Weißenwasserkirche

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The Weißenwasserkirche from the east, 2017

The Weißenwasserkirche is a church in the Northeim district , which is located outside a closed village at the foot of the Kahlberg in the Leinebergland northeast of Kalefeld .

history

The Weißenwasserkirche was first mentioned in 1055 in the founding document of the Peterstift Nörten . According to archaeological findings, there was a timber of dry stone pedestal , which was crossed by an arm of the White Water Bach; this fed a water basin in which the baptism was performed by immersion.

The wooden chapel burned down. In its place was built a church of rubble masonry , which in honor of the Apostle James the Great on July 4, 1145 by the Archbishop of Mainz I. Henry was ordained. It was assigned to the Sedes Church in Hohnstedt .

In 1307, the Lords of Plesse handed over the patronage to the Höckelheim monastery . From 1350 an Engelhard was a pleban here , who in 1369 was also the chaplain of the abbess of Gandersheim Monastery . In 1612 a new tower was completed.

After the sinking of Weißenwasser the pastor came from Kalefeld. Today the church belongs to the parish of Kalefeld in the Harzer Land parish in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district . The local cemetery is right next to it.

The church is a rare example of a church from the Middle Ages that has since fallen into desolation and is used again today.

According to legend, the foundation of the church came about when two giants transported a church eastward from Solling near Uslar and it broke at this point.

literature

  • Heimat-, Geschichts- und Kulturverein Kalefeld eV: 850 years of Weißenwasserkirche , 1995
  • Heimat-, Geschichts- und Kulturverein Kalefeld eV: The Weißenwasserkirche and its surroundings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bruns: The Archdiakonat Nörten 1967 p. 173
  2. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessische Landesgeschichte: With document book, Volume 2 1789 S. 787/8
  3. ↑ Hans Goetting: Das Bistum Hildesheim, Volume 7 1973 p. 406
  4. ^ Georg Schambach / Wilhelm Müller: Lower Saxon sagas and fairy tales. Göttingen 1855, pp. 150–151.

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 20.2 "  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 25.6"  E