St. Georg (Calenberg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Georg (Randau-Calenberge)

The Protestant St. George's Church is in the center of the town of Calenberge, part of the Magdeburg district of Randau- Calenberge. St. George is among other things the patron saint of farmers.

The current church building was built in the neo-Romanesque style between 1880 and 1882 instead of a previous building. Only the bronze bell cast in 1708 and a heavily weathered figural grave slab for Schulzen Simon Wilde from the 17th century were taken from the old church . The newly built church consists of a hall-shaped nave with a semicircular apse in the east and a 32 meter high tower with a square floor plan with a pointed folding roof in the west. All parts of the building were made of sandstone and decorated with yellow clinker bricks , the roofs are covered with slate . While the interior of the nave has a flat ceiling on a console , the apse has a ribbed vault . The west gallery , the pulpit and the chairs are still part of the original furnishings, the font bears the date 1888. A multi-armed chandelier in the forms of the late Art Nouveau comes from 1910 . From July 1941, the Westerhüsener pastor Albert Hosenthien took over the parish in Calenberge as a substitute.

When restoration work was carried out on the church in 1999, the interior was given its original - previously whitewashed - painting.

literature

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 50.3 "  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 27.94"  E