Easter chapel (Linderte)

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The Easter chapel, which was later unnamed in 2008

The Easter chapel , until 2009 the Linderte chapel , is a listed church building in Linderte, a district of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It got its new name from a modern stained glass window depicting the resurrection of Christ.

With the neighboring old school , which is also listed , the chapel forms a group of structures in the center of the village.

It is the chapel of the Evangelical Lutheran Easter Chapel Congregation. This belongs to the community of Reconciliation Church in Weetzen in the Hanover district of the regional church of Hanover .

history

The Easter chapel and the school house

The age of the chapel is unclear. The origins go back to the founding of the mother church in Ronnenberg. The original construction as a fortified chapel and the central location of the chapel property presumably give an estimate. There was a court in Linderte as early as 1031 . As was customary in the Middle Ages , the chapel is likely to have been built on the site of an earlier thing . The building was probably built as the house chapel of a noble family resident in Linderte . The chapel was provided with foundation funds for its maintenance. Some parts of the chapel that have been preserved are over 700 years old.

At the time of the introduction of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg around 1543, there was a chapel in Linderte which was attached to the Michaeliskirche in Ronnenberg. In the visitation protocols from this time after the Reformation only the duties of the chapel were noted, in later years it was no longer mentioned. Services were rarely held in the chapel . However, it served the residents of Linderte for defense and as a shelter and was therefore preserved.

There had been a school in Linderte since around the year 1700 . The teacher's duties included bringing up the children in the church and holding prayer hours in the chapel, which was then used again. In 1825 a new joint schoolhouse for Linderte and the neighboring village of Vörie was built on the property east of the chapel . The school community existed until 1958. When the school teacher Reader lost all of his belongings in the fire in 1824, a collection was approved for him.

In 1830 the roof of the chapel had to be repaired. The damage turned out to be greater, the repair costs of which almost doubled the approved 49 Taler and 22 Groschen. This led to a lengthy exchange of letters between the village community and the church authorities.

When state and church were separated after the First World War , the schoolhouse came into public ownership in exchange for financial compensation. After the inflation and the Second World War, the community was left with the chapel and the adjacent property of the old Vörier cemetery.

The chapel parish belonged to the church in Ronnenberg for centuries. Since 1963 it has belonged to the Weetzen parish, which was founded at the time .

Number 1980 attached to the southwest corner

Around 1914 and again from 1978 onwards, the Linderte chapel was extensively renovated. The year "1980" adorns a lamp mounted afterwards.

On Easter Monday of 2009, the name Osterkapelle , which was unofficially in use due to its decoration, was given to the chapel, which had not been named until then , as a contribution to establishing the identity of the chapel .

description

The north side of the chapel
The west portal built in 1915

The small chapel made of Wealden sandstone stands on the highest point of the village.

The simple, rectangular chapel is built from rubble stones with corner blocks. It has an external length of 10.5 m and a width of 6.9 m. Only on the west side does the building have a base with a large bevel . During the renovation in 1978, community members removed the plaster from the previously plastered outer walls. The sandstones behind it were re-grouted and remained exposed.

The entrance with a pointed, flat porch on the west side was built during the fundamental renovation of the chapel in 1914 and 1915. The pointed arched entrance on the north side, which had been used until then, was walled up. High up on the north facade there is one, at the end of the 19th century two small, rectangular windows, probably from the original construction of the building. The tiny openings could once have served as loopholes.

At the end of the 19th century, a window on the east gable still had remains of earlier tracery and fillet profiles. The three larger rectangular windows on the south side were probably added later.

The east gable of the chapel is massive, the west gable is hipped. The hipped roof is covered with tiles . On the western ridge of the roof it carries a small, rectangular roof turret .

In the chapel there were simple wooden galleries on the north and west sides. The wooden beam ceiling was covered with boards.

Furnishing

altar

An old altar from around 1900 was demolished during the renovation in 1978 and replaced by a new, brick-built altar. An artfully embroidered antependium at the Hanover School of Applied Arts around 1900 is only hung on festive days. On the altar are two bronze candlesticks donated by an old-established family in 1936 . The candlestick above the lectern is a replica of a candlestick from the castle church in Hanover .

A large stained glass window is installed above the altar . The window from the workshop of the glass painter Werner Brenneisen , probably installed around 1960, shows the Easter story . Due to its position in the line of sight above the altar, it dominates the first impression of the chapel.

ship

During the renovation in 1914, the entire nave was painted. During the renovation in 1978, some areas were covered with wood. In this way, parts of the painting damaged by crumbling plaster were covered. The damage has been examined and secured, but no renovation has been carried out so far for cost reasons. In 1899, two were in the chapel chandelier made of brass listed as historic monuments.

