St. Martin's Church (Seelze)
The St. Martins Church is the listed church in the Seelze district of the city of Seelze in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . Your parish in the Garbsen / Seelze parish in the Hanover district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover has around 3400 members.
history
It could be that Seelze became a parish as early as the first half of the 11th century. A canon Reinardus de Selze is documented in 1248. It is assumed that he administered the Seelz parish at that time.
Predecessor church
There was already a church in Seelze in the 13th century. Possibly it was already the enlarged and massive replacement for a small wooden building that had become necessary due to the population growth.
The Seelz Church was at least partially destroyed in 1385 in a feud between Duke Albrecht von Sachsen and Dietrich von Mandelsloh .
A church in the style of a Romanesque basilica was built as a replacement . In 1493 a sacristy was added. The tower was at least partially renewed in 1696. In 1749 a striking clock was purchased.
As early as 1738, the pastor thought major repairs were necessary. For the year 1755, the building administration of the consistory planned the renovation of the dilapidated building. It was on this occasion that the only known drawings of the church were made. On July 30, 1755, a conflagration destroyed the church, the schoolhouse , 11 complete farmsteads and 10 other houses in the center of Seelze.
Interim solutions
The pastoral care of the seven villages of the Seelzer parish was temporarily reorganized. For the villages Gümmer and Lohnde simple reading should church services in the chapel in Gümmer be held for Harenberg and Döteberg in the chapel Harenberg . The believers from Almhorst should avoid the church in Kirchwehren .
For the people of Seelz, part of the barn at the Seelzer Gutshof was redesigned for use as a makeshift church. Since the joineries in Seelz had burned down too, a carpenter from church services built a wooden floor and two galleries in the barn . The manor belonging to the Stolzenauer Oberamtmann von Hugo on the Leine on the northern edge of Seelze was outside the center of the village, which was destroyed by the fire.
Initially, priority was given to accommodating and caring for those who had become homeless. The parish farm and the sexton's house with a school room also had to be rebuilt. The residents of all seven villages in the parish had to raise the necessary funds, as the church buildings were not insured by the regional fire insurance fund founded in 1750 .
For the half-timbering of the new buildings, fresh oak was felled in the nearby royal forests . The softwood for the roof beams was rafted from the Harz Mountains on a line to Ricklingen near Hanover . Sandstone blocks were fetched from a stone quarry in Barsinghausen by horse and cart . The 7000 tiles for the new rectory probably came from the brickworks in Herrenhausen . The new parish barn was initially covered with straw because of the shortage of roof tiles. It was designed from the outset for use as an emergency church . From Michaelmas day , September 29, 1759, the services took place in this barn. For the Pentecost service in 1763, 750 people were counted in this emergency church. The Seven Years' War in the years 1756 to 1763 had made the reconstruction in Seelze difficult and delayed by billeting , contributions and crop damage .
description
The church, planned and built from 1764, was consecrated on April 2, 1769.
The church nave , built of quarry stone on a sandstone plinth, is a plastered hall building with a length of 29 m and a width of 17 m. There are five arched windows in sandstone walls on each side. A door is installed below the middle one.
The interior has a plastered ceiling. The rectangular sacristy is added to the east. For cost reasons, only a low west tower with a simple roof was built.
The furnishings initially consisted of the baroque pulpit altar from the workshop of the court sculptor Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis , the baptismal font recovered from the old church , the galleries and the pews.
In 1777 an organ was installed in the church . A new striking clock was acquired in 1790 and installed in the tower.
In 1874 the outer walls were plastered with cement . The financial situation of the parish had improved significantly in the 19th century. The west tower, which was only built low in 1767, was raised in 1876 with a representative spire to a height of 45 m according to plans by Conrad Wilhelm Hase . The tower has an octagonal helmet with four corner turrets.
In 1934 the church interior was renovated and redesigned as a government-sponsored job creation measure in the early days of the “ Third Reich ”. The church received new air heating and a new organ. The interior, which was previously painted dark, was given a light shade. For the first time there was a central aisle between the pews.
From 1964 to 1966 there was another renovation. The sandstone floor was replaced by wooden parquet in the nave and marble in the chancel. The altar was moved into the room from the wall. The pews replaced by single chairs. A new organ was also purchased. After an historical monument default, the church got a new exterior paint, but which turned out was amended in 1979 and again quickly are not weatherproof.
