Neustädter Church St. Marien (Einbeck)
The Church of St. Mary was the late Gothic parish church of Einbeck Neustadt; it stood on the Neustädter Kirchplatz until it was demolished in 1963. Parts of the furnishings were transferred to the newly built Marienkirche on Sülbecksweg.
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The previous church on Neustädter Kirchplatz
The early Gothic predecessor of the Marienkirche was a three-aisled nave with a three-polygonal choir. This church was built in the 13th century as a subsidiary of St. Alexandri . To the west next door was the first Einbeck nunnery since 1316 . The nuns were able to use the Marienkirche. They had direct access to the nuns' gallery in this church via a bridge .
The church building of the 15th century
Construction and features
Einbeck's heyday in the 15th century made it possible for the citizens to carry out various large-scale projects. So the Marienkirche was rebuilt, the previous building was gradually demolished down to the foundation walls. This project was worked on for a long time, with a focus on construction activities in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The building material was the red sandstone broken on Altendorfer Berg . The new church was only slightly wider, but longer than its predecessor: 45 m long and 29 m wide with an eaves height of 15 m. In the west, the building ended with a single tower facade, comparable to the neighboring market church of St. Jacobi . The final element, the choir, was completed around 1525. It was as wide as the nave , but three meters higher. In 1589 , an organ was installed in the church by Johann Friedemann, a canon at Braunschweig Cathedral . In 1467 she got a sundial.
Damage from city fires
- Damage from the city fire of 1540
The Marienkirche was badly hit by the city fire . The west tower collapsed and was not rebuilt. The church had to be re-covered and was given a roof turret over the eastern nave.
- Damage caused by the fire in the Neustadt in 1826
While the city fire of 1540 affected all churches in Einbeck, only the Neustadt church was affected by the fire in 1826. The vault and west facade collapsed. Only the outer walls and the choir with its tracery remained . The ruins were exposed to the weather for 14 years.
reconstruction
The reconstruction from 1840 to 1846 in the style of early historicism was still strongly committed to classicism . The architect was August Heinrich Andreae . In particular, he redesigned the west facade with a large tracery window over a double portal. In the choir he had the floor raised by 2.34 m, so that a high choir was created, to which a wide flight of stairs led up. Instead of the steep medieval roof, the newly installed roof truss had an incline of 30 degrees.
As early as the work of the 1840s, one became aware of static problems in the Neustadt church; these were tightened in 1852 when a neo-Gothic roof turret with bells was put on.
The demolition
In 1953 a new, larger bell was put into service without improving the structure of the church. The damage increased accordingly, as early as 1958 the new bell had to be closed due to the risk of collapse. The slope of the walls was also increasingly recognized as a problem. The reason for this was the unstable subsoil ( silt ).
If the static stabilization of the foundations was initially planned, demolition in 1962 seemed more attractive.
Further development
New Neustädter Church St. Marien
- Construction and use
A new church was built at the new Sülbecksweg location in the 1960s. A concrete campanile belongs to the new Marienkirche in a modern design in the middle of the new building area west of the old town of Einbeck . The parish belongs to the parish of Leine-Solling . The church also serves as the youth church Marie of this church district.
- Preserved elements of the abandoned church in the new building on Sülbecksweg
- Parts of the exterior frieze of the choir polygon were as spoils included in the new building.
- The late medieval sundial is located on the outer wall .
- A sacrament niche is located in the interior of the modern church, on the south side.
- The larger than life crucifix (Christ as Man of Sorrows , late 15th century), the only piece of equipment in the late Gothic church that was left after the fires, now hangs in the center of the choir of St. Mary's Church.
- Eight biblical figures from the early historic altar wall were also incorporated into the modern church interior.
- Only two of the grave slabs have survived (from 1604 and 1675).
Neustädter Kirchplatz
The location of the demolished church, Neustädter Kirchplatz, is one of the city's central squares alongside the market square . Half of it was set up as a parking lot in the 70s and the other half was built with a branch of Sparkasse Einbeck . Shards of ceramic objects from the years before the Thirty Years War were found in the excavation pit for this building. The finds also included stoneware balls for use in tare boxes in the 15th century. The branch was later converted into a parish hall for the Jacobi community . The area between the parish hall and the parking lot was designed with elements made of exposed aggregate concrete. For a contemporary redesign, a competition for open space planning was held in 2016 , the winning design of which provides for the redesign of the square up to the district court as a pedestrian zone. The parish hall is to be replaced by a pavilion. After the planning phase planned for 2018, the reconstruction of the square is to take place in 2019.
literature
- Thomas Kellmann: Stadt Einbeck (Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 7.3), Michael Imhof Verlag 2017, pp. 314–323. ISBN 978-3-7319-0511-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Heinz Bielefeld: Organs and Organ Builders in Göttingen, 2007, p. 14
- ^ Klaus Grote: Archaeological finds from Neustädter Kirchplatz in Einbeck, in: Einbecker Jahrbuch 33, 1982, p. 33ff
- ^ Competition Neustädter Kirchplatz
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Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 59.1 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 55.3 ″ E