St. Bartholomew (Hall)
The St. Bartholomew Church is a Protestant church in the Giebichenstein district of Halle (Saale) . It stands on a hill above the Saale valley , which was a cult and burial site in pre-Christian times, and bears the name of the Apostle Bartholomew .
The west transverse tower built on a rectangular floor plan from around 1200 has been preserved from its Romanesque predecessor. The dilapidated nave of the previous church was replaced in 1740–1742 by a cross-shaped central building made of rubble masonry. The connections of the two cross arms are bevelled so that an octagonal space seems to result. The two cross arms have barrel vaults that connect in the center to form an eight-sided dome. The church has large rectangular windows.
The pulpit altar is located in the eastern choir, on the walls of which two-storey aristocratic boxes, rounded towards the inside, are built. Three elements of the altar furnishings come from Halle artists who worked and taught at the neighboring Burg Giebichenstein art college: the cross by the enamel artist Lili Schultz, the candlesticks by the metal designer Karl Müller , the hand-bound altar Bible by the book artist Wilhelm Nauhaus . The furnishings also include a Romanesque font from the 18th century. The originally baroque organ from 1743 by the Halle organ builder Heinrich Andreas Contius on the west gallery has, after a new construction by Wilhelm Rühlmann in 1904, today has 34 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
In the medieval previous church, Pastor Georg Taust (1606–1685) married his second daughter Dorothea in 1683 to be the wife of the 61-year-old widowed Giebichensteiner official and ducal body surgeon Georg Handel . However, he died shortly afterwards when she gave birth to his grandson, George Frideric Handel .
In the churchyard is the grave of the Prussian court conductor and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt , whose garden attracted numerous famous poets in the 19th century and some of them still exist today as Reichardt's garden . The grave monuments in the cemetery date from the 15th to 18th centuries.
literature
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale . Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
- ^ Pantenius: City Guide Halle . Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1995, ISBN 3-8112-0816-0 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 6 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 24.7" E