Margarethenkirche (Gehrden)
The Margarethenkirche is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in the Gehrden district of the city of Gehrden in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The church is named after Margaret of Antioch . Your parish belongs to the parish of Ronnenberg in the Hanover district of the regional church of Hanover .
The listed Margarethenkirche is the oldest preserved building in Gehrden. With several surrounding buildings, which are also listed, it is located in the middle of the old settlement core of the district.
history
According to an old inscription that was later whitewashed, the church in Gehrden was built in 1098 by the Minden bishop Volquin. However, there was no Minden bishop of this name at that time. The oldest written mention of the place Gehrden comes from the year 1233. The architectural style of the tower of the Margaret Church points to the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic in the first half of the 13th century.
The Margarethenkirche in Kirchstrasse 2 includes the adjoining old parsonage and the community center as well as the new parsonage in Alte Strasse. The parish also includes the Margarethenkindergarten in Großer Neddernholz and the chapels in Ditterke , Lemmie ( Lemmier Chapel ) and Redderse ( Redderse Chapel ).
description
The east-facing Margarethenkirche consists of a west tower as the oldest surviving component, the nave from the 15th century and a side aisle added in 1909 on the south side.
tower
The tower of St. Margaret's Church , built from blocks of santonium limestone , is 32.80 meters high. He was a small slit windows or loopholes -provided massive fortified tower . With its one meter thick walls on a 1.20 m high rubble stone base, it served to protect the population. Holes in the walls next to the door made it possible to block them with wooden beams.
The pointed arch portal on the west side contains two Romanesque columns with corner leaves. The tympanum, which is surrounded by Romanesque foliage, depicts Christ blessing with his right hand and holding a book in his left. The blessing Christ, without any other figures around him, is a relatively rare motif.
Grinding grooves that can be seen on the portal columns and corner blocks of the tower portal are said to have arisen when knives and similar devices were sharpened . The Legend of the grooves are the scratch marks of the devil , who had pursued a soul in vain so far.
The tower has a richly profiled base, its two lower floors have pilaster strips with pointed arch friezes . The original hipped roof of the tower was supplemented after 1467 by stepped gables on its west and east sides. In contrast to the original tower, stone of lower quality was used, which shows clear signs of weathering. The striking stepped gable in Gothic style has been in the city seal for over 500 years and is now in the coat of arms of the city of Gehrden.
There has been a pointed roof turret on the tower roof since 1677 . This had to be renewed in 1925/26.
In the tower, an almost 80 cm wide arched corridor with massive stairs in the northern wall leads to the tower vault. From there it went up wooden stairs to the bell floor. The bell storey has two coupled sound openings to the west and east .
Longhouse
When the town of Gehrden was burned down during a feud between the Guelph dukes and the Hanseatic League in 1467, the nave of the church was probably damaged. According to another representation, the church was destroyed except for the tower. It is unclear whether the nave dates from around 1400 or was rebuilt after 1467. It was built in the Gothic style from rubble stones under a gable roof. The interior had an area of 21.90 m × 8.76 m. It is covered with four cross vaults that rest on brackets or partially destroyed wall pillars. The room under one of the cross vaults serves as a choir . A chapel on the north side, built around 1400, now serves as a sacristy . It has a rectangular cross vault resting on consoles under its pent roof. The east side of the church includes a stone gable.
In 1909, a south aisle was added on the south side in the style of Conrad Wilhelm Hase as an extension similar to a transverse arm.
Churchyard
The churchyard around the church has not been used for burials since 1850. The churchyard, with some grave stones from the 16th and 17th centuries, is also a listed building. He is also the location of the of coral oolite sawn Lyra Bank .
Furnishing
altar
The carver Blome from Hanover is said to have made the large wooden crucifix of the church in 1655 , and he also made the pulpit , which was later moved from the south side of the choir above the altar. The altar of the Margaret Church was essentially made in 1721, the sober wooden altar wall with the pulpit in its center was added in 1821.
Baptismal font
In the church there is a Romanesque baptismal font from the 11th or 12th century. In the meantime, around 1900, it was in the cemetery of the Franzburg estate. A font decorated with angel heads from 1661 was no longer in use in the 19th century.
