Chapel (Höver)
The Evangelical Lutheran Chapel in Höver is located in the municipality of Weste in the district of Uelzen in Lower Saxony .
location
The chapel is on the northeastern edge of the Höver district . There is a lawn to the south of her. On all other sides it is surrounded by trees and bushes, which delimits it from the surrounding houses.
history
A church in Höver was first mentioned in 1311. The direct predecessor of today's chapel had a nave made of brick masonry with a flat ceiling and had a free-standing lattice tower.
The chapel today belongs to the parish of Römstedt in the parish of Uelzen of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover , which has been parishally connected to the parish of Himbergen since 2010, along with the St. Matthew Church in Römstedt and the castle chapel in Gollern .
architecture
The Höver chapel is a simple neo-Gothic brick building from 1904. It is divided into a west tower, a rectangular nave and a choir . The south entrance of the tower is crowned by an eyelash . The upper floor of the tower contains sound openings and is separated from the substructure by a circumferential cross- band cornice. The ridge roof of the tower is crowned by a square roof turret .
The nave of the hall church is 8.5 meters long and 7.2 long. The longitudinal walls are divided into two sections by buttresses . The retracted choir is separated from the nave by a step. The choir opens to the interior of the ship with a pointed arch. There is a rose window in the east wall of the choir . The roofs of the nave and the choir are covered with brownish tiles . There are friezes with a tooth cut directly under the roofs .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff: Fürstenthum Lüneburg . In: Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . tape 4 . Helwing, Hannover 1877, p. 98 .
- ↑ Our churches. In: Parishes of Römstedt and Himbergen. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
- ^ Wilhelm Lucka: District of Uelzen . In: Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1984, ISBN 3-528-06205-3 , pp. 158 .
- ↑ a b Christian Wiechel-Kramüller: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the district of Uelzen . WIEKRA Edition, Suhlendorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-940189-14-1 , p. 78-79 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 10 ° 40 ′ 1.6 ″ E