Adenstedt
Adenstedt is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the Samtgemeinde Sibbesse.
Geography
The community Adenstedt located between the seven mountains to the northwest, the Hildesheimer forest in the north, the lifter in the south- southeast, and the bag forest in the southwest.
Community structure
The parish includes the hamlets Adenstedt Adenstedt, Sellenstedt and Grafelde.
The Church in Adenstedt
Chapel in Grafelde
Chapel in Grafelde
History
Was Sellenstedt - as well Adenstedt - already mentioned in 1022 and then known as " Scellenstide ". Grafelde was mentioned around 1000 as " Grafla " or " Graflon " in a document.
At the beginning of the 20th century the number of Adenstedt 657 inhabitants, while in Sellenstedt 286 and 210 people lived in Grafelde.
Adenstedt belonged to 31 December 2004 the administrative district of Hanover, which was dissolved as a result of administrative reform with the same date.
On March 1, 1974, the municipalities were integrated Grafelde and Sellenstedt.
Culture and sights
The Protestant Mary's Chapel in Grafelde that instead of a tower has a beschieferten roof turret, was built of rubble with Eckquadern of sandstone. It stands on a base of sandstone and is among other things worth seeing for its late-Gothic winged altar from the late 15th century. It was in 1896, 1928 and restored in 1954. The chapel is Romanesque in the core, from this time a head of Christ above the entrance is obtained. The eastern part of the chapel, the slightly increased Inappropriate choir was built in 1512 in the Gothic style, as the attached at the southeast corner annual number identifies. The extraordinarily massive walls of the chapel and the reminiscent of loopholes small window in the gable can suspect that they also served as a fortified church. In the outer wall of the Gothic part of a niche falls below a window with Gothic tracery, in the possibly originally was a holy figure. Inside the chapel is a stone font with highly weathered relief is left noteworthy addition to the brick altar which was made in 1511 and originally stood outside the chapel. The beamed ceiling of the chapel was built in 1753.
The Protestant Church in Adenstedt, which is already mentioned in documents in 1022, was mentioned as Archdeaconry in the 12th century and rebuilt 1736-1738. In its interior is apart from the pulpit altar of 1736-1738 and the wooden barrel vault noteworthy.
The Protestant Church of St. Peter and Paul in Sellenstedt is a plastered baroque quarry stone, over whose portal the year is to read 1748. Inside the neoclassical altar, the baptismal from the mid- 18th century, and two chandeliers of 1614 and 1653 stand out.
Personalities
- Ernst Linsingen (1775-1853), General of the Cavalry of the Kingdom of Hanover
- August Kippenberg (1830-1889), German teacher and school founder