Martin Luther Church (Sottrum)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed Martin Luther Church is located in Sottrum , a district of the municipality of Holle in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . The parish Sottrum merged with the parish Hackenstedt. The joint parish belongs to the parish of Hildesheim Country Alfeld in Sprengel Hildesheim-Göttingen of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
description
The rectangular hall church made of rubble and corner stones was built in the 11th or 12th century and expanded several times. There are buttresses at the corners of the eastern gable of the nave , which is covered with a gable roof . The transverse rectangular church tower covered with a gable roof was added later in the Gothic period .
During a redesign in the 18th century, the church received new windows and in 1749 a wooden, painted baptismal angel with a shell-shaped baptismal bowl. Remains of early Gothic wall paintings were uncovered on the south wall of the nave . The altar retable of the former pulpit altar , built in the workshop of Ernst Dietrich Bartels in 1745 , has a crucifix in the middle , flanked by statues of Peter and Paul between twisted columns , above is Jesus Christ , flanked by Moses and John the Baptist . On the side there are shear walls with passages.
A first organ , created in 1734, was repaired in 1830. The new building by August Schaper , which took place in 1878, had nine registers , divided into two manuals and pedal . This instrument was replaced in 1926 by one, the newly 1935 scheduled was. The last new building was made in 1974 by Albrecht Frerichs with seven registers, divided into a manual and the pedal. The organ of Schaper is received.
literature
- Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 1213.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 38.6 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 52.5 ″ E