Marienstiftskirche

The Marienstiftskirche is a Lutheran 3 aisled hall church in Lich, Middle Hesse, Germany. It became built among 1510 and 1537, making it the last Late Gothic corridor church to be constructed in Hesse. The architectural style straddles the transition between Gothic and Renaissance. It is a Hessian historical past website online and carries items of national artwork ancient importance. The neighboring Stadtturm, with its historical triple peal serves as a clock tower for the Marienstiftskirche. A parish is attested in Lich inside the yr 1239, which presupposes a church existed by that date.

In 1316, the Marienstift was based via Philip III of Falkenstein, as a collegiate church with ten canons, which became supposed to educate younger guys for the priesthood. Three neighboring churches have been integrated at the side of Lich. A large amount of property of the encircling church buildings and districts become donated for the maintenance of the college. In the year of the university's foundation, a new, stone church was started which more or less thirds the dimensions of the present was building.