Marienkirche Molzen
The Marienkirche in Molzen is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the parish of Uelzen .
architecture
The medieval church of Molzen
There are no pictures of the old Marienkirche in Molzen in front of the new building, but you can determine its appearance based on invoices for the components that have been repaired over the centuries. The reconstructed picture shows the Marienkirche as a single-aisled hall church. The free-standing tower had a fieldstone base with a rising half-timbered structure and was on the west side of the church. In the interior of the church, the pulpit was on a pillar between the apse and the nave. This medieval church became dilapidated over the centuries and repeatedly in need of repair. In 1620, building blocks had to be replaced as they had already fallen out of the masonry, and the load-bearing inner pillars also had to be bricked up. However, the most extensive repair, the entire restoration of the church on November 24, 1746, was carried out by the provost Johann Christoph Zimmermann, who visited this church beforehand and called it ailing. The building materials were delivered in June 1746. The church tower, however, had to be demolished in 1771, as it had suffered from the Seven Years' War ; it was rebuilt in 1772/73.
Rebuilt in 1852
When the pastor Christian Ludwig Prelle took office in the parish of Molzen in 1845, he arranged for the St. Mary's Church in Molzen to be demolished and rebuilt, because he no longer dared to hold the service in the ailing church. Cracks spread again in the brickwork of the church. Pastor Prelle was successful and was able to convince the church jury of the need for a new building. The Marienkirche was demolished in autumn with the decision of January 6, 1852, and the church council of the Royal Consistory gave its approval for the new building on July 6, 1852. The draft was Ludwig Hellner , an architect who earlier had the office of Konsistorialbaumeisters in Hanover commissioned. A year earlier, on August 26, 1851, he had already drawn up a building status report and submitted the construction plans, and in addition he made 58 work plans, templates and the contract conditions. These building plans by the architect Ludwig Hellner were approved by the consistory.
However, the community wanted changes to the present plan, they called for "the construction of a separate, polygonally closed, special choir space instead of the simple rectangular floor plan, a lateral pulpit position instead of the [designed,] straight [,] simple pulpit altar wall, as well as [...] a covering of the choir and nave with cross vaults instead of the planned mirror vault ”(p. 102, lines 13-21). In addition, the church building in Heller, as in Bromen and Bergen / Dumen, should also be a hall church without side aisles, so that side galleries can be built in for the parish. Opposite the altar above the west portal, the organ gallery, which is far forward, is to be attached. Architect Heller attended a meeting in the school building in Molzen on January 11, 1853, at which the church council and a large number of construction companies who had already submitted their cost estimates were also present. At this meeting construction contracts were given to a builder, a carpenter, a roofer and a master mason. Work on the new building of the church began in May 1853 with the laying of the foundation stone. The building materials were brought in by the villagers because they had the necessary carts and means of transport to move the field stones for the foundation and the lower, rising masonry of the church building.
The foundation was laid at the end of May so that the foundation stone ceremony could take place on May 20, 1853. According to tradition and custom, a message was placed in the foundation stone in which the names of the people who contributed to the new building were recorded. The names of the men who shaped public and political life over the years were also listed. The construction of the Marienkirche was completed in the following year and could be inaugurated on December 17th, 1854.
Baptism angel
The only surviving baroque baptismal angel in the Uelzen district hangs in the Marienkirche . Since 1961, it has been floating above the font in the church choir. It was donated in the 17th century by noble families who had their prieche or their pew in the church. When it was demolished in 1852, it was stored in the attic of the newly built church, where it was rediscovered in the late 1950s. The angel was restored by Christian Buhmann in Hanover. A year earlier he had already submitted a cost estimate of 580 DM. “One lord, one faith, one baptism” is written on the banner which the angel hands out to the person being baptized, this saying is the promise from the apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
Bells
The Maria bell was cast by Harmen Kloster from Hildesheim in 1510 and survived all wars and times of need. In 1952 it had to be repaired because it got a crack from the blow of a clapper that was too large. This was welded by the Lachenmeyer bell welding plant in Nördlingen, so that since 1954 it has been ringing for church services again.
There was another bell in the earlier centuries, which was mentioned as early as 1606, but when it had a crack, it was melted down by Johann Meyer from Celle and poured into a new shape. However, the bell was melted down again in 1927.
For the 100th anniversary of the church consecration, the Martha bell was inaugurated on May 9, 1954; it was cast in Sinn by the Rincker bell and art foundry . Its inscription reads: I call the living to repentance and the dead to rest. Glory to God alone! reminds of the church services, the blessings and blessings of the parishioners and of the war and distress of the past decades.
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Remarks
- ^ Egge Reimer: 750 years of molzen. Festschrift: Mallesen an der Wyperowe 1240 to 1990. C. Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1990, p. 29.
Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 31.4 ″ E