Here you will find it - probably the oldest church still standing in the city: St Martin's Church. The Romanesque parish church, built around 1200, is surrounded by an enclosure of quarry stone walls, some of which are 1.5 metres high. The churchyard was abandoned as a cemetery in the late 19th century. The imposing, uniform, east-facing late Romanesque choir tower dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. The buttresses were added in 1910 by August Dauber. The sandstone surrounds of the portals, some windows, the corners and the buttresses are plastered solid construction. The south portal is stepped once. The set-in columns have ornamented capitals, with an animal capital on the left and a plant capital on the right. At the top of the tower are two-part sound arcades. A tent roof with four dormers closes the tower, a gabled roof the nave. This extends over three transverse rectangular bays of unequal length, which are cross-vaulted. In the choir, which is raised by three steps, the ridge vault rests on corner pillars with plant-decorated cube capitals, while in the nave it rests on stepped wall mouldings between belt arches. There are late Romanesque frescoes on the choir vault, which were uncovered in 1910 and documented as watercolours by Nikolaus Dauber. They were extensively refreshed, but painted over with whitewash during a rigorous restoration in 1963. Unfortunately, the valuable watercolours have been lost since 2008. According to the church chronicle, the pulpit dates from 1700, a late Romanesque holy water stone in the form of a column, a chalice from 1698, two organ pipes from 1700, the rest from before 1910 and the gallery from 1910. The late Romanesque church, which has been largely uniformly preserved with numerous artistic details and an enclosing fence, has been designated a cultural monument for historical, artistic, urban planning and scientific reasons. Inside, there are well-crafted gravestones of several pastors: for Pastor Daniel Hertzwigk (Renaissance) from 1627, for Pastor Heinrich Klingelhöfer (Baroque) made by Johann Friedrich Sommer between 1729 and 1744 (some of the coloured version has been preserved) and for Pastor Johann Henrich Schuch (Rococo) from 1771. The epitaph for Pastor Philipp Henrich Hennemann (Baroque) from 1697 is set into the southern outer wall. The other gravestones on the outside are dated: one for Elisabeth Heydwolff (before 1558) and several children's gravestones (1663, 1757 and undateable). The epitaph for the three children of Pastor Otto Henkel from 1635 is particularly appealing. The gravestones in the Renaissance and Baroque style, some of which are of good artistic quality, are a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons as evidence of the use of the cemetery.
<p>Here you will find it - probably the oldest church still standing in the city: St Martin's Church. </p> <p>The Romanesque parish church, built around 1200, is surrounded by an enclosure of quarry stone walls, some of which are 1.5 metres high. The churchyard was abandoned as a cemetery in the late 19th century. The imposing, uniform, east-facing late Romanesque choir tower dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. The buttresses were added in 1910 by August Dauber. The sandstone surrounds of the portals, some windows, the corners and the buttresses are plastered solid construction. The south portal is stepped once. The set-in columns have ornamented capitals, with an animal capital on the left and a plant capital on the right. At the top of the tower are two-part sound arcades. A tent roof with four dormers closes the tower, a gabled roof the nave. This extends over three transverse rectangular bays of unequal length, which are cross-vaulted. In the choir, which is raised by three steps, the ridge vault rests on corner pillars with plant-decorated cube capitals, while in the nave it rests on stepped wall mouldings between belt arches. There are late Romanesque frescoes on the choir vault, which were uncovered in 1910 and documented as watercolours by Nikolaus Dauber. They were extensively refreshed, but painted over with whitewash during a rigorous restoration in 1963. Unfortunately, the valuable watercolours have been lost since 2008. </p> <p>According to the church chronicle, the pulpit dates from 1700, a late Romanesque holy water stone in the form of a column, a chalice from 1698, two organ pipes from 1700, the rest from before 1910 and the gallery from 1910. The late Romanesque church, which has been largely uniformly preserved with numerous artistic details and an enclosing fence, has been designated a cultural monument for historical, artistic, urban planning and scientific reasons. Inside, there are well-crafted gravestones of several pastors: for Pastor Daniel Hertzwigk (Renaissance) from 1627, for Pastor Heinrich Klingelhöfer (Baroque) made by Johann Friedrich Sommer between 1729 and 1744 (some of the coloured version has been preserved) and for Pastor Johann Henrich Schuch (Rococo) from 1771. The epitaph for Pastor Philipp Henrich Hennemann (Baroque) from 1697 is set into the southern outer wall. The other gravestones on the outside are dated: one for Elisabeth Heydwolff (before 1558) and several children's gravestones (1663, 1757 and undateable). The epitaph for the three children of Pastor Otto Henkel from 1635 is particularly appealing. The gravestones in the Renaissance and Baroque style, some of which are of good artistic quality, are a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons as evidence of the use of the cemetery.</p>
