Church of the 10,000 Knights
The Church of the 10,000 Knights is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the town of Lenthe in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony, which was incorporated into the town of Gehrden in 1971 .
history
In 1394 the von Lenthe family donated a church in the village of Lenthe. This was inaugurated in the same year by the Bishop of Minden . The Lenthes Foundation upgraded an existing chapel to a church. The chapel had previously belonged to the Michaeliskirche in Ronnenberg . The church patronage has since been exercised by the family of Lenthe.
The stone- walled church was dedicated to the martyrdom of 10,000 knights , the altar dedicated to the apostle Thomas , the holy hermit Anthony , the martyr Catharina and the three wise men.
During the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg , the Lenther Church became Protestant between 1542 and 1544. In the 18th century the building was fundamentally renovated. In the course of savings in the 20th century, the parish offices of Lenthe, Northen and Benthe were merged.
description
The building was founded in 1690 by growing an aboveground crypt for the family members of the sub-good expands on the northwest side. In 1737 the church was rebuilt according to plans by Johann Paul Heumann . The nave was widened, raised and provided with galleries . Another crypt was created on the southwest side for the family members of the upper estate . On the massive substructure, the superstructure is designed in half-timbered construction. Located in the east and west hipped roof wearing a quadrangular roof skylights .
Furnishing
altar
Johann Conrad Ziesenis made the altar for 60 thalers in 1710 . The worm-eaten work from the late Baroque era , as early as the 19th century, shows the Last Supper, the crucifixion and the coat of arms of the von Reden family held up by angels in addition to winding columns and strong foliage .
Probably in 1629 von Lenthes donated the colorful pulpit and in 1670 today's baptismal font made of silver with Baroque ornaments and the inscription “W. v. LMJ v. R. ".
Bells
A bell in Lenthe was mentioned as early as 1393 . The Hanoverian bell founder Ludolf Siegfried made two bells for the church in Hanover in 1671. He also used a melted down older bell from Lenthe as material. In 1898 the Radler company in Hildesheim cast two new bells for Lenthe using the melted-down Siegfried bells. One of these was confiscated for war purposes in 1917 and the other in 1942. After an iron replacement bell had been used from 1927 to 1955, on May 8, 1955, the Lenther Church received three new bells cast in 1954 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg.
organ
The Lenther Church received an organ made by the organ builder Meyer from Hanover for the first time in 1818 . The heirs of Werner von Siemens , who was born in Lenthe, donated the building of a new one in 1899 by P. Furtwängler & Hammer . The third organ on the north side of the church, built in 1969 by the organ workshop Schmidt & Thiemann from Hanover, uses the prospect of the organ from 1818. It was completed in 1977 and has eight registers with a loop division between b / h.
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Others
In 1697, the gang around Nikol List stole a number of valuable furnishings from the Lenth Church, some of which were from the early days.
The church is one of the ten architectural monuments in Lenthe.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lenthe . 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. 95-99 ( online [PDF]).
- ↑ a b c d e f Lenthe parish. City of Gehrden, accessed on January 5, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Gottfried Piper: Gehrden and the music. (pdf; 56 MB) 1994, p. 7 , accessed on February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Gottfried Piper: Gehrden and the music. (pdf; 56 MB) 1994, pp. 17-18 , accessed on February 17, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '26.4 " N , 9 ° 36' 47.1" E