Evangelical Church Elbrinxen

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Church from the southeast
Hans Rödingk's pulpit

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Elbrinxen , a district of the city of Lügde in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and equipment

The core building is a hall church with a retracted rectangular choir from the second half of the 12th century. The west tower also dates from this period. After St. Kilian, the church is the oldest church building in Lügde. It was first mentioned in a document in 1439, when the brothers Cord and Ludolff von Elmerinckhusen transferred their village and church fiefdom to the von Haxthausen family. The spire was renewed in 1620. The historically significant Renaissance-style gallery also dates from this period.

On the outer east wall of the church is the grave slab of Valentin Heuckenrodt, who was pastor in Elbrinxen from 1640 to 1647.

pulpit

The wooden pulpit in Renaissance style was made from horn by Hans Rodingk (or Rödingk) in 1562 on behalf of Horn's pastor Johannes Wilhelmi. Its original location was the castle chapel . After its demolition in 1699, the pulpit came to Elbrinxen. The names of Rodingk and Wilhelmi are carved:

"Through the divine help and strength, M Hans Rodingk recognized me Anno DMI 1562"
"D. Johannes Wilhelm Pastor Ecclesiä Hornensis me fecit "(" Mr. Johannes Wilhelmi, pastor at the church in Horn, let me do it ")

There are also a number of coats of arms on the pulpit: that of the Wilhelmi family, the coat of arms of the city of Horn, the Lippe rose , the Schwalenberg star , the Lippe coat of arms and a grotesque with a donkey's head, two human heads and ornaments. On the upper edge are the biblical sayings "Blessed are those who hear God's word and keep Luce XI" and "Whoever believes in God's Son hath the eternal life of Johann Am III". The central element are the six large carved pictures:

  • Front left is Moses with the brazen serpent. Underneath is the inscription "Alse Moses des Slangten hogte so mosde Jesus eraven wern". ( Joh 3,14  EU )
  • The front picture shows the disciples of Jesus, underneath the saying “Ze gange and tügten van de Herr and worked Wonder” ( Mk 16.20  EU )
  • To the right of it are John the Baptist with the Lamb and the crucified Jesus. The inscription reads "This is the Lam Goddes ... The Werlt Sünde rotates Johannis on the 1st" ( Joh 1,29  EU )
  • The prophet Isaiah is shown with the open Bible, the saying goes "Vorwahr he drog us Sikheit and lut up sik us Smärt". ( Isaiah 53.4  EU )
  • Under the picture of King David with a harp and above God in the clouds is the saying “Lord do up min lips so worth min mouth din lof spreke”. ( Psalm 51.17  EU )
  • The last picture shows Paul with Bible and sword, the inscription can no longer be deciphered.

organ

The church has had an organ since at least 1751; it had to be overhauled as early as 1771. From 1890 the church received a new instrument with eleven registers and two manuals, built by the Klaßmeier company from Lemgo. Today's organ was built in 1969 by the Steinmann company from Vlotho . It has a mechanical drawer , two manuals (C – f 3 ) and a pedal (C – f 1 ) with 14 registers.

Bells

Older records mention only one bell in the church. The existence of two bells is only certain in the late 19th / early 20th century. During the First World War , the church had to give up its two bronze bells to be melted down. As a replacement there was a steel bell from Ulrich & Weule in 1922 . This bears the inscription

We call you up to heaven out of the turmoil of the world after a world war hardship in life and death

The second bell could not be replaced until 1949. It comes from the Bochum association and has no inscription. There are also two smaller hour bells in the tower, one bronze and one iron. The age of these bells is unknown. It was not until 1955 that the bell was electrified.

Church cemetery

Mazewa Jonathan Katzenstein

At the latest since the construction of the church building, but possibly even before that, the space around the church was used as a cemetery and had to be expanded several times. To the northeast of the church is the former Elbrinxen Jewish cemetery . As a special feature, there is a gravestone of the Jewish trader Jonathan Katzenstein, who died in 1848, on the eastern edge . The stone contains a Hebrew inscription on the obverse and a German inscription on the reverse. The tombstone was repositioned several times and is entered as an individual monument in the list of architectural monuments in Lügde.

The natural monument Wittekind-Linde , possibly the oldest linden tree in Germany, is also close to the church .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
  • Willy Gerking: The Elbrinxen parish, in: Elbrinxen - a village in Lippe through the ages. Detmold 1986, pp. 112-151.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 151
  2. ^ Willy Gerking: Elbrinxen . S. 131-133 .
  3. ↑ Fabian Brackhane: Orgelauskunft.de. (PDF; 1.2 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgelauskunft.de
  4. ^ Willy Gerking: Elbrinxen . S. 126-129 .
  5. ↑ 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. 150 .
  6. ^ Willy Gerking: Elbrinxen . S. 130-131 .
  7. ^ Willy Gerking: Elbrinxen . S. 137 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '24 "  N , 9 ° 14' 58.8"  E