St. Georg Christophorus Jodokus Church

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St. Georg Christophorus Jodokus Church, former manor chapel
Sandstone gate in the south with statues of the apostles Peter (left) and Paul (right)

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Georg Christophorus Jodokus Church (formerly von Behr 's Gutskapelle ) in the Walsroder district of Stellichte ( Lüneburg Heath ) is a Renaissance church with a completely preserved, rich and uniform interior . Along with the Celle Palace Chapel, it is one of the most valuable and best-preserved Renaissance churches in Northern Germany.

Naming

Like the previous building, the church is dedicated to three saints: St. George , the dragon slayer, St. Christopher , one of the fourteen helpers and patron saint of travelers, and St. Jodokus , a monastery founder, hermit and pilgrim, who lived in the 7th century in the present day Lived Northern France.

history

The Stellichte estate has belonged to the von Behr family since 1479. Dietrich von Behr the Younger (1575–1632), Privy Councilor of Duke Christian the Elder of Lüneburg and Grand Voyage of Celle, had the manor chapel 1608–1610 as a burial place for his wife Elise Magdalene, born in 1607, who died early in 1607. von Bothmer to build on the existing chapel . The castle chapel in Celle , built at the end of the 15th century, served as a model . Carl Wolff wrote in 1902:

“In 1574, Dietrich Behr determined in his will that the church he built at Stellichte should be maintained by his sons and descendants“ in terms of building structure ”. Furthermore, to the 1000 thalers already given by his brother Heinrich for the glory of God, he adds another 1000 thalers, which are to be invested with interest. A learned man, who could be a pastor at Stellichte, is to be paid and entertained from the at least 100 thaler interest. The same should preach three times a week in the chapel, and what was due to a pastor, Thun. In 1610 Dietrich Behr had the small chapel demolished and built a larger one instead, as shown by two inscription panels hanging to the right and left of the organ. "

The chapel was elevated to a parish church in 1702 . In 1901 the church was extensively renovated. It has been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover since 1975 .

Furnishing

Pulpit. The pulpit clock can be seen on the left above the pulpit parapet.

The church consists of a post-Gothic brick hall with buttresses , with a three-sided choir in the east and a richly decorated sandstone gate with free-standing ionizing columns and statues of the apostles Peter (left) and Paul (right) in the niches added to the building from 1479 has been. On the slopes of the triangular gable are female figures and family coats of arms. The arched portal is edged with decorative cuboids with a winged angel's head at the top. A multi-curved church tower with gargoyles was built in the west . The building has two-lane arched windows.

The interior has a splendid wooden coffered ceiling with geometric patterns and embedded winged angel heads and rosettes . The raised choir is separated from the community area by a wooden barrier dating from 1610 with openwork parapets. The central entrance is crowned by a large keel arch with a triumphal cross group. The framed altarpiece is decorated with paintings from 1610. In the predella there is a depiction of the Lord's Supper , in the middle a crucifixion , in the side cheeks depictions of the birth (left) and baptism of Jesus (right) and a Last Judgment in the altarpiece. In addition, coats of arms bear the coats of arms of the Behr and Bodmer families. The floor in the choir consists of yellow and green glazed tiles, the floor in the nave consists of red panels with rosettes etched in. The wooden pulpit is richly decorated and architecturally structured, the sound cover has a filigree structure. A special feature is the pulpit clock , a four-glass hourglass, attached to the parapet of the pulpit .

organ

The organ from 1610.

The organ , originally built by the Dutchman Andreas de Mare for the Thedinga monastery in East Frisia , was expanded by his son Marten de Mare when the monastery was closed in 1609. While the pipework was possibly used for the organ of the Great Church in Leer , de Mare built the magnificent Renaissance case into the Stellichter small church in 1610. In 1910 the interior of the organ was modernized in the course of the renovation, but in 1985 Jürgen Ahrend reconstructed it in the Renaissance style. Since then, the organ has had 12 stops on two manuals and an attached pedal . The work has the following disposition :

I main work CDE – c 3
Quintadena 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sesquialtera II
Mixture IV
II breastwork CDEFGA – c 3
shelf 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Hollow fifth 3 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
CDE – d pedal 1
attached

literature

  • Jürgen Ahrend , Winfried Dahlke : Documentation of the organ of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Leer . Print-on-demand (presumably Stade 2008 without location and year information).
  • Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992, pp. 1251, 1252
  • Wolfgang Fünders, Manfred Lausmann: The organ prospect of the former manor chapel in Stellichte. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on preservation of monuments. Supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Niemeyer, Hameln 1989, ISBN 3-87585-152-8 , pp. 293-296.
  • Church council of the ev.-luth. City parish Walsrode (ed.): Georg-Christophorus-Jodokus-Kirche Stellichte. Text: Rosl Schäfer. Walsrode 2008 (church leader).

Web links

Commons : St. Georg-Christophorus-Jodokus-Kirche (Stellichte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover. III. District of Lüneburg, 1st district of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel. Self-published by the provincial administration, T. Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1902, p. 155.
  2. ^ Rosl Schäfer: Georg-Christophorus-Jodokus-Kirche Stellichte. Walsrode 2008. p. 15.
  3. ↑ The Renaissance organ of the Stellichter Church ( memento of the original from October 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadtkirche-walsrode.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchengemeinde-walsrode.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 23.8 "  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 56.6"  E