St. Bernward Church (Eddesse)

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South side of the St. Bernward Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Bernward Church is located in the Eddesse district in Edemissen . It is located in the middle of the village on Dollberger Strasse.

history

The church was built in 1838 in place of an older, dilapidated church in massive construction with field stones and consecrated in 1839. The plans come from the consistorial builder Friedrich August Ludwig Hellner . The tower to the west is considerably older, presumably from the 14th century. The church is one of the few Protestant churches that bear the name of Bernwards , the Bishop of Hildesheim. The origin of the patronage is unclear.

layout

The church building is a rectangular hall building with a flat east hipped roof, it is covered with bricks. The building is significantly wider than the tower. There are five window axes on the north and south sides. The outer window axes are two arched windows one above the other, the inner windows are two-story with central beams. The middle window on the south side is shortened and there is a door underneath. The quarry stone walls are plastered. On the north side, the plaster is smooth, on the south side, the side facing the street, the windows have a frame using plaster block technology.

Inside there is a circumferential gallery with eight wooden columns with Doric decor, the six lateral ones continue to the ceiling and carry the entablature of the trough-shaped ceiling above the nave, whose circumferential frieze is painted with a palmette- lotus ornament. The ceiling over the side galleries is flat. The east wall is designed as a pulpit altar, with a pulpit framed by two columns in the gallery parapet above the altar. The altar is framed by a shear wall with two side doors. A large painting by the painter Hans Nowak from Voigtholz has been located behind the pulpit since 1987 . It depicts scenes from the Sermon on the Mount. It replaced an older picture painted on plaster. Access to the gallery is in the tower and to the delimited east gallery behind the altar wall.

Tower with north side

When the church was rebuilt, an entrance on the west side with an arched window above was added to the tower. Otherwise there are only three sound openings under the eaves that were subsequently broken into the tower. The octagonal pyramid helmet is covered with shingles. The thickness of the walls is more than a meter at the base.

A clock face is attached to the south side of the roof of the tower. The first clock was installed around 1600, the current clock is from 1914.

organ

The organ on the west gallery was built in 1959 by the organ builder Friedrich Weissenborn. Four registers come from the previous organ from 1858, which was built by the organ builder Eduard Meyer from Hanover . The slider chest instrument has 14 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Reed flute 08th'
2. Principal 04 ′
3. Pointed flute 04 ′ (1858)
4th Octave 02 ′ (1858)
5. Mixture IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Oberwerk C – f 3
6th Dumped 08th'
7th Flute 04 ′
8th. Schwiegel 02 ′
9. Sif flute 01'
10. Terzian II
Pedal C – f 1
11. Sub bass 16 ′
12. Principal bass 08th'
13. octave 04 ′ (1858)
14th Rauschpfeife II (1858)

Bells

There are three chiming bells hanging in the tower and a striking bell on the outside of the tower spire on the southeast side. The oldest bell with the tone g 'was cast in 1514 by Harmen Koster from Hildesheim. In 1738 a new eyelet was inserted for the clapper. In 2017 the bell was repaired again and given a new crown. The two smaller chimes are from the 1960s. The striking bell was cast in 1511.

Previous buildings

The previous building probably came from the time the tower was built in the 14th century. The nave was about 12 meters long, 6 meters wide (and thus narrower than the church tower) and 4.5 meters high. The entrance was from the south side through a round arched portal. There was an annex in front of the door that also served as a morgue. The tower was accessed from the nave. The corners of the building were ashlar. The walls were made of rubble stones.

literature

  • The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Hildesheim administrative district. Peine district. Published by the Provinzialkonservator, Selbstverlag, Hannover 1939, pp. 30–33 on behalf of the Provincial Administration
  • Detlef Neuhaus: Anna tells. Stories from the Eddesser church tower. OO, undated (2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ
  2. ↑ The bells are back in Eddesse. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : St. Bernward Church (Eddesse)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 52.4 "  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 25.3"  E