St. Wenceslas (Radewell)
The Protestant Church of St. Wenzel is located in the former village of Radewell, today part of the Radewell / Osendorf district of the Ammendorf district in the south of Halle (Saale) . The church is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04931. The parish of Radewell St. Wenzel belongs to the parish south in the parish hall Halle-Saalkreis of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The place was first mentioned in 973 in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto II. As a castle keeper. As one of his first acts, Otto confirmed the possessions and rights of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg here on June 3rd and 4th . Presumably a church was built in Radewell as early as the 11th century to Christianize the Slavic areas east of the Saale.
The current church, built around 1150, was initially subordinate to the Magdeburg Moritzkloster , which led the Christianization. In 1184 Archbishop Wichmann von Magdeburg equips the Moritzkloster he founded in Halle with the parish church Radewell and its three chapels in Döllnitz , Wörmlitz and Beesen .
After the dissolution of the monastery, the properties came first in 1520 to the Neue Stift founded by Cardinal Albrecht , then to the Giebichenstein office in 1541 . Church visits were carried out in Radewell as early as 1561. In the church chronicle, however, Michael Peitzsch from Schkeuditz is only recorded as the first Protestant pastor for the years 1589 to 1631 .
Extensive baroque alterations and additions to the church were carried out in 1680.
In 1903 the brickworks owner Richard Lösche donated the lower lead glass windows . In 1972 three chill-cast bells were acquired from the secular St. Stephen's Church in Halle . Restorations took place in 1965 and in the years from 1998.
description
It is a 12th century Romanesque hall church with a west transverse tower made of plastered quarry stone masonry . Romanesque slit windows and a round window have been preserved on the south side of the tower.
As a result of the Baroque transformation in 1680, a bell storey with arched windows and the hipped roof were added to the tower. A sacristy and the entrance porch were added on the south side . The church also received the straight end of the choir with round and ogival windows in the east and the western entrance annex to the tower in the 17th century.
Inside the church is equipped with a three-sided gallery and a wooden barrel ceiling. The pulpit of the pulpit altar from 1720 is adorned with acanthus carvings and crowned by carved figures depicting Christ as the judge of the world, Moses and Aaron . A representation of the Lord's Supper is located below the pulpit.
The reliefs of checkerboard fighters on the pillars of the Romanesque double arcade are worth mentioning . The lower tower room opens over this to the church hall.
In 2004 the organ of the Bautzen organ workshop Eule from 1950, originally created for the Halle church music school , was installed on the west gallery , one of the earliest modern organs with a fully mechanical action mechanism in Germany.
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. 502.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 140–141.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radewell St. Wenzel on the website of the church district. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 53.6 ″ E