St. Trinity Church (Wolfenbüttel)

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St. Trinitatis Church Wolfenbüttel with a bronze pair of gardeners by the sculptor Frijo Müller-Belecke

The St. Trinity Church in Wolfenbuettel is one of the most important churches in the style of the Baroque in Germany .

Where the church stands today was the Kaisertor, built by Cort Menge (also Cord Mente ) between 1570 and 1578. With a footprint of 34 × 26 meters, it was a large two-story building. After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) the Kaisertor became militarily useless, so the courtroom on the upper floor was used as a prayer room from 1655 - as a temporary solution and replacement for one built between 1588 and 1589 and in the course of expanding the city fortifications in 1655 demolished half-timbered church. The prayer room offered 350 seats for the service, the ground floor was still used by the garrison.

For the growing community, however, this solution became increasingly too small, so that a new church was planned from around 1692, initially as a magnificent stone building. After various attempts, the church built by the master builder Hermann Korb was consecrated in 1700 - today as “St. Trinity I ”. For cost reasons and because Hermann Korb came from a carpentry trade, the church was built from wood.

Five years later, in 1705, "Trinity I" was destroyed by fire after a lightning strike. Until the reconstruction from 1716, the services were held in the casting house on the Philippsberg. Herrmann Korb was commissioned with the construction of today's church, "Trinitatis II". For cost reasons, the remaining components of the imperial gate were also reused for this church. For the same reasons, only the outer walls were built from stone, but the inside was built with wood; The columns consist of four stapled and connected fir trunks, the vault of laths and plaster of paris. In 1719 the church was finally consecrated for worship, but it was not completed in detail until 1757. The originally existing colorful painting of the interior has not been preserved.

  • Nave, view to the altar

  • Nave, view of the organ

  • Exterior view from the east

  • Exterior view from the west (construction work 2011)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 29.5 ″  E