St. Johannis (Halberstadt)
The Protestant Church of St. Johannis is a half-timbered hall church in Halberstadt in the district of the same name in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish of St. Johannis Halberstadt in the Halberstadt parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
History and architecture
The collegiate monastery founded by Bishop Brantog around 1030 was converted into an Augustinian canon monastery at the beginning of the 12th century . In the second half of the 13th century the monastery was moved to the west of the city. After the church and the monastery buildings were destroyed in 1631, the Protestant church in Westendorf was built in 1646–1648 on the site of an estate remote from the road by the master carpenter Wulf Götze for the oldest Protestant community in Halberstadt.
The building is a towerless half-timbered hall with a polygonal east end, which is filled with stone blocks. With a length of 32 meters and a width of 16 meters, it is one of the largest half-timbered churches in Germany. A small roof turret is built over the stone west facade . The ogival portals and the cast-iron tracery of the windows come from a restoration in 1848. In the north-west, a free-standing bell tower with an open half-timbered bell storey is built over a massive substructure, which is closed with a slate roof and lantern and has existed in this form since 1684.
The interior is a spacious gallery hall with a coffered wooden vault over strong supports. In the choir windows there are stained glass from the mid-19th century and around 1900 showing the half-length figures of Luther and Melanchthon , Matthäus 'and Johannes' as well as coat of arms fields from the 17th century.
Furnishing
The main part of the high-quality furnishings is a mighty wooden altarpiece, which, according to the inscription, was donated in 1692 and whose carving is attributed to Thiele Zimmermann. The three-storey structure shows in the lower zone of fluted columns framed aedicules with Moses and Aaron , in the middle zone between two twisted, vine-covered columns and acanthus cheeks the two figures of John in shell niches and outside Matthew and Paul as well as above the evangelists Mark and Luke. The altar structure is crowned by a figure of the risen Christ, with two soldiers on the sloping gable.
The three altar paintings (Last Supper, Crucifixion and Entombment) as well as several sculptures from the pulpit were lost due to theft on April 17, 1992 and were replaced in 1996/1997 by pictures by Olaf Wegewitz .
The baptismal font is a valuable bronze cast from the 15th century with a wall that is closed at the top and bottom by a leaf frieze. It is supported by a round foot with four Romanesque-looking lion figures that may have been used here a second time. The pulpit was donated according to an inscription in 1653 and painted in color in 1680. The polygonal basket is carried by a figure of John the Baptist and shows on the wall the reliefs of the Evangelists as well as Luther and Melanchthon, in between on small pedestals the apostles, which were made after the theft in 1995/1996 by Michael Weihe . The crown-like, also richly carved sound cover is crowned by Christ with the globe. The organ prospect , which was transferred from St. Andrew's Church in 1647 , is a work from 1605 and is crowned by the coat of arms of Bishop Heinrich Julius . Outside, an epitaph from around 1660/1670 can be seen, which shows a life-size figure of Kronos in a high pilaster pedicule .
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 , pp. 342–343.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b website of the municipality. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 40.3 ″ E