this was built in 1704 on the foundations of a former building built in the 15th century and destroyed in the thirty years' war. the tower was built after the seven years' war. the weather vane is from 1767. since 1989, there has been a carillon. beside the gothic entrance at the stairway to obertorstraße is the "homberger elle" (homberg ell), a mediaeval unit of measurement long. its importance reaches as far as thuringia.