St. Nicolai's Fleckenkirche

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St. Nicolai from the south
St. Nicolai surrounded by a wreath of trees on the outskirts of Seeburg

The Fleckenkirche St. Nicolai in Seeburg (Mansfelder Land) is one of four former church buildings in the former Flecken Seeburg, which today belongs to the municipality of Seegebiet Mansfelder Land . The parish Seeburg is part of the parish area St. Annen / Eisleben in the parish of Eisleben-Sömmerda the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra .

Building description

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicolai Church is inconspicuously located in the former outer bailey of Seeburg Castle (Hassegau) in the north of Seeburg on the Schlossberg. It is essentially a building made of broken limestone and of Romanesque origin. It was built around 1180 by adding an east tower to a wider Romanesque nave. A late Gothic box choir with a three-sided end was added to the choir tower church that was created in this way . At the time of the first construction, Archbishop Wichmann von Seeburg founded the short-term Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Moritz in Seeburg in 1184 . A Romanesque portal is still on the south side of the Nicolaikirche; its tympanum with a Greek cross is badly damaged.

The building was revised several times over the centuries, for example in the late baroque period and in 1852 in the neo-Gothic style . The arched windows in the nave were converted into pointed arch windows.

In 2017, the first securing work on the masonry of the church tower and the vaults of the side chapels took place. These serve to prepare the drainage of the church.

  • View from the northwest

  • View from the southeast with a three-sided end of the late Gothic

  • South side with Romanesque portal and baroque sarcophagi in the churchyard

Furnishing

The furnishings of the church are influenced by the Renaissance and the Baroque. The interior has a horseshoe gallery under a flat beamed ceiling. The winged altar is attributed to a workshop in the vicinity of Cranach . He addresses the martyrdom of St. Agnes .

The sandstone epitaphs of the church in the Renaissance style come from the time when Kuno (von) Hahn took over the rule of Seeburg in 1575 from the noble Hahn family on Basedow in Mecklenburg , who survived many of his 22 children. The Hahn branch, which lived here until 1780, used two crypt chapels in this church as burial places for the family. This explains the origin of the baroque sandstone sarcophagi , which are now placed in the churchyard and exposed to weathering.

The older burial place was a large, arched, underground crypt in the choir in front of the altar, which Werner Hahn († March 30, 1634) had built. He was buried here first; according to him, the corpses of the Hahn family were buried here around 1700. In the 19th century there were 15 large and two children's coffins here.

The younger crypt was located as an above-ground extension on the north side of the nave, opposite the entrance gate. There were four large coffins and a children's coffin from the first half of the 18th century. Among them was the coffin of Ludwig Stats von Hahn († 1730). His mummified body was a sight in the 19th century.

The epitaphs and grave monuments can be assigned via their inscriptions and ancestral samples as well as other Hahn epitaphs of this time in the village church Basedow or for Georg (von) Hahn in St. Gotthardt in Brandenburg an der Havel :

  • Epitaph by the sculptor Zacharias Bogenkrantz in memory of two sons of the new owner of Seeburg, Kuno Paris Hahn († 1578) and his little half-brother Kuno Georg Paris Hahn († 1580). The former was shot by an employee of the neighbor of Mandelsloh during hunting territorial disputes and the smaller one drowned in 1580 due to negligence of the wet nurse in the brewing pan of the brewery of Seeburg Castle.
  • Epitaph of a Count von Hahn from the beginning of the 17th century
  • Grave monument of Friedrich von Trotha († 1576)

The church organ was renovated in 1991. The three bells of the peal come from the 12th and 15th centuries.

Others

Martin Luther preached in this church on Easter Monday, April 17, 1525.

literature

  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Volume 4: Containing the Basedow-Seeburg line. Schwerin 1856 ( digitized version), pp. 2–22
  • Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony and neighboring areas. Published by the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt. Printing and publishing by Otto Hendel: Halle ad S., XIX. Issue, edition 1895: The Mansfelder Seekreis. Edited by Hermann Großler and Adolf Brinkmann and with the assistance of Gustav Sommer, p. 372 ff.
  • Norbert Eisold, Edeltraud Lautsch: DuMont Art Travel Guide Saxony-Anhalt , 3rd edition, Cologne 1994, p. 429 ff,
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben, compiled by Anja Tietz and others, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 , pages 197-198

Web links

Commons : Fleckenkirche St. Nikolaus (Seeburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The parish area includes the parishes of Dederstedt, Hedersleben, Neehausen, Volkmaritz, Oberrißdorf, Seeburg, Aseleben, Rollsdorf, Lüttchendorf and Wormsleben, church in the Seegebit , accessed on January 4, 2018
  2. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Volume 4: Containing the Basedow-Seeburg line . Schwerin 1856 ( digitized version ), p. 13

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 13.3 ″  E