Maria Magdalenen Church (Bad Bramstedt)

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South facade
East gable

The Maria Magdalenen Church in the center of Bad Bramstedt is the only Evangelical Lutheran church in town. It stands in a spacious square in the center of the village, which was the cemetery of the village until 1856.

Construction and history

The parish of Bramstedt was first mentioned in 1316. There are no further sources on the origins of the church or references to the building fabric. The type of construction used for the church fits in well with the period of the late 13th century. The core of today's hall church made of red brick probably dates from the late 13th or early 14th century. It is one of the few examples of new brick churches built outside of the urban centers in Holstein .

The oldest parts are the Romanesque granite foundations , which are not visible from the outside, and the walled-in pointed arch portals on the south side. The first expansion with a new roof took place in 1513. The church experienced its most extensive expansion from 1635 to 1636, when the nave was lengthened to the west and the high brick tower was built. In the lower part of the tower a representative vestibule was created for the nave. In 1647 the tower was badly damaged by lightning and in 1648 it fell on the church roof during a storm . It was repaired immediately, but repeatedly showed constructive weaknesses in the following centuries. Various renovations and construction changes to the tower are documented, including in the years 1668, 1691, 1701, 1738, 1838 and 2014.

All windows and the east gable with its eye-catching access to the sacristy were renewed in the neo-Gothic style in 1878 . The southern extension dates from the 20th century.

Furnishing

Interior with altar, baptismal font and east gallery

The wooden beam ceiling of the interior still shows remnants of the painting from 1732, which apparently also included various round pictures on the window sides. The two wooden lofts on the south and east sides date from the same period with their incompletely preserved image fields showing scenes from the Gospels . The organ gallery was supplemented in 1845 with the installation of today's organ. In 1989 the restorer Alwin Beetz exposed the 48 pictures. In 2003, pictures by Eugen and Elena Trubatschow were inserted into the three picture fields that remained empty.

The oldest piece of equipment is the bronze baptismal font from the 13th century. The cauldron is carried by three male figures and is decorated with various figures of Christ, evangelist symbols and an inscription in the upper part. Foundry marks can be found on the Fünte, but these have not yet been assigned to a specific workshop. As a more recent addition, the fifth has two brass baptismal bowls that can be hung into the fifth. The larger one dates from 1646, the smaller one from 1663.

The altar is a little newer, its oldest parts were made in the 14th century. Today these form the middle section in which Mary and Christ are depicted enthroned and surrounded by standing figures of saints. In 1625 the altar was redesigned, the painted passion scenes in the lower part replaced the second row of saints originally present there, the carved top with the representation of the Trinity and the Lord's Supper in the predella were added.

The wooden pulpit on the north wall is also dated to 1625 and was restored in 1680 and 1879. During the last restoration, according to the taste of the times, some decorations were removed and replaced with simpler carvings.

The life-size group of crosses hanging opposite the pulpit was probably made at the end of the 15th century, but has been changed over and over again over the years, so that it is difficult to recognize the original state today. Other works of art are a wooden figure of Maria Magdalena from the beginning of the 16th century, a sandstone epitaph from 1586 and the two chandeliers from the first half of the 18th century.

The sacristy is located on the east wall behind the altar. It is spatially not clearly separated from the nave, but only separated by a narrow wall.

There are memorial plaques for those who fell in the wars of 1848 , 1870/71 and the First World War on both sides of the pulpit and on the gallery.

Bells

Since the late 16th century, records of various bells have been found in church records . Of all the old bells, only one small bell remained in the church after the Second World War , all the others were used for armament purposes. One of them was found again at the Hamburg bell cemetery after the war and brought back to Bramstedt. It is a medium-sized bronze bell from 1594 with an inscription and frieze from the workshop of the foundryman Bartholomäus Korkow. In 1953 another bronze bell, the former town hall bell from Czerwieńsk , came into the church as the so-called godfather bell . In 1955 three steel bells from the foundry of the Bochumer Verein completed the ringing again. Today the church has a total of five bells, two old bronze and three modern steel bells.

organ

Organ prospectus

Today's organ is the current instrument in a long line of organs in the church. The first documentary mention of an organ is in 1573, replacements were made in 1667 and 1701. The new building from 1845 is the work of organ builder Wohlien , the prospectus of which has largely been preserved. The organ itself underwent various changes in 1917, 1925 and 1936. In 1970, the Paschen company carried out a completely new construction of the plant using various old registers . The instrument was renovated and modernized in 2010 by Quathamer Orgelbau.

The disposition (as of 1974) is as follows:

I main work C–
1. Pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Coupling flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Gemshorn 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-V
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Quintatön 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Flute 4 ′
14th octave 2 ′
15th Terzian II
16. Scharff IV
17th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Principal 8th'
20th Dumped 8th'
21st Chorale flute 4 ′
22nd Schwiegel 2 ′
23. Rauschbass III
24. Mixture IV
25th trombone 16 ′
26th Trumpet 8th'
27. shelf 4 ′

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 57 ″  E

Map: Schleswig-Holstein
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Schleswig-Holstein

  • View of the linden wreath around the church and cemetery

  • Baptismal font with an altar in the background

  • altar

  • Crucifixion group

  • Historical tomb in the churchyard

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bramstedter Bilderbibel
  2. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein . 5th edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02627-1 , pp. 744 .
  3. ↑ Einar Behn: Church bells should become weapons. Kiel news . January 19, 2020. Accessed April 28, 2020.

Web links

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