St. Maria zur Höhe (Hohnekirche)

The small three-nave, two-bay hall church from around 1220/30, also known as the "Hohnekirche", was built over an archaeologically proven predecessor building. It has a very unconventional spatial concept. There is hardly any symmetry and the interior is wider than it is long. The result was a highly significant hall church in terms of developmental history, whose idiosyncratic room layout became a model for a number of early hall churches in the Hellweg region. The substructure of the tower comes from a previous building and was integrated into the new building with a remarkable construction. The top floor of the tower was rebuilt in Baroque style after it collapsed in 1671. The paintings from the 13th century, which not only decorate the interior but also dominate it, were created in three painting periods around 1220, 1240 and 1260 and were painted over for a long time. They are among the most remarkable paintings of the 13th century. All of the figurative depictions belong to the so-called jagged style.

The most important piece of decoration in the church, alongside the altarpiece created by the Master of Liesborn (around 1470), is the so-called disc cross, a unique work of art in Germany. It is a Latin cross with figuratively carved relief discs on a circular disc 2.72 m in diameter. Only on the Swedish island of Gotland have a few comparable crosses survived

. The organ prospectus from 1679 and the Romanesque baptismal font, which is wider than the entrances leading to the baptistery, are also particularly worth seeing.

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