St. Nicolai Church (Westerode)
The Protestant St. Nikolai Church in Westerode , a district of Bad Harzburg , is on Kirchstrasse. The current church was built in 1612. It is a listed building .
history
“1440” is the year of the little bell that hangs in today's church tower . It comes from the old chapel of Westerode, which was located in the middle of the village on the east bank of the Maschbach, on today's property at Krugstrasse 12. This chapel was cremated during the Thirty Years War . 80 percent of the population perished in the chaos of war. It was not until Duke August the Younger of Braunschweig that those who settled in the Harzburg Office were relieved of all burdens for a period of three years that soon no farms were uninhabited.
A new church became necessary after the old chapel no longer met the space requirements. The construction was made possible by Duke Heinrich Julius . This is attested by a wooden memorial plaque bearing the Brunswick coat of arms in colored execution, with the inscription: "Hohestum pro patria 1612. [Ehre dem Vaterland 1612] The Most Honorable, Serene, High-Born Prince and Mr. Heinrich Julius (r. 1589–1613) postulate Bishop of Halberstadt and Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, has graced this church building with 600 guilders of wood and lead. God Almighty bestow peace and eternal bliss on IFG and those same descendants. Anno 1612. “Further documents are not available, as the church records of Westerode in 1641 went up in flames. In 1734 the new church registers of Westerode in the parish of Bettingerode were burned .
After the destruction in the Thirty Years War, the church was rebuilt in 1657. In 1702 the bailiff of the Harzburg , Andreas Caspar von Uslar , had the sandstone wall built around the church .
The mother church of the Westeroder church is the parish church of Bettingerode .
Building description
The baroque hall church is covered with a gable roof. An octagonal roof tower protrudes from it on the west side . The tower clock has dials on four sides of the shaft. Behind the sound arcades is the large bell that is tuned to c ". Above is a bell dome with a lantern , in the latter of which hangs the small bell that sounds in g". The tower is crowned by the weather vane with the year 1773.
Furnishing
The interior was modernized at the end of the 1960s . There is a simple stone altar in the semicircular choir . A crucifix that has been preserved from the old furnishings sits enthroned above the altar . The hard pews were replaced by comfortable chairs.
organ
The organ, created by Johann Andreas Engelhardt in 1843, stands on the gallery above the entrance area . The wind chests are designed as sliding chests and the actions are mechanical. It has ten registers with a total of 534 pipes , distributed on a manual and pedal and has the following disposition :
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In the course of its history, the organ has repeatedly undergone changes, but has been almost completely preserved. It is to be restored to the original in 2018 in terms of mechanical, design and sound .
literature
- Hans-Hermann Wedekind: Evangelical churches in Bad Harzburg. In: Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Uhlenklippen Spiegel, Issue 85 / March 2008.
- Helge Burggrabe et al. : Holy spaces - Bad Harzburg's churches and chapels . Bad Harzburg 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The restoration of the Engelhardt organ in the St. Nicolai Church in Westerode , accessed on July 24, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 9.3 " N , 10 ° 33 ′ 44.4" E