Banter Church

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Banter Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Banter Church is a church building in the Wilhelmshaven district of Bant . The parish Bant is part of the parish of Friesland -Wilhelmshaven the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .

Building history

The Banter Church was built between 1899 and 1900. The designs for the construction of the neo-Gothic hall church come from the Oldenburg building officer Ludwig Freese . The foundation stone was laid on June 7, 1899, and the inauguration took place on December 20, 1900. The church was badly damaged in a bomb attack on October 15, 1944. The repair of the war damage lasted until 1953.

Furnishing

Organ of the Banter Church

The pulpit, baptismal font and benches have survived the destruction and are under monument protection.

window

The church windows were designed by the Delmenhorst church painter Hermann Oetken (1909–1998). They were installed in 1952 (window in the chancel), 1955 ( apostle window ) and 1957 ( prophet window, window with Moses and David ).

altar

The lost altarpiece with carvings by the model maker Röver from Bant came from the Oldenburg master carpenter Börjes. The stone plinth that had been preserved was replaced in 1978 by a sandstone altar.

pulpit

The pulpit was made by the master carpenter Freudenthal from Bant. The carvings were made - as with the former altarpiece - model carpenter Röver.

Baptismal font

The font comes from the time the church was built. In 1968 the bowl was deepened and the Bremerhaven artist Gerhard Olbrich redesigned the bronze lid . The handle shows the baptism of Jesus by John .

organ

The 35- register organ was built in 1953 by the Alfred Führer company (Wilhelmshaven). The disposition have Alfred leaders and Georg Hackstette (Kantor 1917-1963) designed together.

Bells

The three bells cast by the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen for the new building of the Banter Church were dedicated to the following biblical passages, which the Banter church bells still carry today ( Luke 2, 14 ):

  • big bell: Glory to God on high,
  • middle bell: peace on earth,
  • little bell: And a pleasure to people.

The first bells only had a "short life"; they had to be handed in in 1917 for war purposes.
The bells made in 1925 by the bell foundry Christian Stoermer from Erfurt as replacement bells only rang for a short time in Bant; they had to be handed in during World War II (1940).
Only the small bell survived the war years; it was brought back from the bell cemetery in Hamburg in 1947 .
In 1962, the ringing was completed again with two bells cast in Sinn by the Rincker bell foundry .

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Waldemar Reinhardt: Frisian churches. Volume 4: Rüstringen, Frisian Wehde, Butjadingen, Stedingen and the city of Wilhelmshaven. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1982, DNB 880476478 , p. 25 ff.
  • Ursula Plote and Ursula Aljets (responsible): 100 years of the Banter Church . Ed .: Parish church council of the ev.-luth. Bant parish. Brune Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wilhelmshaven 1999.
  • Ursula Aljets and the Banter History Working Group : ZeitSPRÜNGE - Wilhelmshaven-Bant . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-646-5 , p. 22nd f .

Web links

Commons : Banter Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Ursula Aljets: A Gothic style church, solid and without luxury. In: Plote & Aljets: 100 Years of Banter Church , p. 23 ff.
  2. ↑ Achim Knöfel, Reinhard Rittner: 100 Years of Church Painter Hermann Oetken 1909–1998. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch, Volume 109, Isensee – Verlag , Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-389995-669-6 , p. 61 ff. ( Digital library , accessed on March 28, 2019).
  3. ↑ Rainer Ewald: The windows of the Banter church. In: Plote & Aljets: 100 Years of Banter Church , p. 37 ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Tour of the Banter Church , accessed on March 30, 2019.
  5. ↑ Ingrid Sturm: The organs of the Banter Church. In: Plote & Aljets: 100 Years of Banter Church , p. 43 ff.
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular page 510 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 476 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  8. ↑ Ursula Aljets: The bells of the Banter church. In: Plote & Aljets: 100 Years of Banter Church , p. 48 f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '16.3 "  N , 8 ° 5' 56.8"  E