St. Andreas Church (Bündheim)
The St. Andreas Church is the Evangelical Lutheran church in Bündheim , a district of the city of Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony . Today's church, named after St. Andrew , was built at the beginning of the 17th century.
history
In a document issued in 1344, Mr. Isfridus is named as pastor in Bündheim. This suggests a church in the village. The parish had been desolate since the beginning of the 15th century. The church equipment was kept in Goslar before it was handed over to the Ilsenburg monastery in 1407 . The monastery committed itself to return as soon as the parish would be occupied again. In 1498, the Bündheim church is named as the mother church of the Schleweck branch church . The plan of the village of Bündheim from 1759 shows an old churchyard in the gusset between the Trift, today Am Schlosspark, and Silberbornstrasse. The village's first church was probably built here. The oldest known date for today's St. Andrew's Church is 1610. The year 1725 above the portal of the church indicates major alterations or repairs to the building fabric . The Bündheim parish, for which St. Andrew's Church serves as a place of worship, has been independent again since 1909. Before that, Bündheim and Neustadt (Harzburg) had a common parish, the seat of which had been in Neustadt since 1706.
Building description
The baroque stone church is a hall church that has been expanded several times. In the first construction phase, a massive nave was erected on a square floor plan with a side length of 8.70 m, to which a lattice tower with a gable roof was presented. With the new construction of the castle and the associated relocation of the official seat in 1573, an expansion of the church was inevitable. As vertical joints in the masonry still show today, the massive church was more than doubled in the longitudinal axis. In the south, the two old, now walled-up windows can still be seen today. There was a similar window next to the northern entrance. The second northern entrance bears the year 1610 at the top. On the copper engraving by the Merian publishing house from 1654, the church has a straight choir closure . The nave is provided with an outwardly today saddle roof of tiles covers inside it with a barrel roof spans. Above the eastern, three-eighth apse , the 3 parts of the slate-covered tent roof fall from the ridge to the eaves . Inside, 3 parts of an apse dome form the ceiling. In 1765 the church received a massive steeple in the west . Instead of a simple saddle roof, it received a curved, slate-clad hood with a lantern , which was crowned with a weather vane. The upper part of the tower was renewed after a fire ignited by lightning in 1952. In the past, there was a crypt in front of the altar , in which officials and their relatives were buried . During the renovation in 1893, the crypt was removed at the request of Prince Albrecht of Prussia . The grave slabs were also moved to the outside of the church. The church used to have a cemetery , which was the only one for the village until 1810. The grave monuments of the Breymann and Knoblauch families stood there until 1866. They were relocated when the castle park was expanded .
Furnishing
The altar wall, the sacristy made as a confessional and the pulpit are not part of the original furnishings of the Bündheim church. They were made for the former Harzburg church, which was demolished after the inauguration of the Luther Church . The altar was then kept in the Fatherland Museum in Braunschweig . From there it was relocated to Süpplingen in World War II and reassembled from nothing but individual parts in 1951 for the Bündheimier Church. Some pieces have been re-carved. Basically the setup is the same as before in Harzburg. Starting from the predella , the altar shows the salvation-historical events between the Last Supper , Crucifixion , Resurrection and Ascension . The 3 parts are attributed to the workshop of the carver Jobst Heinrich Lessen . The epitaph of the Hage bailiff family from 1643, on which the large castle hill with the Harzburg can be seen in the background , has its place on the north wall inside. In the chancel there is an oil painting from the 17th century showing the Adoration of the Shepherds . A sculpture of a portrait of Mary donated to the community has found its place on the south wall . The organ did not receive a prospectus until 1996/97 . The organ work was renewed in several sections. It was realized with the latest technology. The organ has two manuals and a pedal , a fully electric action and slide chests . The gaming table is mobile.
literature
- Hans-Hermann Wedekind: St. Andreas Church in Bündheim and Das newe Fürstl. Ambthauss zur Harzburg - located in front of the Hartz . In Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein eV (Ed.): Uhlenklippen Spiegel issue 69 / March 2004
- Helge Burggrabe among other things: Holy rooms - Bad Harzburg's churches and chapels . Bad Harzburg 2013
Web links
- Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Andreas Bündheim
- Excursion destinations in the Harz Mountains
- Travel tip Church of St. Andreas
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 16 " N , 10 ° 32 ′ 51.4" E