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The small hall church was built from 1840 to 1842 according to a design in the historicist architectural style by Georg Osterwald at the instigation of Ernst August I at the request of his wife Friederike. The namesake did not live to see the inauguration on August 24, 1842. The nave, covered with a gable roof, has a semicircular apse. There is a roof turret above the facade. The portal is flanked by columns on which spires sit. The interior is covered with a barrel vault. The organ was inaugurated in 1853. The copper organ pipes had to be handed over during the First World War. They were initially replaced by zinc ones, and it was not until 1979 that the old richness of sound was restored with new organ pipes. The church furnishings from the time of construction include an ambo, baptismal font, altar and pulpit. Source: Wikipedia

The material of this fairy tale is spread throughout Europe in many variations. It was given to the Brothers Grimm by the storyteller Maria Hassenpflug (1788 - 1856). They revised it several times. The story may have a historical background. Three German communities, Alfeld in Lower Saxony, Waldeck in northern Hesse and Langenbach in the Taunus imagine themselves to be the sites of the historical Snow White. Hardly any other fairy tale offers so much scope for psychological, social or cultural-historical interpretations. Accordingly, it has often been analyzed, examined for symbolism, interpreted and even caricatured. In any case, it is an exciting and fantastic story. Source: https://www.deutschland-lese.de/streifzuege/maerchen/schneewittchen-und-die-sieben-zwerge/

A chain fairy tale: the story of the chicken that dreams that the sky is falling on its head - and that therefore has to run to Loccum as quickly as possible. It also tells this to the animals that it meets, one after the other, on its way there. And they all share its fear - one after the other - and run with it. Until they meet the fox. And end up in its cave... now it becomes dangerous. Source: https://hoerspiele.dra.de/detailansicht/4935988

The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats (KHM 5) has been one of the most popular fairy tales since the first edition of Children's and Household Tales in 1812. The Brothers Grimm were told the fairy tale by the Huguenot family Hassenpflug, and the Grimms also had reason to believe that the story had French origins, as they knew the part about the white paw from a French children's book, among other things. Despite this, they included the fairy tale in their collection from the very beginning, and even placed it close to the beginning of Children's and Household Tales. Numerous illustrations, e.g. B. by Ludwig Richter (1853 and 1862), Otto Ubbelohde (1907), Eugen Osswald (1910) and Felix Hoffmann (1957), the adaptation into the fairy tale opera The Seven Little Goats (1895) by Engelbert Humperdinck, a fairy tale film from 1956, a television production by the Augsburger Puppenkiste (1966) and the cartoon production by SimsalaGrimm (1999) also testify to the popularity of the fairy tale. Source: https://www.deutschland-lese.de/streifzuege/maerchen/der-wolf-und-die-sieben-jungen-geisslein/

The main motif of the fairy tale, the redemption of the enchanted brothers by their only sister, can be found in a whole series of fairy tales, including Basile's fairy tale The Seven Doves, the Grimm fairy tales The Six Swans and The Twelve Brothers, and The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. The birds here probably represent the damnation of souls, the long journey the girl has to go, the guilt that was burdened upon her at birth (see the search hike). The glass mountain stands on the one hand for insurmountability, and on the other hand for clarity (transparent): the girl knows "crystal clear" what she has to do, and by chopping off a finger she is a sacrifice. Source: https://www.maerchenatlas.de/deutsche-maerchen/grimms-marchen/die-sieben-raben/

A princess drops her golden ball into the well while playing, and a frog offers to help her. In return, she has to promise to become his friend and share his plate and bed. When she gets the ball back, she goes home and forgets the poor frog in his well. But the frog comes to the door of the royal castle, and at the insistence of her father, the king, the princess reluctantly confesses to her promise. She has to share her table with the frog. But when the frog demands that she take him to her bed, her disgust is so great that she throws the slimy and ugly frog against the wall. At the same moment, the frog turns into a prince. He had been cursed by an evil witch. According to her father's will, he takes the king's daughter to his kingdom in a carriage as his wife. During the journey, Henry, the young king's loyal servant, is so happy at his master's salvation that he (the "Iron Henry") had put around his heart when his master was turned into a frog so that his heart would not burst from sorrow that he broke with a loud crash. Prince and princess live happily ever after. Source: Wikipedia

The most well-known version of the Pied Piper legend goes back to the Brothers Grimm's collection of 1816. The two linguists included the story as "The Children of Hamelin" in their book of German legends. Source: https://www.hameln.de/de/der-rattenfaenger/die-rattenfaengersage/die-sage-nach-den-bruedern-grimm

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter who lives with them and his wife in the forest. When their hardship becomes too great, she persuades her husband to abandon the two children in the forest. Although it is difficult for him, the woodcutter takes the children into the forest the next day and leaves them alone under a pretext. But Hansel has overheard the parents and on the way into the forest he has laid a trail of small white stones that the children can use to find their way back. This is how the mother's plan fails. But the second attempt to abandon the children is successful: this time Hansel and Gretel only have a slice of bread with them, which Hansel crumbles to leave a trail. However, it is picked up by birds. As a result, the children cannot find their way home and get lost. On the third day, the two come across a little house made entirely of bread, cake and sugar. First, they tear down parts of the house to satisfy their hunger. However, in this house lives a witch who is a cannibal. In both the original version of the fairy tale from 1812 and in the later editions up to the "final edition" from 1857, she calls out in a kind of onomatopoeia: "Knuper, knuper, kneischen, who is nibbling at my little house?" In Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book from 1856, the text, which differs from the Brothers Grimm, reads: "Knusper, knusper, kneischen! Who is nibbling at my little house?" The children's answer, however, is identical in Bechstein and in the extended version of the Brothers Grimm from 1819: "The wind, the wind, the heavenly child." The witch is not fooled, catches the two, turns Gretel into a maid and fattens Hansel in a cage to eat him later. However, Hansel uses a trick: to check whether the boy is fat enough, the half-blind witch feels his finger every day. But each time Hansel holds out a small bone to her. When she sees that the boy does not seem to be getting fat, she loses patience and wants to roast him immediately. The witch orders Gretel to look in the oven to see if it is hot. But Gretel claims that she is too small for it, so the witch has to look herself. When she opens the oven, Gretel pushes the evil witch in. The children take treasures from the witch's house and find their way back to their father. Their mother has since died. Now they live happily and no longer suffer from hunger.