Church (gold)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gülden belongs to the parish of Zernien in the Lüchow-Dannenberg parish of the Hanover regional church .
location
The church is located in the village of Gülden on the K21, two kilometers south of Zernien , the main town of the political community. On the property, next to the church, there is a private house, the former village school, which was previously owned by the church.
History and equipment
The Güldener church is mentioned in the Lüneburg benefice register from 1534 as "Capelle" in the office of Hitzacker . Gülden and Riebrau formed a unified mother church as early as 1543. The Guilders resisted the pastor and did not pay the owed taxes. They buried their church bell, chalice and crucifix.
Twenty-five years later, in 1568 at the general church visitation, Pastor Adolf Schenke made no mention of anything in his minutes of disputes with Gülden. Apparently the disputes have been settled.
It was not until 1629 that we learned something about gold again. The oldest document from 1629, which is still in the archive of the Riebrauer Church, reports in the middle of the Thirty Years' War that Pastor Ludecus had moved his residence to Dannenberg . At that time there were 54 Hufen in the parish, which the parish is obliged to use. The 15 villages in the parish belonged to three different offices. Most belonged to the Office of Hitzacker . Timmeitz and Zernien belonged to Dannenberg, Prepow belonged to the Wustrow office .
Pastor Bernhardus Ludecus preached from 1608 to 1655. In 1655 the church and rectory in Riebrau were rebuilt. The old buildings burned down during the war. Of the 53 parish hooves that Pastor Ludecus mentions, 27 survived the war, just half. The five Güldener Hufen were preserved. The church in Gülden was also destroyed in the Thirty Years' War .
Riebrau and Gülden were a poor parish. There was no sexton, schoolmaster, organist or pastor widow's house. The fact that the children did not enjoy lessons was particularly criticized. Services were held every Sunday in Riebrau and Gülden. There are no documents available about the construction of the church in Gülden.
26 years after the Riebrauer, the second Gülden church was also ripe for demolition. Pastor Küchenthal writes about it:
“The construction of the church in Gülden, which was in such a state that one did not dare to enter without risking one's life, was started by my urgent instigation in February 1786 by the master carpenter Schmid from Lüben, who was responsible for the entire construction, but the acquisition of the Oak wood, not including tensioning and hand services, undertook and completed it for 490 Reichsthalers. At the end of the same year the church was ready. The superintendent, who was sickly at the time, instructed me to initiate them. It happened on the first Sunday after Epiphany, 1787. "
The current Gülden church, built in 1787, is likely to be the third, assuming that the first chapel during the Reformation was also destroyed in the Thirty Years War. The construction contract with master Schmid has been received from the construction, as well as the settlement with him and the list of financing. 149 Reichsthaler (Rth) had resulted in a collection in the community, 140 Rth brought in a contribution from the landlords, 116 Rth came from the church administration and the rest of the 86 Rth collection brought in a collection from Pastor Küchenthal.
Johann Heinrich Saucke from Prepow, who died in 1787 at the age of 60, was the first to have a funeral service held in the unfinished church.
The upper seats near the pulpit were barred towards the pulpit so that the churchgoers could not get violent against the preaching pastor, because the relationship between the churchgoers and the pastor was not always the best. So once the church leaders, when the "shepherd of souls" with the congregation went too roughly into judgment, spontaneously rose and left the house of God. The pastor called after them: "Look there they go, there I have a wasp's nest stung. "
Pastor Wiesen described the Gülden church in detail in 1860:
- “It differs from the Riebrau church mainly in the galleries . Prichen , as they used to say, on all four sides. These are only missing on the south side of the choir. These princes rest on six rough wooden pillars. The floor is made of baked stones and the seats are made of field stones. The altar is square and also made of burned stones. The pulpit is located above the altar. There is an old baptismal font made of brass, without ornaments or inscriptions. It stands in one post of the altar cabinet, on the north side. The sacristy is nothing more than a seat behind the altar. A bell is available in the Gülden church. Some smaller sculptures, which are difficult to see, are on the bell. Unfortunately they are without an inscription or year. "
This bell broke in January 1890 when the funeral peal for the deceased Empress Augusta . The new bell, which was then cast, was given to the Gülden parish by Kaiser Wilhelm II . The names of Pastor Beckmann, Küster Wehmeyer and the church council were poured into the new bell. The names of the church council members from 1891: Jauch - Spranz, Saucke - Prepow, Oetzmann - Gülden, Harneid - Keddien.
In 1953 the church was enlarged for reasons of space. This may be related to the influx of refugees - the unsuitable massive extension to the half-timbered church did not, however, bring much more seats because the side galleries were removed on this occasion. In 2004, a static renovation of the roof structure was necessary and the church was given a new color - partly according to old findings.
organ
The organ in the church in Gülden comes from the organ building workshop Steinmann , Vlotho in Westphalia . In 1920 the instrument was built with six sounding voices ( registers ) on pneumatic cone chests. Five registers can be played in the manual; in the pedal only one, the sub-bass 16 ', is independent. Additional voices can be borrowed from the manual area using a pedal coupler.
It is not foreseeable how long the organ, which is currently heavily wormed, can still be used.
literature
- Ernst-Günther Behn: The Hannoversche Wendland - churches and chapels. Köhring Verlag, Lüchow 2011, ISBN 978-3-926322-50-0 .
- Doris Schmidtke: The churches in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. In: Klaus Poggendorf (Hrsg.): The Hannoversche Wendland. 3. Edition. Lüchow-Dannenberg district, Lüchow 1985, DNB 850673720 , pp. 183-189.
- Gerhard Hennig: Gold in the past - gold today. Ceremonies 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ First mentioned in 1360. ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung. November 10, 2001. (on Gülden's history).
- ^ Ernst-Günther Behn: Churches and chapels. 2011, p. 66.
- ↑ a b Gerhard Hennig: Goldin in the past - Gülden today. Zernien 2001, p. 17.
- ↑ Original glass installed. ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung. December 13, 2004. (for church renovation).
Coordinates: 53 ° 2 '58.87 " N , 10 ° 52' 37.98" O