St. Petri Church (Wilstedt)

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St. Petri Wilstedt, from the north

The St. Petri Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Wilstedt , a community in the Tarmstedt municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

History and description of the building

The first church was built in Wilstedt as early as 1060. At that time it belonged to the Diocese of Verden . The Romanesque west tower of her is still partially preserved. The nave was demolished in 1721 because it was in disrepair. The current Baroque hall church was in 1722 by the Stader built architect Anthon Dreyer with a three-sided chancel of bricks. The splendid sandstone portal with acanthus leaves on the north side of the church was created by master stonemason Mathies Bödecker from Bremen.

Above the entrance he left the prayer in gold letters:

“Lord, bless this your house, so it is well blessed.
Give blessings when your word rains on arid hearts.
Let your Christian community go into your house so
that they may go out blessed with their souls. "

Below is the saying from Psalm 26, verse 8 and 7:

“Lord, I love the place of your house
and the place where your honor dwells.
The voice of thanksgiving is heard
and all your miracles are preached. "

Interior

The interior consists of a wooden barrel vault and single and double galleries. 

altar

A combined writing and pulpit altar is attached to the choir gallery . According to Dehio, it consists of an older altar from the 2nd half of the 17th century and the pulpit attached to the choir gallery above. The older altar could be a remnant of a written altar, because it consists of a tablet on which on a black background in gold the words the institution of the Lord's Supper and above the sentence: "Didn't Christ have to lay such a thing?" ( Lk 24,26  LUT ) are written. The panel is framed with Berninni columns and the figures of the four evangelists . Under Matthew and Mark there is the inscription “Soli Deo Gloria” - “Only God (due) is glory”.

The four evangelists also frame the pulpit hanging over it in a smaller form, in the middle of which Christ is depicted as Salvator mundi with scepter and globe in hands. In the pulpit lid, the Holy Spirit hovers over the preacher in the shape of a dove. On the back wall of the pulpit, gold on blue, Yahweh's sentence to Moses, encouraging a preacher, can be read: “I want to be with your words and teach you what you should say” ( Exodus 4:12  ESV ).

According to Ingrid Marten and Hermann Meyer, the pulpit comes from the old Gertrudenkapelle in Stade.

Since a second dove is placed under the pulpit, it is reasonable to assume that the four evangelists around the tablet and the Christ Salvator above the sound cover could be relics of an earlier pulpit from Wilstedt.

The well-known Bremen master sculptor Theopilus Wilhelm Frese and his journeyman assembled the combined script and pulpit altar .

Baptismal font

The wooden baptismal font "revered" Woller Timmeken 1647 of the church. His son Lüthge Timmeken had it painted in 1681. It still comes from the old church.

window

Two of the windows were designed by Heinz Lilienthal in 1990 and 1991. They show the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River (north side) and Jesus with two disciples in Emmaus (south side).

organ

Until 1825 the St. Petri Church did not have an organ. The first organ was created in 1824 by the organ builder Tappe from Verden. It was so bad that in 1917 the money was collected again for a new organ. Inflation and currency reform ensured that the new organ from the Ott company in Göttingen did not sound until September 20, 1953 . It has 23 sounding stops on Hauptwerk, Rückpositiv and Pedal as well as a sliding drawer action . Parts of the old organ were reused.

Bells

The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast a bronze bell for the church in Wilstedt in 1896, 1927 and 1957. The older Otto bell was melted down during the First and Second World Wars. The ringing of the church has two bells . The larger of the two was cast in 1957 by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and sounds in the tone f ′, has a diameter of 1162 mm and 1030 kg. The smaller one was cast by an unknown caster as early as 1621 and sounds in the note as ′. It was given up in 1914 for armament purposes and returned in 1921, but had to be cast due to a crack.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Wilstedter Church ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wilstedt-Tarmstedt parish @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchengemeinde-wilstedt.de
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 508, 521, 555 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 475, 484, 510 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '43.3 "  N , 9 ° 5' 29.7"  E