St. George's Church (Calvörde)

Evangelical St. George Church

The St. George's Church in spots Calvörde is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick . It is the main church of the Parish Association Calvörde-Uthmöden.

history

First church

The first parish church was founded in 1110 by Count Dietrich von Hillersleben . It is known that it was consecrated to Saint Georgi and built as a Romanesque building. In 1492 she fell victim to a fire.

Second church

Then a half-timbered building was erected, which was demolished in 1609 due to dilapidation. A winged altar from this church has been preserved, which was sold on August 15, 1613 and is now in the church in Dannefeld .

Merian engraving around 1654 with the third church

Third Church

A new church was built between March 1613 and May 1614, and the building invoice is still available today. At that time, Duke Joachim Karl stayed at Calvörde Castle for 7 years and donated a masonry altar, a sermon chair, a bronze baptismal font and the organ. The church tower with 5 bells (construction started in 1646) was completed in 1650. He is visible on the Merian engraving from 1652. On October 6th, 1700 a fire destroyed the church. Only the altar candlesticks from 1615 were saved.

Today's church

Ceiling work 2011

The funds for the construction of today's St. George's Church were raised through savings of the citizens and through the sale of the Philippsche Gut belonging to the church to the head captain of Lautitz. Duke Anton Ulrich also donated 50 thalers for the new church. The church was 80 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 22 feet high. This church was covered with a broken roof with 13 mansard windows , it has 2 galleries. The perimeter wall is 3 feet thick and supported from the outside by 12 pillars. Today's sacristy is located on the stairs to the pulpit. To the right of the sacristy was a room in which the von Lautitz family coffins stood, but it was walled up in 1777. There are still coffins under the sacristy.

The altar is made of wood, on it stand the brass altar candlesticks that were saved from the fire of 1700. The old bells were cast into new bells in Isernhagen (in the Calvörder Feldmark). In 1702 a tower clock was purchased. It was not until 1729 that a tower of 6 feet thick masonry was erected, the height of which was 68 feet. In 1742 a new organ was installed.

In 1861 the interior of the church was completely redesigned, the structure was equipped with a simple gable roof and a flat ceiling inside.

In 1887/88 the new 52 meter high church tower was built; it got new bells and the church got a new interior painting. During the First World War , the two big bells had to be delivered in 1917, only one bell remained. In 1922, the two delivered bells were replaced (1st bell 2,407 kg, 2nd bell 1,084 kg). The cement font was a gift from the Vibrants family, who provided the mayor of Calvord for over 200 years. In 1909 the church was electrified and the old gas lighting system from 1882 could be removed. Most of the interior was renovated in 1985, followed by extensive ceiling work both inside and outside in 2011.

There is a sundial on the south side of the church.

Furnishing

A three-sided pulpit from the beginning of the 17th century (1609) comes from Duke Joachim Karl . Without a canopy over the high altar, at the corners Corinthian columns with heads and fruits in the Renaissance style on the base, but standing on baroque consoles. The princely chair and the organ are donated by the Dowager Duchess Anna Sophie von Brandenburg (1659). The organ is made with baroque leaf panels in the corners and a similar hanging structure on the sides from 1742. The instrument has been expanded and rebuilt a few times; last happened in 1858 under the organ builder August Troch from Neuhaldensleben and in 1903 by Hugo Hide. The accessible prieche has a baroque railing. On the long sides there are two-storey wooden preachers, which are lit up through skylights. Two glass paintings with the twelve-field Braunschweiger coat of arms held by lions and provided with five helmets , according to the inscription a gift from the Dukes Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich from 1703.

Tombstones

The epitaphs , inscriptions and figure tombstones in the anteroom date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the inscription: Spes unica Christus anno 1583 the 23rd of November the honorable Hans Block passed away blissfully in Got. Anno 1602 on September 5th, Hinrich Block oberurts Hanses son described and decreed his last will with his own hand, the house and farm should be sold, some of which should be properly made and the other should be turned to the church. Which will happen then.
The magistrate of Calvörde since 1571 Georg v. Halle, died August 18, 1592.
The deceased is shown in the bust, next to it a crucifix with the coat of arms in the corner (from Halle, 2 diagonally upright branches with grapes, roughened crossbeams, lions striding over them, lily).
Des Christop profit, b. 1636, d. 1656, bas-relief of the deceased in full figure.
The bailiff of Calvörde, Bahrdorf and Neuhaus Friedrich Jakob von Lautitz, b. 1657, d. 1719, inscription panel framed by pillars and cornice, crowned with a coat of arms.
The preacher Eberhard Johann Leidig, b. 1709, d. 1789.

Epitaph by Eberhard Johann Leidig
Epitaph in the church
Epitaph by Friedrich Jacob von Lautitz
Epitaph of Georg von Halle
Epitaph from Christop Profit
Three-sided pulpit from 1609
South window
Stained glass from 1703
Carving - Martin Luther
Font from 1609
Old clockwork from 1787
Epitaph of Hans Block and the sundial

Pastor since the Reformation

Johann Fabricius or Schmidt 1529–1565
Johann Grolle 1566–1573
Jacob Busse 1574–1584
Heinrich Schwieger 1584–1615
Johann Geislinger 1615–1627
Johann Stöxem 1627–1641
Mag. Johann Georg Pein 1641–1658
Johann Büchner 1658–1668
Caspar Ballhaus 1669–1688
Julius Christoph Tieschen 1688–1708
Johann Christoph Homann 1709–1751
Ebergard Johann Leiding 1747–1786
Johann Heinrich Helmuth 1786–1813
Friedrich Röver 1814-1836
Johann Heinrich Traugott Kaiser 1837–1848
Heinrich Kramer 1848–1855
Heinrich Appel 1855–1878
Paul Wolf 1878–1881
Adalbert Bach 1881–1895
Leopold Herbst 1895–1914
Otto Gropp 1914-1932
Gustav Giehl 1932–1934
Waldemar Hille 1934-1946
Gottfried Beckmann 1946–1975
Andreas Knauf 1975–2011
Jürgen Dittrich from 2014

Parish Association Calvörde-Uthmöden

This is a parish association which was founded on January 1st, 2011 and is therefore a new parish in Saxony-Anhalt . The new parish association was created by amalgamating the two parishes of Calvörde and Uthmöden, which belong to the Braunschweigische Landeskirche. The new parish association now includes 10 locations:

Flecken Calvörde with St. George's Church as the parish church
Elsebeck with the village church Elsebeck
Jeseritz with the Jeseritz village church
Uthmöden with the village church Uthmöden
Parleib with the village church Parleib
Zobbenitz with the local church St. Anna Church
Berenbrock , Lössewitz , Velsdorf and Dorst without a local church

Parish of Calvörde

The parish of Calvörde was a parish in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt that existed until December 31, 2010 . After German reunification (1990) on January 1, 1992, the congregation was reintegrated into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig and is assigned to the Vorsfelde provost.

7 places belonged to the parish of Calvörde:

Flecken Calvörde with St. George's Church as parish church (main church)
Elsebeck with the village church Elsebeck
Jeseritz with the village church Jeseritz,
Parleib with the village church Parleib, as well
Berenbrock, Lössewitz and Velsdorf without local church

literature

Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde, a chronicle until 1991, the parish church of S. Georgii
Rudi Fischer: 800 years of Calvörde, a chronicle up to 1991, history of the church buildings in the Protestant Lutheran church play Calvörde (Hille, Knauf - 1936/1988/1995) - The Church of Calvörde