St. Mauritius Chapel (Bohndorf)
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Mauritius Chapel is located between the districts of Bohndorf and Aljarn in the Altenmedingen community in the Uelzen district in Lower Saxony .
location
The chapel to the north of the municipality of Altenmedingen on the eastern edge of a forest and the associated cemetery to the northeast of the chapel are surrounded on all sides by trees. Access to the chapel is via an unpaved path that meets the Am Teich road a few hundred meters east , which connects the two districts of Bohndorf and Aljarn.
history
Previous buildings
In 1237 four nuns from the Wolmirstedt Cistercian convent in Bohndorf, which at that time already had a church, founded a monastery. When the monastery was founded, the chapter of the Rastede monastery left their property to the four nuns. The nuns received support from the knights of Meding in their project . After multiple looting and after the provost of the monastery was murdered in 1240, the monastery moved to Medingen, today's Altenmedingen , in 1240 .
Bohndorf originally belonged to the parish play of the Peter and Paul Church in Thomasburg . Through a comparison brokered by Bishop Nikolaus von Verden , Bohndorf was assigned to the church play Altenmedingen in 1330. The development of the chapel is not documented, but it presumably continued to exist and fell into disrepair over time.
In 1718 a second small chapel without a bell tower was built in Bohndorf. It was closed in 1817 due to dilapidation and finally demolished in 1819. The associated bell was sold to the St. Mauritius Church in Altenmedingen. In 1900 a school with a chancel was built in the village.
Creation of today's chapel
In 1954 a cemetery was built between Bohndorf and Aljarn, which led to calls for a cemetery chapel. Construction work according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Hoek began in 1961. After a construction period of over a year, the chapel was consecrated in 1962.
architecture
The chapel is a simple brick building. It consists of a chapel tower and a chapel building, which are connected by a connecting wing. The tower was built from brick masonry and provided with a pyramid helmet covered with copper sheet metal. The spire is made up of a ball and a cross. The tower reaches a total height of 17 meters.
The simple interior is equipped with a wooden beam ceiling . The side walls are kept white, while the wall behind the altar is made of brick. The interior is illuminated by simple stained glass windows.
Furnishing
The altar was made of sandstone . A wooden altarpiece is attached to the altar , showing, among other things, the crucifixion of Jesus.
The bell in the chapel tower dates from 1930 and was cast by the Radler bell foundry from Hildesheim.
The organ comes from Ludwig Hoffmann from Kassel . The case was made of oak. The pewter pipes of the brochures arranged in three fields are attached like harps.
Church organization
In 1900 the chapel community Bohndorf was founded, to which the villages Bohndorf and Aljarn belonged. This was canceled on January 1, 2008, after which the two localities belonged to the "Evangelical Lutheran parish Altenmedingen" in the parish of Uelzen . Since May 2019, the Altenmedingen parish has had a parish relationship with the parishes of St. George's Church in Wichmannsburg and St. Michaelis Church in Bienenbüttel.
The chapel also serves as a cemetery chapel and a place for church services. Services in the chapel are only held regularly on Christmas Eve, Easter Monday and Whit Monday.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Medingen Monastery and its history. In: https://kirche-wichmannsburg.de/ . Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Bohndorf. In: kirchengemeindelexikon.de. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Christian Wiechel-Kramüller: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Uelzen district . WIEKRA Edition, Suhlendorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-940189-14-1 , p. 32-35 .
- ↑ a b Altenmedingen. In: kirche-uelzen.de. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 25.5 ″ E