St. John's Church (Visselhövede)

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St. Johannes in Visselhövede

The St. Johannis Church is the main Evangelical Lutheran church in the Lower Saxon town of Visselhövede . It is located in the center of the city near the Vissel spring and consists of the church building and the free-standing bell tower. The church is the city's landmark. It is named after John the Baptist .

history

A church in Visselhövede is mentioned for the first time in 1184. The site was probably used as a pagan place of worship earlier. In 1358 a Gothic stone building was built. The bell tower dates from 1799. The Reformation finally took hold in the community from 1631. Today the church, together with the Holy Cross parish in Brockel and the St. Bartholomew parish Kirchwalsede, form the church region Visselhövede in the Rotenburg / Wümme parish of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

Furnishing

  • Gothic ceiling paintings in the altar vault
  • Baroque altar (1771)
  • Pulpit (1641)
  • Baptismal font (approx. 12th century)
  • Baptismal bowl from the 18th century

organ

The organ case was designed by Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy in 1779/1780 . Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the organ at that time. The Emil Hammer Orgelbau company , which built a new organ in 1922, wrote in 1920: “Except for the organ case, nothing of the current dilapidated work can be used. The metal that falls out of the pipes represents the only value as scrap material, and we would take over this metal for melting down according to the daily rate. Everything else may remain with the church for heating purposes. ”The Hammer organ had pneumatic pocket drawers. It was expanded to 21 registers and renovated by the builder company in 1951 . In 1983 the Alfred Führer company built today's organ with 20 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is based on Wilhelmy's. In 2008 the organ builder Jörg Bente carried out a renovation .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Wooden flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI 2 ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Flute 4 ′
12. octave 2 ′
13. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Principal 8th'
17th octave 4 ′
18th Rauschpfeife II
19th trombone 16 ′
20th Trumpet 8th'

Bells

In 1971, the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen cast three bronze bells for St. John's Church. Their strike tone series is: e - f sharp - g sharp. The bells have the following diameters: 1249 mm, 1113 mm and 991 mm. The bells are one of the last bells that were cast by the Otto family after almost a century of foundry activity.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orgel-information.de: The organ in St. Johannes Visselhövede , accessed on November 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bente Orgelbau: Organ in Visselhövede , accessed on November 2, 2019.
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 173, 563 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 168, 516 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 8.3 "  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 51.9"  E

St. Johannis Baptist Visselhövede, full bell