page_title: Herrstein
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Herrstein / Culture and sightseeing / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Germany, Herrstein, Fountain and Timber-frame Buildings; von links: Pfarrgasse 5, Pfarrgasse 7 Deutsch: Herrstein, Brunnen und Fachwerkhäuser
context_page_description: Herrstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen.
context_section_description: The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
  Castle Herrstein, on the north side of the town settlement (monumental zone) – built in the latter half of the 13th century by the Counts of Sponheim; upper castle: fortress-type originally with four towers at the ringwall’s corners, three of which are preserved: Schinderhannesturm (“Schinderhannes Tower”), Stumpfer Turm (“Blunt Tower” or “Stubby Tower”; keep, today a churchtower), Sichelturm (“Sickle Tower”); former castle chapel since the 15th century a parish church; on the site of the bailey so-called Schloss (palatial castle) built in 1742 (Schlossweg 12)
  Evangelical parish church Schlosskirche, Schloßweg 14 – single-naved building, partly Gothic, partly Baroque; quire arch and east part of the south wall possibly from the late 13th century, five-eighths quire 1416, nave expanded in 1437 (dendrochronologically dated), west wall marked 1766; memorial stones from the 17th century
  Village centre, Hauptstraße, Niederhosenbacher Weg, Pfarrgasse, Schlossweg, Uhrturmgasse (monumental zone) – late mediaeval town settlement that arose in connection with the lordly castle within the town walls, houses with eaves facing the street in tight rows, partly going back to the 16th century, many timber-frame buildings
  Town fortifications – built beginning with the granting of town rights in 1428, abandoned in 1677, partly reconstructed in the late 20th century; Schinderhannesturm, Oberpforte (“Upper Gate”; 1711), Uhrturm (“Clocktower”), Sichelturm, parts preserved at Pfarrgasse 5, Uhrturmgasse 3, 4, 6, 8, Schlossweg 3, 5, 6, 10, 13
  Bachweg – two-arch sandstone quarrystone bridge over the Fischbach
  Hauptstraße 30 – former Bürgermeisterei (mayoral house); plastered building on a high melaphyre pedestal, hipped mansard roof, 1915; characterizes village's appearance
  Hauptstraße 44 – three-floor corner house, partly timber-frame, 1712; characterizes village's appearance
  Hauptstraße 45 – timber-frame row house, in the back two-floor wooden gallery, 1716
  Hauptstraße 46 – so-called Französische Schule (“French School”); Late Classicist building with hipped roof, 1854; characterizes village's appearance
  Hauptstraße 47 – timber-frame row house, in the back two-floor wooden gallery; 1716
  Hauptstraße 48 – house, partly timber-frame, 1715
  Hauptstraße 75 – Alte Schule (“Old School”); building with forms of Oldenburg Classicism, about 1840
  Niederhosenbacher Weg 12 – timber-frame house with commercial wing in the back, 1829; brick building in between about 1900
  Pfarrgasse 2 – house, partly timber-frame, 1680
  Pfarrgasse 5 – timber-frame barn with mansard roof, 1795; characterizes village's appearance
  Pfarrgasse 6 – house, partly timber-frame, partly slated, about 1595, conversion in the earlier half of the 19th century
  Pfarrgasse 7 – timber-frame house, about 1890, ground floor and gable use some pieces of wood from 1589
  Pfarrgasse 9 – rectory; two- or three-floor solid building, partly timber-frame (slated), 1716
  Schloßweg 1 – stately corner house, partly timber-frame, in the back wooden gallery, hipped mansard roof, marked 1801
  Schloßweg 2 – wood-shingled house, 1743
  Schloßweg 3 – timber-frame house, marked 1710
  Schloßweg 4 – three-side estate, partly timber-frame, in the inner yard surrounding wooden gallery, 1715
  Schloßweg 6 – stately timber-frame house, 1709/1710
  Schloßweg 11 – scattered estate; house, wooden gallery, marked 1855
  Schloßweg 12 – so-called Schloss (palatial castle); building with mansard roof above two vaulted cellars, 1741; terraced gardens
  Before Schloßweg 12 – warriors’ memorial for the victims of the First World War, stele with relief, design by Wilhelm Heilig, 1922
  Schloßweg 13 – former tithe barn, building with half-hipped roof, marked 1526
  Schloßweg 17 – house, partly timber-frame, 1692
  Schloßweg 18 – parallel estate, buildings with half-hipped roofs, partly timber-frame, partly slated, 1784
  Schloßweg 22 – former commercial building, partly timber-frame, mansard roof, marked 1816, essentially possibly older
  Schloßweg 24 – 
caption: Village centre monumental zone
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