Old church Querum

The old church in Querum

The old church in Braunschweig - Querum was built in 1863/64 by the Braunschweig master builder Friedrich Maria Krahe in the neo-Romanesque style and inaugurated on December 18, 1864. It is a protected cultural monument and today belongs to the St. Luke community in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig .

The church, which only holds about 100 people, was built from brickwork, "with a high apse in the east, long sides symmetrically structured with flat risalits , central triplet windows and wall panels structured with round arches and pilaster strips ". The Braunschweig court decoration and church painter Adolf Quensen created the interior decoration in 1910.

The organ , a mechanical slide organ with romantic arrangements and 13 registers , was built around 1850 and was first used in the teachers' seminar in Wolfenbüttel. In 1896 it was installed in the church.

In a bomb attack on February 21, 1944, the church was badly damaged and could no longer be used, whereupon the Catholic parish of Querum made its emergency church, which was only inaugurated in 1940, available for Protestant services.

After the consecration of St. Luke's Church in November 1962, it was not used for a long time and only renovated from the beginning of the 1980s. In 1991 it received a new roof structure and a new bell system. Between 1993 and 1998 Heinrich Eugen von Zitzewitz created a new interior. The pews were taken over in 1996 from the Brunswick Cathedral , the pulpit in 2000 from the Church of St. Remigius in Veltheim (Ohe) .

Web links

Commons : Alte Dorfkirche (Querum) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Old church . The Old Church on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation St. Lukas, accessed on September 3, 2017
Regional news from Braunschweig: Anniversary celebration 150 years Old Church Querum (June 19, 2015)
Kirchbau.de: Braunschweig-Querum: ev.-luth. Old Church (1864) (accessed September 4, 2017)

Individual evidence

↑ Monument topography, City of Braunschweig, Part 2, Volume 1.2. , quoted from the parish website.
^ Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 193.

52.293194444444 10.559583333333Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 34.5 ″ E

[1] Monument topography, City of Braunschweig, Part 2, Volume 1.2. , quoted from the parish website.

[2] Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 193.