Here you will find it - probably the oldest church still standing in the city: St Martin's Church. The Romanesque parish church, built around 1200, is surrounded by an enclosure of quarry stone walls, some of which are 1.5 metres high. The churchyard was abandoned as a cemetery in the late 19th century. The imposing, uniform, east-facing late Romanesque choir tower dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. The buttresses were added in 1910 by August Dauber. The sandstone surrounds of the portals, some windows, the corners and the buttresses are plastered solid construction. The south portal is stepped once. The set-in columns have ornamented capitals, with an animal capital on the left and a plant capital on the right. At the top of the tower are two-part sound arcades. A tent roof with four dormers closes the tower, a gabled roof the nave. This extends over three transverse rectangular bays of unequal length, which are cross-vaulted. In the choir, which is raised by three steps, the ridge vault rests on corner pillars with plant-decorated cube capitals, while in the nave it rests on stepped wall mouldings between belt arches. There are late Romanesque frescoes on the choir vault, which were uncovered in 1910 and documented as watercolours by Nikolaus Dauber. They were extensively refreshed, but painted over with whitewash during a rigorous restoration in 1963. Unfortunately, the valuable watercolours have been lost since 2008. According to the church chronicle, the pulpit dates from 1700, a late Romanesque holy water stone in the form of a column, a chalice from 1698, two organ pipes from 1700, the rest from before 1910 and the gallery from 1910. The late Romanesque church, which has been largely uniformly preserved with numerous artistic details and an enclosing fence, has been designated a cultural monument for historical, artistic, urban planning and scientific reasons. Inside, there are well-crafted gravestones of several pastors: for Pastor Daniel Hertzwigk (Renaissance) from 1627, for Pastor Heinrich Klingelhöfer (Baroque) made by Johann Friedrich Sommer between 1729 and 1744 (some of the coloured version has been preserved) and for Pastor Johann Henrich Schuch (Rococo) from 1771. The epitaph for Pastor Philipp Henrich Hennemann (Baroque) from 1697 is set into the southern outer wall. The other gravestones on the outside are dated: one for Elisabeth Heydwolff (before 1558) and several children's gravestones (1663, 1757 and undateable). The epitaph for the three children of Pastor Otto Henkel from 1635 is particularly appealing. The gravestones in the Renaissance and Baroque style, some of which are of good artistic quality, are a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons as evidence of the use of the cemetery.
<p>Here you will find it - probably the oldest church still standing in the city: St Martin's Church. </p> <p>The Romanesque parish church, built around 1200, is surrounded by an enclosure of quarry stone walls, some of which are 1.5 metres high. The churchyard was abandoned as a cemetery in the late 19th century. The imposing, uniform, east-facing late Romanesque choir tower dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. The buttresses were added in 1910 by August Dauber. The sandstone surrounds of the portals, some windows, the corners and the buttresses are plastered solid construction. The south portal is stepped once. The set-in columns have ornamented capitals, with an animal capital on the left and a plant capital on the right. At the top of the tower are two-part sound arcades. A tent roof with four dormers closes the tower, a gabled roof the nave. This extends over three transverse rectangular bays of unequal length, which are cross-vaulted. In the choir, which is raised by three steps, the ridge vault rests on corner pillars with plant-decorated cube capitals, while in the nave it rests on stepped wall mouldings between belt arches. There are late Romanesque frescoes on the choir vault, which were uncovered in 1910 and documented as watercolours by Nikolaus Dauber. They were extensively refreshed, but painted over with whitewash during a rigorous restoration in 1963. Unfortunately, the valuable watercolours have been lost since 2008. </p> <p>According to the church chronicle, the pulpit dates from 1700, a late Romanesque holy water stone in the form of a column, a chalice from 1698, two organ pipes from 1700, the rest from before 1910 and the gallery from 1910. The late Romanesque church, which has been largely uniformly preserved with numerous artistic details and an enclosing fence, has been designated a cultural monument for historical, artistic, urban planning and scientific reasons. Inside, there are well-crafted gravestones of several pastors: for Pastor Daniel Hertzwigk (Renaissance) from 1627, for Pastor Heinrich Klingelhöfer (Baroque) made by Johann Friedrich Sommer between 1729 and 1744 (some of the coloured version has been preserved) and for Pastor Johann Henrich Schuch (Rococo) from 1771. The epitaph for Pastor Philipp Henrich Hennemann (Baroque) from 1697 is set into the southern outer wall. The other gravestones on the outside are dated: one for Elisabeth Heydwolff (before 1558) and several children's gravestones (1663, 1757 and undateable). The epitaph for the three children of Pastor Otto Henkel from 1635 is particularly appealing. The gravestones in the Renaissance and Baroque style, some of which are of good artistic quality, are a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons as evidence of the use of the cemetery.</p>