Kreuzkirche (Sehnde)
The Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche is the historic village church of Sehnde ( main town ), Hanover region . It is located on the southern edge of the former village center, surrounded by an old churchyard .
architecture
Today's church consists of components from different eras.
The oldest part is the ground floor of the massive tower with a square floor plan. It is made of quarry stone and provided with a wide buttress and is believed to date from around 1200. The two upper tower floors were renewed and repaired several times after damage, especially during the Thirty Years War . Today the tower is plastered white. The wooden cone tip has been covered with copper since 1951 and crowned with a cross.
Nothing has survived from the nave that originally belonged to this tower . There can only be guesses as to its appearance. At the beginning of the 18th century it was so dilapidated that it was completely demolished, including the foundations.
In its place, a baroque hall church was built according to plans by army engineer Ernst Braun , which was inaugurated on April 29, 1739. The new nave leaves the east-west axis, which can be assumed for the previous building, and has its greatest extension in a north-south direction. In the middle of the eastern long side is the pulpit altar , behind which a rectangular extension serves as a sacristy . Except for the window and door frames, the baroque building is plastered in yellow. The corners are marked with stone-transparent decorative strips.
tower
Pulpit altar
Gallery and organ
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar with figures of apostles and evangelists as well as the single figure of John the Baptist holding the baptismal bowl are works of the important Hildesheim artist Ernst Dietrich Bartels (1679–1762). The altar was dismantled in 1885 and replaced by a redesign by Conrad Wilhelm Hase using some of Bartels' figures. Since most of the other parts were also preserved, the baroque altar was reconstructed in 1967 in the presumed original form. The image field at the top, which initially remained empty, has been containing a resurrection design by Uwe Appold since 2004 .
The railing of the gallery running around three sides carries forty blue and gold coffered pictures with plant ornamentation .
The two valuable bells from 1653 and 1827 are richly decorated with ornaments and inscriptions.
history
A first Sehnder chapel may have existed since the last third of the 12th century. It was a branch of the Archdiakonatskirche St. Martin in Lühnde under the patronage of the Hildesheimer St. Bartholomäus-Stifts . A document from Bishop Harbert von Hildesheim from 1207 grants the Sehnder Church parish rights . The building, the remains of which are preserved in the church tower, was probably built during this time. The patronage of Sanctae Crucis - Zum Heiligen Kreuz is only attested later, but points to a cross relic presumably preserved from Hildesheim when it was founded .
With the introduction of the Reformation in the Guelph lands in the 1530s, the Sehnder community also became Lutheran.
During the Thirty Years War, the village and church were repeatedly affected by fires and looting.
The economic recovery of the following decades made the new building of the 1730s possible with its artistic furnishings.
Industrialization, especially potash mining , and the influx of displaced people after the Second World War allowed the village and parish to grow. 1963 was in the western part Sehndes Bonhoeffer Haus with church hall and community rooms built (2012 deconsecrated and sold to the city); the parish was divided into two parishes.
literature
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Sehnde (ed.): 800 years of the church in Sehnde. Documentation on the 800th anniversary of the church , 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Johannes figure is attributed to Friedrich Bleibaum , picture carver families of the Hanoverian and Hildesheim Baroque , Strasbourg 1924, p. 313, Johannes Süßemann .
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 38.2 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 58" E