Nikolai Church (Hiddestorf)
The Nikolai Church is a church in Hiddestorf , a district of Hemmingen in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The church is considered to be the oldest preserved building in the city of Hemmingen.
The Grade II listed building is the house of God and for the neighboring district Ohlendorf competent parish Hiddestorf / Ohlendorf in the church district Laatzen - Jump in the Sprengel Hannover the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Hanover .
history
The donation of an allod in Hiddestorf to the cathedral church in Verden by Bishop Bruno von Verden († 1049) suggested his participation in the establishment of the parish and the local church.
The church is dated to the middle of the 12th century. Depending on the source, the apse or the lower part of the tower are named as the oldest part of the building.
The oldest mention of a pastor in Hiddestorf comes from the year 1490. The church belonged to the archdeaconate Pattensen .
After the Reformation was introduced in the Principality of Calenberg around 1542 , its sovereign Erich II had the right to collate the parish in Hiddestorf.
Conversions
In 1722 the church was "completely repaired inside and out".
The church tower was significantly rebuilt in 1891. In 1897 an additional, larger bell was hung in it.
As a state-sponsored job creation measure in the early days of the Third Reich , the church was extensively renovated in 1934. The galleries on the north and south sides of the nave and in the choir were removed. The simple altar from 1722 and the pulpit above it shielded the apse until 1934. This had an outer door and thus served as a sacristy . As donations from the community, the church received two cone-shaped candlesticks, a cross, an altar Bible and altar hangings , two carpets and the motif glass window behind the altar.
In 1974 another renovation took place. Only since then have there been chairs instead of benches in the church. According to the inscription, some of the benches in the style of the late Renaissance were from 1639. A new pulpit was built in 1974 using two old carved bench side panels . The old tendril painting in the tower, which has been visible again at least since the renovation in 1934 , has been restored.
In 2019 the church got a new heating system and its walls got a new interior painting.
Patronage
The patronage had probably been forgotten since the Reformation. The name Nikolai Church was not used until the second half of the 20th century. The art monuments inventories by Wilhelm Mithoff and Carl Wolff simply describe the church in Hiddestorf. In the oldest book in the parish archive , the church regulations of Duke Julius from 1569, there is a handwritten entry "This belongs to the churches of S. Nicolai in Hiddestorff vnd Ohlendorff".
description
The Hiddestorfer Church is a simple Romanesque village church. It is a quarry stone building with a nave and two corners . The ship with its four-foot thick quarry stone walls is spanned by two bays with ribless cross vaults. A semicircular triumphal arch forms the connection to the choir .
The square choir and the recessed semicircular apse are built in the Romanesque style of ashlar masonry on a base profiled with a simple slope. The apse has a main cornice consisting of a bevel and a plate . It is covered with a half dome. The choir is covered with a round arched ribless cross vault. In order to gain space in 1878 three of the four pillars supporting the vault were knocked down like warriors .
The lower part of the tower attached to the church at an oblique angle dates from the Romanesque period. The church tower could have been a defensive tower because of its 6 feet thick foundation walls . Its bell storey was changed in 1891. At that time, the stepped gables on the west and east sides and the already partially walled up sound openings with two Romanesque dividing columns and round arches each were removed. Instead, the tower was provided with its slate-roofed , octagonal pointed hood on a square base and an ogival sound opening on each side. The tower hall, which is covered by a cross vault, is connected to the nave by a low semicircular arched passage with a mantelpiece.
There are up to 135 seats in the church for church services.
Crypt
The crypt of the Hiddestorfer church is no longer recognizable. According to the entry in the church register, several members of the branch of the von Lathusen family, which was then located on the no longer existing property south of the church , as well as some pastors of the church, were buried in it.
Churchyard
The churchyard around the Nikolai Church served as a cemetery until the 19th century . In 1883, a Luther linden tree was planted on the site . The rest of the trees also date from this time. In the churchyard there are still some gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries. Among them is Pastor Heimann, who was the first to be buried in the churchyard in 1761, not in the crypt. His tombstone was moved in 2005 from the north of the church to the south-western outer wall.
