Former chapel, old and new church

Until the destruction of the old castle complex on the Burgberg, the former castle chapel served as a place of worship for the noblemen and the cellar as a burial place.

Old registers of death prove that Baron Rütger von Merode-Houffalize, who died on January 19th, 1692 at Frenz, was buried there on January 22nd, 1692.
His brother, the noble Lord Gotthard, followed and was buried there around 1700.

Sophia Constantia of Merode-Houffalize and her sister Maria Anna Therese Elisabeth, both daughters of the noble lord Johann Wilhelm of Merode-Houffalize, were also buried in the mortuary at Frenz.
On April 21st, 1712, baron Franziskus von Merode-Houffalize was buried in the burial cell at Frenz. In 1768, the wife of Baron Arnold Ignaz Franz Edmund, Carolina Maria Katharina, Countess of Nesselrode-Ehrenshofen, found her final resting place in the crypt at Frenz.
Since the village of Frenz, despite several and much earlier attempts, was not raised to an independent parish until 1863, the pastoral care of the rest of the population was taken care of by the clergy of the mother parish of Lamersdorf.

The old church until 1904

It had to be demolished because of considerable damage due to the consequences of the severe earthquake in 1878.
Some sacred objects (including the old communion bench, the mission cross and the old monstrance from 1699) were taken over into the new church.

The new church since 1904/1905 with views from the end of the 1930s

All 11 stained glass windows were destroyed in the Second World War.
The old churchyard can still be seen in front of the church (on the present site with the memorial to the fallen of the two world wars).
It was used as a burial ground until 1929.

From then on, further burials took place in the new cemetery on Friedhofstraße.