Lemmier Chapel

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The Lemmier Chapel

The Lemmier Chapel is the chapel of the Lemmie chapel community . The listed chapel belongs to the Margaret Church parish in Gehrden .

history

The chapel is a half-timbered building

The year of construction of the chapel is unknown, the oldest known documentary mention dates back to 1681, but there were visitations of a chapel in Lemmie as early as 1588. The church book shows that the leather bell suspension was repaired in 1596, so there must have been a bell back then.

The chapel is a half-timbered building. When it leaned to the west, a west wall made of rubble masonry was put in front. In the years 1881 and 1935 modernizations or renovations took place.

On October 18, 1943, the rear wall of the chapel was destroyed as a result of a bomb drop. There were considerations to demolish the chapel and replace it with a modern and larger one. It was then restored and modernized in 1953 with electric heating and lighting. After another renovation, the chapel was consecrated on December 17, 1966. The outer door was renewed in 1982.

There was a tower clock since 1840. When the building was renovated in 1935, it was built into the roof turret. The movement was replaced by a new one in 1937. The clock with two dials was notoriously imprecise at last. In 2003 it was replaced by a radio-controlled electronic clock, and new dials were also made. The old clockwork with the old dials is shown in the Gehrden City Museum .

Furnishing

There is a small altar in the front part of the chapel. The altarpiece was completed in Holtensen in 1468 by Dietrich Miersheber and came on loan to Lemmie when the Holtens Church was being renovated in 1887.

In the chapel there are five rows of benches, each with two benches, on which a maximum of five people can sit.

In the back of the chapel, to the left of the entrance, is the organ.

Bell jar

Roof turret with tower clock

The bell was cast by Ludolph Siegfried in Hanover in 1652 . Until 1964, it was rung by hand three times a day: at Mette, at noon and in the evening. The bell has been operated by an electrical system since 1964. The bell, which was repaired in 2003 in the Lachenmeyer bell welding plant in Nördlingen, rings at 12 noon and 6 p.m. as well as at church services and other occasions.

organ

Until 1973 there was a harmonium for musical accompaniment in the church service. It was donated by Lemmier citizens in 1934.

In 1973 an organ built by the Eule company in Bautzen with one manual and three registers was inaugurated.

Web links

Commons : Lemmier Chapel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Historical Association Lemmie eV: Lemmie Evangelical Chapel. City of Gehrden, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b History of the Chapel. Historischer Verein Lemmie eV, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b The chapel clock. Historischer Verein Lemmie eV, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Gottfried Piper: Gehrden and the music. (pdf; 56 MB) 1994, p. 6 , accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The bell. Historischer Verein Lemmie eV, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Hermann Fehlie: Excerpt from the history of the village Lemmie. Historischer Verein Lemmie eV, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gottfried Piper: Gehrden and the music. (pdf; 56 MB) 1994, p. 17 , accessed on February 17, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 25.9 ″  E