St. Mary's Church (Hakenstedt)

Saint Mary's Church

The Sankt-Marien-Kirche is the Protestant church in the village of Hakenstedt in Saxony-Anhalt .

Architecture and history

The church goes back to the Romanesque . From this time only the transverse tower to the west of the ship has survived. On the tower there are walled sound openings in the form of round arches, above which a new bell storey was built in the late Romanesque with this time pointed sound hatches.

The tower made of quarry stones takes up the entire width of the nave. This was built as a hall church in the first half of the 16th century . The eastern end is designed on three sides. In the years 1710 and 1711 the church was extensively renovated and rebuilt. The walls of the nave were raised and large, rectangular windows were added. A patronage box and vestibule were added on the north side . A morgue was built on the south side , which was finally converted into a community hall in 1905. Romanesque portal fragments and a Romanesque cafeteria were added to the western wall of the community hall.

Walled-in arched windows and the rest of a roof cornice date from the time before the renovation in 1710 . In 1905 another renovation took place, which mainly led to a redesign of the interior.

The inside of the church is spanned by a flat wooden barrel vault. The core of the applied stucco goes back to the Baroque period. In 1905, paintings of Christ, Moses and the Evangelists were inserted into medallions. There are two round arches between the hall below the tower and the nave.

The altar wall flanked by pilasters was probably created by Michael Helwig around 1710 . In some cases the year 1718 is given. Decorative acanthus cheeks and donor coats of arms of the Schwartze and Hobohm families (Hogebaum). In the middle is the polygonal pulpit , on its edges it is decorated with flower hangings. The stately lodge was built at the same time. It is structured by pilasters, has barred windows and is crowned by mighty acanthus tendrils as well as putti and the coat of arms of the Schwartze family.

The organ front was built around 1850. In 1905 the gallery was widened . Two bronze bells preserved from the Middle Ages are remarkable . The older one dates back to around 1200 and still has a sugar loaf shape . The younger one is late Gothic and was created in 1501 by the Magdeburg bell caster Clawes Backmester based on its minuscule inscription .

Also worth mentioning is the Rococo inscription tombstone of Charlotte Elisabeth Lambrecht, who died in 1768 .

In 2001 the restoration of the church began.

The churchyard is surrounded by a wall. To the north of the church stands the parsonage, Hakenstedt , which is also listed .

literature

Folkhard Cremer, Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 310
Mathias Köhler, Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 10.1, Ohrekreis (I) - Altkreis Haldensleben , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-011-9 , page 105

Individual evidence

^ Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 310
^ Wilhelm Schrader : The artist of the imperial grave in the cathedral to Königslutter . In: Braunschweigische Heimat , 1956, 42nd year, issue 1, page 41; Schrader, however, gives Dehio as the source .

52.181915 11.266018Coordinates: 52 ° 10 '54.9 " N , 11 ° 15' 57.7" E

[1] Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 310

[2] Wilhelm Schrader : The artist of the imperial grave in the cathedral to Königslutter . In: Braunschweigische Heimat , 1956, 42nd year, issue 1, page 41; Schrader, however, gives Dehio as the source .