Martinus Church (German Evern)

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The Martinus Church in a hall house

The Martinus Church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Deutsch Evern in the Lüneburg district is located in a low German hall house . It is named after St. Martin of Tours and the reformer Martin Luther .

history

The oldest preserved two-column house "House No. 1" in the Lüneburg district was built in 1665 by the couple Hans Heitman and Anna Meyer. The former listed building was used as the Heitmann's farmhouse and inn until the beginning of the 20th century and then sold to the Burmester family. It was used as a residential building for another 60 years and then fell into disrepair. Because in the 1980s, the chapel of the church had become too small, the municipality bought the house in 1987 and gave it to 250 meters from the village road to the Stallion Mountain. The farmhouse was restored, the original rooms were preserved. The congregation sits in the hallway , the oak altar stands at the place where the fireplace was located at that time, and behind the sanctuary is the former living room and the bedchamber of the elderly divider . The church was consecrated on Thanksgiving in 1989.

There is a house inscription above the entrance with the text:

WHO TRUSTED GOT ​​HAS BUILT WOL IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH WHO LOSES YOURSELF ON IESUM CHRIST TO BECOME HEAVEN'S MUSIC

Furnishing

The design of the sanctuary with biblical symbols made of wood was the last work of the artist and church interior designer Friedrich Press . The four evangelists are symbolized by man, lion, bull and eagle. An oak trunk is said to commemorate the risen Jesus Christ . On one wall, Moses is indicated with the two tablets of the ten commandments . Candles standing on pillars symbolize fire and air and should refer to the spirit of God . The oldest piece in the church is a baroque font from 1686.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maike Wosnitza, Luise Knoop: St. Martius in German Evern. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ List of architectural monuments according to § 3 NDSchG as of 2014
  3. ^ Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG). District of Lüneburg. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 22.2, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1981, ISBN 3-528-06201-0 , p. 10.
  4. ↑ Grünhagen, Garnet: Traces of the change in our landscape - the cultural landscape cadastre of the joint community of Ilmenau . Lueneburg 2010.
  5. ↑ Representation of the parish. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Gerd Weiß: Lüneburg district. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 22.2, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1981, ISBN 3-528-06201-0 , p. 79.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 10 ° 26 ′ 29.7 ″  E