St. Mary's Church (Wienhausen)
The St. Mary's Church to Wienhausen is the Church of the Evangelical - Lutheran church in Wienhausen , a municipality in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony . The parish belongs to the parish of Celle in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
Building history
The origins of church building probably go back to the 1st millennium. Documents prove that in 1051 and 1057 neighboring parishes were already subordinate to the church in Wienhausen. It was only later in 1221 and 1229 that the construction of the Wienhausen monastery began. The nunnery of the monastery adjoining the west side of St. Mary's Church was built in 1330. In the baroque period , from 1703 to 1710, the church was extensively rebuilt, including widening the choir and shortening the galleries that were once continuous . In 1927, the previously plastered exterior facade was exposed. The turf iron stones and masonry bricks in the monastery format used as building material became visible. In 2010 the interior of the church was renovated, based on the color scheme of the 1710 renovation.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar in front of the east gallery shows the blessing Jesus and the four evangelists . The pulpit from the second half of the 17th century was added to the pulpit altar at the beginning of the 18th century. The oil painting under the pulpit shows the Last Supper . The two glass windows behind the altar show the Annunciation and the Holy Family .
The west gallery was probably created during the renovation in the baroque period. In their Priechen which still sit during the service canonesses (Konventualinnen) of the monastery. The abbess has her place in the bay window with the sloping wooden bars on the left side of the gallery .
Is located on the north wall to the left of the organ an epitaph from Alabaster . It shows the married couple Ernst and Ilse von Langlingen, who died in 1608 and 1617, for whom this work of art was donated.
Individual grave slabs can still be seen in the church corridors. Funerals took place in the church until about 200 years ago. In front of the altar in the choir room, Heinrich the Middle , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and from 1486 to 1520 Prince of Lüneburg , was buried. The sandstone - grave plate of the Duke can still be seen on the south side of the church facade.
- St. Mary's Church
Entrance to the church and tombstone
Gravestone at the church
Epitaph of the von Langlingen family
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organ
The church received its first organ in 1587. In 1861 it was replaced by a new instrument. Their original place was on the gallery behind the pulpit altar . The current organ on the north wall of the church was delivered in 1956 by the organ building company Emil Hammer from Arnum near Hanover and completed by 1971. It has two manual movements and a pedal unit with 23 registers (1574 pipes ).
Tower and bells
Originally there was a bell tower on the west gable of the church. When the nuns' choir was built in 1330, it had to give way. The current free-standing bell tower is located about 45 m east of the church. It dates from the 18th century and houses four chimes and two chimes.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 50 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ E