Evangelical Church Snakes
The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Schlangen , a municipality in the Lippe district , in North Rhine-Westphalia .
History and architecture
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The neo-Romanesque , fünfjochige, light hall church with a 5 / 8 - Choir final was in 1878, designed by Baurat Merckel built from Detmold. The building is a plastered structure with sandstone structure . The ribbed vaults rest on cast iron polygonal supports. The outer walls are structured by large arched windows . A small vestibule is added to each side of the central yoke . The medieval west towercomes from a previous church from the first half of the 13th century. The tower is accessible through a pointed arched step portal .
During archaeological excavations in 1969, the foundations of a two-bay, vaulted hall church with a recessed square choir were uncovered. The remainder of an older hall building with an apse was also found .
Choir window
The three stained glass choir windows date from the construction period and were made in 1878 by the Oidtmann glass painting company . Windows from the cloister of the Heiligenkreuz monastery in Lower Austria served as a model , of which Albert Camesina published drawings in 1859 "as template sheets for replicating various products of the industry".
Christophorus mural
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During renovation work in January 1970, a mural that had been repainted several times came to light. The picture shows Saint Christopher and is considered the oldest representation in Westphalia. It is located opposite the tower portal and welcomed church visitors in earlier times. Presumably, the mural was designed together with the implementation of the portal and was created in the middle of the 13th century at the earliest. To the left of the Christophorus depiction is an inscription, it reads
"SCRSTOFORI FA
CIEM..MQVE TV
ETVR..LON.PE DI
ENVLLO SVBBIT.N
... NON MORIETVR"
“Whoever has the face of St. Christophorus looks, he will certainly not die a sudden death that day "
organ
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In the previous church there was an organ from 1725 by the organ builder Johann Berenhard Klausing . This organ had a one-manual sliding drawer with 6 registers. After the church was demolished in 1878, the organ was still in service for a few years in the Poppe Inn, but was dismantled there in 1891 at the latest. Gustav Schmidt, pastor in Schlangen from 1866 to 1894, insisted on the purchase of an organ with a cone chest , the first in the state of Lippe , for the new church . He decided on the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler & Sons from Elze. In doing so, Schmidt defied the Princely Lippe Consistory, which insisted on employing local companies and therefore did not subsidize organ building. The organ with 20 registers on two manuals with pedal was built in late autumn 1879.
During the First World War , the tin pipes on the organ prospectus had to be surrendered . Zinc pipes were used as a substitute. In 1925 the organ received an electric fan. A major and ultimately unsuccessful reconstruction took place in the course of the church renovation in 1969. The organ was equipped with an electric action, the console moved from its previous central position to the left side of the case.
In 1991 the church council decided to restore the Furtwängler organ. The commissioned company Alfred Führer from Wilhelmshaven completed the conversion and renovation work in January 1995.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The church's belfry was originally intended for two bells. Until 1975, the ringing consisted of a bronze bell from an unknown manufacturer from 1412 - and thus one of the oldest still preserved and dated bells in Lippe - and a bronze bell by Claudius Bricon from 1656. The bell also comes from the same series as the bell from 1412 from 1398 in the Stumpfen Turm in Lemgo. The inscription GH could indicate the master Hans Grawick. A third bell from the row is in the church in Hohenhausen , it dates from 1446. Another bell was cast in 1807 by Bernhard Heinrich Fricke from Gütersloh. It weighed only 47 kg and possibly served as an hour bell. This smaller bell had to be given in during the First World War. The Bricon bell from 1656 was also handed in, but could be retrieved in 1919. The old bell cage was replaced in 1975 and has been able to accommodate three bells since then. Since 1976, the ringing has been supplemented by a bronze bell from the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock .
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No. |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime | year | Foundry) | inscription |
| 1 | 1000 | g 1 | 1976 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | JESUS CHRIST YESTERDAY AND TODAY ALSO IN ETERNITY EASTER 1976 |
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| 2 | 935 | 550 | c 2 | 1412 | (Hans Grawick) | + AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA ANNO DNI M ° CCCCXII GH |
| 3 | 890 | 468 | a 1 | 1656 | Claudius Bricon | + IN NOIE SS TRIADIS; SVB REGIM; ILLMI; DNI HERMANNI ADOLPHI; COMITI AC NOBIL; DNI IN LIPPIA ET C; A CLAUDIO BRICON FVSA SVM ANNO 1656 |
literature
- Heinz Wiemann (ed.): The church to snakes. Snakes 1978
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 504 .
- ↑ Dorothea Kluge: The Lippe building officer Ferdinand Ludwig Merckel and his church buildings . In: The Church to Snakes . Snakes 1978, p. 74-76 .
- ↑ Model left window , model middle window , model right window
- ↑ Hilde Claussen: A mural of St. Christophorus from the 13th century . In: The Church to Snakes . Snakes 1978, p. 105-107 .
- ↑ a b c Alexander Wagner, Klaus-Peter Fliedner: Orgeln in Lippe . Detmold 2008, ISBN 978-3-924481-18-6 , pp. 121-122 .
- ↑ Helmut Klöpping: An organ with a cone store . In: The Church to Snakes . Snakes 1978, p. 131-133 .
- ↑ Claus Peter: The bells and their history . In: The Church to Snakes . Snakes 1978, p. 109-116 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 30 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 42" E