Alexander Church (Oerlinghausen)
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | evangelical reformed |
| place | Oerlinghausen , Germany |
| Regional church | Lippe regional church |
| dedication | Alexander of Rome |
| Building history | |
| construction time | 1511-1514 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| 51 ° 57 '29.9 " N , 8 ° 39' 31.1" E | |
The Evangelical Reformed Parish Church or Alexander Church is a three-bay hall church with a 5/8 end and is located in the East Westphalian-Lippe town of Oerlinghausen in the Lippe district . The church is registered with the number 1 as an architectural monument in the municipal monument list.
history
When Christianity spread in northern Europe around 850 AD, the first church could have stood here on the important pass over the Teutoburg Forest . The oldest parts of the foundation walls of today's church consist of the remains of a Romanesque basilica from around 1200. The course of the old masonry can still be seen in the interior of the church.
The current building in Gothic style was built between 1511 and 1514 after a devastating fire in 1509. The aisle walls and the lower part of the west tower were taken over from the previous building from the first half of the 13th century. Up until 1862 there was a cemetery in the vicinity of the church, where around 30,000 people were buried over the centuries. An old, preserved tombstone on the north side of the church bears the year 1702. In 1878, the church was comprehensively renovated under the direction of the Lippe building councilor Ferdinand Ludwig August Merckel . The originally blunt church tower was provided with a pointed helmet.
It was named Alexander Church from St. Alexander . In the year 851, Emperor Lothar received Alexander's bones from Pope Leo IV as a gift and had them brought from Rome to Wildeshausen . The Alexander churches were built along the way, including the Oerlinghauser Alexander church.
Architecture and equipment
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The church tower reaches a total height of 69 meters up to the weather cock. The interior of the church is around 31 meters long and 16 meters wide. The cross vaults reach a height of 12.5 meters up to the keystone . Some stones in the vault bear inscriptions. The inscription "ihs (Jesus) - maria-sanctus-johannes-MvCXIV (1514)" can be read on the keystone in the crossing.
window
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The colored windows in the choir area were designed around 1930 by the Bielefeld artist Karl Löwe . In the Easter days of 1945, Oerlinghausen was occupied by American troops. The battle for the city was particularly fierce around the church and resulted in severe damage to the church windows. First they were renewed in 1953 based on a design by Karl Ehlers. In the 1980s, the choir windows were painstakingly restored by the Paderborn glass painting company Otto Peters based on the 1930 model. In the left window, grapes, goblets and ears of wheat are supposed to symbolize the Lord's Supper , while in the right window the symbols cross, heart and anchor for faith, love and hope can be recognized. In the middle is the Ascension of Christ with the inscription: LUK.24,50-52
organ
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An important piece of equipment is the organ front from 1688. It was made in the style of the Dutch peasant baroque and is a donation of Countess Amalie, a born Countess of Dohna - Brederode. She was the wife of Count Simon Heinrich zur Lippe and brought Dutch possessions into the marriage. The organ prospect shows the coat of arms of the Counts of Lippe in its center, combined with the coat of arms of the Counts of Dohna. The artist is unknown, however. The organ had to be renewed several times over the years, around 1820 and in the years 1886–88. Even after the Second World War , many destroyed pipes had to be replaced. The last renewal took place in 1973. Today the instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
Until 1917 the bell consisted of three bronze bells. In the First World War was fused two thereof. What was left was the Alexander bell from 1547. The bell has an inscription written in Low German: “Sanderus hete ick, (my name is Alexander) de levendige rope ick, (I call the living) de doden ick, (I cry the dead) deme donder stubborn ick, (wind and weather I defy) Johan ahues de goet mick, (Johan ahues me cast) MCCCCCXLVII (1547) vdmie (Verbum Domini manet in aeternum) "in 1922, the parish, three new cast steel bells when decided Bochum club to order, whereby the old bell should be used for financing. The sale was prevented by donations from the population and the Lippe government. During the Second World War, the old bell was removed from the tower to be melted down. After the end of the war they were found among 2,000 other bells at the assembly point of a copper works in Lünen . On November 30, 1945 it was raised again on the church tower. Since then, the ringing has consisted of four bells, the three cast steel bells from 1923 and the old Alexander bell from 1547. The bells hang next to each other in the four-section wooden bell cage.
In the morning, at noon and in the evening the Alexander bell rings for prayer (goes back to the old church angelus bell), as well as for the services on Invocavit , Maundy Thursday , Good Friday , Penance and Prayer Day and on Eternity Sunday . The big bell rings as a soloist at funerals and funerals. On Saturday evening at 7 p.m., the vesper bell is called to prayer and Sunday is rung in, on Sunday morning at 8 a.m., the ringing of signs takes place, also called preliminary chimes in the ringing order. and at 9:45 a.m., the festival bell rings out, calling for the service, with the three steel bells ringing. These are also heard during baptismal services and before and after wedding services.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Ø (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
material |
Nominal ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
| 1 | Big bell | 1923 | Bochum Association | 1780 | 2450 | Cast steel | h 0 | "1914–1918 / The bronze bells took the war / for home, honor and victory" |
| 2 | Medium bell | 1923 | Bochum Association | 1500 | 1405 | Cast steel | d 1 | "Suffering and sacrificial death were in vain / The people were broken into famine" |
| 3 | Little bell | 1923 | Bochum Association | 1380 | 1092 | Cast steel | e 1 | "Bring, Lord, the people through difficult times / Let them endure forever" |
| 4th | Sanderus bell | 1547 | Johannes Alves | 1303 | 1360 | Bell bronze | dis 1 +8 |
Sanderus hete ick / de levendigen rope ick / de doden beschrie ick / deme donder sture ick / Johan ahues de goet mick / anno domini MCCCCCXLVII / vdmie [verbum Domini manet in eternum]. ("My name is Alexander, I call the living, I weep the dead, I defy wind and thunder, Johan Ahues poured me in the Lord's year 1547. The Lord's word remains for ever"). |
Pastors
- from 1765 Georg Conrad von Cölln
- then Georg Conrad's brother Ludwig Friedrich August von Cölln , from 1797 general superintendent of the Lippe regional church
- August Ernst Volckhausen, 1845 Superindentend a. D. and pastor in Oerlinghausen, son of Simon August Heinrich Volckhausen (1790–1803 councilor in Detmold) and pupil of the Detmold high school.
Rectory
literature
- Otto Gaul : On the building history of the church Oerlinghausen . In: Bulletin of the Lippischen Heimatbund, Issue 1, 1949
- Roland Pieper: Ev.-ref. Church Oerlinghausen ( Lippe cultural landscapes , issue 19). Detmold 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Oerlinghausen, Alexanderkirche ( Memento from March 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Church leader: The Evangelical Reformed Alexander Church - A piece of Oerlinghauser history.
- ↑ Information on the organ in the Alexander Church
- ↑ Werner Höltke: "Good and Bad". The language of the Lippe around 1800 , in their native Lippe, December 2010
- ↑ August Ernst Volckhausen: Four sermons, one on Easter, two on issues of the time, and one to celebrate the reign of His Highness the Prince of Lippe , Bielefeld: Helmich, 1845, online at Lippische Landesbibliothek
- ↑ History of the churches, parishes, spiritual foundations and clergy in the Lippe region, 1881
- ↑ Georg David Koeler, August Ernst Volkhausen: The remaining excerpts from Heraclides the Pontiker's writing on the states on the occasion of this year's school celebration in Detmold and set up as an invitation to the same. , Lemgo: Meyer, 1801, online at Lippische Landesbibliothek