St. Nicolai Church (Vechelde-Alvesse)
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.jpg) St. Nicolai Church in Alvesse |
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| Construction year: | 1867 |
| Location: | 52 ° 12 '53.7 " N , 10 ° 23' 1.4" E |
| Location: |
Alvesse (Vechelde) Lower Saxony , Germany |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Local community: | Evangelical Lutheran parish of Alvesse |
| Parish: | Evangelical Parish Office Vallstedt-Alvesse-Wierthe St.-Martins-Straße 9 38159 Vechelde |
| Regional Church : |
Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig , Propstei Vechelde |
The St. Nicolai Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the village of Alvesse in the municipality of Vechelde in the Peine district . The church is the parish church of the parish Vallstedt-Alvesse-Wierthe.
The parish belongs to the Vechelde provost within the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig .
history
Alvesse had been a parish village in the Archidiaconate Denstorf since the 12th century and already formed a parish association with the branch church in Wierthe during this time .
The Romanesque predecessor of today's church was probably built in the 12th century. The medieval towerless church, whose choir was lower and narrower than the nave, was demolished in 1864.
The new building was built in 1867 as a brick building in neo-Romanesque style. The single nave type of a hall church stands on a rectangular ground plan. A semicircular apse forms the east end . A ridge turret on the gable roof , flush with the west facade with an octagonal helmet , serves as a belfry .
The first unadorned chime bell , used in the 19th century, was cast in Wolfenbüttel in 1683 by the bell caster Heiso Meyer and in 1820 it was cast by the Johann Heinrich Wicke foundry in Braunschweig.
St. Nicolai in Alvesse was the place of activity of the Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor Hans Buttler (1894-1970), an opponent and victim of the Nazi regime , from 1937 to 1959 . On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Buttler's arrest, the parish erected a memorial stone on the south facade of the church in 2008 in memory of the parish priest.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the Braunschweig district . Julius Zwissler, Wolfenbüttel 1900, pp. 246–248
- ↑ Uwe Pape : The organs of the Braunschweig district . Wolfenbüttel 1968, p. 3