Dionysius Church (Debstedt)
The Dionysius Church in the Debstedt district of the city of Geestland is an Evangelical Lutheran church.
history
The old church
The parish church was built around 1200 in the parish village of Debstedt. The church village existed since the 11th century and was a regional center and market place of the then Börde . In the influential parish of Debstedt Debstedterbüttel, Langen, Sievern , Wehden , Laven and Spaden were also parish.
The namesake of the parish church, Dionysius of Paris, was a missionary in Gaul in the 3rd century, the first bishop of Paris and a Christian martyr.
The Dionysius Church is a single-nave building from the late Romanesque with a retracted rectangular choir . The church was built largely from stock-like rock masonry with a wall thickness between 1.25 and 1.40 meters. It is in a scenic location on a flat, raised area surrounded by trees and bordered with field stones.
To the west, made of brick masonry, stands a free-standing bell tower with a gable roof from the 13th century.
Reconstruction in 1913
In a fire on July 13, 1912, the church was largely destroyed as well as 26 houses and farms in the village. During the reconstruction in 1913, the church was widened by about 3 meters to the north by the architect Alfred Sasse (Hanover) and also extended to the west, towards the entrance. Since then it has had two different long sides on the outside. The style of the old rock-stone church has been preserved on the original south side of the nave and choir. The east wall is also still original. In the south wall of the nave there are three Romanesque arched windows with soffits made of porta sandstone as well as two large Gothic pointed arched windows with soffits made of bricks that were broken in in the 16th century .
The nave and choir have a simple gable roof. On the west side a new, wooden, square tower with an octagonal roof turret was added . The Church had suffered greatly from the aftermath of the Second World War . The dilapidated roof turret was replaced by a new similar roof turret in 1965. The churchyard is also a burial place.
The church and the churchyard are under monument protection .
Bell tower
The bell tower next to the church largely survived the fire of 1912. The older of the two bells was cast in 1586, the second in 1711. This bell was confiscated for armament purposes during World War II. In 1961 a bell was cast by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen.
Interior
Baptismal font
The bronze baptismal font was cast by Gottfried Klinghe from Bremen in 1497 and erected in its current form in 1515. Four wild men riding on sandstone lions carry the ornate baptismal font. The boiler wall is divided into 13 keel- arched panels and adorned with strongly protruding figures. The fields depict Christ crucified with Mary and John, as well as apostles and saints. The kettle survived the fire of 1912 only severely damaged, the richly decorated wooden lid went up in flames in 1912. In 1936 the boiler was restored and casts were made of at least three of the figures. In one case, it is not the original, but the cast that is inserted into the baptismal font. An original figure (Johannes Ev.) Has been in the Focke Museum in Bremen since 1988 .
organ
In 1912 the old organ from 1768, built by the Bederkesa organ builder Petersen , also burned down . The organ installed after the fire became unusable after almost 60 years. The current organ from 1971 was built by the Hammer company from Arnum near Hanover.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Bremen / Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-422-00348-7 .
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 14 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 27" E
Individual evidence
- ^ 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, especially page 558 .
- ↑ 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. 512 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).