St. John's Church (Wolfenbüttel)
The Church of St. Johannis - the patron saint is John the Baptist - is a church in the west of the city of Wolfenbüttel (Augustusstadt), whose congregation belongs to the Wolfenbüttel provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig .
history
St. Johannis was built as a three-aisled half-timbered building on a broken stone base with a gable roof. A special feature is the massive western front with corner blocks. The basement with a cross vault and arched entrance was designed as a morgue .
After two years of construction (construction started in 1661), the church was consecrated on December 13, 1663 in the presence of August the Younger of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel by Brandanus Daetrius , court preacher and abbot of Riddagshausen monastery .
The original church tower turned out to be unstable and was therefore torn down around 1690. As a replacement, a free-standing massive bell tower was built in 1693 according to the design of the master builder Johann Balthasar Lauterbach .
In 1960 the church was extensively restored.
Furnishing
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The building historian August Fink characterizes the Johanniskirche as a “precious jewel of Protestant church architecture”.
The medallions of August the Younger and his wife Sophie Elisabeth hang in the choir.
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The exhibits altar , pulpit (with pulpit clock ), baptismal font and organ prospect come from the castle chapel of the once impressive and later ruined princely seat of Hesse Castle .
The grave slabs of the master builder Hermann Korb - died 1735 - and the composer Johann Rosenmüller - died 1684 - are attached to the walls .
organ
The case of the organ in St. Johannis dates from 1593 by David Beck and, like the altarpiece , the pulpit and the baptismal font , was donated by Duke August .
The organ was created in 1971 in the workshop of the organ building company Paul Ott (Göttingen). The slider chests -instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and pedal . The disposition is:
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
Immediately after the church was built, the church received a wooden belfry , which was fitted with three bells in the years 1663–1676 . The first bell was made by casting around a bell that had previously hung in the Clus monastery near Bad Gandersheim ; it weighed approx. 700 kg and had to be given as a metal donation by the German people for armament purposes during the First World War , just like the (third) bell that was purchased in 1676.
The middle bell from 1672 was preserved. It was manufactured in the Heiso Meyer foundry , weighs 650 kg (strike tone g 1 ) and has the inscription “If you now want to live a blissful life, God is ready for the same to give to you. "
To replace the two melted down bells, two new bells were purchased in 1961, which were cast by the Rincker foundry (Sinn, Dillkreis). The big bell (No. 1) with a weight of 1,100 kg (strike note e 1 ) has the inscription “Christ has taken power away from death. The dead of wars ”. The small bell (No. 3) weighs 550 kg (strike note a 1 ) has the inscription “Land, Land, hear the Lord's word!”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history of the church ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website of the municipality)
- ↑ More information about the organ
- ↑ Information on the history of the bells ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website of the municipality)
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 27.8 ″ E