Fire tower (Vörie)

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The fire tower in summer 2014

The so-called fire tower is a listed bell tower in Vörie , a district of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony .

history

Until 2014 the view from the district road: A barn stood right behind the fire station
The fire tower after the barn was demolished, 2015

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.

See also

Web links

Commons : Vörie fire station  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ 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]).
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ↑ a b dom: The Vörier village community center has its birthday today. www.con-nect.de, December 14, 2017, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The bell has stopped. voerie.de, January 28, 2015, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  8. ^ 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