Johanniskirche (Uschlag)
| Johanniskirche in Staufenberg-Uschlag |
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 South view of the Uschlager Johanniskirche |
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| Construction year: | 1725 |
| Client: | Evangelical Lutheran parish in Uschlag |
| Location: | 51 ° 19 '49.7 " N , 9 ° 37' 6.7" E |
| Address: | At church 1, OT. Uschlag , Staufenberg, Lower Saxony , Germany |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Local community: | Evangelical Lutheran parish in Uschlag in Staufenberg |
| Parish: | Mühlenstrasse 6, 34355 Staufenberg - Uschlag |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover ( Hildesheim-Göttingen District, Münden Church District) |
| Website: | www.obergericht.de/usbe/us-bent.html |
The Johanniskirche in Uschlag , a district of the municipality of Staufenberg in Lower Saxony , is a simple church with rich furnishings . It dates from the beginning of the 18th century and is the southernmost church of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Hanover in Lower Saxony.
Geographical location
The Johanniskirche is literally located in the middle of the village of Uschlag on Mündener Straße immediately before it joins Kasseler Straße. If you look at the nearby Mühlenberg, which is already in Hessian territory, you can see the church embedded in the village with its unusually east-facing tower.
Building description
The Uschlager Johanniskirche was - as the inscription above the west portal shows - built in 1725 and stands on the site of a previously unknown previous church.
The rectangular nave has a mansard roof and a portal with a blown gable from the Baroque period .
The tower has an octagonal half-timbered upper floor with a bell dome.
The interior is characterized by numerous paintings from the life story of Jesus on the altar and in the galleries. The font dates from 1612 and is the oldest inventory item in the church.
Building history
A first written reference to a church in Uschlag is from 1425: "Ecclesia in Uschlacht". A collection ("Hauß-Collecte") in the entire Principality of Calenberg will then initiate the construction of the new church for 1725, which, according to the estimate, should cost 795 thalers.
Over the centuries, the Johanniskirche often had to be repaired. Repairs to the tower and roof were made as early as 1748, and in 1765 major damage from the time of the Seven Years' War had to be repaired. It was always wars that took their toll on the building: in 1917, for example, the confiscation of organ pipes and a bell to be melted down for ammunition purposes, then again in 1942/43 the demand for chandeliers and two bells. At the beginning of April 1945, the church was severely damaged by a direct hit on the tower and nave.
Repair and renovation work was necessary in 1919/20, 1951, 1968/69 and 1986. At the end of the 1970s, considerable changes were made outside and inside: the two entrances on the long sides were redesigned to form windows, and a new entrance was created on the west side, from which a corridor leads directly to the altar. Before that, the church was divided into four parts by two corridors. The gallery on the south side was shortened, and the organ, which previously had its place in the choir above the altar, found its new location on the west side. The renovation in 1986 changed the altar area again, but in adaptation to the time before 1968.
Furnishing
altar
In the 20th century alone, the altar carried four different types of attachments. If the previous essay was replaced by a new one in 1951, it only lasted until 1968. Because of the relocation of the organ, the altar had to be moved forward, and the altar carried a wooden crucifix, the body of which came from the Ladin South Tyrol and is now hanging in the choir on the side of the pulpit.
In 1986 a new altarpiece was purchased to adapt to the one before 1968, in which the previous pictures found their place again. They come from Wulf Ernst Lindemeyer , who made them in 1646 and who were restored by Christa Dieselhorst ( Hanover ) in 1956 .
Baptismal font
The baptismal chalice dates from 1612 and is the oldest piece in the church. It is octagonal and made of coarse-grained sandstone. Two braid ornaments running in an arc around the chalice frame it. On one side of the octagon the year 1612 can be read in a recessed inscription. The cup shape tapers downwards and ends in a foot drawn in through a groove.
Today's base of the baptismal font was made in 1990 by Michael Düchting ( Soest ). In the same year the font was also firmly anchored in the floor.
pulpit
The location of the wooden pulpit on the south side has always been chosen so that it connects the chancel with the nave. It is of artistic beauty and symbolizes the proclamation of what the inscription above the choir room, which was only uncovered in 1986, said: "Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever" (Heb. 13: 8).
Gallery painting
In the course of the church renovation in 1919/20, the fillings of the gallery balustrades were decorated with numerous paintings from the life of Jesus. The painting was done by Professor Rudolf Siegmund (1881–1973), a teacher at the Art Academy in Kassel .
After the renovation of the inner church in 1968/69, only fourteen pictures could find a place on the gallery. The others are now in the parish archives. One thing now also adorns the altar in the neighboring church of Benterode .
organ
The first church organ was made in 1730 by organ builder Johann Wilhelm Dibelius (Kassel). Major repairs were necessary as early as 1778. This old organ was then replaced by the current one in 1840. Organ builder Friedrich Melchior Zindel (Kassel) built the two-manual and twelve-registration work. It has been on the west gallery since 1969, and in 1973 it was restored by master organ builder Albert Frerichs ( Göttingen ).
Other equipment
Bells
The bell of the Uschlager Johanniskirche consists of four bells:
- The oldest bell, which was cast by Gottfried Kohler in Kassel, dates from 1636 .
- The smallest bell, which was cast at Henschel in Kassel and now hangs at the top of the tower, dates from 1832.
- The two middle bells that were made by the Rincker brothers' bell foundry in Sinn / Dillkreis date from 1953 .
Weather vane
In 1870 the weather vane was built on the top of the tower. It was restored and re-gilded in 1969 and 1998.
The Johannis parish of Uschlag
Parish
About 1000 parishioners belong to the Evangelical-Lutheran parish of Uschlag. The Uschlager locality Dahlheim is affiliated to the parish of Escherode .
Since 1917 the parish of Benterode mit Sichelnstein has been parishally connected to Uschlag.
The parish belongs to the parish of Münden in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
Pastors of the local Johanniskirche
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References
literature
- Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen-Lower Saxony , arr. v. Gottfried Kiesow u. a., Munich 1977
- Uschlag - 975 years - 1019-1994. Documents and pictures on the history of our village , ed. by the festival committee of the 975 year Uschlag, compiled by Walter Blum, Staufenberg-Uschlag 1995
- Staufenberg in the Münden Nature Park , photographed by Rolf Wagner, ed. v. of the community of Staufenberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1991
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Hannoversches Pfarrvereinsblatt , 121st year 4'16, p. 40