Chapel House (Altenrode)

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Kapellenhaus Altenrode, August 2020
Baroque altarpiece (photo 2013): Holy Kinship (Joseph, Maria, Jesusknabe; Elisabeth, Zacharias, Johannesknabe)

The chapel house , a former Catholic chapel , school and residential building, is located at the Altenrode manor in Schladen-Werla , Wolfenbüttel district , west of the historic manor wall.

history

Altenrode has been part of the Heiningen monastery as a preliminary work since the 12th century . This built the chapel, school and residential building that exists today for the Catholic estate members in 1756.

After the secularization of the monastery in 1810, the Vorwerk was sold to private hands by the Westphalian government. It has belonged to the Wätjen family since 1871 . The chapel house, which was left to the Catholic parish of Heiningen, remained an exception.

Catholic services were held here until the 1960s. In 1966 there was still a  Catholic service every second Sunday in Altenrode - alternating with Werlaburgdorf .

In 2018 the house was acquired by the landowners and has been completely renovated since then (as of 2020).

Structure and equipment

The half-timbered house with a gable roof and a small roof turret contains the chapel room in the eastern third. The western part is two-storey and originally also contained the classroom in addition to living rooms.

The chapel had an antependium , candlesticks, a cabinet with carvings and several oil paintings from the 18th century, and the most important piece of furniture was a Pietà from the end of the 15th century. Parts of this equipment are still present, as is the bell in the roof turret with the inscription HC MICHAELIS GOS MICH IN BRAUNS. ANNO 1756 and the coat of arms of Heiningen Monastery.

literature

  • Altenrode. Catholic chapel. Good . In: Oskar Kiecker , Carl Borchers, Hans Lütgens: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. District of Goslar . Hanover 1937, pp. 29-30

Web links

Commons : Kapellenhaus Altenrode  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year can be found on the bell, on the earlier weather vane and on the lintel of the west entrance.
  2. ↑ a b Oral information from the former sexton Ms. Agnes Baron.
  3. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Ground plan 1937

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 11.7 "  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 21.8"  E