Dom der Rhön, Protestant church in Helmershausen, Germany

Dom der Rhön is a church in Helmershausen featuring three stacked galleries supported by round columns. The interior space is covered by a wooden barrel vault that arches across the entire building.

Construction of the church started in 1736 under Pastor Wilhelm Christian Höpfner's direction. Local craftsmen supplied materials and labor, working together to build the structure.

The Meiningen painter Johann Jacob Gehres painted the whole interior between 1751 and 1753. The gallery parapets alternate Bible verses with canvas paintings showing Christ's Passion, the apostles on the second tier and the prophets on the third; above the organ a crowned lute player represents King David.

The church is entered through the south portal, whose columns carry a lintel crowned with stone flower pots; the grave slab of Pastor Caspar Sauer is set into the wall between the two windows beside it. Inside, three tiers of galleries on round columns rise to the wooden barrel vault, and the painted ceiling can be viewed from the upper levels.

The 48-metre tower was only finished in 1777, the last of the building phases. Its gilded finial was donated by the village's unmarried men, and the tower carries a coloured Rococo stucco finish restored in 1997.