St. Martini Church (Groß Ellershausen)

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St. Martini Church in Groß Ellershausen

The St. Martini Church is the Evangelical Lutheran church in the Groß Ellershausen district of the city of Göttingen .

history

The origins of the church are not precisely recorded. Structural studies suggest that the massive transverse rectangular Romanesque church tower was built in the 10th or 11th century. The remains of a chimney on the first floor show that it was originally a fortified residential tower of a noble family, probably the Lords of Ellershausen, whose possessions can be verified here. As such, the steeple of the St. Martini Church is unique in the region for such an early period and is one of the oldest preserved buildings in southern Lower Saxony. The church hall is certainly much younger than the tower; it was probably built in the Baroque era using parts of the previous building and repaired in 1838. The southern portal with the year "1838" on the sandstone lintel was also renewed.

Bells

Records from 1608 and 1610 show the existence of two bells for St. Martini's Church. The larger of two bells had to be given to a metal collection during the First World War in 1916. On Christmas Eve 1922, two replacement steel bells bought by the Bochumer Verein for 11,500 RM were consecrated.

On September 27, 2002, three new bronze bells of different sizes were cast at the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock . Each of the bells has a name inscription, the names “Soli”, “Deo” and “Gloria” (German: “God alone honor”) are given in Latin. The existing steel bells were removed from the tower after one last ringing and have been set up at the cemetery chapel in the cemetery in Groß Ellershausen since 2003. The following day the three new bronze bells were installed in the tower. The purchase was financed by donations.

They are rung electrically, the duration, sequence and composition of the ringing is determined depending on the occasion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckhard Kupke, Ursula Huck: Monuments, fountains and nature in Groß Ellershausen . Groß Ellershausen, 2001. p. 11f (PDF; 9.7 MB)
  2. ↑ Ilse Röttgerodt-Riechmann: City of Göttingen . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.1 . CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 113 .
  3. ↑ Ringing order and pictures of the bells

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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '14.3 "  N , 9 ° 51' 52.7"  E