St. Gertraud (Hall)
The Protestant Church of St. Gertraud is the village church of the former village of Reideburg , today a district in the east of Halle (Saale) . The parish belongs to the parish of Dieskau in the parish hall Halle-Saalkreis of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04959.
history
As early as the 9th century at the time of the Slavic mission , the first wooden chapel is said to have been built as the center of a castle district in Reideburg, which is also indicated by the patronage of St. Gertraud , a popular Franconian church patroness.
The church was subordinate to the diocese of Merseburg until 1357 , after which it belonged to the archdiocese of Magdeburg until the Reformation .
Around 1450, the originally Romanesque 22-meter-long church hall was given a Gothic appearance.
In 1724 and 1725 the church, like many others in the area, was redesigned in Baroque style . Among other things, boxes for noble families and rich farmers were set up on the new two-storey gallery , but these were removed again with the partial removal of the galleries during the extensive renovation of the church between 1958 and 1960.
In 1890 the south brick annex was added as a vestibule. From 1995 to 1996 the interior of the church was renovated.
description
In terms of its origins, it is a Romanesque - today plastered - stone church built around 1150 . However, only the massive west transverse tower with large-format corner cuboids and a hipped roof has survived from this period . In the bell storey there are two Romanesque twin arcades as sound openings in the west and east .
The interior of the church has been vaulted by a plastered wooden barrel since the Baroque era.
Noteworthy is the altar retable , the central shrine of a carved altar from around 1430, which shows the coronation of Mary . The polygonal wooden pulpit on the south side is decorated with an ornament in the forms of the late Renaissance . The octagonal baptismal font made of sandstone with ornaments borrowed from the Gothic style comes from the Büschdorf church and was probably created around 1900.
A mechanical organ with 16 registers on two manuals and a pedal from the Halle workshop of Friedrich Wilhelm Wäldner has been on the west gallery since 1847 .
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 351.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 142-143.
Web links
- Website on the church district website, accessed on November 22, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 4.7 ″ N , 12 ° 2 ′ 44 ″ E