The Asendorf church was first mentioned in a document in 1091 and was incorporated into the monastery of St. Pauli of Bremen. The tower was built in 1524. The nave was extended at the same time. The church was renovated in 1778,
in 1909 the space problems were finally solved with the construction of the two transepts and the apse.
The interior of St. Marcellus Church was renovated on the occasion of the 900th anniversary celebrations in Asendorf in 1991. Once you enter from the main entrance in the tower with the memorial plaques of the fallen from the Second World War and have passed the book table corner, you will experience a bright church interior. The baroque pulpit altar from 1770 radiates warmth with its subtle gold leaf decoration. Your gaze falls on the Last Supper picture under the pulpit. The initials on the two brass candlesticks on the altar refer to the Oldenburg family, who donated them to the congregation at the beginning of the last century. The showpiece on the altar is the altar Bible with the year of printing in Latin.
The handwritten entry on the first pages tells of the congregational meeting to purchase the Bible. This takes the viewer of the Bible back to a time when it was not yet a matter of course for every household to own a Bible. The three chandeliers also have their own story to tell. The two-tiered, twelve-branched chandelier in the central aisle with the inscription and the year 1671 takes us back to the time after the Thirty Years' War. The two chandeliers in the chancel were made in 1991 in the same style. The inscriptions refer to the active bazaar circle of the parish of Asendorf in the present day, which made the purchase possible from the bazaar proceeds. The Furtwängler organ from the 19th century unfolds its sound in the Sunday church services.
in 1909 the space problems were finally solved with the construction of the two transepts and the apse.
The interior of St. Marcellus Church was renovated on the occasion of the 900th anniversary celebrations in Asendorf in 1991. Once you enter from the main entrance in the tower with the memorial plaques of the fallen from the Second World War and have passed the book table corner, you will experience a bright church interior. The baroque pulpit altar from 1770 radiates warmth with its subtle gold leaf decoration. Your gaze falls on the Last Supper picture under the pulpit. The initials on the two brass candlesticks on the altar refer to the Oldenburg family, who donated them to the congregation at the beginning of the last century. The showpiece on the altar is the altar Bible with the year of printing in Latin.
The handwritten entry on the first pages tells of the congregational meeting to purchase the Bible. This takes the viewer of the Bible back to a time when it was not yet a matter of course for every household to own a Bible. The three chandeliers also have their own story to tell. The two-tiered, twelve-branched chandelier in the central aisle with the inscription and the year 1671 takes us back to the time after the Thirty Years' War. The two chandeliers in the chancel were made in 1991 in the same style. The inscriptions refer to the active bazaar circle of the parish of Asendorf in the present day, which made the purchase possible from the bazaar proceeds. The Furtwängler organ from the 19th century unfolds its sound in the Sunday church services.
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