Dörnten village church

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Dörnten village church, south side, with portal vestibule, Lutherlinde and war memorial
Interior

The Dörnten village church is the Evangelical Lutheran church in Dörnten in the Lower Saxony community of Liebenburg .

History and construction

The earliest written mention of Dörnten comes from 1053. The tower of today's church is probably a defensive tower from this time. The first nave was added to it at the beginning of the 12th century , a Romanesque quarry stone building with a round apse , about half as long as the current nave. The portal vestibule was added in 1440, originally as a chapel for the dead.

In the Middle Ages, Dörnten belonged to the Hildesheim Monastery until the collegiate feud in 1523 . The church patronage was held by the ministerial family von Dörnten (von Burgdorf) until 1322 , then the Goslarer St. Georgs Stift . When its building was destroyed in the Goslar riots in 1527 , the convent remained as a legal entity and took its seat in the former Grauhof Vorwerk around the middle of the 16th century . The right of patronage existed formally until secularization in 1803, even after Grauhof, Lutheran since 1568, was repopulated with Catholic Augustinians in 1643 after the restoration of the Great Hildesheim Monastery. The Lutheran Reformation was finally introduced in Dörnten in 1568 under the rule of Brunswick-Lüneburg . Jodokus Brackmann (* 1538), originally an Augustinian canon in Grauhof, became the first Lutheran provost of Grauhof and the first Lutheran pastor of Dörnten. His gravestone is on the left sloping wall of the chancel.

The Thirty Years' War and the drying up of patronage services from Grauhof after 1643 led to the decline of the church. Their innovator was Pastor Friedrich Huldreich Rosenberg , who was in office from the 1670s until his death in 1726. He began repairing the tower in 1677 and the nave in 1681; in the same year he and his wife donated the altarpiece . In 1712 he finally had the nave enlarged to double its length (22 m clear length ).

In 1861 the tower received a new historicizing helmet with eight small decorative gables above the sound holes.

Furnishing

The church has a complete baroque interior . The central piece is the carved altarpiece from 1681 , the work of Jobst Heinrich Lessen . In the main field it contains a relief of the crucifixion of Christ, including the Lord's Supper. The corresponding inscription Psalm 111 : 4-5  LUT was moved upwards during a redesign in 1962; it is flanked by the coats of arms of the donors, Pastor Rosenberg and his wife; above is the Latin dedication inscription. The frame is formed by twisted columns with vine tendrils and the figures of the four evangelists with their attributes. The work is crowned by the blessing Christ with the globe.

The christening angel from 1644 was removed in 1846 according to a sovereign decree and stored in the attic. It was restored in the 20th century and since then has been an essential design element of the chancel as an Annunciation Angel.

The wooden gallery is decorated with paintings of Jesus Christ and the apostles as well as with biblical scenes.

literature

  • Carl Borchers: Dörnten. I. Evangelical Church . In: Provinzialverwaltung Hannover (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hannover. II. Administrative district Hildesheim. Issue 7. Goslar district . Hanover 1937, pp. 49-53

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Dörnten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Network presence of the parish. Borchers (p. 51), on the other hand, describes it as the "Gothic west tower (15th century)".
  2. ↑ Jodokus Brackmann's tombstone . Johannes Brackmann , who died in 1593 at the age of 19 and whose tombstone is attached to the sloping wall opposite, could be his son, since Jodokus Brackmann married after 1568.
  3. ↑ Memorial plaque on the south wall of the church
  4. ↑ HUNC ARAE ORNATUM PROPRIUM TIBI, JOVA, DICAMUS. NEC QUI, SED QUA SIT, SUSCIPE MENTE DATUS. NON QUAE NOSTRA TIBI, SED QUAE TUA REDDIMUS IMI PROPENSO NOBIS NUMINE PARTA TUO. ANNO MDCLXXXI.
    “We dedicate this altar ornament to you, Jehovah, for your own. Accept not who [gave] but in what mind it was given. It is not what is ours that we give to you, but what is yours, acquired through your will which is inclined towards us, we humbly repay. In 1681. "

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 56.2 ″  E