Castle Chapel (Gollern)
The Evangelical Lutheran castle chapel in Gollern is a small Gothic brick building in the Lower Saxony district of Uelzen .
location
The castle chapel is located on the southwestern edge of the small town of Gollern. It stands on the southern edge of a small lawn and is surrounded by trees directly to the south and west. The Gollener Bach runs a few meters to the west.
history
In Gollern there was a castle belonging to the von Hitzacker family, which was sold to the Medingen monastery in the 14th century along with the church patronage . The current chapel was probably built as a fortified chapel for the castle. The time when the castle and chapel was founded is not known. The chapel was first mentioned in a document from 1318.
In 1396 the castle chapel was raised to the parish church of the villages of Masbrock and Gollern. The gallery was built in at the same time . In 1567 the chapel was reformation and at the same time the parish in Gollern was merged with the parish in Römstedt. In 1865 the parishes of Römstedt and Gollern were finally united.
During the Thirty Years War , the chapel was looted in 1629.
The west tower was built in 1855 in half-timbered construction.
Today the castle chapel is part of the parish of Römstedt in the parish of Uelzen of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover , which has been parishionally connected with the parish of Himbergen since 2010, along with the Matthäus Church in Römstedt and the chapel in Höver .
architecture
The castle chapel is a single-nave Romanesque - Gothic brick building with a three-sided choir and a half-timbered west tower . On the north side, a later added entrance porch made of timber framing connects to the nave . The base and the eaves are made of field stone masonry . The chapel has twelve high-set pointed arched windows with Romanesque motifs. A bricked-up door in the south wall and structural remains discovered during renovation work suggest that the chapel was structurally connected to the castle, which is believed to be located directly to the south.
The interior is spanned by a wooden ceiling. In the middle along the longitudinal axis, two wooden roof pillars divide the interior. The nave and the choir have internal pointed arch support pillars. The chapel has a wooden west gallery.
Furnishing
The baroque altarpiece was made from Zechstein from Lüneburg and shows a crucifix in the middle . The baptismal bowl attached to the border of the altar dates from 1658. Wooden figures of Mary with the baby Jesus , James and John are attached to the north wall . They are the oldest pieces of equipment in the church. The brightly painted pulpit is attached to the south wall of the chapel . It was made of wood in the Renaissance style .
Renaissance style altarpiece
pulpit
Peal
The bell in the west tower was cast in bronze by the bell caster Hinrick Schulte in 1572 . The bell has a diameter of 56 cm and weighs 95 kilograms. The sound of the bell is f sharp ″. At the end of the Second World War , the bell was brought to Harburg in 1944 . After the bell was no longer melted down, it could be brought back in 1947.
Web links
- Internet presence of the parishes of Römstedt and Himbergen
Individual evidence
- ^ Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff: Fürstenthum Lüneburg . In: Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . tape 4 . Helwing, Hannover 1877, p. 82-83 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Schrötke, Petra Schrötke: Burgkapelle Gollern . Ed .: Parish Römstedt. Gollern 2018.
- ↑ Churches and chapels. In: Parishes of Römstedt and Himbergen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Christian Wiechel-Kramüller: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Uelzen district . WIEKRA Edition, Suhlendorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-940189-14-1 , p. 58-59 .
- ↑ Our church. In: Parishes of Römstedt and Himbergen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 44.6 " N , 10 ° 38 ′ 25.7" E