrube (monumental zone) – slate mine, in terraces and galleries; site protected by law against digging (Grabungsschutzgebiet)
• Kirchberger Straße 3 – timber-frame house, plastered, partly slated, marked 1721
• Kirchberger Straße 4 – narrow timber-frame house, about 1700, timber-frame addition from the 19th century
• Kirchberger Straße 5 – former inn; timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, late 17th or early 18th century
• Kirchberger Straße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1700
• Kirchberger Straße 12 – timber-frame house, partly solid, first third of the 18th century
• Kirchberger Straße 13 – timber-frame house, partly solid, hipped mansard roof, marked 1721
• Kirchberger Straße 15 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 17th century
• At Kirchberger Straße 17/19 – wooden smithy coat of arms
• Kirchberger Straße 23 – town hall; timber-frame house, partly solid, apparently from 1692/1694, more likely from earlier half of the 18th century
• Kirchberger Straße 25 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, essentially from the 17th century
• Kirchberger Straße 31 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, gatehouse, 18th century; Schüler tomb slab, about 1753
• Raiffeisenstraße 6/8 – former school; quarrystone building, mid 19th century, expansion in the latter half of the 19th century
• Schloßstraße 4/6 – former Badish tollhouse; double house, timber-frame bungalow, mansard roof, marked 1719
• Jewish graveyard (monumental zone) – possibly opened in 1815/1820, 92 grave steles beginning from 1814; 14 gravestones from the early 19th century, last burial in 1970