Franziskanerminoritenkloster Fritzlar, Gothic monastery and church in Fritzlar, Germany

The Franciscan monastery in Fritzlar is a complex with a two-nave Gothic hall church marked by tall buttresses and pointed arch windows without colored glass. The structure shows the careful craftsmanship of late medieval architecture with its characteristic Gothic features.

The Franciscans received Archbishop Siegfried III of Mainz's permission on 6 August 1236, and on 20 June 1237 the citizens sold them land between the Werkeltor and the Jordanturm for six marks of silver. The monastery, consecrated in 1244, joined the Conventual branch at the order's split. It operated until 1811, with a brief interruption during the Reformation; since 1824 the church has served as the Protestant town church.

The church is still called Minoritenkirche, recalling the Conventual branch the house joined at the order's split. Its high altar was reconsecrated on 5 July 1658 by Mainz auxiliary bishop Adolph Gottfried Volusius in honour of Francis and Elizabeth of Thuringia. Since 1824 the former monastic church has served as the Protestant town church.

The former convent buildings were converted into a hospital and have been repeatedly extended and modernised; they are not a museum and are not open to visitors. The former convent church, the Minoritenkirche, has served as the Protestant town church since 1824. Its former main portal on the west facade, facing the Brüdergasse, is no longer used for traffic reasons; the entrance is on the south side.

The choir ends in five-eighth form directly on the city wall, which was reinforced there with a hurde in 1377 after the church was built. The nave's north wall has no windows and is broken at mid-height by a gallery on round-arched arcades. The keystones of the four choir vaults show the blessing Christ, the praying Francis of Assisi, a head with a leaf wreath, and a rose with a man and a woman.