St. Urban Church (Klein Ilsede)
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Urban Church in Klein Ilsede (municipality of Ilsede / Lower Saxony) is one of the oldest churches in the Peine district ( Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover ).
Building history
The St. Urban Church was built as a late Gothic quarry stone building in the pre-Reformation period - probably in the 14th century as a house chapel for the Schwicheldt estate. The Lords of Schwicheldt already had the right of patronage in 1463. At the end of the 16th century, the church was expanded with a polygonal half-timbered choir . The weather vane shows the Schwicheldt coat of arms with the year 1580, and the year 1600 is immortalized in one of the ceiling beams. Over the centuries the St. Urban Church has been renovated and partly renewed several times. In 1840 a gallery was installed on the west and north sides, in 1877 the originally baroque pulpit altar was removed, the pulpit cage was attached to the south side and a Furtwängler organ was installed on the east wall . The three-part medieval winged altar was only moved to its current location after the restoration in 1961. It previously hung as an epitaph on the north wall of the choir room in the patronage prieche . The altarpiece was last restored in 2005, the interior was completely renovated in 2009. In 2011, the straight gray concrete slab path around the church was replaced by a "baptismal path" laid with red and black paving stones, which symbolizes the course of a river with a lake in front of the church door in light waves. Visitors are reminded of their baptism on the way to church.
Furnishing
Winged altar
It is originally an epitaph made of oak for two nobles from the Schwicheldt estate. In addition to the central crucifixion scene with Mary and John under the cross, the wings show the brothers Johann (left) and Otto von Schwicheldt (right) kneeling in full armor praying to the crucified. In front of them lie helmet, gloves and battle hammer. With them stand the patron saints John the Baptist and Peter . Both nobles died at the age of 23 (1577 and 1578 respectively). While the wings are still in their original condition and by the Flemish artist Marten de Vos (1532–1603), the crucifixion scene was created by the Hanoverian painter Ad. Nieß rebuilt in 1839 - based on the original. The outer sides of the wings bear biblical quotations in three-dimensional painted writing (yellow on a blue background). Height: 1.29 m, width of the central part: 1.05 m, width of the wings: 0.53 m.
Inscriptions on the inside of the winged altar
- left wing - banner of Johannes the Baptist over the head of Johann von Schwicheldt:
SEE THAT IS THE LAM OF GOD WHICH OVER THE WORLD DREGET - JOHANN (Behold, this is the Lamb of God who bears the sin of the world! - John 1:29); Text below the picture: IM IAR AFTER THE GEBVRT VNSERS IENICHE ERLOSERS IESV CHRISTI · M · D LXXVII · ITS AGE IN · XXIII IAR IS THE NOBLE VND HONOR FESTIVAL IOHAN V · SWEEPING IN GOT BLESSED DIFFERENCES GOT IN THE PLEASURE OF HIS SOUL
- Text under the middle picture:
CHRISTVS HAS HIMSELF SACRIFIED VNSERE SVNDEN IN HIS BODY ON THE WOOD ON WHICH WE THE SVNDE DIED TO LIVE IN JUSTICE: DVRCH WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED · PETER: II, XXIV. (Christ himself sacrificed our sins in his body on the wood, so that we, dead to sin, live to righteousness. Through his wounds you are healed. - 1 Peter 2:24)
- Right wing - Peter’s banner above Otto von Schwicheldt’s head:
FROM IESV CHRIST ALL PROPHETS WITNESS THE DVRCH HIS NAME ALL WHO SHOULD RECEIVE IN THE GLEVBEN FORGIVENESS OF THE SVNDES - ACT X (All prophets testify from Jesus Christ that through his name all who believe in him should receive forgiveness of sins. Acts 10:43); Text underneath the picture: ANNO DOMINI MDLXXVIII HIS AGE IN XXIII IAR IS THE NOBLE VND EHRN FEST OTTO V SWEATHING IN CHRIST BLOSSOMED GOT FORWARD TO HIM A FROLICHE AVFFERSTEHVNG VMB WILL CHRISTI VNSERS
Inscriptions on the outside of the winged altar
- left wing:
