St. Michaelis Church (Bienenbüttel)
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The St. Michaelis Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the center of Bienenbüttel in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in the north of the Uelzen district , Lower Saxony .
history
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The church in Bienenbüttel has been called "St. Michaelis Church" since the first Advent in 1957. It was first mentioned in 1307. In the period around 1500 there was a modest stone church that was renovated in 1564, although its income was too low for it was, as reported by pastor Antonius Reuter, who was in office from 1534 to 1577. Therefore, in 1555, the Protestant abbot of the St. Michaelis monastery on Kalkberg in Lüneburg, Eberhard von Holle , took care of it. This is also shown by his coat of arms stone from 1564, which is still in place today and which was placed on the outside above the later north entrance to the sacristy and has remained so to this day. A large portrait painting of this abbot and Lübeck bishop, as well as the first Protestant administrator of the Diocese of Verden with his coat of arms, hangs restored above in the north aisle of the Lüneburg Michaeliskirche.
After the Thirty Years' War with its church looting, the old building was covered with new tiles in August 1694 and the tower was repaired with new beams, battens and rafters. It has been freshly whitewashed and painted inside and out. The nave at that time was about 21 meters long and 7 meters wide, had low and narrow arched windows and damaged galleries all around. With its 270 seats, it had not been renovated since 1564.
In 1762 Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi (1735–1802) made precise drawings of the Bienenbüttler field stone church with numerous details. According to a later note by Pastor Bruno Theodor Haentzsche, who was introduced to Bienenbüttel in 1890, one of the vaults of the dark and musty church collapsed in 1810 and 1829.
The repeated reconstruction had put a heavy strain on the community's finances. Therefore, on May 17, 1832, the Hanover consistorial builder Friedrich August Ludwig Hellner came to see for himself the deplorable condition of the old building of the church, which had become obsolete. Any repair would be prohibited. In 1833 the consistory in Hanover approved the demolition and rebuilding of the church.
The brick church was built in 1837. It was now 14 meters wide and, including the erratic tower, 31.40 meters long. It offered space for 600 visitors. The church tower from 1702 initially remained standing. Then the graves were laid in the raised and walled churchyard around the church, which was closed in 1810 and which was planted with linden trees in 1865. It was not until 1843 that the parish office was filled with a new parish pastor: Hermann Christian Heinrich Friedrich Danckwerts (1814–1881). In 1857 the Philip Furtwaengler company from Elze installed the new organ, which has since been overhauled several times. From 1924 to 1928 the confirmands donated the three upper semicircular stained glass windows for the north wall from the Quedlinburg workshop of Ferdinand Müller with the risen and blessing Christ between the pelican and the Lamb of God as symbols assigned to him. The original pulpit altar was changed in 1960 and the high pulpit moved downwards. In 1971 the altar was moved forward and enlarged. The west entrance was bricked up because of the heating. The central aisle between the rows of benches, which were once separate for men and women, disappeared so that confirmands or bridal couples could only move in from the side. It has been free again since 1994.
The old erratic boulder tower, which was initially standing, was replaced in 1907 by today's tower extension on the south side. The church tower was designed by the architect Wilhelm Matthies and is 42 meters high. The new tower cost 22,000 marks and was inaugurated by Pastor Bruno Theodor Haentzsche. The weather vane with the year 1702 was placed on top of the new tower.
architecture
Bells
There are three bells hanging in the tower. The oldest was cast in 1524. It came from Geünhagen to Bienenbüttel in 1702 when the chapel there was demolished. The old Bienenbüttler bell had worn out at the clapper stop and had become thin-walled and had to be replaced by another. This bears the inscription: "Anno Domini 1524 cast by Cord vd Heyde in Lüneburg". The "Luther Bell" dates from 1933. You can read on it:
"I am called the Luther Bell,
I call out into the German land:
A good defense in battle and need,
A good castle is our God."
On the 1st of Advent 1957 the "bell of joy" was consecrated. It bears the following inscription in raised letters:
"Oh country, country, country,
hear the word of the Lord."
"Your word is the
joy and comfort of my heart ."
It was cast from steel by the Bochum Association . With that the bell of the church was resounding. Since 1957 the bells have been made to ring by an electric drive.
The latter two bells were purchased for the older bells that were delivered and melted down in the two world wars. It was the bell from 1818 that Dietrich Bieber from Hamburg had cast. It was used for war purposes in 1917. In 1940 the "Christ Bell" had to be delivered. It bore the inscriptions "Glory to God on high" and "Peace be upon you!"
The bells of the church tower can be heard over the 55 square kilometer parish when there is no wind; It sounds like Beverbeck and is particularly audible in the remote villages in winter when the weather is freezing.
Pastors
- 1534–1577: Antonius Reuter
- 1577-1625: Rupertus Barven
- 1625–1642: Georg Reineccius
- 1642–1684: Balthasar Wollenhaupt
- 1684–1727: Philippus Julius Toppius
- 1727–1729: Leonard Heinrich Wildhagen
- 1729–1743: Gottlieb Cruse
- 1743–1751: Johann Christoph Bergmann
- 1751–1757: Justus Friedrich Bussmann
- 1757–1791: Johann Justus Framke
- 1791–1803: Johann Dietrich Becker
- 1803–1808: August Christian Bernhard Einhof
- 1809–1837: Ludwig Friedrich Conrad Burkhardt
- 1837–1843: Johann Peter Lüders
- 1843–1855: Hermann Christian Heinrich Friedrich Danckwerts
- 1855–1889: Johann Heinrich Kayser
- 1889–1934: Bruno Haentzsche
- 1934–1954: Wilhelm Heyderich
- 1954–1956: Kurt Paul
- 1956–1965: Gerhard Auhagen
- 1965–1971: Georg Jungheinrich
- 1971–1993: Wolfram Glüer
- 1993–2000: Christiane Bürig
- 2001–2018: Jürgen Bade
Parish hall
The original rectory from 1623 has been modernized into a parish hall. It was demolished in 1728 and replaced by a new building, which in turn was completely destroyed by fire in 1786 after a lightning strike. In 1900 the original thatch roof was replaced by tiles.
The community hall emerged from the old business section that was expanded in 1962 and today offers space for 80 people. The upper floor is rented and the lower part of the parish hall is used for parish purposes. The church office of the congregation can also be found there.
Rectory
The rectory was originally a sexton's house. It served first as a school house and then in 1967 as a Protestant kindergarten. In the following years the need for kindergarten places increased and the building was also dilapidated. This was followed by the construction of the kindergarten and the rectory was completely renovated.
graveyard
The cemetery was originally around the church. The dead were buried both inside and outside the church. New space was created there by filling up the earth. However, there was no longer enough space, so a new cemetery had to be created in 1810. This was 300 meters west of the church. It was used for 100 years until a new cemetery was built in 1926, this is located outside of Bienenbüttel. Shortly after the cemetery was laid out, a cemetery chapel was built, which has space for around 95 mourners.
Web links
- Bienenbüttel Church: Information on the Bienenbüttel St. Michaelis Church
- Church district Uelzen: Information about the St. Michaelis Church in Bienenbüttel
Individual evidence
- ^ Uelzen district . In: Wilhelm Lucka (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1984, ISBN 978-3-528-06205-7 , pp. 107 .
- ↑ Bienenbüttel in the heart - LZonline. In: landeszeitung.de. September 18, 2018, accessed on May 4, 2020 (German).
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 31.5 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 27.6 ″ E