Chapel Hemmingen

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The Hemmingen Chapel

The Hemmingen Chapel is the chapel of the Hemmingen chapel community . The chapel in the old village center of Hemmingen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Trinitatis parish in Hemmingen-Westerfeld .

description

The listed, nameless chapel in Hemmingen dates from around the middle of the 16th century.

The building, built from rubble stones , has an external width of 6.6 m and length of 14 m. Like the chapels in the neighboring villages of Arnum , Devese and Harkenbleck, the Hemminger Chapel was a two-story fortified chapel .

Sometime after the Thirty Years War , the small window openings were walled up, except on the east side. There was now a pointed arched doorway and rectangular window in the south wall.

The pan-roofed gable roof added during the renovations has two half-timbered gables that are half hipped. The western one is hung with roof tiles , the eastern one is bricked up. The roof plinth protruding on three sides is supported by profiled consoles.

At the end of the 19th century, another major renovation took place, according to the traditional inscription on the weather vane, probably in 1890. The bell cage at the western end of the roof ridge was replaced by a wooden hexagonal roof turret on the western half of the roof. Since then, the chapel has been entered from the west through a door in a sandstone frame with a horizontal lintel. The old door and the two windows on the south side made space for three large arched windows. During this conversion to a hall church , the wooden false ceiling was removed from the interior of the chapel and a gallery was installed.

The new weather vane on the roof turret bears the year 1956.

Furnishing

The showpiece of the chapel is a late Gothic wooden altar shrine . It is the middle part of a winged altar whose wings have been lost.

The bell with a diameter of 54 cm was cast by Ludolf Siegfriedt in 1662 . According to a two-line inscription on its neck, it is a foundation of all the inhabitants of the "Dorfschaft Hemmy".

In October 1998 the chapel received a new chest organ .

use

The Hemmingen chapel belonged to the parish of the St. Vitus Church in Wilkenburg until 1976 . Then it became part of the Trinitatis parish in the Hemmingen-Westerfeld district, which was split off from the Hemmingen chapel parish in 1949.

The chapel is used for worship once a month and on public holidays. Occasionally there are concerts in her.

Web links

Commons : Chapel Hemmingen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Hanover district, Volume 13.1, edited by Hans-Herbert Möller , edited by Henner Hannig, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hemmingen Chapel. www.kirchenkreis-laatzen-springe.de, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hemmingen . In: H. Wilh. H. Mithoff (ed.): Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . First volume: Fürstenthum Calenberg . Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1871, p.  101 ( online [PDF; 16.1 MB ; accessed on March 11, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hemmingen . 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.  24 ( online [PDF; 3.0 MB ; accessed on February 17, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Gitta Wüstenhöfer: The old chapel is a relic from the Middle Ages. (PDF) [PDF; 90 kB]. Leine-Nachrichten, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ History. www.kirchenkreis-laatzen-springe.de, accessed on August 9, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 14.5 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 57.3"  E