Christ Church (Salzgitter grid)
The Christ Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in lattice , a district in the south of Salzgitter . The Hohenrode district also belongs to the parish . With this it forms the parish "Christ Church Grid and Hohenrode" and belongs to the provost of Salzgitter-Bad .
history
Parish
At the end of the 8th century, the missionary work of the Sachsenland began under Charlemagne . The starting point was the monastery in Fulda , which was founded in 744 by Sturmi on behalf of Bonifatius . The great baptism period began in 778 with a mass baptism near Ohrum an der Oker . The missionary task of Fulda ended when the Prince Diocese of Hildesheim was founded by Ludwig the Pious in 815 .
For administration, the diocese was divided into archdeaconates , each of which was headed by an archdeacon as the bishop's deputy. In the 12th century, 41 places in the diocese of Hildesheim were named as the focus of such archdeaconates, including grid and the neighboring Ringelheim . The church of lattice was the mother church for the churches of Hohenrode, Kniestedt , Veppstedt and later also of Salzgitter (-Bad) .
With the rise of the salt town Salzgitter in the 15th century, the seat of the archdeaconate was moved from grid to Salzgitter. This process cannot be precisely dated. But by 1530 this change was already completed, because the pastor Gerhard Krüger (often also Kröger) had to relocate to Salzgitter on the orders of Duke Heinrich the Younger . For the next almost 430 years, no pastor had his residence or office in lattice, the church in lattice had changed from a mother to a branch church.
During the reign of Duke Julius (1568–1589) , who implemented the Reformation in his country in 1568 , the establishment of general and special superintendentes for church life comes from . Together with the churches in Ringelheim , Groß Mahner , Kniestedt , Beinum , Flachstöckheim and Ohlendorf , grid with Hohenrode was then part of the special superintendent of Salzliebenhalle , which in turn belonged to the general superintendent of Gandersheim .
One of the pastors was Georg Tappe, who was pastor from 1557 to 1587 and from 1569 also special superintendent of Salzgitter, so he was also responsible for bars. At that time, Tappe was one of the few pastors who could remain in office after the Reformation. In his extensive church book from 1573, Tappe also worked as a historian, from whom the first register of residents from 1573 and detailed records of the life of the population in his time come from.
With the appointment of Pastor Johannes Liebau (term of office 1955–1973), grid became an independent pastor again for the first time since 1530. In 1959 the community received a new rectory. The independence of the church in lattice then changed several times and lattice was temporarily looked after by a second pastorate of the Mariae Jacobi community from Salzgitter-Bad. Since 2018, the parish has formed the “Church Association Salzgitter-Bad with Grid and Hohenrode” with the Protestant parishes of Salzgitter-Bad , but the four parishes remain independent.
Building history
By the 12th century at the latest, the first church was latticed. As a plan of this church drawn around 1820 shows, it was a fortified church that was about 26 m long and the square tower was 23 m high. The church was probably dedicated to St. George , at least that's what the name "Georgenberg", which belonged to the property of the church, suggests. There is evidence of a major repair of this church from 1679, when the church tower was given a new top and a weathercock. The church tower had to be renewed again in 1771 after it was badly damaged by a thunderstorm.
Because the old church was in disrepair, a new building was considered from 1820. The builder Kratzenberg was first commissioned with the planning, but his plans were not implemented. The Hanoverian master builder Ludwig Hellner presented another draft in 1828 and revised it in 1840. The old Georgskirche was then torn down in 1844 and in its place a new church was built according to Hellner's plan, which was completed in 1846. This late classicist building has been preserved to this day in an externally unchanged form. The costs for the new building amounted to 6,000 thalers and were raised by the municipality alone. The new building is 20.70 m long in the east-west direction and 13.70 m wide in the north-south direction. The church offered 350 seats and was therefore very large for the town of 547 inhabitants at the time. Since the 150th anniversary on September 1, 1996, the church has been called "Christ Church".
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On March 1, 2014 the parish hall and the rectory were sold. As a replacement, the area under the organ gallery in the church was separated by a glass wall, this was given its own heating system and is used as a community room and winter church. If necessary, this area can be included in the church interior by opening the sliding doors, then 120 seats are available. During the renovation, the interior of the church was also renovated, the stone slabs of the floor were exposed again and the walls, which were once light yellow and later light green, were painted white again.
Establishment of the Church
Bells
A sketch of the church, which was demolished in 1844, shows that it already had three bells. However, it is not known when these were purchased. There is a first written mention in a church account book from 1798, in which an expense for the bell smearing is noted. And in 1805 it is reported that one of the two small bells cracked.
