St. Nicholas Church (Beuster)

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Saint Nicholas Church
View from the east
View through the nave

The Sankt-Nikolaus-Kirche is a Protestant church in the village of Beuster in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Stendal parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

The church is located in the center of the village of Beuster and is a stop on the Romanesque Road tourism route . To the south of the church is the Groß Beuster rectory .

Building history and architecture

The three-aisled brick church was built in the late Romanesque period from the second half of the 12th century as part of a collegiate monastery and is one of the oldest brick buildings in the Altmark . The choir bay is square, at the east end there is a slightly drawn-in, semicircular apse . There are pilaster strips and arched friezes above consoles on the upper storey and choir . Initially, the building did not have a church tower. In the 14th century, a massive tower decorated with panels was built over the west end of the ship. At the same time, the west portal and the western buttresses were built .

First the choir of the church, the recessed apse and a first short piece of the nave were built. A construction joint indicates an interruption in construction activity, the duration of which is unknown. On the north and south wall of the choir there are pilaster strips that structure the surface. In the lower area there are narrow pilaster strips, wider at the top. Presumably, the continuation of this division to the west was originally intended. After the construction work was interrupted, this design element was not continued. Because the surfaces of brick masonry is assumed that originally a plastering was planned, possibly in the form of stone imitative square plaster should be done. There is a small portal on the north side of the choir. The roof structure of the church could be dendrochronologically dated to the year 1185.

Construction continued before 1200. The wall structure has now been continued in a simplified manner.

In the period around 1720 the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style , and in 1885 the church was restored.

The interior of the church was originally spanned by a flat ceiling. In the 14th century, ribbed vaults were added to the nave and choir . Most of the furnishings in the church date from 1885. A baroque altarpiece from 1720, richly decorated with figures, has been preserved as an older piece . The late Romanesque baptism, made of sandstone and decorated with a round arch frieze, dates back to the beginning of the 13th century .

In the south aisle there are two inscription tombstones for pastors of the community. The older one was set for Christian Friedrich Schröder, who died in 1807, and the second for Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht, who died in 1840.

In the local register of monuments , the church is registered as an architectural monument under registration number 094 36486.

Bells

The Nikolaus Church has four bells. The oldest bell dates from 1718 and was cast by the Salzwedel bell caster Heinrich Kramer. A bell from the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen, which was cast in 1889. A third bell and the new chime bell come from the Dutch bell foundry Reiderland in Finsterwalde. The clock strike bell was cast directly on the church.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Nikolaus-Kirche (Beuster)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 4140
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 504 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular p. 471 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 2.1 ″  E