St. Ansgari Church (Hatten)

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View from the south

The St. Ansgari Church in Kirchhatten , municipality of Hatten , is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Hatten parish, which belongs to the Delmenhorst / Oldenburg Land parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .

history

According to tradition, the first church in Hatten was founded as atonement by the murderers of Christian von Oldenburg († 1192) after 1195 . The current church was built in the middle of the 13th century, although parts of the choir could have been from the time of the foundation. In 1493 the church was damaged by fire and restored shortly afterwards. The choir was probably expanded. In 1862 a breakthrough was made between the church tower and the nave .

description

The Romanesque hall church consists of a two-bay nave , a retracted, two-bay choir with a straight end and a west tower . The base was made of granite , and brick was used above .

Only parts of the vault that originally existed in the nave have been preserved; it was demolished in 1682 and replaced by a wooden beam ceiling in 1745 .

In the late Gothic extension, the choir was equipped with ribbed vaults with shield arches and belt arches . There are three staggered blind arches and buttresses on the gable wall .

The coupled sound arcades in the tower are rounded . The main entrance to the interior of the church is through the tower hall. There is also one on the south side of the nave portal surmounted by a relief of sandstone is attached with the year 1718th

Furnishing

Remains of the original wall painting have been preserved in the church . The triumphal cross was made at the end of the 15th century. The pulpit was donated in 1747, the galleries are dated 1682 and 1743. An epitaph is from 1696, and a painting of the Lord's Supper is also from the end of the 17th century.

literature

  • The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg . IV. Issue: The offices of Oldenburg, Delmenhorst, Elsfleth and Westerstede, reprint of the 1907 edition, Osnabrück 1976, p. 52 f.
  • Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Lower Saxony, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 797 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Architectural and art monuments, p. 52 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dehio, p. 797.

Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 4.7 ″  E