St. Marien (Harlingerode)

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St. Marien (Harlingerode)

St. Mary's Church, December 2019

Basic data
Denomination evangelical
place Harlingerode , Germany
Regional church Regional Church of Braunschweig
Building description
inauguration October 1750
Architectural style Baroque
Construction type Hall church
Coordinates 51 ° 54 '36.7 "  N , 10 ° 31' 7.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '36.7 "  N , 10 ° 31' 7.1"  E
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The Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Marien is located in the historic village center of Harlingerode , a district of Bad Harzburg in the Goslar district . It belongs to the provost of Bad Harzburg of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig .

history

The naming probably falls in the late 16th century; earlier documents are missing. Since the veneration of Mary is not a sign of evangelical piety, the naming was either a concession to the Harlingeröder, who still strongly believed in the Catholic faith at the beginning of the 17th century, or it comes from the pre-Reformation period.

Two previous buildings were destroyed by fires in 1625 and April 1748, the current church building was inaugurated in October 1750. Due to a lack of money, the church tower could only be built from 1794, it was inaugurated on July 12, 1795. The Harlingeröder cemetery on Rupenklint was inaugurated on November 18, 1854. In 1836 the Martin Luther Church in Oker was consecrated as a branch church, it received its own parish on October 16, 1881 and was separated from the parish of Harlingerode. The Filia in Schlewecke with its village church , which had existed since 1542, was spun off from the Harlingerode parish in 1950.

Extensive renovation work on the church building began in 2017. In the course of this, the outer facade was scaffolded to enable extensive renovation. A renovation also took place, because in the course of the renovation the color of the church tower was changed from turquoise to gray and the nave to old white. The renovation work was originally scheduled to be completed in August 2018. However, due to building damage discovered during the work, the original opening date was postponed so that the renovation was not completed until December 2019.

The church linden tree is located north of the church . It is a winter linden tree that is listed as a protected natural property on the Harz circular trail .

architecture

Today's baroque building is a three-axis hall church with a five-eighth choir in the east and a square, timber - clad half-timbered tower with a baroque hood in the west. The tip is a gold-plated sphere with a weather vane, which is based on the old one from 1795. During the renovation of the church in 1794/95, the outer walls were reinforced with wall templates . The windows on the long sides of the nave , which are closed at the top with basket arches , also date from this period. The three bells with the names "Faith", "Hope" and "Love" ( 1 Cor 13.13  LUT ) date from 1912. The two-story gallery is unusual for village churches . The nave is covered with a gable roof, the interior is spanned by a wooden barrel vault . The central piece of equipment in the arch of the apse is the altar wall, crowned by a broken and curved gable, adorned with biblical and allegorical figures. To the right and left of the baroque 5 / 8th pulpit stand a Corinthian column .

Cenotaphs

A column in the southeast corner and a marble memorial stone in front of the north wall of the church commemorate the fallen of the two world wars.

The majusc inscription on the memorial stone reads:

"All who fall in sea and land,
have fallen Lord into your hand
All who fight in a wide field
are at your mercy
All who cry in the dark of night
are guarded by your kindness
1939 - 1945 "

Bells

Two of the original church bells were melted down for armaments purposes during the First World War ; they were replaced by two new bells after the Second World War . The bells, named “Faith” and “Hope”, were inaugurated on August 23, 1955 and have been rung electrically since then. Only the third bell, christened “love”, was spared.

gallery

  • The St. Mary's Church before the renovation, 2016

  • Fallen memorial

  • Memorial stone to the fallen in World War II

literature

  • Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Braunschweig , third volume, Wolfenbüttel 1906, p. 396
  • Hans Schmidt: From Harlingerode's past. In: Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein e. V. (Ed.): Uhlenklippen Spiegel, Issue 85 / March 2008.

Web links

Commons : St. Marien Church (Harlingerode)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helge Burggrabe among other things: Sacred spaces - Bad Harzburg's churches and chapels . Bad Harzburg 2013; P. 46
  2. ^ Harald Meier, Kurt Neumann: Bad Harzburg. Chronicle of a city. P. 465.
  3. ^ Harald Meier, Kurt Neumann: Bad Harzburg. Chronicle of a city. Pp. 556-558.
  4. ↑ Angela Potthast: St. Marien renovation takes longer. In: Goslarsche Zeitung. August 22, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  5. ^ "Harz / Lower Saxony" nature park plan . (PDF; 9.2 MB) Goslar district , September 2015, p. 219 , accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ photo