Bells
There are a total of five bells in the tower, two clock bells and three bells for ringing:
One of the oldest bells in Lower Saxony is the bell with the year 1355 with a diameter of 122 cm and the strike sound ges ,,. It got cracked twice, in 2000 it was repaired and hung up again in a wooden yoke .
The second bell, cast in 1586 by Johan Poeck from Petershagen , weighs 1300 kg, has a diameter of 127 cm and the striking sound is f ,,
The third or "small bell" of the Margarethenkirche burst in 1661 and was re-cast by the Hanoverian piece and bell caster Hans Meier. In 1707 this cast burst again. According to the inscription, it was re-cast in 1712 by Thomas Riedeweg in Hanover. The bell with a diameter of 70 cm had to be delivered in 1914 for war purposes. It was not until 1964 that a 700 kg bell with a diameter of 104 cm and a strike tone of as, cast by the Rincker Bell and Art Foundry, was procured from donations from the confirmands of the time .
In the turret on the gable roof there are two clock chimes that were made in 1925 by the Radler Bell Foundry and have the chimes g´´ and b´´.
Organs
The name of an organist of the Margarethenkirche has been handed down as early as 1656 .
Organ from 1703
On October 8, 1702, the church leaders commissioned a new organ from Hermann Willenbrock in Hanover. For the agreed price of 355 thalers , an instrument with two pianos and a pedal was to be delivered at Pentecost 1703.
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In 1749 the organ maker Joseph Menke rebuilt the organ in such a way that it should be heard more in the church and not essentially in the churchyard.
Organ from 1851
In 1851 the church leaders commissioned a new organ from the organ builder Eduard Meyer in Hanover. At the end of November this should deliver an instrument described as follows:
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Organ from 1909
In 1909 the Margarethenkirche received a new organ built by Furtwängler & Hammer in Hanover:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, upper octave I, upper octave II; Lower octave II, basic and lower octave II-I, basic and upper octave II-I
- Snap fasteners: piano
Organ from 1969
In 1969 a new organ built by the Hermann Eule company in Bautzen was placed in the aisle on the south side of the Margarethenkirche :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Organ from 2004
The new organ of the Margarethenkirche was built in 2004 by the organ builder Jörg Bente (Suthfeld-Helsinghausen). The instrument is located in the aisle and has 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
In addition to other cultural events in the Margarethenkirche, organ concerts are occasionally offered on the Bente organ in the Margarethenkirche.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): District of Hanover. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 201.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Gehrden . 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. 69-74 ( online [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on October 26, 2018]).
- ^ Ecclesia in Gerda aedificata est anno millesimo nonagesimo octavo a Volquino Episcopo Mindensi
- ↑ a b c d e f Gehrden, church, Lyrabank, war memorials in: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft zu Hannover (ed.): Der Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p. 361-363 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Margarethenkirche. Rainer Piesch (www.gehrdener-ansichten.de), accessed on September 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Gehrden . In: H. Wilh. H. Mithoff (ed.): Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . First volume: Fürstenthum Calenberg. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1871, p. 34–36 ( online [PDF; 15.1 MB ; accessed on March 11, 2017]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Gottfried Piper: The bells in Gehrden. (PDF; 56 MB) in: Gehrden and the music . 1994, pp. 5–6 , accessed February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Note: The source writes "through" Conrad Wilhelm Hase. This was already 11 years dead, in Hase's typical style, the "Hasik", also built by many of his students
- ↑ cf. the map in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): District of Hanover. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 107.
- ↑ a b c d e f Gottfried Piper: The organs in Gehrden. (PDF; 56 MB) in: Gehrden and the music . 1994, pp. 11-16 , accessed February 17, 2017 .
- ^ Disposition of the Bente organ (2004). (No longer available online.) Ev.-luth. Margarethengemeinde Gehrden, archived from the original ; accessed on January 20, 2016 .
- ^ Heidi Rabenhorst: A musically rich program in the church. www.haz.de , January 19, 2019, accessed on September 22, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 47.2 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 4" E