In 1978 the pews, apart from the last bench and those on the gallery, were replaced by chairs.

organ

There was an old harmonium in the chapel until 1978 . It was expanded and replaced by an electronic instrument whose sound and reliability were not convincing.

A true-to-original replica of a Bavarian baroque organ, created by the organ builder Erwin Massow, has been installed in the chapel since 2002 .

Bell jar

In the roof turret hangs a bell cast in 1758 by Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann in Hanover . It has a diameter of 47 cm. The bell bears the inscription on the neck

"Praise him with his cymbals - Christofer Henges
Praise him with melodious cymbals - Jobt Heinr. Kings Everyone cares about
God's blessing. "

The bell ring says:

"Joh. Heinr. Christian. Weidemann. Goss. Me. In Hannover. 1758 "

graveyard

The area of ​​the old cemetery became a children's playground

For a long time, the people of Lindert pulled their hearse via Roloven and Gut Bettensen to the Michaeliskirche in Ronnenberg. When the noble seat of Bettensen levied "blocking money" in the 18th century, there was a dispute that lasted for years. In 1751, the Linderter finally received approval from the consistory to bury their dead in the chapel cemetery in Linderte. The municipality of Vörie received the same permit in the western part of the cemetery, while the municipality of Linderte received the eastern part. The site of the old cemetery northwest of the chapel is now used as a children's playground . The new cemetery on Lüderser Strasse was built in the second half of the 19th century. On the 0.4 hectare than green area listed grounds there were in 2019 more than 600 grave sites. The Linderte cemetery, administered by the city of Ronnenberg, has its own cemetery chapel for funeral services .

Church services

For centuries there were no or only a few services per year in the chapel. In the 18th century there were only services on the first holidays of the major church festivals. In the 19th century there were also church services on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve . After 1945 there were initially weekly Sunday services, for which, according to tradition, there were not enough seats in the chapel. Later, a Sunday service was only held every two weeks and since 2000 only once a month in Linderte. Since then there have also been children's services .

See also

literature

  • Sascha Aust, Thomas Langreder: Churches, monasteries, chapels in the Hanover region . Ed .: Region Hannover and Evangelical Lutheran Sprengel Hannover. 1st edition. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hanover 2005, ISBN 978-3-7859-0924-9 .
  • Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City , Ronnenberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 .

Web links

Commons : Chapel Linderte  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edda Bode-Haeske: Linderte, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 342 .
  2. ↑ 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. 246, as well as p. 133 (map) and p. 308 ( Index)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Easter chapel. Easter Chapel Congregation Linderte, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Michael Hemme: The chapel is given a name. www.haz.de, April 11, 2009, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Architectural monuments in: Brigitta Graichen-Meißner: Village renewal Linderte - explanatory report -. (PDF; 2.28 MB) Hanover District Settlement Society, February 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ Jens Schade: Cultural monuments in Ronnenberg: The fortified chapel of Linderte. www.myheimat.de, March 11, 2013, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Karl Kayser (ed.): The Reformation church visits in the Guelph lands 1542-1544 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1897, p.  416–417 ( online [PDF; 25.9 MB ; accessed on October 3, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Twele: Brennpunkt Kirchberg, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 63 .
  9. ↑ Kerstin Siegmund: Old school building auctioned off in the second attempt. www.haz.de , September 26, 2014, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Peter Simon: The hard life in the farming villages and the dawn of a new era, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 86 .
  11. ↑ Peter Simon: The hard life in the farming villages and the dawn of a new era, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 85 .
  12. ↑ a b Relieved. History in: Natural History Society of Hanover (Hrsg.): The Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p.  451 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Relieved . 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.  35–36 ( online [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on October 26, 2018]).
  14. ^ Herbert Voges: Unruly donors and strict pastors, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 263 f .
  15. ^ Settlement development in: Brigitta Graichen-Meißner: Village renewal Linderte - explanatory report -. (PDF; 2.28 MB) Hanover District Settlement Society, February 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b Linderte cemetery (Ronnenberg). www.hannover-bestattung.de, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ cemetery affairs . City of Ronnenberg, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Church services. Easter Chapel Congregation Linderte, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 28.7 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 37.8"  E