In 1740 the rectory that still exists today was built next to the church. In 2013, the community center, which was inaugurated in 1972 and located southeast of the church, was renovated and rebuilt. In the winter months, some services were held in his room with about 40 seats instead of in the church in order to save heating costs.
Furnishing
The bronze candlesticks donated by Lucia Elisabeth von Mahrenholtz in 1630 date from the time after Hiddestorf was sacked by Tilly's troops in November 1625. They once served as altar candlesticks. Since the renovation in 1934, they have stood on round wrought-iron wall brackets on the front outer pillars of the nave.
Baptismal font
The hexagonal baptismal font with a diameter of 50 cm, hewn from sandstone, probably dates from 1650. At that time, the church was selling an old bronze baptism. Other texts, however, mention the years 1639, 1651 or 1692. The baptismal font was now used as a water container in the sexton's garden, as space was needed in the choir, the stone had no artistic value, according to experts, and its inscriptions could hardly be read. There has been a bronze baptismal bowl in the church since 1874 .
During the major renovation in 1934, the font was put back in the church. In 1974 it was revised again. He bears the inscription
JESUS SAYS MATTH ON XXVII GO INTO ALL THE WORLD ...
Altar window
The window behind the altar shows the motif of the birth of Christ . It was probably made by Friedrich Fischer in 1934 . When the church was renovated in 1974, the top and bottom windows were enlarged.
organ
The organ on the gallery was designed by Franz Rietzsch and built by Emil Hammer Orgelbau from Arnum . It was inaugurated in December 1978. It has two manuals and a pedal with 14 stops and a cymbal star . The instrument has, among other things, a mirror prospect and chased pipes . The pipes are up to eight feet long. With its curves and gilding, the case is based on historical styles.
To avoid damaging the organ, the temperature in the church must not drop below 6 ° C.
Bells
Before the First World War , the church in Hiddestorf had two bronze bells with a diameter of 95 cm and 78 cm, which were cast by Christoph August Becker in Hildesheim in 1815 . A third and largest bell was given to the church by Friedrich Ihssen from Ohlendorf in 1897.
The two church bells, cast in 1815, had to be delivered in 1917 for armament purposes . In 1926 two new bells were procured to replace them. For armaments production in World War II , the two larger of the three bells had to be delivered in 1942 . The smaller of the two cast in 1926 stayed in Hiddestorf. It bears the inscription
Come, let us worship and prostrate ourselves before the Lord. I call the living to church and accompany the dead to their graves
The larger of the two bells cast in 1815, delivered during the First World War, bore the same inscription.
For Thanksgiving in 1958, two newly cast bells were procured for the bell that had been preserved and had a striking h '. The larger one has the strike note e ', the smaller one the strike note g'.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Nikolai Church in Hiddestorf. www.hiddestorf-info.de, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): Landkreis Hannover. (= 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. 216.
- ↑ a b Heddestorf (Hiddestorf near Pattensen) in: Karl Kayser (Hrsg.): The Reformation church visits in the Guelph lands 1542-1544 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1897, p. 440–441 ( online [PDF; 25.9 MB ; accessed on October 3, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Horst Findeisen: A journey through the Nikolai Church in Hiddestorf. www.kirchenkreis-laatzen-springe.de, January 2009, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e Hiddestorf . In: H. Wilh. H. Mithoff (ed.): Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover . First volume: Fürstenthum Calenberg. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1871, p. 101 ( online [PDF; 15.1 MB ; accessed on March 11, 2017]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hiddestorf . 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. 24–28 ( online [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on October 26, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c The little chronicle of Hiddestorf. www.hiddestorf-info.de, accessed on October 30, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d The bells of the Nikolai Church. www.hiddestorf-info.de, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Tobias Lehmann: Last winter church in Hiddestorf? www.sn-online.de , March 4, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Andreas Zimmer: Third Winter Church - then the test run ends. www.haz.de , January 12, 2017, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Daniel Junker: Organ builders explain the instrument in the Nikolaikirche. www.neuepresse.de , September 14, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 44 ″ E