Marienkirche (Hornburg)
The Protestant St. Mary's Church in the town of Hornburg in the municipality of Schladen-Werla is a post-Gothic hall church in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the Protestant parish Hornburg / Isingerode of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig and is also known as the Beatae Mariae Virginis Hornburg church .
History and architecture
The Marienkirche Hornburg was built in the years 1614-16 by the master mason Martin Eilenburg on the foundations of a medieval predecessor building, possibly in collaboration with Paul Francke , who in 1613 had worked out an unrealized design for the new building. The building, which was influenced by the church of St. Stephani in Osterwieck , draws on late-Gothic architectural forms in its spatial form, like the church buildings in Wolfenbüttel and Bückeburg at the same time .
The building is a post-Gothic three-nave hall church with six bays. The side aisles are just closing, the central nave ends in a choir bay with a five-eighth end . In the west there is a rectangular west tower with a medieval core and a curved dome and octagonal lantern , which is dated to the year 1616 on the iron anchors on the upper floor.
On the outside, the structure shows simple two-lane tracery windows . On the north side there are two portals with serrated friezes , diamond and pearl bars , on the south side there are two late Gothic pointed arch portals from the 16th century, the western one with framework. The slender buttresses of the nave were added in the 19th century, the diagonal corner buttresses and those of the choir polygon are original.
The spacious interior shows the post-Gothic character of the building particularly clearly. It is characterized by octagonal pillars that merge into the shield arches without a warrior , and groin vaults with basket arched belts in the central nave and pointed arched belts in the aisles. Only the east nave yoke and the choir yoke, which is three steps higher, show ribbed vaults. The ridge-vaulted sacristy is located under the gallery of the east yoke in the north aisle.
Furnishing
The high quality furnishings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods are harmoniously coordinated. The main piece is a two-story Mannerist altarpiece with columns and rich ornamentation, which was donated in 1617 and set in 1660. It shows a communion relief in the predella and a calvary with many figures on the main floor , which is flanked by the figures of John the Evangelist and the Apostle Andrew . In the essay, the resurrection after Dürer's Great Passion and on the entablature and as a crown, three figures of the virtues are shown. The side of the altar in 1660, donated are altar barriers erected with knee benches.
In front of the west gallery is a baptismal font, dated 1581, made of colored sandstone. Under the canopy of the wooden lid there is a three-dimensional group of the Baptism of Christ.
The pulpit with sound cover was donated in 1616 and shows Moses as a porter and on the basket reliefs of the brazen serpent , the Mount of Olives scene , the Annunciation, the sacrifice of Isaac as well as angels making music and the kneeling donors in front of the crucified. Angels with the tools of suffering and the risen One are depicted on the sound cover .
The architecturally structured choir stalls and the south-east gallery, like the side parts of the gallery in the south nave, date from the beginning of the 17th century. However, the central part is baroque and dated 1666 with coats of arms and statuettes of the virtues. The five western parapet areas of the north gallery are provided with pilaster-framed depictions from the Simson story; on the east side there are 18 paintings with scenes from the life of Christ around 1700.
The nine-part organ front, richly decorated with tendrils and moving angels making music, and the associated organ gallery on palm-shaped supports were created in 1707 by the carpenter Jürgen Froböse from Hornburg. The prospectus originally housed an organ by Christoph Cuntzius . Today's organ is a pneumatic work by Carl Johann Heinrich Röver from 1894 with 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal , which has been changed.
The sacristy door, painted with a life-size figure of Christ giving blessing, dates from the 18th century. A large painted retable from the end of the 16th century has survived from the previous altar, showing the Adoration of the Shepherds and Kings in the predella, the Lord's Supper in the main picture and the Last Judgment above it. A sixteen-armed brass chandelier dates from 1643; a sconce on the pulpit pillar is dated 1658. A late Gothic bell with three reliefs, probably from the 15th century, belongs to the ring.
Several important epitaphs and tombs are also to be mentioned. Wooden painted epitaphs were created
- for the Glander family around 1600,
- for the first Lutheran pastor Heinrich Magius († 1604),
- for Elisabeth Furmanns († 1604),
- for Pastor Sebastian Wernecke († 1619),
- for the two wives of Johann Mercken, Magdalena Schuster and Margaretha Alborg 1637, with depiction of the crucifixion by Daniel Lindenmeier from Halberstadt (heavily damaged),
- for Pastor Andreas Corvinus († 1646) by Wulf Ernst Lindenmeier.
Portrait gravestones are preserved for Ilse von Randau († 1572), for Hans von Randau († 1572) and for Johann von Lehate († 1584), the latter two are almost fully sculptured as figures with armor. Finally, a children's tombstone from the second half of the 17th century should be mentioned.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen - Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 756-758.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Recording of the organ from November 4, 2012. Accessed on May 1, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 50.3 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 20.7 ″ E