Liebfrauenkirche (Neustadt am Rübenberge)
The Evangelical Church of Our Lady is an early Gothic, repeatedly rebuilt brick church in Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the parish Liebfrauen-Johannes in Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Neustadt-Wunstorf parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
history
The Marian patronage of the church in Neustadt can only be documented from 1370; previously the church was consecrated to St. Peter. The current building was probably built as a parish church from the middle of the 13th century and was in the meantime an Augustinian monastery church from 1280 to 95 . According to an inscription next to the south portal, the church was extensively rebuilt in the years 1500–1502. After the city fire of 1727, the restoration was financed by King George II . After 1787, the church was restored several times, with the roof having a flatter slope and the church receiving a late Baroque interior. During a restoration in 1979/82, the outer masonry was repaired.
architecture
The church is a three-aisled pseudo - basilica with three bays with a choir with a five-eighth end and a mighty square west tower. From the basilica built in the middle of the 13th century in sandstone ashlar masonry and vaulted in the bound system , the basement of the tower, the wall substance of the two western central nave bays and the choir bay, which was later added in quarry stone, the western central nave bay and the two nave portals are still preserved. The basement of the tower was prepared for a vault and is completely open to the nave and has richly profiled window frames on the north side.
Like the large churches of the middle 13th century in the Weser-Leine area ( Klosterkirche Loccum , Kloster Barsinghausen and Hamelin Minster ), the building shows a combination of Westphalian and Saxon structures. Characteristic in this context is the design of the pair of pillars between the central nave bays, in which the wall template is accompanied by circular services . In the middle yoke, the intermediate pillars are octagonal, some of which are equipped with clumsy figurative capital decorations, which can also be found in the church of the Marienberg monastery in Helmstedt . The domed, almost burr-free formation of the western central nave vault and the weathered design of the walls of the two nave portals reveal Westphalian origins . In the case of the latter, a pair of columns is framed on both sides by circumferential tendrils interspersed with figurative elements, as is the case on the south portal of the Nikolaikirche in Obermarsberg . There are grooves on the south portal .
At the beginning of the 16th century, a reconstruction was carried out using old ashlar, from which the upper tower floor, the rib-vaulted aisles including the sacristy attached to the north, the choir polygon and the two vaulted areas to the west come. In addition, the originally round arched central nave arcades were raised and the upper aisle windows walled up so that all three naves can be closed off with a nave roof. The closure of the upper clad windows was partially reversed in 1834/35 and the church windows were given a tracery subdivision in 1873 . Around the middle of the 18th century, the western tower wall was reinforced and a round arched portal with a two-part rectangular window above was created. The gables of the tower walls probably date from the 18th century. Remains of frescoes from the middle of the 13th century are still preserved.
Furnishing
The rococo furnishings were created in 1787 by Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis from Hanover. The slightly curved former pulpit altar is framed by slender colossal columns and accompanied by side passages and graceful roofs over the choir seats. Instead of the pulpit, which has now been set up separately, a crucifixion painting in the New Objectivity style by Magnus Zeller was installed in 1928 . The artistically carved, baluster-shaped baptismal stand with the Lamb of God on the lid and the lectern also come from Ziesenis . Two chandeliers from the 17th century should also be mentioned.
In the basement of the tower there are six tombs from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century and a late Gothic tombstone preserved. Next to the south portal there are late medieval half-figure reliefs depicting Mary and Peter. A relief representation of the head of the Man of Sorrows is arranged above the portal vertex .
The ringing consists of three bells. The big bell rings in tone d 1 and was cast by Ludolf Siegfriedt (Hanover) in 1647 . The middle bell from 1677 is the work of Nikolaus Greve (Hanover) and sounds in f 1 . The small bell with the tone g 1 was added in 1982 by the Karlsruhe bell and art foundry. There are also two old bell bells hanging on the spire, which probably date from the 13th century and sound in tones d 2 and e 2 .
organ
The organ is a work of the Emil Hammer Orgelbau company from 1965 with 34 stops on three manuals and a pedal , which was restored in 2011 by the Jörg Bente Orgelbau company .
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P
- Free combinations I and II
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen - Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 976–977.
- Eberhard Doll: Church of Our Lady in Neustadt a. Rbge. The clergy before the Reformation and the ev.-luth. Pastors until 1679. A personal history study. Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 2003. ISBN 3-89946-011-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Liebfrauenkirche on the city's website. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of Jörg Bente Orgelbau. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 15.3 " N , 9 ° 27 ′ 42.2" E