I KNOW THAT MY REDEMPTED LIVES, VND HE WILL WAKE ME UP AFTER AVS OF THE EARTH VND WILL BE GIVING MY HAVT VND THIS WITH THIS · VN WILL SEE GOT IN MY FLESH, THE SAME WILL SEE ME, I WILL NOT SEE MY FREEDOM VND VNDEN I WILL SEE ME IN FRIEND · 19 · (I know that my Redeemer lives, and afterwards he will raise me up from the earth; and afterwards I will be surrounded with this skin of mine, and will see God in my flesh. I will see myself and my eyes will be see him and no stranger. - Job 19: 25-27 in an older Luther translation) WE HAVE A GOD WHO HELPS AND SAVES THE LORD LORD FROM DEATH PSAL · LXVIII · (We have a God who helps, and the Lord Lord, who saves from death .-- Psalm 68:21 in an older Luther translation)
- right wing:
DVRCH A PEOPLE COMET DEATH, VND DVRCH A PEOPLE THE AVFFERSTEHVNG THE DEATH, LIKE THEY IN ADAM ALL DIE SO THEY WILL ALL BE MADE ALIVE IN CHRIST · COR · XV · (Through a human being comes death and through a human being the Resurrection of the dead, for as they all die in Adam, so in Christ they will all be made alive. - 1 Corinthians 15: 21-22) THAT IS SAID CHRIST, THE WILL OF THOSE WHO SEE ME, THAT WHO SEE THE SON VND BELIEVES IN HAVING ETERNAL LIFE VND I WILL WAKE UP ON THE NEXT DAY JOHN 6 (That is, says Christ, the will of the one who sent me, that whoever sees the Son and believes in him, has that eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day - John 6:40)
Baptism angel
The wooden baptismal angel from 1726 in the chancel dates from the Baroque period and was bequeathed by Catharine Dorothee Metzing, née Leverköhn. Height: 1.00 m, diameter: 0.42 m. The angel carries a wooden bowl on his head in which a metal baptismal bowl is inlaid. This was donated by G. Plünnecke and his wife in 1869 and bears the following inscription on the outer edge: Marc. 10 V. 14 Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them.
organ
The organ was built in 1877 by the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler & Sons, and expanded in 1962 by the organ builder Hans Joachim Düngel. The slider drawer instrument has 9 registers on a manual (Gedackt 8 ', Principal 4', Flute 4 ', Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3 ' (treble), Octave 2 ', Scharff II-III 2 ⁄ 3 ) and pedal (sub-bass 16 ', Octave 8', Pommer 4 '). The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
Bells
In the tower hang two bells, a 600 kg G-tone bell from 1724 and a B-tone bell from 1972, which weighs 350 kg. The older bell was cast by bell founder Christian Ludewig Meyer from Braunschweig from the previous bell from 1580, which in 1722 when the funeral bells for Anna Jürges, née. Hoyer was shattered. The younger bell was cast by the Rincker brothers from Sinn / Dillkreis. The small bell (diameter 36 cm) attached to the outside of the tower for the clock strike dates from the 14th century - although no year of casting is given. This is because it has decorations that were no longer used from the 15th century onwards: there are two cord bridges near the vault. It must have originally hung in a roof turret or bell carrier.
Crypt
Baron von Schwicheldt's hereditary burial from 1600 is under the half-timbered extension and to the north of it. The older coffins were removed around 1760 due to lack of space and buried between the church and Im Schlage street . The oldest coffin in the crypt today is that of Baron August Wilhelm von Schwicheldt (1708–1766). Lastly, Count Curdt von Schwicheldt (1839–1898) was buried. In 1986 parts of the crypt and the coffins were badly damaged by vandalism. In 2015, the crypt was restored by archaeologists and anthropologists, the destroyed coffins were also restored and the bones assigned. The re-inauguration after the completion of all work took place with a large community participation on the Open Monument Day 2016, September 11th. Since then, the crypt can be visited again on request.
Vasa sacra
A chalice from 1637 with the coat of arms of Caspar Jost von Schwicheldt and Margareta von Falckenbergk with paten , a chalice from 1700, a chalice spoon made of silver from the 18th century, a chalice from around 1980, a baptismal font from 1701 made of tin (donated by Windmüller Hinrich Müller), a cast-iron altar crucifix with a wooden cross and base (by C. Metzing, 1868) and a cast iron standing crucifix for the sacristy (around 1840).
literature
- Horst Ahrens u. Alexander Rose: Klein Ilsede - the story of a village . Peine 1995, pp. 137-240.
- Ev.-luth. St. Urban community Klein Ilsede (ed.): Crypt of those von Schwicheldt under St. Urban . KIKS 5, Ilsede 2016, 12 pp.
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 5.2 " N , 10 ° 13 ′ 41.8" E