Bartholomäus chapel (Braunschweig)

Bartholomew Chapel

The Bartholomäuskapelle in Braunschweig , also called Bartholomäuskirche , was built at the end of the 12th century. It has been used as a house of worship by the evangelical church since 1709 . As the only city church in Braunschweig, it has the altar on the west side.

History of construction and use

The chapel consecrated to the Apostle Bartholomäus on Schützenstraße in the Weichbild Altstadt was first mentioned in a document in 1304, but was begun in Romanesque forms as early as the end of the 12th century . Gothic renovations were carried out during the 13th and 14th centuries . At the end of the 15th century the main portal on the east side was created. The gable relief bears the year 1483. The Bartholomäuskapelle was under the patronage of the Blasiusstift and had no parish rights. In a contract between the monastery and the city council of January 29, 1325, the chapel is described as belonging to the Martini parish .

Reformation time

After the Reformation , the Blasiusstift donated the building to the city, which was vacant until 1626 and was then temporarily used as an auditorium for lectures by the city ​​superintendent . After 1671 the building served as an armory .

reformed Church

Duke Anton Ulrich left the Bartholomäuskapelle in 1708 to the Reformed community, which until then had held its services in a prayer room in the ducal palace. The Bartholomäus chapel was redesigned by master builder Hermann Korb and inaugurated on February 3, 1709. The west towers were badly damaged by a storm on New Year's Eve 1834 and demolished in the course of the year. Renovation work was carried out in 1850, 1867 and 1877. In 1904 the church was restored by Georg Lübke . After severe destruction during the Second World War , the Bartholomäus chapel was rebuilt in a simplified form in 1953.

Exterior and interior construction

Carl Schiller judged in his work The Medieval Architecture of Braunschweig and its immediate surroundings in 1852 : From an architectural point of view, the Reformed Church is completely insignificant. It contains either pillars or columns, not even a fragment of the earlier vault or the scale window.

organ

As early as 1749, the Bartholomäuskapelle received an organ from the organ builder Johann Christoph Hüsemann , who came from nearby Wolfenbüttel . This was replaced in 1904 by a romantic work from the Furtwängler & Hammer company , which was also destroyed by Furtwängler & Hammer in 1927 during the most devastating bombing raid on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 after extensive renovations . The chapel was badly damaged in the attack. In 1958 Friedrich Weißenborn built today's organ.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 Dumped 8th' Principal 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ recorder 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Schwiegel 1' Scharff IV Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Principal 8th' Pointed 8th' octave 4 ′ Smalled up 4 ' octave 2 ′ Sesquialtera II Mixture IV Zimbel II oboe 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Principal 8th' Pointed flute 4 ′ Night horn 2 ′ Mixture IV bassoon 16 ′ Trumpet 4 ′

• Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P

literature

• Elmar Arnhold: St. Andreas - parish church of the new town. In: Medieval metropolis Braunschweig. Architecture and urban architecture from the 11th to 15th centuries. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2018, ISBN 978-3-944939-36-0 , pp. 165–166.
• Reinhard Dorn : Medieval churches in Braunschweig. Niemeyer, Hameln 1978, ISBN 3-87585-043-2 , p. 209.
• Hermann Dürre : History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. Grüneberg, Braunschweig 1861, pp. 541-543.
• Wolfgang A. Jünke: Bartholomäus chapel . Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 29 .
• Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 1 (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 , pp. 112-113.
• Museum in Wolfenbüttel Castle, Department of Building History of the TU Braunschweig (Ed.): Hermann Korb and his time. Baroque building in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 978-393766451-4 , p. 152.
• Karl Steinacker , Paul J. Meier : The art monuments of the city of Braunschweig. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1926, pp. 36-37.
• Carl Schiller : The medieval architecture of Braunschweig and its immediate surroundings. Brunswick 1852.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 51.8 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 7 ″  E