For the new building of the church, the big bell of the old church was melted down and re-poured and two small bells were bought. The two smaller ones had to be replaced as early as 1871 because they had become unusable. In World War I , although the two bells were confiscated, but these were not picked up and were able to remain in the church. When no suitable successor to ring the bells was found in 1938, the church council decided to purchase an electrical bell system. During the Second World War , two of the three bells had to be given up in 1942 and were melted down. The remaining bell was melted down in 1952 and three new bronze bells were ordered. Since the church tower had mining damage that had to be secured, it took until September 30, 1955, before the new bells could be dedicated, they are named Christ, Paulus and Luther.
Tower clock
The old Georgskirche already had a church tower clock, an entry in the church book from 1681 refers to this. Presumably, however, this clock did not have a clock face, rather the time was indicated to the citizens by a striking mechanism. After the church was rebuilt, it took another five years for the congregation to save enough money for a new clock. It was not until 1851 that the clock made by the watchmaker Weule could be put into operation. This only lasted until 1905, when it could no longer be repaired and had to be replaced with a new watch. Their mechanical clockwork was replaced in 1976 by an electric drive, which also controls the ringing system for the bells.
organ
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When the new church was inaugurated in 1846, the congregation had to do without an organ. As the inscription on an organ pipe indicates, this was only completed in April 1847 by the organ builder Breust from Goslar. It is a slide organ with a manual . It has 12 registers and 669 metal and wooden pipes .
During the First World War, 35 prospect pipes had to be handed in for war purposes because of their high tin content; they were only replaced again in 1949/50. Even before that, in May 1929, the organ had received an electric fan, so that the old wedge bellows operated by " organ boys " to supply the organ with wind had become obsolete. Extensive repairs were necessary in 1954/55 after parts of the church roof were destroyed in a storm and the organ was badly damaged by penetrating water.
Other church inventory
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Some equipment from the old church has been preserved that is still in use today. The oldest object is a communion plate ( paten ) from 1645. There is also a wafer box (9 cm diameter, 4 cm high) that was donated in 1699 by the von Garßen family . The circular reads “To the glory of God. And DJG Garßen Wittwe und Kinder wanted to donate this silver box to the use of the wafer, "the lid shows the von Garßen family coat of arms and the year 1699. The 22 cm high communion chalice is about the same age, it is made of silver and copper and is inside gold plated. In addition, a communion jug was donated in 1881. The image of Christ, which still hangs behind the altar today, was donated to the church in 1870, the baptismal font in 1879 and the chandelier in 1897.
literature
- Gudrun Pischke: Grid. Twelve centuries of history . Ed .: Stadtarchiv Salzgitter and village community grid (= contributions to city history . Volume 12 ). Archive of the City of Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1996, ISBN 3-930292-01-7 .
- Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Salzgitter. Past and present of a German city. 1942-1992 . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0 .
- Franz Zobel : The home book of the district of Goslar . Verlag der Goslarschen Zeitung Karl Krause, Goslar 1928, p. 25-30 .
- Church buildings in Salzgitter . In: Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Salzgitter Forum . tape 12 , 1986, pp. 25-26 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Propstei Salzgitter-Bad: Parish Christ Church Grid and Hohenrode
- ^ Gudrun Pischke: Chronicle Grid , pp. 135-138
- ↑ Lower Saxony Main State Archive Hanover, Map 23e / grid
- ↑ Mechthild Wiswe : The field names of the Salzgitter area (= sources and research on Brunswick history . Volume 17 ). Self-published by the Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, 1970, ZDB -ID 515291-4 , p. 137 (At the same time: Diss., Univ. Göttingen).
- ↑ Horst Körner: 150th birthday of the grid church , Salzgitter-Zeitung of September 3, 1996
- ↑ Horst Körner: Christ Church becomes a meeting point , Salzgitter-Zeitung of July 9, 2014
- ↑ Horst Körner: House of God and Meeting Point , Salzgitter-Zeitung of January 26, 2015
- ↑ Gudrun Pischke: Chronicle Grid , pp. 155–156
- ^ Gudrun Pischke: Chronicle Grid , pp. 156–158
- ^ Gudrun Pischke: Chronicle Grid , pp. 154–155
- ↑ Gudrun Pischke: Chronicle Grid , pp. 158–160
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 10 ° 21 ′ 0.2 ″ E