St. Norbert (Merseburg)

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St. Norbert in Merseburg

The neo-Gothic Catholic Church of St. Norbert in Merseburg in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt was built in 1868. It is under monument protection and is listed in the monument register with registration number 094 20114 as a monument .

Since a large part of today's Saxony-Anhalt belonged to the Archdiocese of Paderborn in the 19th century , a number of sacred buildings by the Paderborn cathedral and diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig can be found here , including a large number of city churches. In the vicinity of Merseburg these include St. Franziskus and St. Elisabeth (Halle) and St. Elisabeth (Weißenfels) . The position of the tower next to the nave is typical of Güldenpfennig churches.

The Catholic mission parish in Merseburg was founded in 1860. The church was four years after its completion on 22 July 1872 the Paderborn Bishop Konrad Martin consecrated . The patronage of St. Norbert comes from the historical affiliation of the diocese of Merseburg to the archbishopric of Magdeburg , whose archbishop Norbert von Xanten was in the 12th century. In the crypt of the Merseburg church a Norbert relic is kept, which was donated to the church by the Prague Premonstratensian monastery .

The church in the immediate vicinity of the train station was affected by numerous air raids during World War II and was badly destroyed. In 1954 the reconstruction was completed under the architect Fritz Reuter. The nave was extended by two aisles. The two figures (St. Norbert and St. Laurentius) on the outer facade also date from this time. The current equipment dates from the 1980s.

Web links

Commons : St. Norbert (Merseburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 555.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ^ Martin Beitz: Arnold Güldenpfennig - a forgotten church builder? In: Sachsen-Anhalt-Journal 28 (2018), no. 2, pp. 12-14.
  3. ^ Dehio, p. 555.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 23.3 "  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 36.5"  E