Altenwalde Cross Church
The Altenwalde Kreuzkirche in Cuxhaven - Altenwalde , An der Kreuzkirche 4, is a listed building under Lower Saxony and is included in the list of architectural monuments of the outskirts of the city of Cuxhaven .
history
It is believed that a wooden church from the 10th century was used as a pilgrimage chapel at this point in front of the first stone church. The former name of the church, St. Cosmas and Damian, is an indication that the Archbishop of Bremen Adaldag , who furnished all his churches with relics of these two saints around the year 965, also brought them to Wolde .
In the 13th century there were two churches in Wolde (Altenwalde, first mentioned in 1282): the parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian and the chapel of the Holy Cross and Holy Willehad . The Heiligkreuzkirche with an unknown location must have been abandoned between 1590 and 1629.
The single-aisled Romanesque parish church made of field stones with a tower and indented choir was badly damaged in the Christmas flood in 1717 and demolished in 1789 due to dilapidation. In its place in the center of Altenwalde on a hill on largely the old foundation walls stands today's classicist single-nave cruciform church from 1791. The rectangular hall church made of bricks with conspicuous corner concretions and a hipped roof has a large square, wood-clad roof turret as a bell chamber with a pointed copper-covered helmet . Many remains of the wall from the first stone church were built into the base of the outer walls, including granite stones from window and door lintels. Unusable stones became the basis for the dike in Duhnen .
Simple interior: brick-built block altar with sandstone elements, the altarpiece from 1658 by Ernst Schröder (City of Hamburg Foundation) is on the north wall, today's altarpiece from 1914, 5/6 pulpit probably from the first half of the 17th century, eight-sided baptism made of sandstone with brass lid, globe lamp from 1989
In 1810 bailiff Abendroth from Ritzebüttel gave the church an organ position. Today's organ from 1897 comes from the organ builder Carl Johann Heinrich Röver from Stade .
Three bells are from 1892 (b '), 1952 (g') and 1966 (c ''), another bell from 1959 (b ''). An earlier bell from 1477 was sold to the Focke Museum in Bremen in 1918 and destroyed in the Second World War.
Parish Altenwalde
The Ev.-Luth. Altenwalde parish, Hauptstraße 81, has a kindergarten and groups for children, young people, parents and children, women, pottery and flute playing. The parish center on the pastor camp from 1980 was designed by the architect Wolfgang Westphal. A foundation was set up in 2007 to support the parish. Altenwalde has had a parish relationship with KG Sahlenburg since January 2018.
Altenwalde cemetery
In the church cemetery there is a memorial and a number of old tombstones:
literature
- Christa Boeckel: The new building of the Altenwald church from 1789 to 1791 .
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Kuinstdenkmäler Bremen / Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977, ISBN 3 422 00348 7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cuxpedia: Cross Church .
- ↑ Parish dictionary : Altenwalde .
Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 22 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 56.4" E