George's Church (Bad Gandersheim)
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The Georgskirche in Bad Gandersheim ( Northeim district , Lower Saxony ) is a hall church . It is characterized by a half-timbered choir and its rural interior painting from the 17th century.
history
The exact age of St. George's Church is not known. The chronicler Henricus Bodo , a monk of the Clus monastery , dates the building to the 9th century in a chronicle from 1523 to 1532. Documented it for the first time in 1196 as a parish church at the time of Abbess Mechthild I mentioned. According to Henricus Bodo, the founding of the monastery church Clus goes back to the St. George's Church.
For a long time the church served the citizens of Gandersheim as a parish church. With the new construction of the market church St. Mauritius ("Moritzkirche") on the market square in 1376, it was no longer the only civic church. In 1568 it completely lost its importance as a parish church when, in the course of the Reformation, the collegiate church was opened to citizens for worship. Even today the church is not used for regular worship. Concerts and funerals take place there.
architecture
The appearance is old, stocky and defensive. It consists of the 22 meter long and 11 half meter wide Gothic nave and the probably older Romanesque tower.
A special feature is the location of the church outside the city wall. When the Gande was diverted in 1550 , the city wall moved within a few meters of the church. In the course of these construction measures, the Gothic nave from 1428 was shortened and provided with a half-timbered choir. The half-timbered construction was intended to remove a defensive structure in the immediate vicinity outside the city wall and thus improve the security of the city.
Interior
The altar dates from 1711 to 1713, but did not move from the collegiate church to its current location until 1848. As an aedicule , it is a classical style element. The background of the choir shows a painted curtain made of stylized lilies . The wooden stalls are from 1591. They were painted in color by the Danish painter Magnus Boischuh in 1676 . The beams of the ceiling and the supporting pillars in front of the choir are decorated with ornaments. In front of the left column there is a plastic made of wood. It shows St. George and dates from the 15th century. The stairs to the gallery are decorated with monochrome ornamental animals (horse, bird). The gallery itself is painted on the outside with 26 biblical scenes. The style of painting can be assigned to the Baroque period , but differs very clearly from the Baroque church painting of Catholic southern Germany and is more reminiscent of peasant painting .
The organ was built in 1997 by the Noeske organ building company, in an organ case that partly dates from 1750. The slider chest instrument has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.
- Effect register: nightingale, Zimbelstern
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Goetting : The foundation of the Benedictine monastery Clus . In: Braunschweiger Jahrbuch , Vol. 40 (1959) pp. 17–39, here p. 31.
- ↑ Timeline ( Memento of the original of April 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB) See: Page 10 of the Kurzeitung: Die Kirche Sankt Georg, Bürgererkirche an der Gande
- ↑ Information on the organ
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 17 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 13 ″ E