Nordhusen church ruins
The Romanesque church ruin Nordhusen is located on the Nordhusen desert near Hundisburg in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .
architecture
The ruin is the former west transverse tower of the former village church. With a floor plan of 11.80 m by 5.20 m, it reaches a height of 17 m. The preserved masonry consists of regularly hewn Grauwackebruchstein . Two round arches to the former nave and five sound openings are located in the completely preserved east wall of the tower. There are two further sound openings on the north and south sides.
history
The church in Nordhusen was built around 1200 or shortly before on the high northern bank of the Beber .
As early as 1214, the residents of Nordhusens began to give up the place, probably for security reasons; the place Hundisburg was founded. In 1218 a chapel was consecrated in Hundisburg . Then this chapel represented a branch of the Church of North Hus is 1,262, leaving the. Halberstadt bishop Volrad (1255-1296 / 97) the local cathedral chapter the patronage of the church in Nordhusen.
At this point in time, Nordhusen should have been meaningless. Income from Nordhusen was mentioned in 1307 and 1325.
Today the ruin is a stop on the Romanesque Road and part of the Ecomusée Haldensleben-Hundisburg .
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 429
- Heiko Guenther, DVD Spukruine Nordhusen , ELBE Medien Produktion GmbH 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022684-7
- Ulrich Hauer : The Nordhusen ruin ( large architectural monuments , issue 459). 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1993
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '50.1 " N , 11 ° 23' 3.7" E