St. Michaelis Chapel (Northen)

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The St. Michaelis Chapel in Northen

The St. Michaelis Chapel is a listed sacred building in Northen , a district of Gehrden in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . Mostly it is simply referred to as the Northen Chapel .

While the churches and many chapels in the region were built centuries ago from quarry stone or later brick or replaced by successor buildings, the chapels in the Gehrden districts of Northen, Lemmie and Redderse have been preserved in the traditional half-timbered construction.

history

The St. Michaelis Chapel and the Goldener Winkel 4 building

A chapel in Northen is mentioned in a document from the Wunstorf Monastery from 1370. The location on a narrow street instead of a central square suggests that a first chapel was built on the edge of an existing village and not as the core of a planned new foundation.

The von Lenthe family has exercised the patronage of the church in Lenthe, neighboring to the north , since the 14th century . In the neighboring village of Northen, too, the family had the right of patronage since 1394. The diocese of Minden had transferred its feudal rights to various noble families in the area at several farms in Northen. In addition to the Freiherrnigge in Bredenbeck , these were those of Lenthe.

The Northener Dorfchronik reports that a new chapel was built in 1542. Today's Northener half-timbered chapel was built in 1621.

On the other hand, the year 1615 is carved into a beam on the south side of the chapel, the weather vane bears the year 1668. However, neither of these is sufficient as evidence of the year of construction of the chapel. According to the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, the numbers indicate the year of construction 1615 and the completion of the repair of the damage suffered in the Thirty Years War in 1668.

In the visitation protocol on the occasion of the introduction of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg in the years 1542 to 1544 and another from 1588, a chapel in Northen is listed as a branch church of the Ronnenberg Michaeliskirche . Most of the church services, baptisms, weddings, confirmations and funerals of the Northen residents took place there. The chapel in Northen in the archdeaconate of Pattensen was re-parish to Lenthe in 1892 .

Like the Lenther Church, the St. Michaelis Chapel is one of the 10,000 knights and, since 2002, the chapel in Everloh has been part of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Lenthe-Northen. The churches and chapels in Northen, Lenthe, Everloh and the independent chapel community in the southeastern neighboring Ronnenberg district of Benthe share a three-quarter parish.

A Sunday service takes place around once a month in the St. Michaelis Chapel. For funeral services there in Northen a 1957 built by the citizens in own contribution, in 1987 expanded by an annex and later with its own bell provided cemetery chapel on the out-of region on the western edge of the Benther mountain community cemetery Northen. There is also a heating system in the cemetery chapel.

description

The chapel door

The Northen Chapel is a half-timbered building with brown-painted half-timbering and white infills . Together with the neighboring former school building Goldener Winkel 1 and the four-column building Goldener Winkel 4 opposite, it forms a group of listed buildings in the densely built-up old town center of Northen.

The St. Michaelis Chapel is a polygonal closed structure in the east . The pointed roof is built on wide cantilevered roof beams resting on simple headbands . On the west end of the tiled roof sits a wooden ridge turret. The chapel bells are hung in this “tower”.

The beam above the door on the west side of the chapel bears the inscription “Your word is the truth” ( Jn 17:17  LUT ). The year “1615” and the craftsman's mark “NLH” are carved into two bars on the south side of the half-timbered chapel. Another beam inserted into the south wall of the framework at a less noticeable point bears the inscription “Godt der is min consolation”. Because of this type of installation, it is interpreted as a reminder of a previous building. During repair work in 1986, traces of processing that were not part of the building structure, such as mortises and recesses in timber framing, were found. This indicates that when the chapel was built, numerous beams from demolished earlier buildings were rebuilt.

Furnishing

Bells

The St. Michaelis Chapel has two bells: a 19 kg bell made in 1971 by the Rincker Bell and Art Foundry with a diameter of 32 cm and a strike tone es, ´´, and a 25 kg heavy bronze bell dated 1507 with a 35 cm diameter and strike note c, ´´.

The older of the two bells bears the year "1507" as an inscription. It could therefore come from a predecessor of the chapel. A safety check showed that the bell suspension was dilapidated and the almost 500-year-old bell was pretty much smashed and threatened to fall. In 2006, the bronze bell was welded and completely refurbished at a specialist company in Nördlingen . The bell received a new suspension made of wood. The newly manufactured bell clapper is attached to the bell with a strong leather strap . This should give the bell a particularly soft sound.

altar

The colorfully painted wood-carved late-Gothic shrine altar in the St. Michaelis Chapel dates from around the first quarter of the 16th century. The altar is dedicated to the honor of Almighty God and the memory of 10,000 knights . The three-winged altar, donated by the von Lenthe family and created around 1510, according to another representation in the period around 1520, originally stood in the church of the 10,000 knights in Lenthe. In 1714 Albrecht Werner von Lenthe donated the altar to the Northen chapel community. The transport to Northen cost 18 Mariengroschen tips for the carters and another 3 Mariengroschen for cleaning the altar.

The main picture of the altar shows the martyrdom of the ten thousand . It is framed by figures of four saints , the evangelists John and Barbara on the left, and the apostles James the Elder and Catherine on the right. The open wings of the altar show the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi, and on the right the Visitation and the Nativity of Christ . The closed altar wings show the proclamation of the birth of Mary to her parents Joachim and Anna on the left and Mary walking into the temple on the right.

Archival material

In the image archive of the Hanover region there is a black and white photo taken by August Kageler in the Northen Chapel . It shows part of the interior with benches and beamed ceiling. In the background you can see the altar with its wings open.

See also

Web links

Commons : Chapel Northen  - Collection of Images

literature

  • Hans-Erich Wilhelm (Lenthe), Friedrich Meier (Northen): To the history of the villages Lenthe, Northen . Self-published, 1994, p. 221 .

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 , pp. 210–211.
  2. ↑ Margaret Church . Rainer Piesch (www.gehrdener-ansichten.de), accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d The Northener half-timbered chapel. City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Our altars, the pulpit and the baptism. in the parish of Lenthe . City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b c d Northen in: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft zu Hannover (ed.): Der Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p.  289 .
  6. ↑ a b c Village history of the village. City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c The renovated chapel bell. City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  8. ^ Northen . In: H. Wilh. H. Mithoff (ed.): Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . First volume: Fürstenthum Calenberg. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1871, p.  149 ( online [PDF; 15.1 MB ; accessed on March 11, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Everloh. kirchengemeindelexikon.de, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Parish Lenthe-Northen and Chapel Parish Everloh. www.kirchenkreis-ronnenberg.de, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Benthe. kirchengemeindelexikon.de, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Axel Bieber: The best of Lenthe - The Church. www.myheimat.de, July 12, 2011, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  13. ^ Church services in Lenthe, Everloh and Northen. www.kirchenkreis-ronnenberg.de, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The cemetery chapel with a new bell. City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Northener Senior Community Cemetery care. City of Gehrden, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Gottfried Piper: Gehrden and the music. (PDF; 56 MB) 1994, p. 6 , accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Photo of the renewed bell before it was re-hung. in: Retreaded after 500 years . City of Gehrden, December 27, 2006, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ a b c d Hans-E. Wilhelm and Friedrich Meier: The carved altar "Martyrium of 10,000" (approx. 1525) in the St. Michaelis chapel in Northen. in Northen . Rainer Piesch (www.gehrdener-ansichten.de), accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Manfred Zimmermann / Euromediahouse: Color photo of the carved altar. in: Northen. Our locality »Sights . City of Gehrden, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  20. ^ August Kageler: Chapel, Northen. In: Image archive Region Hannover. Region Hannover, accessed on September 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 45.9 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 26.9"  E