An exact date for the creation of the church is unknown. However, it is certain that at the time of the first written mention of Hankensbüttel in 1051, the place was already the seat of a parish. Therefore, it can be assumed that a date of foundation in the first millennium. The church is dedicated to a young martyr who was beheaded under the Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305). According to their emphasized importance, the construction of the church was very compact. The Romanesque hall building was covered with walls up to two meters thick and originally had only small windows. The squat tower was probably part of the structure from the start. Presumably in the 15th century, the Romanesque was replaced by a Gothic vault, which later pushed the side walls up to 60 cm apart, so they had to be stabilized from the outside with buttresses. The vaulted ceilings are decorated with paintings from the 15th and 18th centuries. The oldest inventory item is a triumphal cross carved from an oak piece, probably made around 1230. The bells, consisting of seven bells, are among the oldest in the region, as a bell was first cast around 1250. Wikipedia

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Puffin

October 17, 2024

The quite impressive building is marked as an open church, but was closed.

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JakobusPilger

June 6, 2021

According to tradition, St. Pancras was publicly executed at the end of the 3rd / beginning of the 4th century under Emperor Diocletian because of his Christian faith. The body of the martyr was buried on the Roman Via Aurelia - in the catacombs later named after him - under today's church "San Pancrazio". His feast day is on May 12th, he is one of the three so-called "ice saints" in popular piety, together with Servatius and Bonifatius (in some areas supplemented by "Cold Sophie" one day later).

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