Image Copyright: Bärbel Meisner

The Haseldorfer church is also being described as 'pearl in the marsh'. Old documents mentioned the church in Haselau in the year 1251.

Historical treasures
Inside the building are the church's biggest treasures: the altar, the ceiling painting and the pulpit. The confessional box with carving is from the 16th-century. Today it has been turned into a storeroom.

The altar
The altar is being rated in the art scene as an object of outstanding North German Baroque. Its origin can't be determined anymore. But it probably is from the time before 1685 because the ceiling painting and the two central altar paintings stem from that time.

Image Copyright: Kirche Haselau

The ceiling painting
Especially impressive is the large-scale ceiling painting above the chancel. It shows a scene from the last book of the bible: John the Apostle is granted a view into heavenly glory. He sees God Father seated on a throne above fire and water holding the book with Seven Seals.

The pulpit
The wooden carved pulpit was donated by the Haselauer estate inspector Philipp Hagedorn. He ceded it in 1641 and so purchased himself a hereditary seat in the church. But his name as donator can not be found at the pulpit. Rumour has it that the name was removed when Hagedorns's reputation vanished with his age.

The bell
The little hour bell is one of the oldest in the district of Pinneberg and probably also in the largest area of southern Holstein.
It hasn't got an original year stamp but due to its narrow, long-stretched form ('sugar loaf bell') it is dated around the time of 1250. Also in the beginnings of the parish.

Contact
Pastor Andreas M. Petersen
Dorfstraße 18
25489 Haselau
Tel.: 04122 8011
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