Evangelical Church in Cappel

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North side of the church

The Evangelical Church of Cappel from 1828/29 is a Protestant-Reformed church building of class east of the Lippe regional church in the Blomberg district of Cappel . The church and church property have been listed as architectural monuments in the list of architectural monuments in Blomberg since August 20, 1985 .

history

The place name Cappel is derived from chapel , which indicates that a church building stood at this location very early on. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1231. The church consecrated to John the Baptist belonged to the Archdiakonat Steinheim in the diocese of Paderborn .

After the Reformation entered Lippe in 1533, a Lutheran church order was passed on August 19, 1538 under the Linden in the state parliament of Cappel between the sovereignty and the estates of Lippe. A memorial plaque placed next to the tower portal in 2013 commemorates this event.

A church building at today's location was destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1636/37, the tower was at least partially preserved. The new building collapsed around 190 years later, on July 22, 1827, and no one was injured. The Bückeburg master builder Heinrich Julius Weissich (1794–1837), who designed the church in the classical style that he had got to know while studying in Dresden, was commissioned with another new building . For Weissich this was the only sacred building and for Lippe the only classical church. In the gable above the south portal, the year 1828 indicates the completion of the shell. The interior was completed in 1829, and on December 6, 1829, the church was inaugurated by Pastor Stivarius with a service.

Architecture and equipment

Interior from the east gallery

The church is a rectangular, plastered hall building with a hipped roof . A bright church was desired, so there are five large arched windows on the north side, four on the south side and two large arched windows on the east side. Above the main portal on the south side is a semicircular window, on the outside a triangular gable, underneath the year 1828.

The sanctuary is slightly raised. The 1970 altar and the raised pulpit stand in front of the central window on the north wall. The five visible fields on the hexagonal pulpit are painted with identical motifs. This painting was temporarily covered and was restored during a complete renovation in 1959. The walls were also given their current ocher paint, they were previously kept darker. The west gallery stands on eight Doric columns and carries the organ, the opposite gallery on six columns offers additional seating for the community. To the right and left of the south portal hang two memorial plaques from 1949 for the victims of the world wars, with a bas-relief in the lower area. Two chandeliers were donated by Wilhelmine Meierhenrich from Wöhren in 1892, they were later electrified.

The square tower on the west side is about 50 meters high and has a wall thickness of up to 180 cm in the lower area. In the tower there is a stone slab from 1694 with the coat of arms of the Donop family in Lüdershof. It bears the inscription “Sehlig be the dead who die in the here from nhun on. Yes, the ghost speaks that you are resting from your work. ”Presumably this plate was at the entrance to the crypt, which was removed during the new building.

organ

Randebrock organ

There was an organ in the Sankt-Johannes-Kirche as early as 1600 , a specialty in Lippe. After the destruction and reconstruction, there was a new instrument here in 1672. In 1795 an organ from the organ builder Johann-Markus Oestreich was purchased for the Detmold Church of the Redeemer . Apparently the Detmold cantor Anton Heinrich Pustkuchen was so impressed by the instrument that he commissioned three more organs with 18 stops each from Oestreich, which were installed in the Lutheran church in Detmold (1805), in Cappel (1807) and in Schwalenberg (1814 ) were set up. When the church collapsed, the organ was badly damaged and repaired for 385 thalers. However, it soon no longer met the demands of the community and received a damning assessment from the Paderborn organ builder August Randebrock . The present organ was built by Randebrock in 1865 or 1868 for 1257 thalers. In 1975 a comprehensive restoration was carried out by the Gustav Steinmann Orgelbau company from Vlotho. The instrument received a new mechanical game and stop action mechanism , new grinding windchests and a case cover. The case, the console and the pipework have been preserved.

Disposition:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden dacked 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Nasal fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Third (from g) 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th Mixture IV
II subsidiary work C – f 3
8th. Reed flute 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Covered pommer 4 ′
11. Forest flute 2 ′
12. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Wooden principal 8th'
15th Dumped 4 ′
16. Wide principal 2 ′

Bells

The oldest surviving bells come from the years 1651 and 1666. The bell from 1651 was made by Christoph Kleimann from Lemgo and bore the inscription “Marcus Fullenius zu Cappel. Hinrich Meier and Harmen Schäffer Kirchdechen. Jodocus Kruecke custus. Johann and Christopher Kleimann's brothers in Lemgouw in 1651 ”. The second, larger bell was cast by Claudius Bricon in 1666 . This bell had the inscription “Ad honorem Dei sub ultimo comite ac domino Casimiro comite et nobili domino in Lippia haec campana a Claudio Bricon est fusa anno 1666. D. Marcus Fullenius pastor. Johann Wiemann Johann Culemann destionati ecclesia seniores "(" To the glory of God under the last Count and Lord Casimir , the noble lord of the Lippe, this bell was cast by Claudius Bricon in 1666. Markus Fullenius Pastor, Johnn Wiemann and Johann Kulemann, church dechen "). Both bells were eventually so damaged that they were melted down and became part of three new bronze bells in 1891. These bore the inscriptions “Glory to God on high, peace on earth and a pleasure for men. Friedrich König, pastor. Karl Madel, sexton. Friedrich Niemeyer, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Kirchendechen ”,“ O country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord. Pray and work. ”And“ Serve the Lord with joy ”.

The bronze bells were melted down during the First World War . The hour bell on the outside of the tower was found in the Hamburg bell cemetery after the war and could be returned. In 1921 there were three cast steel bells to replace the large bells. They bear the inscriptions Faith , Hope and Love . There is also a quarter-hour bell on the outside of the tower.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Reformed Church Cappel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 475 years of the Reformation in Lippe. Lippische Landeskirche, July 10, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ev.-ref. Kirchengemeinde Cappel (ed.): The church at Cappel .
  3. ^ A b Alexander Wagner, Klaus-Peter Fliedner: Orgeln in Lippe (=  special publications of the natural science and historical association for the land of Lippe . Volume 80 ). Detmold 2008, ISBN 978-3-924481-18-6 , pp. 56 .
  4. ↑ Elfriede Ulrichs: 150 years of the Cappel Church . Blomberg-Cappel 1979, p. 23 .
  5. ↑ Organ Atlas Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Retrieved July 15, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Elfriede Ulrichs: 150 years of the Cappel Church . Blomberg-Cappel 1979, p. 27-29 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '24.4 "  N , 8 ° 59' 54.9"  E