St. Norbert (Hall)
St. Norbert is a Roman Catholic church in Halle (Saale) , which was built between 1890 and 1891 in neo-Gothic style in the then still independent village of Giebichenstein and is a listed building. It is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 05073.
history
In 1886, the St. Norbert mission school was founded in the district of Giebichenstein , as the city of Halle no longer allowed foreign children to attend the Catholic city school for financial reasons. A chapel room for church services was set up on the second floor of the school building. With the establishment of the school, a community awareness developed among Catholic Christians north of Halle, which aroused the desire for their own church.
The Halle architect Kretzke designed the first new Catholic church after the Reformation in what is now Halle four years later . The foundation stone was laid on March 19, 1890; a year later the church was finished.
On April 7, 1891, it was consecrated to Norbert von Xanten , who was Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1129 to 1134. A sandstone figure of the saint from 1890 is located above the portal of the former school, which has served as a rectory since 1914.
In 1913 the community was raised to an independent parish .
A major renovation of the church took place in 1988.
Since August 30, 2004, the parish of St. Norbert belongs to the Catholic parish Halle-Nord , which is named after the priest Carl Lampert, who was executed in 1944 .
Architecture and equipment
The church on the corner plot of Körnerstraße / Richard-Wagner-Straße, which was added to the school building on the left, is a two-aisled hall church made of yellow brick in simple neo-Gothic shapes with a straight choir and a sacristy added to the east in 1938 . In 1963 the asymmetrically attached bell tower with three bronze bells was added.
The interior of the church with its flat wooden beam ceiling and ribbed vault was changed several times. In 1934, the lavish neo-Gothic design with wall paintings was largely removed in favor of greater simplicity. After the three high windows in the end of the choir had been destroyed in the war, they were walled up. Since 1964 there is a large plaster mosaic with the return of Christ by the Halle artist Meinolf Splett (1911–2009).
The altar cross and tabernacle as well as the monstrance were made in 1934 in what was then the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts . To the right of the chancel there is a statue of Mary made of lime wood, created in 1947 by Fritz Leweke (1901–2001) based on a late medieval figure of Our Lady from the Rothenschirmbach altar. The Way of the Cross - wooden panels, oil on gold leaf - was created in 1945 by Gisela Leweke-Weyde (1894–1984).
At the central pillar of the organ gallery is a statue of St. Norbert, under which a reliquary in enamel in 1959 with relics of the saint is that in the 18th century from the Strahov Monastery here in Prague reached.
The mechanical Sauer organ with twelve registers , two manuals and a pedal was installed in 1989.
literature
- 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. 255.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 126–127.
- Christina Seidel , Klaus-Peter Röder: Halle (Saale) - ecumenical church leader. DVZ-Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-9807801-8-X , pp. 42–43.
Web links
- Historical outline of the page “Church in Halle”, accessed on March 4, 2018
- Sankt Norbert, Halle on the side of the Catholic Parish Carl Lampert, accessed on December 5, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 41 ″ E