St. Laurentius (Salza)

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St. Laurence

The Evangelical Church of St. Laurentius is in the Salza district of the city of Nordhausen in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

history

Bell tower

In 1550, the von Thomas family managed the manor in Salza. In 1510 the citizen Cyliax Ernst obtained all rights and possessions over Salza from the indebted Count von Hohnstein as a creditor. It is believed that both wealthy citizens supported the construction of a place of worship and financed, for the patronage held Ernst, and in the tower vault the Thomas family had a tomb .

The Church of St. Laurentii was listed in the middle of the 16th century. The pastorate (1558) and the oldest bell (1566) still in existence date from this time. The church building was east-facing with a west tower and, according to contemporary drawings, had a certain resemblance to St. Philippi Church in Kleinwerther .

As the population grew, this church turned out to be too small and was demolished in 1837, including the tower. Immediately afterwards, the construction of a new, late Classicist hall church began . This corresponded to the normal church plan of the royal Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , but a bell tower was omitted. There is a strong similarity with the village church Annenwalde in Brandenburg, which is also a normal church of Schinkel.

A bell tower was only built in 1952 with 6000 stones from the rubble of the Nordhausen Jacobi Church . The bells stood in the open air for over a hundred years.

Interior decoration

In 1888, an organ with 17 registers made by Robert Knauf from Bleicherode was purchased. The crucifix was created by the artist Dario Malkowski . The font from the 10th or 11th century is the oldest object in the church.

In 1975 the chancel was redesigned , the copper pictures in the anteroom were attached and the seating was replaced.

literature

  • History of the church and parish St. Laurentius zu Nordhausen-Salza , leaflet of the parish
  • Julius Schmidt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Grafschaft Hohenstein district. Hall 1889.
  • Robert Treutler: Churches in Nordhausen - A foray through church life . Verlag Neukirchner, 9/1997, pp. 53-55
  • Thomas Müller: The churches in the southern Harz. with photographs by Christoph Keil and others. Nordhausen 2017, p. 174f.

Web links

Commons : St. Laurentius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The church at www.karstwanderweg.de. Queryed on February 14, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 57.2 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 9.7 ″  E