St. Martini (Güntersberge)

Saint Martini Church

View from the east, construction work in 2010

The St. Martini Church is the Protestant church of the city Harzgerode belonging locality Güntersberge in the Harz in Saxony-Anhalt .

The parish belongs to the Ballenstedt parish of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt . The church is located west of the town center at Pfarrgasse 27 . The church is named after Martin von Tours .

Architecture and history

The hall church was built on the site of a previous building that dates back to the Middle Ages and which burned down in 1856. The new building was executed in the neo-Romanesque style between 1859 and 1871 . The masonry was made of slate rubble and edged with brick . The church tower is to the west of the ship and has a square floor plan. The sound arcades of the tower have set sandstone columns and are coupled in a round arch style . The portal is located on the north side of the nave and is framed by a baroque portal ädikula with two laterally arranged columns, which has been preserved from the previous building . There is an apsidal closure to the east.

Renovation work took place in the 1930s and 1970s. Due to a shortage of materials, sky blue asbestos shingles were used for the roofing in the 1970s. From 2010 the roof was then re-covered with black clay tiles.

The interior of the church is covered by a carved and painted beam ceiling. There is a singing and organ gallery in the shape of a horseshoe with coffered parapets. The equipment of the church goes back to the construction time. The organ was created by Carl Voigt from Halberstadt .

In the church is the incised tombstone of the last Catholic clergyman in the previous building who died in 1523.

In the local register of monuments , the church is listed as a monument under registration number 094 84978 .

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 299.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 136 f.

Web links

Commons : St. Martini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ev. Parish Güntersberge and Siptenfelde-Silberhütte on kircheguentersberge.wordpress.com
• The Church of St. Martini on www.radio-hbw.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sankt Martini new building after fire in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, published online on July 11, 2013
2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 1857.

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 34.1 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 37.4 ″  E