St. Abundus (Groden)

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St. Abundus Church
Church and cemetery
Church and place

The church of St. Abundus in Cuxhaven - Groden , near the Grodener Kirche 3/4, is a Lower Saxony monument and is included in the list of architectural monuments of the outskirts of the city of Cuxhaven .

history

Groden emerged in the Middle Ages from the merger of several farms and was later a parish , which came to Hamburg in 1394 in the Ritzebüttel district . The district had 611 inhabitants in 1867, when the church was slightly expanded, and today (2018) around 3000.

An unproven wooden church is said to have been built between 1000 and 1200. The Romanesque single-aisle hall building made of solid field stones from (according to Dehio) the beginning of the 13th century was built after the Elbmarsch had been dyed.

The massive square west tower from 1785 has an octagonal tower with a pointed helmet .

The recessed, polygonal 3/8 brick choir dates from 1868. At the same time, the walls of the nave were raised with bricks and the windows changed.

inner space

White ceiling and white walls, plus the baroque altar , several epitaphs and numerous large-format votive pictures (17th – 19th centuries) characterize the interior. The two-story altarpiece from 1650 to 1680 with winding columns and carved ears has statues from 1686/87 by Albrecht Mitte, Hamburg. The kneeling benches are from around 1700. The pulpit from 1688 has a polygonal pulpit with winding corner columns and images of the apostles in the panels. Grave slabs from 16th to 18th centuries Century with inscriptions and / or coats of arms complete the interior.

Parish

Doorknob

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Cuxhaven-Groden / St. Abundus has a day-care center as well as groups for children, women, senior citizens, handicrafts, choirs and parents / children. The parish cemetery extends around the church.

The church was named after the patron saint Abundus (also Habundus ), who fought against Islam in Córdoba around 854; and St. Abundus in Lassahn has the same patronage.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Kuinstdenkmäler Bremen / Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977, ISBN 3 422 00348 7 .

Web links

Commons : St. Abundus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtwiki Cuxhaven: St. Abundus Church .
  2. ↑ Jens Nielsen: The St. Abundus Church in Lassahn. A church leader .

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 26.8 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 38.1"  E