St. Nicolai (Braunschweig-Melverode)
The St. Nicholas of Myra consecrated listed Church of St. Nicholas in Melverode belongs to the parish Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Melverode in Braunschweig the provost Brunswick in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick . It stands “Am Kirchplatz” on “Leipziger Strasse” in Melverode , a district of Braunschweig .
description
The church, first mentioned in a document in 1237, is said to go back to the time of Emperor Otto IV . The hall church , built from plastered rubble and partly from stone , has 3 × 3 yokes . Each yoke is spanned from north to south by a continuous barrel vault on 4 edge pillars, into which stab caps cut from east and west . There is a groin vault only above the square yokes of the central nave . The transverse rectangular church tower covered with a gable roof rises above the former yoke in the west . The narrower aisles and the also narrower yoke of the tower are spanned by a simple barrel vault. The aisles in the east have small apses , and the square choir on the central nave closes with a retracted apse. In 1902-04, remains of the original wall painting were uncovered in the choir . It shows scenes from the life of Jesus Christ on the south wall and scenes from the legend of St. Nicholas on the north wall .
The portal is on the south side.
literature
- Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 941.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 6.5 ″ E