St. Andreas (Abbenrode)
The Protestant village church of St. Andreas is a hall church in the Abbenrode district of the Nordharz community in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Abbenrode parish in the Halberstadt parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is known for its baroque organ .
History and architecture
The church originally belonged to the Augustinian Canons' Monastery, which was probably founded in the middle of the 12th century, destroyed in 1525 and abolished in 1554 . The building is a simple hall church with a square floor plan and a nave closed on three sides . The oldest part is the west tower, presumably from the late 15th century, with a bell-shaped storey, which is closed off by a small baroque lantern . The wider ship was built in 1695.
It is closed on the inside by a segmented wooden barrel vault. The nave is bordered by a three-sided gallery , which carries the organ in the west and a mansion box in the north .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a carved altarpiece from the third quarter of the 15th century, which was brought here from the Stephanikirche in Goslar in 1728 . In the shrine it shows a crucifixion rich in figures , which is accompanied on the sides by two figures arranged one above the other, which were added in the 19th century. They depict Luther and Christ as well as Melanchthon and Moses with the tablets of the law, in the wings the twelve apostles are arranged in two rows.
On the outside the wings are painted with scenes from the Passion of Christ : Carrying the Cross, Entombment, Jesus before Pilate and Lamentation. When the reredos were transcribed, it was transformed; the predella with a representation of the Lord's Supper and the crowning figure of Christ as the ruler of the world were added.
The pulpit with richly carved acanthus ornamentation dates from 1707. A painting by Pastor Crysanter (1672–1720) was made at the beginning of the 18th century.
organ
The largely preserved baroque organ with elaborate ornamentation of the case is a work by Christoph Cuntzius (also: Contius) from 1708 with 15 stops on a manual and pedal . It was restored in 1975 by the Schuke Orgelbau company . Due to the location of the church in the inner-German border area, the organ was hardly noticed; It was not publicly known until 1985, the Bach anniversary year, and the first radio recordings were made. The disposition is:
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Secondary register: tremulant , cymbal star , calcant bell
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 1.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Felix Friedrich, Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony-Anhalt - A Destination Guide. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930550-79-1 , p. 234.
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 47.4 " N , 10 ° 37 ′ 36" E