Christ Church (Krummasel)

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Side view of the Christ Church in Krummasel

The Christ Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Krummasel , a district of the coastal community in the Lüchow municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony . It was built in 1895 in a neo-Gothic style on a large square and is surrounded by a long wall. The church cemetery used to be around the church.

history

The builder of today's church was Emil Busse from Hitzacker . He only built one church in Krummasel and used it to design “a small cathedral” for a village in Wendland . At the time of its establishment, the parish was much larger and there were more residents than today with around 100 people in Krumasel. In 1880 there were 978 inhabitants in the villages of the parish Krummasel. In 1931 there were 900 parishioners, in 1950 around 1,370, including over 400 displaced persons .

The church was completely renovated for the first time in 1953. All wall paintings were whitewashed and the church was given electrical lighting. Another renovation was necessary between 1969 and 1973 because the interior of the church was completely sooty due to a smoldering fire in the 1960s. During the renovation, the coke ovens were replaced by heaters and probably all the walls were painted. The organ was completely overhauled in 1973, for which the parishioners donated large sums of money.

The old church

Not much is known about the previous church. It was a stone church and 3 m shorter and 1.5 m narrower than today's. The church tower probably came from the 12th century. The church was originally Catholic and existed during the Thirty Years War. From the demolished altar wall it emerged that Catholic services had taken place in the church as early as 1850. Due to the storm on July 29, 1857, the red, leaning tower was covered on one side with slates, so-called riders. The church council had the tower covered with slate again for 180 Reichstaler. The old church was demolished and was probably very dilapidated. But it also means that there should have been a fire.

Construction of the new church

In 1891 the church council decided to set up a church fund to either renovate the church after three years or to rebuild it. The foundation of the fund meant that the parishioners were obliged to pay taxes for three years. The tax was approved by the Royal Consistory in Hanover . It was decided on May 4, 1894 to build a new church on the old tower. The order for the new building was given to master mason Emil Busse on September 20, 1894. Busse had already drawn an outline of the church in September 1894 and this was approved by the Hanoverian architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase . However, the additional taxes were not sufficient for the new building, so house collections in the Lüneburg administrative district were requested and approved. The parishioners were obliged to participate in the church. They had to bring stones from the brickworks in Göttien in their wagons, and they also had to do the construction work themselves. Refusal was threatened with a fine. The demolition of the old church began on May 2, 1895, and the new building began in June. In the meantime there were difficulties with the quality of the stones for the masonry. The church council repeatedly warned the brickworks owner Wiegrefe to only deliver good and sorted stones. Bible verses are placed on stone tablets above the entrances (north and south entrances). When the keystone was laid on September 20, 1895, various documents and other objects were placed in a soldered box that has not yet been found.

Bells

Two bronze bells hung in the old church tower. It was a large bell with a strike tone f, the year of its casting is unknown, and a small one with a strike tone d from 1717. The larger bell was melted down in 1917 for purposes of war in the First World War . After the war a new big bell was cast. It had a diameter of 107 cm. In 1940 it was supposed to be melted down again, which could be prevented. During the Second World War , the small bell with a diameter of 68 cm was removed, but it could be retrieved after the war. The big bell weighs 16 quintals and the small 4 quintals. The bells are not well coordinated.

Furnishing

The inside of the church is equipped with an altar, a pulpit, an organ, a baptismal font, benches and windows with colored glasses. The edges of the altar and pulpit are decorated with red, green and gold lines.

organ

In the year 1895 the organ was built in the workshop of Furtwängler & Hammer in Hanover as opus 336. The use of different drawer systems should be emphasized: mechanical cone drawer for the manuals, pneumatic cone drawer in the pedal. At the beginning of the 1970s, a careful change ("lightening") was made to the disposition in the II. Manual. This sound change was returned in the summer of 2011 by the organ building workshop. After that, the original, fundamental sound pattern is undiminished again in all registers. The Krummasel organ has a rich fund of typical late romantic registers with a striking, sharpened sound that is characteristic of organs at the end of the 19th century. The sound possibilities of the pedal are limited to the representation of the deepest voice (bass).

  • Manual I (C-f '' ')
    • Bordun 16 'from G.
    • Principal 8 '
    • Hollow flute 8 '
    • Viol 8 '
    • Octave 4 '
    • Mixture 2-3 fold
  • Manual II
    • Violin Principal 8 '
    • Lovely Gedackt 8 '
    • Salicional 8 '
    • Harmony flute 4 '
  • Pedal (C-d ')
  • Sub-bass 16 '
  • Principal bass 8 '
  • Pedal coupler
  • Manual coupling
  • Tutti kick

Pastors in Krummasel

List of pastors since 1542
  • 1542: Heinrich Gelmann
  • 1543: Ludolf Wydrian
  • 15th ..: Johann Rahn from Lüchow
  • 1568: Sixtus Müller from Salzwedel
  • 15th ..: Johann Gödecke from Ostfeld
  • 1593-1610: Urbanus Teyer
  • 1610–1611: Christophorus Tilber from Lüchow
  • 1611–1628: Johannes Bierstede from Dannenberg
  • 1628–1632: Ernst Treysa from Herzberg
  • 1632–1666: Ludwig Müller from Lüchow
  • 1666–1673: Conrad Heinrich Pomarius from Diepholz
  • 1674–1712: Johann Hake from Dannenberg
  • 1712–1717: Adolf Georg Heinemann from Braunschweig
  • 1717–1723: Franz Christoph Schlötke from Mellendorf
  • 1723–1754: August Heinrich Schlötke, son of the previous
  • 1755–1781: Conrad Wilhelm Kahle from Sehnde
  • 1781–1795: Julius Friedrich Ludwig Windhorn from Nienhagen
  • 1795–1803: Franz Heinrich Elers from Winsen
  • 1803–1845: Albert Friedrich Sonntag from Soltau
  • 1845–1873: August Hermann HL Hasrnbalg from Jerstedt
  • 1874–1879: Karl Friedrich Adolf Peetz from Bockenem
  • 1879–1884: Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Merz from Lüneburg
  • 1884–1894: August Gottlieb Theodor Wedekind from Hildesheim
  • 1898–1915: Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Börns from Hasperde
  • 1916–1921: Rudolf Karl Wilhelm Böhmer from Borkum
  • 1921–1926: Wilhelm Johann Albert Knoche from Göttingen
  • 1926–1928: vacancy
  • 1928–1935: Konrad Hans Richard Wendland from Hanover
  • 1936–1949: Friedrich AHAAL Schmidt from Clausthal
  • 1950–1951: Karl Georg Schuster
  • 1951–1953: vacancy
  • 1953-1956: Jablonski
  • 1956–1958: vacancy
  • 1958–1964: Werner Dietrich Wahnbäck
  • 1965-1979: Richard Rose
  • 1979–1982: Karla Schmidt-Gieseking
  • 1983–1992: Werner Klipp
  • 1992–1994: Friedemann Pannen
  • since 1995: Thomas Anselm Müller

literature

Web links

Commons : Christ Church Krummasel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Like a hundred years ago. Pastor Thomas Anselm Müller called the Christ Church in Krummasel “a small cathedral” in 1995 in his commemorative publication for the 100th birthday of the church. In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung , June 30, 2001, accessed on January 17, 2020.

Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '43.8 "  N , 11 ° 2' 47.9"  E