In the 1990s the heating was renewed, the church interior was given a new color scheme and the organ was overhauled and completed.
Church name
The old Seelz church must have been consecrated to a Catholic saint . After the introduction of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg in 1542, this name had been forgotten. The major fire in 1755 destroyed any documents that were still in the church or rectory. As a reference to the pre-Reformation name, the Seelz field name Martenkamp and, on the other hand, the fact that in 1543 the dean of St. Martini zu Minden was entitled to the collation right of the Seelz church .
When it was inaugurated in 1767, the building was given no name. As part of the 700th anniversary of the Seelz parish, the church was given the name St. Martin on the fourth Advent in 1948 as a reminder of its roots .
Furnishing
Baptismal font
The octagonal baptismal font, the only one taken over from the old church, bears the figure and the name of John the Baptist on one side and the Archangels Michael , Uriel , Jeremiel, Rapuhel and Gabriel on five other sides .
Bells
There were five church bells in the tower of the old church . They had melted in the heat of the fire. 28 quintals of bell metal and another 18 quintals of contaminated metal were recovered from the rubble of the church tower . Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann cast two new bells out of it. They were initially hung in a simple low bell cage and rang for the first time at Easter 1757.
The 26 quintals large bell was 132 cm in diameter. She had in 1918 for arms production in World War I delivered to. The 14 quintals heavy smaller bell has a diameter of 109 cm. She had to be delivered in April 1942 . It could be retrieved from the Hamburg bell cemetery after the Second World War .
There have been three bells in the church tower since November 2008: a large bell weighing around two tons and a small bell weighing around 500 kg were cast in the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe in the two previous years .
organ
There was an organ in the old church as early as the 16th century. She required repairs several times and burned with the church.
In 1777, a new organ was procured from the legacy of Cord Hinrich Marcs, a native of Seelzer who had returned from South America . A memorial plaque on the organ loft reminds him of him. The organ, which was prone to damage, had to be repaired repeatedly. In 1889 the organ was replaced by a new one behind the old prospectus . During the renovation in 1934, the instrument was replaced by an organ with an electric action. Since this was soon in need of repair, a new “conventional” organ was installed behind the old prospect in 1968. For cost reasons, the instrument initially only had 12 registers . In 1996 the instrument was overhauled by the Jann company and expanded to the 28 registers provided.
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- Normal coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
See also
literature
- Elfriede Hengstmann-Deppe, Matthias Hoyer, Norbert Saul: 750 years of the church in Seelze. Forays through history. 1998.
- Norbert Saul: From Tours to Seelze. The way of Christianity into Sachsenland. 1997.
Web links
- St. Martinskirche on the website of the parish of St. Martin Seelze
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Henner Hannig (Ed.): Landkreis Hannover (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3 -528-06207-X , pp. 259–262, as well as p. 147 (map) and p. 308 (index)
- ↑ St. Martin Seelze. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e What was before the year 1248. Norbert Saul, accessed on November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Norbert Saul: 250 years of the “new” church in Seelze. (PDF; 627 kB) Seelze city archive, February 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Thomas Tschörner: St. Martin receives new honors in 1948. www.haz.de , August 22, 2018, accessed on November 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b A new strike clock and almost a new steeple. Norbert Saul, accessed November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Matthias Hoyer: Chronicle of the Seelzer church building. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Seelze . In: Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Issue 1: Districts of Hanover and Linden . Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1899, p. 118–121 ( online [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on October 26, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c The concert organ. Norbert Saul, accessed November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e Church chair sales with obstacles. Norbert Saul, accessed November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Puschmann (Ed.): Hanover's churches: 140 churches in the city and the surrounding area . Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association, Hanover 2005, ISBN 978-3-937301-35-8 , p. 209 .
- ↑ Seelßen (Seelze) in: Karl Kayser (Hrsg.): The Reformation church visits in the Guelph lands 1542-1544 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1897, p. 404-406 ( online [PDF; 25.9 MB ; accessed on October 3, 2019]).
- ↑ A full bell is heard for the first time in St. Martin. Retrieved November 22, 2019 (Source: Leine-Zeitung, December 1, 2008).
- ↑ Church bells. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Disposition. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 50.9 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 47" E