St. Katharinen (Hall)
St. Katharinen is the listed Protestant village church of the formerly independent Ammendorf, today part of the Ammendorf / Beesen district of Halle (Saale) . The parish belongs with those of Beesen and Radewell to the parish area south in the parish of Halle-Saalkreis of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04557.
location
The church with the address Schulberg 6 stands on a hill above the northern edge of the Saale-Elster-Aue . As the point de vue of Merseburger Strasse, it is of great importance for urban development.
history
A first church consecrated to St. Nicholas was built in Ammendorf, first mentioned in 1214, probably around 1200 by immigrant Flemings. In 1382, Hermann von Kotze , who lived in the Black Castle of Ammendorf, had a new church built at today's location , which was consecrated to Saint Catherine . It was initially a branch church of the church in Radewell . In 1394 it was elevated to an independent parish church by Archbishop Albrecht IV of Magdeburg (term of office from 1383 to 1403) .
As the church had become dilapidated, the lord of Bose had a new church built in 1504. The tower was built between 1509 and 1511. In 1542 the community converted to the Protestant faith; the first Protestant pastor was Georg Franck von Brene.
In the years 1738 to 1742 the church, like the one in the neighboring town of Beesen, was completely rebuilt by the theological faculty of the University of Halle , which owned the Beesen and Ammendorf estates from 1726 to 1788. In 1756 the theological faculty also built the rectory, which has hardly changed to this day.
In the course of a restoration in 1905, the Halle city planner Carl Rehorst had the sacristy with a mansard roof added . The church was again extensively restored in 1928.
During the Second World War , the church remained undamaged despite the bombing of the surrounding churchyard. However, no conservation measures were carried out in the following years, so that it increasingly fell into disrepair and was partly willfully destroyed. Because of this, there has been no service since the 1980s. In 1993 the first security and renovation measures began. In the following years the roof and the church tower were renewed, as well as the windows and the ceiling barrel. In 2001 the church was able to be put back into operation.
Architecture and equipment
Today the church presents itself as a baroque hall church with a square tower. Parts of the masonry of the originally Gothic building on a rectangular floor plan were preserved during the new construction. The 27 meter high west tower is square up to the height of the roof ridge and was given an octagonal elevation in 1782 and a double-skinned slate roof .
The interior of the church is vaulted by a plastered wooden barrel and equipped with a three-sided gallery . The rectangular church hall with a straight end of the choir and flat arched rectangular windows has a length of 18 meters and a width of 8.70 meters.
1739 with a deciduous and was Bandelwerk ornaments designed pulpit altar from a Merseburg workshop installed. The small baroque wooden baptismal font seems to come from the same workshop.
To the left behind the main entrance in the church is the epitaph for Georg Bose, who died in Ammendorf in 1574. Also of note is a chest with iron fittings from the 15th century.
The organ prospect , built in 1905, has baroque elements. The organ with 15 registers from the Zörbig workshop of Wilhelm Rühlmann , which was also installed this year, was destroyed in the 1970s. Today, a small digital sacral organ is used on the west gallery as a replacement .
On the south facade of the church there are two memorial plaques for those who fell in the First World War .
The cemetery in the churchyard with some baroque tombs is still partially preserved, including a well-preserved epitaph for Pastor Mathias Spielberg, who died in 1712 at the age of 36.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 . P. 302.
- 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. 432.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Bene: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 104-105.
Web links
- Ammendorf St. Katharinen on the website of the parish south , last accessed on June 22, 2020.
- St. Katharinen in Ammendorf - history and architecture. at: kirche-in-halle.de , last accessed on June 22, 2020.
- Ammendorf's timetable at ammendorf.de , last accessed on June 22, 2010.
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 32.8 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 3.9 ″ E