St. Pankratius (Hall)
The Evangelical Church of St. Pankratius is located in Mötzig , today a district in the northern district of Halle (Saale) . The church is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04883. It belongs to the parish area Trotha-Seeben / Heiland / St. Pankratius in the Halle-Saalkreis parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The church, consecrated to St. Pankratius , one of the ice saints and the 14 Holy Helpers , is mentioned in a document on July 5, 1121, in which Archbishop Rüdiger of Magdeburg confirmed the donations made by his predecessor to Neuwerk monastery . Mötzig and his church were to remain in the possession of the monastery until 1520. The first Protestant pastor after the congregation converted to the Protestant faith was Michael Schaffer (term of office 1558–1562).
In the years 1712 and 1713, the originally Romanesque church was completely rebuilt under the direction of the royal Prussian secret councilor Christian Friedrich von Braun. Among other things, the church received a three-sided east end, high arched windows and the tower a hipped roof .
Another complex renovation in neo-Romanesque style took place between 1896 and 1897 under the direction of the parish council and architect Karl Hernsdorf from Halle. In addition to the tower, only the two side walls of the church remained. Instead of the three-sided end of the choir , a square choir with a semicircular apse was added and the nave was lengthened. The completed ringing of bronze bells was replaced by three steel bells in the 1920s. The interior of the church was also completely redesigned.
description
Of the Romanesque quarry stone church built around 1200, only the lower part of the west transverse tower with its Romanesque panel windows has been preserved. Between the tower room and the church hall there are two Romanesque edge columns supporting a double arcade, as well as a central column, which is decorated with corner columns and leaf capitals.
The square top of the tower with twin windows and the high, widely visible spire (total height of the tower 18 meters) comes from the renovation in the 19th century. In the style of late Romanesque churches, the tower top is structured with pilaster strips and arched friezes.
The interior of the church is characterized by the dark wood tone of the beamed ceiling , the organ gallery, the stalls and the pulpit . The stained glass windows in the apse come from Ferdinand Müller's glass painting workshop in Quedlinburg . Also from the 19th century, the altar, the crown- and sconces that originate baptismal font from sandstone as well as the lectern. The floral painting from the renovation period has also been preserved.
The church has a mechanical organ built in 1880 (14 registers , two manuals) from the Zörbiger organ workshop Wilhelm Rühlmann .
St. Pankratius is one of the few churches in Halle in which church furnishings from the end of the 19th century have been completely preserved.
literature
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 138-139.
Web links
- Web presence of the parish of St. Pankratius on the portal of the parish of Halle-Saalkreis
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 56 ″ N , 12 ° 0 ′ 37 ″ E