St. Maria im Tale (Nordhausen)

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Nordhausen, Altendorfer church St. Maria im Tale

The Protestant , so-called Altendorfer Church of St. Maria im Tale ( Beatae Mariae Virginis in Valle , so named to distinguish it from Beatae Mariae Virginis in Monte ) is located in the district town of Nordhausen in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

history

Cistercian women who had moved here from Bischofferode (near Woffleben ) in 1294 used a previous building . The Altendorf monastery was dissolved in 1526 during the Reformation .

In 1353 the church was rebuilt as a three-aisled hall church with a high Gothic choir . The church was supposed to be demolished as early as the 16th century because the building site had proven to be poor and the church had become dilapidated. Nevertheless, it was restored in 1590. However, in 1627 the western part of the church sank, so that the vaults above collapsed. In 1639 the western part of the nave was dismantled , and in 1695 the tower and the north aisle were also dismantled . In the same year the wooden galleries and the organ gallery were built into the west wall. In 1697 the church was rededicated. The structural changes make the choir appear shifted to the left. The sacristy was once one with groin vault built chapel with a Romanesque portal. The altar and the pulpit are from the middle of the 18th century, as is the roof turret of the church.

As the only church that was not destroyed with the exception of the windows, it served as a place of worship for the other parishes in the city after the air raids on Nordhausen . The new church windows were installed on August 4, 1946.

Role in the Peaceful Revolution

Intercession services were held regularly in the church from September 1989. As part of these devotions, information on the foundation of the New Forum was announced on October 4th . The election of a group of speakers to hand over a list of demands to the politicians took place on October 10th. On October 24th the first demonstration started in Nordhausen after a service in the church. This makes the church the starting point for the peaceful revolution in Nordhausen.

Use as a youth church

In 2011 the synod of the church district decided to use it as a youth church. Extensive renovation work has taken place since then. The church received a modern extension on the north side with a breakthrough to the nave. The church opened with a service on October 31, 2017. Since the summer of 2016, “HERZSCHLAG Junge Kirche im Südharz” has been sponsored by the EKM as a test room .

organ

Nordhausen Altendorf Church

In 1596 the organ of the St. Elisabeth Chapel was built by Nic. Göppel renovated and installed in the Altendorf church. In 1627 the vault of the church collapsed and damaged the organ.

In 1813, 1814 and 1819 minor repairs were carried out by the organ builder Heinrich Deppe from Nordhausen. In 1824 the organ was in very poor condition. Thereupon Deppe built a new organ, which was inaugurated on the second Advent in 1827. Organ builder Kelle from Nordhausen carried out repairs on this organ in 1869. In 1889 the organ was cleaned. On August 6, 1906, the organ building company Seewald & Sohn carried out repairs. In 1910/11 Ernst Röver from Hausneindorf built a new pneumatic organ. In 1923 an electric wind machine was installed, which was replaced in 1936 by a "Ventus". In 1917 the Kießling & Sohn organ building company from Bleicherode cleaned the organ. The 75 silent prospect pipes made of tin were removed and replaced with pipes made of zinc sheet.

The organ has not been playable since the renovation work in the church in 2015. The power supply has been switched off and the pedal buttons have been removed.

I Manual
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Delicately packed 8th'
4th Viol 8th'
5. Hollow flute 8th'
6th octave 4 ′
7th flute 4 ′
8th. Mixture III
II manual (swell mechanism)
9. Violin principal 8th'
10. Covered 8th'
11. Aeoline 8th'
12. Voix celestis 8th'
13. Flauto amabile 8th'
14th Gemshorn 4 ′
15th Piccolo 2 ′
pedal
16. Sub-bass 16 ′
17th Violon 16 ′
18th Octave bass 8th'
19th Flute bass 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, super-octave coupling and sub-octave coupling for both manuals
  • Playing aids : roller , sill for manual II, fixed combinations (piano, mezzoforte, forte, fortissimo), two free combinations

Bells

In the tower next to the rectory there is a cast steel bell from 1868, cast by the Bochum Association , which probably comes from the Frauenberg Church. On the west side of the church roof, two chime-cast iron bells hang in a rider. They are classified as missing because their bodies are already rusty. All three bells are currently (2018) not in an operational condition.

Pastor

literature

  • Peter Kuhlbrodt: Nordhausen, Altendorfer monastery . In: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia, edited by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger , Germania Benedictina IV, St. Ottilien 2011, pp. 1110–1142
  • Johannes Schäfer: Nordhäuser Orgelchronik - History of the organ works in the thousand-year-old town of Nordhausen am Harz in Max Schneider (Hrsg.): Contributions to music research , Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses GmbH Halle / Saale Berlin, 1939
  • August Stolberg / Dr. Ing.Friedrich Stolberg: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Nordhausen . In: The thousand year old Nordhausen , Volume II., Nordhausen, 1927, pp. 557ff.
  • Robert Treutler: Churches in Nordhausen - A foray through church life . Verlag Neukirchner, 9/1997, pp. 37-40

Web links

Commons : Altendorfer Church (Nordhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ South Harz Church District
  2. ↑ http://www.herzschlag.me/ueber-uns/articles/die-kirche.html
  3. ↑ http://www.herzschlag.me/ueber-uns/articles/herzschlag-junge-kirche.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 26.6 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 24.5 ″  E