St. Marien Abbey Church (Heiligenrode)

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Heiligenrode monastery church

The St. Marien monastery church in Stuhr-Heiligenrode is a Protestant church in the Heiligenrode district in the Lower Saxony municipality of Stuhr ( Diepholz district ). It is the landmark of the place. The church was part of a Protestant women's monastery that existed until 1965 .

history

monastery

1181 by Friedrich von Mackenstedt in Heiligenrode one was Benedictine - monastery established that from 1189 double monastery and from 1194 only nunnery was, however, initially chaired by a Priors . From 1496 an abbess headed the monastery. The Reformation began here in 1527 , which did not fully take hold until around 1570. In 1634 the monastery property was confiscated by Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The conventual women now received a fixed income.

  • Monastery church from the southeast

  • Choir room and ceiling painting

church

The church from around 1300 is a single-nave Gothic brick building with a square, somewhat retracted choir and a false, transverse rectangular west tower under the roof of the nave.

There are two rib vaults in the nave and one in the choir . In the middle yoke you can still see the remains of a vault painting from the 15th century: Christ as judge of the world and tendrils around the vault ribs and the crown . In the east wall of the choir there are three pointed arched windows , above a two-part window . The glass window was designed in 1964 by the Schweringen artist Gottlieb Pot d'Or (1905–1978).

Details of the masonry and radiocarbon dating of the roof trusses of the nave and choir suggest that the church was vaulted in the 15th century and that on this occasion the roof of the choir was raised slightly and its inclination approximated that of the nave roof. The tracery of the side windows of the nave is from the 19th century. Before that, the windows were rectangular and didn't quite fill the pointed arches. It is not known what time the square windows originate from. The two mighty buttresses to the east were built at the beginning of the 20th century to prevent deformations in the gable wall.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolas and Viola Heutger: Lower Saxony religious houses and monasteries: history and present; Lectures and research. Lukas Verlag: 2009, pp. 254-257

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 59 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 23.9"  E