St. Laurentius Church (Hasbergen)
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Laurentius Church is on the outskirts of the village Hasbergen , a district of the city of Delmenhorst in Lower Saxony . It is the oldest building in the city.
history
A chapel is mentioned in Hasbergen in 1142, which up to now could not be located. Maybe she was standing on the monastery path.
Probably around the middle of the 12th century, the inhabitants of the village at that time began building a church made of field stones. The sound holes in the tower, parts of the north wall and the masonry around the door between the tower and nave have been preserved from this Romanesque building . Otherwise very little reminds of the original building. The building served as a place of assembly, judgment and refuge. Loopholes have been preserved in the tower, testifying to the defensive character of the building.
The building was repeatedly rebuilt, renovated and modernized. In the second half of the 13th century, the Hasbergers extended their church to the east with red bricks. It was rededicated on August 10, 1380. In 1732 they had to renew the south wall of the nave and the west side of the tower. The church was widened by about a meter.
At the end of the Second World War there was a threat of the entire tower being blown up for military reasons. The rulers at the time feared that the walls could serve as a reference point for enemy bomber fleets. It was sexton Johann Hetebrink who opposed these plans. He saved the building by refusing to leave "his" church tower. In 1957 the congregation had the flat-roofed interior of the nave redesigned.
Building description
The St. Laurentius Church is a hall church with a western tower and a recently closed choir . The nave is up with a hipped gable roof completed. Due to the large amount of renovation work, it cannot be assigned to a clear architectural style. Parts of the north wall and the tower (with the exception of the west wall) are made of field stone, the eastward expansion was made with red bricks.
The interior of the nave measures 24.20 meters in length and 7.25 meters in width. The tower is 17 meters high and has an internal area of 4.50 × 4.50 meters. On its upper floor there are sound arcades consisting of two or three coupled round arches . The pillars are made of porta sandstone with cube capitals .
On the front wall of the choir there are three lancet windows as well as supporting windows from the time the church was expanded. The southern nave wall is structured by slender segmental arched windows, which also date from the time the church was expanded. The sacristy on the north side is an extension from around 1950. Before that, there was a simple door in the same place.
Furnishing
The font
The story of the Romanesque granite baptismal font from the 13th century is unusual : According to tradition, it once stood as a chair in a sheep's coven . There it is said to have served the pastor as a resting place when he was on the way from Hasbergen to Delmenhorst, which was still part of the parish at that time. After both churches had their own pastor, he lost his function. It stood in front of the door for many years before it was brought into the nave in 1956 and transformed into a baptismal font.
The stalls and the pulpit
The stalls are much more recent. The community acquired it in 1638 after Protestant Swedish soldiers looted the Evangelical Church, which had been in existence since 1567, in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War . The pulpit donated by Count Christian von Delmenhorst also dates from this time . A coat of arms high up on the sound cover reminds of the noble donor.
The tombstone of Johann von Siden
The tombstone of Johann von Siden with the sculpted coat of arms is in the middle of the north wall. It dates from around 1350, making it one of the oldest preserved in northern Germany. Its Latin inscription translates as "Here lies Mr. Johannes de Siden, pastor of this church and he founded this altar".
Other items of equipment
Other items of equipment include three baroque grave slabs and the bell. There have been two bells in the tower since 1509. While one is still in service today, the community had to give up the other for armaments production during the First World War . It was not until 1960 that the Hasbergers were able to acquire three new bells for the old bell, which have since rung before and after all church services. On the wall of the choir one's cannonball walled. According to a legend, it reminds of the bombardment of the church by Bremen cannons in the 17th century. The church window in the tower with the depiction of the Archangel Michael is the work of the church painter Oetken from 1956. The stone altar dates from 1732. The cross, the body of which is more recent, was also acquired by the community in the 18th century. The two chandeliers were donated around 1950, the organ built in 1972. The picture between the windows on the south wall was the original altarpiece. It was removed during renovations in the 1980s and later rediscovered and restored. It is a "very true to the original copy of a work by the famous church painter Pfannschmidt and was made in 1892". The municipality had the tower clock installed in 1912. The so-called plate chair on the gallery once belonged to the owners of the largest agricultural property in Hasbergen, Gut Hemmelskamp.
See also
literature
- Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 72 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Parish Hasbergen: In the middle of the green: The 625 year old St. Laurentius Church in Hasbergen . Retrieved October 8, 2014.
- ↑ Parish Hasbergen: Timeline of the St. Laurentius Church Hasbergen . Retrieved October 8, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georg Dehio : Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992), ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 652.
- ↑ a b Parish Hasbergen: Development and changes to the St. Laurentius Church Hasbergen . Retrieved October 8, 2014.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 41.4 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 14.3" E