Petruskapelle Alexisbad
The Petruskapelle Alexisbad is the Protestant chapel of the district of Alexisbad belonging to the city of Harzgerode .
Building history
The small wooden building was built in 1812/1815 according to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel on the right bank of the Selke in the then newly established health resort Alexisbad as a tea house for Duke Alexius and Duchess Marie Friederike von Anhalt-Bernburg . Since Alexisbad did not have a church, by order of the later owner of the spa and the ducal pavilion, Duchess Friederike von Anhalt-Bernburg, services were held every two weeks in the tea house, which was eventually converted into a chapel.
In 1933, the Harzgerode Evangelical Church Community acquired the building.
During the GDR era, the chapel fell into disrepair and could no longer be used for church services. After the fall of the Wall , it was reopened in 1990, thoroughly renovated in the following two years and has been used again for church services since Easter Monday 1992. When Alexisbad was flooded as a result of the Selke flood in April 1994, the chapel remained undamaged and only had to be cleaned. Since 1999 concerts have been held here and since 2007 civil weddings have also taken place.
In a festive service with Bishop Martin Hein , the chapel was given the name “Petruskapelle Alexisbad” on Easter Monday 2008 by the Church President of Anhalt, Helge Klassohn , based on the altarpiece depicting Peter.
Building description and equipment
The building in the classicism style consists of a central rotunda and four lower square annex buildings with a flat gable roof on a cross-shaped floor plan - a motif that Schinkel modified and repeated on a larger scale in his Antonin hunting lodge, which he started seven years later . The outer walls are clad with horizontal, yellow-painted wooden cladding, the roofs are covered with a rabbet covering made of zinc sheet.
The eponymous altarpiece is a copy of a depiction of Peter by the Dresden court painter Anton Raphael Mengs . The oil painting with the Savior carrying the cross was painted by the Princess Luise of Prussia, who was born in Anhalt, in 1838 and was originally the altarpiece of the old chapel in Mägdesprung .
literature
- Andreas Bernhard, ed. for the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Guide to his buildings. Volume II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06684-5 , p. 46
Web links
- Chapel in Alexisbad
- Alexisbad chapel is named Petruskapelle (report by the Evangelical Church of Anhalt from March 19, 2008)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 3 ″ N , 11 ° 7 ′ 6.2 ″ E