St. Nicolai Church (Hagenburg)
The St. Nicolai Church in Hagenburg in the Schaumburg district is the church of the Hagenburg community of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schaumburg-Lippe and an important, originally preserved monument of the neo-Gothic style .
The church, built between 1869 and 1871 as a replacement for the old village church in the Altenhagen district, which had become too small and dilapidated, is an elaborate work by the leading historicist architect of the time, Conrad Wilhelm Hase . It owes its emergence on the one hand to the needs of the growing village population and the incipient excursion tourism on the Steinhuder Meer , and on the other hand to the will to represent Prince Adolf Georg von Schaumburg-Lippe and his family, who used Hagenburg Castle as a summer residence and almost completely financed the construction of the church with the royal box .
Hase designed the church in the form of the north German brick Gothic with a rich structure and various decorations. Building materials are bricks glazed in different colors . The east-facing building is a three-aisled hall church , the side aisles of which are divided into two floors by brick galleries . The east end of the four-bay nave is formed by two only hinted at transverse arms and the sanctuary, all of which are polygonal. The massive square tower with corner turrets and colorfully ornamented cone tip rises above the cathedral-like stepped west portal, which is accentuated with side buildings.
The furnishings are also designed by Hase. She relies entirely on the effect of the architectural forms into which the masonry principal pieces , above all the pointed arches and pinnacles of the altar reredos , are inserted.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 7.3 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 53.3" E