Devese Chapel

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The Devese Chapel

The Devese Chapel is a listed sacred building in Devese , a district of Hemmingen in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The chapel of the Evangelical-Lutheran chapel community Devese is considered a historically valuable architectural gem.

history

Southwest view with entrance door

A chapel was probably built in Devese as early as the late Middle Ages . The massive stone building may have served the villagers as a fortified chapel . Chapels of a similar design and size have been preserved along with the chapels in the neighboring villages of Hemmingen , Arnum and Harkenbleck .

When the village of Devese was completely burned down during the Hildesheim collegiate feud between 1519 and 1523, its quarry stone chapel was probably also destroyed. Only the retaining walls on the north side of this building have been preserved. The documents for the foundation of this chapel were later lost in a church fire in Ronnenberg .

The oldest surviving mention of a chapel in Devese is a church visitation protocol from 1543 on the occasion of the introduction of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg . The Devese chapel belonged to the Ronnenberg Michaeliskirche .

The chapel was probably destroyed again in the Thirty Years War . It was not until the end of the 17th century that the ruins were rebuilt into a chapel using simple means, with oak frameworks on a broken stone base. The first six Vollmeierhöfe in the village were in a circle around the chapel.

There was a school in Devese since the end of the 17th century. The local teacher had to take care of everyday church tasks. This included the supervision of the Deveser cemetery established in 1819 and, until 1911, the execution of funerals. A pastor from Ronnenberg came to church official acts.

There was extensive damage to the chapel as early as 1865, which made it seem necessary to remodel it soon. For the "sooner or later necessary reconstruction of the chapel", the 200 thalers made available were not used until they were lost in inflation. In 1909, the church council decided to build a new chapel instead. This was not implemented either, because the responsible construction experts in Hanover could not agree on whether a repair would be enough. In 1929 the chapel was thoroughly repaired for 797.90  Reichsmarks . Another followed in 1953.

Since the condition of the building had deteriorated so much by 1976 that there was a risk of collapse and the building was threatened with closure by the building authorities, the chapel was extensively renovated in 1977 and 1978. In 2009 the bell and the facade of the chapel had to be repaired.

On January 1, 1979, the Devese chapel was reclassified from the Ronnenberg Michaeliskirche to the Hemminger Trinitatis parish. In Devese there was a separate, three-member chapel board. There were not enough candidates among the approximately 400 members of the chapel community for its election in March 2018. Therefore, Devese should then be completely integrated into the Trinity church community.

The Devese Chapel has up to 40 seats. It is used on public holidays , baptisms and weddings and once a month for a Sunday service . In Devese there is no community center . That is why activities such as confirmation classes or senior citizens' events have been taking place in the Trinitatis community center in Hemmingen-Westerfeld since the 1980s.

There is a cemetery chapel in the cemetery in the center of the village . The city of Hemmingen had a kindergarten built next to the cemetery in 1996. The Trinitatis parish has taken over the sponsorship. Since August 2015 he has been part of the Calenberger-Land day care center association.

description

The underside of the roof with articulated consoles

The chapel was probably built in the 17th century. For this purpose, the ruins of the old chapel were rebuilt with simple means.

original state

The chapel stands on a high quarry stone base that protrudes inside the building. The simple walls consisted of brick-lined half-timbering. The room has a length of 7.2 m and a width of 4.7 m. The ceiling beams translating on the south, north and east sides have profiled consoles . These articulated consoles supporting the beam heads of the roof construction led Wilhelm Mithoff to conclude that it was being built at the end of the 17th century.

The west gable on the weather side was boarded. The pan-covered gable roof had a half- hip on the east side . On the west side it carried a roof turret with the chapel bell.

Immediately to the west of the Devese Chapel, the property boundary runs to a neighboring house. Access to the chapel is from Westerfelder Weg on the south side through a door at the west end of the building.

Renovation 1978

During the renovation in the 1970s, the ailing oak timber frame was removed down to the rubble base and replaced. The building is a simple, unadorned country chapel with a rural character. Dark half-timbering contrasts with white infills under a red tile roof.

A small wooden roof turret serves as the bell tower. This is no longer at the western end of the ridge as it used to be, but further towards the middle and on two stands.

When it was renovated again in 2010, the weather-damaged side of the facade was to be clad with natural slate .

Furnishing

Bell jar

The bell in the roof turret of the chapel

The bell of the Devese Chapel, which is still in use, was cast in 1643 by Ludolf Siegfriedt . It bears the inscription

"The common Defess let the bells ring in honor of God in 1643. Ludolf Siefriet me ficit"

In 2009, the approximately 60 kilogram bronze bell was removed for several months and refurbished in the Lachenmeyer bell welding plant in Nördlingen . Thin spots were welded on, the old steel clapper was replaced by a softer one and the steel bell yoke was replaced by a wooden one.

The bell with a strike tone as '' rings daily at 7 a.m., 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

organ

Instead of a missing harmonium , the chapel has had a positive made in 1970 by the organ builder Matthias Wunderlich since 1979 .

altar

Since the chapel was renovated, a heavy slab of sandstone has been prepared as an altar . This had previously served as a doorstep .

presentation

On the south wall of the chapel, next to the entrance, there is an information board of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony, which is funded by the Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape . Guided tours are offered as part of the Calenberg country summer . The chapel was repeatedly a stop on the Hemmingen cultural route on the day of the open monument .

See also

Web links

Commons : Chapel Devese  - collection of images

literature

  • Hermann Britz: 825 years Devese , Heimatbund Lower Saxony. Group (Hemmingen, Hannover), 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.), Henner Hannig (arrangement): 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. 213.
  2. ↑ building. Church district Laatzen-Springe, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e cf. the text of the information board Ev.-luth. Chapel Devese , Heimatbund Niedersachsen e. V. Hemmingen Group. Located next to the entrance door of the Devese Chapel
  4. ↑ a b c d e Devese. kirchengemeindelexikon.de, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Hermann Britz, Friedrich A. Kollrodt: Chapel Devese. Church district Laatzen-Springe, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 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]).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The chapel in Devese. Church district Laatzen-Springe, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b 2.3 Settlement development in: Devese local development concept. City of Hemmingen, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b c Stefan Vogt: Nördlingen specialists are renovating the bronze bell of the chapel. www.haz.de, November 19, 2009, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Andreas Zimmer: Will the end of the chapel community be heralded? www.haz.de, January 25, 2018, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b c Andreas Zimmer: Will the end of the chapel congregation be heralded? www.haz.de , September 22, 2017, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Devese Kindergarten. Church district Laatzen-Springe, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b c Devese . In: Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Issue 1: Districts of Hanover and Linden . Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1899, p.  12 ( online [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on October 26, 2018]).
  14. ↑ a b Devese . In: H. Wilh. H. Mithoff (ed.): Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . First volume: Fürstenthum Calenberg. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1871, p.  24 ( online [PDF; 15.1 MB ; accessed on March 11, 2017]).
  15. ↑ oV : A bell returns , in: Around us. Local news and official communications from the area. City of Hemmingen. Arnum, Devese, Harkenbleck, Hemmingen-Westerfeld, Hiddestorf, Ohlendorf and Wilkenburg , Volume 48, Issue 7 of April 14, 2010, p. 24
  16. ↑ Andreas Zimmer: Country Summer Tour also leads to Devese. www.neuepresse.de , March 28, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Tobias Lehmann: Twelve stations on the Open Monument Day. www.haz.de, August 9, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  18. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. On: website of the German National Library, accessed on October 3, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 55.7 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 40.6"  E