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St. Moritz Church, Halle (Saale)

St. Moritz Church, Halle (Saale)

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St. Moritz Church, Halle (Saale)

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Location: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Market Square Halle (Saale) – Handel Monument, Halle loop from Charlottenviertel

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Michi LE

March 11, 2023

Construction period
12th century, 14th century, 15th century,
16th century, 17th century, 18th century,
19th century, 20th century
between 1121 and 1144 (construction of the first church), 1388 (start of new construction) to around 1420,
from 1448 (resumption of construction work after interruption), 1456 (installation of the choir screens completed),
1468 (roof over the eastern parts, 1472 (consecration of the eastern half of the church) to around 1481 (nave enclosure and western building),
to 1510 (complete demolition of the previous Romanesque building),
after 1510 (western nave pillars, vaulted sanctuary), 1554 to 1557 (vaulting),
1588 (vestibule), 1694 to 1697 (bell tower),
1789 (partial collapse of the tower), 1801 to 1803 (tower intermediate structure),
1838 to 1841 (repair), 1910 to 1916 (repair of buttresses on the north side)
Architectural style
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Historicism
Builder / architect
Conrad von Einbeck (1388),
Hans Brochstete (from 1448),
Nickel Hoffmann (1554 to 1557),
Condition
The Catholic Moritz Church in Halle/Saale has been renovated.
Current use
sacred
Access
The Catholic Moritz Church in Halle/Saale is an open church.

Description
Type
The Catholic parish church in Halle/Saale is a three-aisled hall church.
Building structure
Stone facade (eastern parts), windows with keel-arch finish and tracery veil, buttresses with tracery blinds, eyelashes and giants structured,
other construction phases simpler, south porch with blind tracery and keel-arch jambs, , volute gable,
western half with three-stepped buttresses, simple tracery windows, north side in ashlar, south side quarry stone, north portal keel-like,
western building quarry stone, buttresses, intermediate building with tracery window, bell storey with tent roof and roof turret
interior
eastern hall slightly raised central nave, square pillars, western part of the hall the same height, octagonal pillars, star and net rib vaults, sculptures, Man of Sorrows, Mother of Sorrows, altar stipes, pulpit, sandstone baptismal font, crucifix, organ

Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/halle-saale-moritzkirche

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Sachsen Onkel

May 15, 2017

From 1388 on, construction began in late Gothic style. In the years 1694-1697, the Baroque tower was built, but in 1789 partly collapsed, and was demolished. The current tower was built 1801-1803.

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🦋 Maranawen 🌻

August 25, 2023

St. Moritz was the main church of the Halloren.

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St. Moritz Church, Halle (Saale)

1. Market Square Halle (Saale) – Handel Monument, Halle loop from Charlottenviertel

2. Pulverweiden Weir – Rabeninsel Halle loop from Altstadt

3. Handel Monument, Halle – Market Square Halle (Saale) loop from Gesundbrunnen

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