St. Georg (Calenberg)
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
- Magdeburg and its surroundings (= values of our homeland . Volume 19). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
- City Planning Office Magdeburg (ed.): Magdeburg. Architecture and urban planning. Verlag Janos Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 .
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg administrative district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 50.3 " N , 11 ° 44 ′ 27.94" E