Marienkirche (Sandesneben)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary in Sandesneben is located on a hill in the center of the village at the end of the northern foothills of the Billetal .
Building the church
The parish of Sandesneben was created in 1278 as a separation of the villages of Sandesneben , Lüchow , Labenz , Klinkrade , Steinhorst , Franzdorf , Schiphorst , Schönberg , Linau and Wentorf from the parish of Nusse, which had existed since 1158 . The villages belonging to the new parish were owned by the noble families Scharpenberg , Zülen and Ritzerow.
The church itself was built in the years 1278 to 1314 between the two round villages that made up the village called Zanzegnewe , first mentioned in 1230, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary . Church and altar were consecrated on June 24, 1314, St. John's Day , by Ratzeburg Bishop Markward von Jesowe . This is evidenced by a document from the same year, which was walled in in the altar and was found in 1636. Today there is only one copy of this document.
The church stands in the village raised by a good twelve meters on a small, steep hill, which is often viewed as a former castle hill . The nave originally consisted of three stone vaults, which collapsed in 1640 and were replaced by a wooden ceiling, which can still be seen in the area of the chancel today. Remains of the vaults can be found in the chancel and in the nave. The porch at the entrance was added during a renovation from 1963 to 1965.
The former lattice tower burned down on October 12, 1877. This tower, like today's 48 m high, neo-Gothic successor, built from 1906 to 1907 , did not stand to the west of the church, but to the east of the north side of the nave. A horse's head carved in sandstone can be found on the new tower as the Lauenburg coat of arms , as the tower was heavily supported by the district.
In the course of history, the interior of the church has been rebuilt a few times. For the remodeling in 1700, Magnus von Wedderkop donated a pulpit, an altar and an Arp Schnitger organ to the church. This interior design was changed again in 1780. In 1874, under the influence of historicism, the Prussian architect Carl August Lohmeyer redesigned the building, which was already close to its current state. There was the three-aisle division as well as the wooden bundle pillars and the idiosyncratic Tudor arches below and above the galleries . At the beginning of the 1960s, the interior of the church was changed again to suit contemporary tastes: the floor was paved, a new, simpler stone altar was built, the pulpit was changed, the galleries were removed from the chancel and the large glass windows in the chancel were modernized. The last redesign of the interior took place in 1992: the church received a new pulpit, the lighting was replaced and the galleries that had been removed a few decades earlier were partially restored. In 1999 the structure of the entire west gable proved to be dilapidated, so that both masonry and wooden structures had to be extensively renovated and largely replaced.
Furnishing
The oldest piece of equipment is a font from the 14th century. It was found broken in two during the renovation in 1956 in the foundations of the galleries. The font was made of limestone , which probably comes from Gotland . The baptismal font itself is still missing today. The remarkable and in this form rare decorations in the lower part are the subject of extensive attempts at interpretation. There are animal and human figures that can be interpreted as hunting scenes and representations of the flora and fauna at the time of origin, but for which a Christian iconographic reference has also been constructed. The baptismal font is said to be a foundation of Lübeck councilor Aemilius Luchow .
The church still has an offering box with iron band fittings, the age of which is not precisely known. The most valuable piece of equipment, an early Gothic communion chalice from the early 14th century, is in the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck .
On the wall opposite the pulpit is a small wooden angel's head , which comes from the ducal grave monument in Lauenburg's Maria Magdalenen Church , built in 1598 and demolished in 1817 . The statue of the Virgin Mary in the altar niche was created in 1978 by the sculptor Joseph Pagenkemper from Langenberg . On the side walls hang two large paintings that were originally intended as altarpieces , one shows the risen Christ , the other Christ in Gethsemane .
In the interior of the church there are still four tombstones that were found during the renovation in 1956. One of them was for Christoph Sierow (1700-1757), the bailiff of the Office Steinhorst made.
Bells
A total of four bells hang in the tower . One of these is older, three bells replaced the bells that were melted down during World War II in 1951 . The three bells from 1951 were designed as "commemorative bells" for the events of the war and bear the inscriptions:
- "The missing: no one will tear them out of my hand" ( John 10:28 ESV )
- "To the fallen: behold, we praise those who have endured blessed" ( Jak 5,11 NIV )
- "The displaced: We have no permanent place here" ( Heb 13:14 LUT )
organ
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In 1701/1702 Arp Schnitger built an organ that was set up by his foreman Hans Hantelmann . The instrument had 15 registers , which were distributed over two manuals and pedal . In 1780 Georg Christoph Seyferth rebuilt the organ.
Today's organ was manufactured in 1876 by Philipp Furtwängler & Sons with originally 20 stops on two manuals and one pedal after the Schitger organ had become unplayable after several fires and water damage. It is Furtwängler's only surviving work in Schleswig-Holstein; 14 original registers are preserved. In the course of the church renovation, a restoration by the organ builder G. Christian Lobback followed in 1991/1992 and an extension to include salicional and oboe in the breastwork to 22 registers. After storm damage in 1999, Lobback removed and re-installed the organ in 2002. The five-part neo-Gothic prospectus has a flat panel projecting like a risalit in the middle , which is structured by pilasters and crowned by quatrains and a gilded cross. Two flanking flat fields have a frieze at the top with the Bible verse “Praise the Lord with psalters a. Harps "( Ps 150,3 LUT ). They lead over to the raised polygonal outer towers, which are decorated by four-passports. The pipe fields end at the top with nuns' heads . A profiled cornice with points is placed on the housing. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
- F = Furtwängler (1876)
Pastorate
The old pastorate was built in 1691 in half-timbered construction and is the oldest house in the village of Sandesneben. It has not been changed much to this day and also serves as a community center.
Personalities
One of their pastors was the poet Michael Christoph Brandenburg , who served here from 1755 until his death in 1766.
The longstanding pastors Carl Catenhusen (term of office from 1850 to 1893) and Arno Mau (term of office from 1929 to 1953) had a particular influence on the development of the congregation. During Catenhusen's term of office, the cemetery was moved from the immediate vicinity of the church to its own property on the outskirts, while the current cemetery chapel was built during the period of Maus.
In 2016 the church was mentioned in the media because for the first time in the history of the church in northern Germany a gay pastor couple shared the pastor's position.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 47.3 ″ E
View from the east with a war memorial
Renovated west gable
Main room, view of the organ
View from the gallery into the chancel
Angel head
literature
- Hermann Augustin (Hrsg.): Country, hear the Lord's word: Ev.-luth. Church and churches in the Duchy of Lauenburg . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1984, ISBN 3-7950-0700-3 , p. 247-252 .
- Manfred Markwardt, Marita Bauer, Christian Lopau: Church leaders for the St. Marien Church in Sandesneben . Ed .: Parish Sandesneben. Self-published, Sandesneben 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of the place on the homepage of the municipality Sandesneben. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ↑ Pictures of the old tower and the church without a tower on a private website about the history of the neighboring town of Kastorf . Retrieved July 11, 2018.
- ↑ Ulrike Schwalm: Sandesneben: Two women save St. Marien . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 28, 2002 ( Sandesneben: Two women save St. Mary [accessed July 11, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d Tour through the church , flyer with excerpts from the Chronicle of Sandesneben .
- ^ Photo of the Communion Cup on the congregation's website. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
- ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 162 .
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of June 29, 2001: Music for the organ anniversary , accessed on July 11, 2018.
- ^ Report of the epd on evangelisch.de from January 6, 2016. Accessed on July 11, 2018.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- History of the churches in the parish of Sandesneben
- Overview of the history of the organ