St. Christian's/st. Bartholomew's church stands in the center of garding on an eleven meter high mound, the highest elevation in eiderstedt. The church tower is still the highest point in eiderstedt today and served for a long time as a navigation mark. With its gothic organ front from 1512, the church has the oldest organ front in northern europe. During a renovation in 1854, the church's high, pointed roof, which was formerly gothic, was replaced by a lower roof that fit better into the landscape and, above all, was less susceptible to wind. The church dates back to the single-nave, cross-shaped brick church of st. Christian, built in 1117. It was originally consecrated to the saints mary magdalene, christian and bartholomew. Between 1483 and 1488, the church was converted into a two-aisled gothic hall church, with one aisle for male worshipers and one aisle for female worshipers. After hermann tast held the first reformation sermon in eiderstedt on the market square in 1524, the reformation, brought about by christian iii of denmark, prevailed in the region by 1527. This is visible in the church on the broken altarpiece with the inscription "hic sunt reliquiae reconditae" (here the relics are kept). View of the choir with the altar. The three-winged painting altar is a work by the dutch-tönning painter marten van achten, who later became court painter at gottorf castle in schleswig. This altar is considered the main work of mannerism in schleswig-holstein.
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