Nicolaikirche (Eisleben)

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The St. Nikolai Church is located in the north of the old town of Lutherstadt Eisleben in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 75357.

View from the northwest
View from the south
Building inscription
View from the north

history

The northern extension of Eisleben, later called Nikolaivorstadt and Friesenvorstadt , got its own chapel in the 12th century, which was dedicated to St. Godehard. First mentioned this in 1191, in which it the provost in Seeburg is assigned, but in the course of the 13th century that changed patronage , probably under the influence of the drawn Frisian settlers, the lazy lake should place dry: First, the Saint Nikolaus patron saint, later main saint of the church, which has now been promoted to church. Nothing more is known about a new building mentioned in 1298. In the 15th century, the church had become a parish church, first the choir was rebuilt by 1426, then the nave followed and in 1462, according to the inscription, the building of the tower began. Until this time the double patronage is also mentioned, so that with the new consecration, Nicholas was probably the sole church patronage.

The result was a three-aisled late Gothic hall church, consisting of a tower with a pointed helmet, a roofed portal and stair tower, a nave with a gable roof and a polygonal 5/8 choir closure. This also gained importance during the Reformation , because from 1525 to 1536 the reformer Johannes Agricola , a close confidante of Martin Luther , who later became the court preacher in what was then Berlin Cathedral , preached here . His son of the same name, Johann Agricola, was mayor of Berlin from 1575 to 1594 .

In 1972 the church building had to be abandoned because efforts to renovate the roof failed. Safety measures began in 1991, and permanent church use has not yet been achieved again in 2018, as the renovation is being carried out gradually. On October 31, 1991, the tower, which is just over 52 meters high, received a new roof crowning, it took until 1992 to replace the slate roof, and in 1995 the renovation of the choir roof began. The interior renovation, which is still ongoing, is the most extensive.

Interior

The interior of the church is architecturally similar to the main church in Eisleben, St. Andreas , and a stonemason's mark was found in both churches. It is unusual that the north wall of the ship is 130 centimeters longer than the south wall, and that the central nave is 40 centimeters narrower in the west than in the east. This creates an irregular floor plan. Due to the abandonment of the church, most of the furnishings were given to other churches. Two bishop figures, a late Gothic stone crucifix, the baptismal font and the carved altar, both from around 1520, were placed in the Petri-Pauli Church , the organ in the Church of St. Marien in Artern / Unstrut and a triumphal crucifix in the Church of St. Andreas in Eisleben, in whose tower library the panels of the choir stalls from 1521 came. All that remains is a neo-Gothic pulpit from around 1900 as well as parts of the horseshoe gallery, which was also gothic and was built in the course of a restoration between 1852 and 1854. The church was painted in 1910 by Georg Kutzke.

Notation

It is not uncommon for church patronage to be spelled differently, since documents are usually given in Latin, but this was given differently in linguistic usage. The church is officially called St. Nicolai, which is a Latin variant. This spelling can be found not only on the individual websites of the parish and city, but also with the street names Nicolaistraße and Nicolaikirchplatz. In the standard works, on the other hand, the Church of St. Nikolai is written, for example in the architectural and art monuments, in the Dehio or in the monument index, where the street names are also written with k .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben, developed by Anja Tietz, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 .
  • Hermann Großler , Adolf Brinkmann: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Mansfelder Seekreis , Halle 1895. Reprintfly head Verlag Halle 2000, ISBN 3-910147-87-9 .
  • Burkhard Zemlin: City Guide Lutherstadt Eisleben , Bindlach 1996, ISBN 3-8112-0833-0 .

Web links

Commons : Nicolaikirche (Eisleben)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Zemlin, pp. 112-113.
  3. ^ Dehio, p. 454.
  4. ↑ a b Zemlin, p. 113.
  5. ↑ List of monuments, pp. 119–120.
  6. ↑ Zemlin, p. 114.
  7. ↑ According to the church district's website , the third construction phase of the interior renovation began in November 2018, accessed on November 4, 2018.
  8. ↑ Dehio, p. 454; Zemlin, p. 113.
  9. ↑ Zemlin, p. 113. Illustrated by Großerler, p. 124.
  10. ↑ Dehio, p. 454; Zemlin, p. 114.
  11. ^ Dehio, p. 454.
  12. ↑ Larger, pp. 118-130; Dehio, p. 454; List of monuments, pp. 119–121.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 46.2 ″  E