Fire tower (Vörie)
The so-called fire tower is a listed bell tower in Vörie , a district of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony .
history
Already at the time of the introduction of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg around the year 1543, a chapel belonging to the Michaeliskirche in Ronnenberg is mentioned in Vordy . During the Thirty Years' War , many farms in the village and the chapel were destroyed. In 1699, the consistory in Hanover ordered the reconstruction of the chapel in what was then the Koldingen office . The old bell in Vörie was replaced by a larger new one in 1704.
According to another representation, the chapel was not rebuilt. It was only in 1863 that the residents of Vörie erected a simple two-story bell tower on the property on which the chapel is said to have stood. The tower stands on a tiny lot on Dorfstrasse , in a very central location on the old road connection from Ihme-Roloven to Holtensen, not far from the intersection with the county road from Weetzen to Linderte .
The slender brick masonry building has two floors and a lantern open on four sides . The bell attached inside is protected on the weather side by wooden slats. At the top of the tower there is a cross-like arrow as a wind direction indicator . On the east side there is a simple door on the ground floor. On the street front of the tower there is a plaque with the inscription:
"Village Vörie
District Hanover
Administrative Region
Hanover"
In earlier years the bell installed in the tower was rung several times a day with meals. It was also used to alert people if a fire should break out.
In the 1990s, the bell was converted from manual operation to an electric motor drive. The electricity required for this came from a neighboring farmstead about a meter away, which was demolished at the end of 2014 and, after a transition period, from the Vörier village community center .
The bell is traditionally supposed to ring in the evening. In addition, after a death in Vörie, the bell is rung the following morning. Vörie also has a cemetery chapel on the 1894 scale cemetery outside the town located on the road towards Linderte.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): Landkreis Hannover. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 250, as well as p. 137 (map) and p. 310 ( Index)
- ↑ Karl Kayser (ed.): The Reformation church visits in the Guelph lands 1542-1544 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1897, p. 417 ( online [PDF; 25.9 MB ; accessed on October 3, 2019]).
- ^ Vörie. History in: Natural History Society of Hanover (Hrsg.): The Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p. 404-405 .
- ↑ a b c d Kerstin Siegmund: No electricity - no sound: the bell has stopped. www.neuepresse.de , January 21, 2015, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Jens Schade: Cultural monuments in Ronnenberg: 200 years there was no bell in Vörie. www.myheimat.de, September 18, 2013, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b dom: The Vörier village community center has its birthday today. www.con-nect.de, December 14, 2017, accessed October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ The bell has stopped. voerie.de, January 28, 2015, accessed October 6, 2019 .
- ^ Vörie. Monuments in: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft zu Hannover (Hrsg.): The Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p. 405 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 55.7 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 48.3" E