St. Aegidien (Rautheim)

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St. Aegidia

St. Aegidia
View from the west

Denomination : Evangelical Lutheran
Patronage : Saint Aegidius
Consecration year : 1158
Parish : Rautheim
Address: Am Kirchberg 2
38126 Braunschweig

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '25.8 "  N , 10 ° 35' 3.3"  E

St. Aegidien is a Romanesque hall church from the 12th century in the Braunschweig district of Rautheim . The parish church belongs to the parish association of Braunschweig South of the Braunschweig Provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . The associated cemetery is located in the southwest of the village.

history

In 1150 the village of Rautheim received its own church, which was originally founded by Abbot Goswin of St. Aegidien as a branch church of St. Magni in Braunschweig. After completion, it was consecrated by Bishop Ulrich von Halberstadt and in 1158 received the right of baptism and burial by Abbot Heinrich zu St. Aegidien, whereby it was separated from the mother church. The Braunschweig monastery of St. Aegidien was founded by Gertrud the Younger of Brunswick and consecrated to the Virgin Mary on September 1, 1115, on the day of St. Aegidius , the patron saint of the monastery. 1179 the ownership rights of the Aegidienkloster in Braunschweig over a monastery courtyard and a church in Rautheim by Pope Alexander III. approved.

Since Rautheim is located east of the Oker , the church belonged to the Halberstadt diocese at that time .

Building description

The building complex consists of a rectangular tower that is arranged across the nave with the choir. The oldest component is the tower, which, according to Hahne and Wilhelm Bornstedt, previously served as a defense tower, because Rautheim was located near the so-called Braunschweiger Landwehr until around 1400 . The church was built on a hill on the Ackerberg, the northwestern area belonged to an outer courtyard of the monastery of St. Aegidien. Pope Alexander III in 1179 confirmed the ownership of the church and the land belonging to the Aegidienkloster , which made it a ducal church patronage . Later, a vestibule was added to the south side of the nave, which was used as a mortuary until the 20th century . Each part of the building has a gabled roof , which is covered with red tiles.

In 1413 the walls of the nave were extended to the east, the triple pointed arch window on the east wall probably dates from this time, while the other windows were added later. Extensive renovation work was carried out from 1962 to 1964.

The tower has a Romanesque double round-arched sound opening to the south, the access to the church is through the vestibule. In the interior, the nave is separated from the choir by a large arch and from the tower by a wall with a pointed arch.

inner space

In the left part of the choir arch is the wooden pulpit, which is decorated with carvings and divided by Ionic columns. On it are colored oil paintings of the four evangelists; Matthew with the winged man, Mark with his lion, Luke with the bull and John with the eagle.

The altar has a baroque top, which, like the pulpit, dates from the first half of the 17th century and consists of richly decorated colored wood carvings. There are six figures on it: on top of the parapet John the Baptist and Jesus , between them Aaron and Moses , each framed by two small pillars, and below Peter and Paul . In the upper tier there is an oil painting that shows Jesus kneeling on the Mount of Olives , an angel and the three sleeping disciples Peter, James and John.

In the church there is a grave slab of Pastor Paul Gering (1620–1655). Another grave slab of Pastor Johann Rudolf Friedrich Krüger is in the morgue.

Bells and organ

The first bell, mentioned in 1681, was made by the Heiso Meyer bell foundry in Wolfenbüttel. The tower has a total of two bells. The bells from 1894 were partially melted down in both world wars. In 1960/61 the parish raised money for a second big bell, which was inaugurated on the 4th Advent in 1962.

The request for an organ was expressed as early as 1749 , but it was not made until 1885/86 by the Gustav Sander company from Braunschweig. This organ was located in the lower part of the nave until 1935 and was moved to the western tower wall after the gallery was installed. This organ was replaced by a new one after the last renovation in 1964. The current organ is a Friedrich Weißenborn organ with 13 registers from 1968. It was overhauled and redesigned from May 2010 to October 2011.

Pastors

The pastors of the Rautheim parish since 1542

Period Surname
1542 Lüder Lüders
1568 Bernhard Kröggelkamp
1569-1587 Johann of Bruges
1587-1614 Johann Olfe
1614-1619 Levin Olfe
1620-1655 Paul Gerding
1656-1688 Johann Lorenz Francke
1688-1727 Franz Hermann Francke
1727-1741 Philipp Ludwig Ziegenmeyer
1742-1756 Johann Rudolf Friedrich Kruger
1757-1766 Franz Heinrich Haase
1767-1786 Johann Paul Metzel
1787-1795 Johann Friedrich Warnecke
1795-1806 Georg Ludwig Heinrich Jenner
1806-1828 Johann Julius Janosch
1828-1877 Johann Ernst Friedrich Schreiber
Period Surname
1877-1878 vacant
1878 Hermann Gustav Ludwig Emil Hausdörffer
1878-1880 vacant
1880-1884 Louis Wilhelm Ferdinand Albert Faber
1885-1890 Christian Dietrich Gustav Fischer
1890-1898 Hermann Christian Dietrich Hägerbäumer
1898-1930 Carl Heinrich Eberhard Ramke
1931-1970 Karl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Seebaß
1970-1992 Joachim Berger
1992-2000 Axel Lang
2001–2012 Tillmann Mischke
2013-2014 vacant
2014-2016 Andreas Widlowski
2016-2017 vacant
2017 Dorit Christ

literature

  • 950 years of Rautheim: 1031–1981 . Self-published, Rautheim 1980, OCLC 46148831 .
  • Uwe Pape: The organs of the district of Braunschweig (= North German organs. Volume 4.) Self-published, Wolfenbüttel 1968, OCLC 788270 .
  • Michael glasses: Romanesque churches in the Braunschweiger Land. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-854-6 .
  • Uwe Pape, Jochen Weihmann: Braunschweig-Rautheim, Ev.-luth. St. Aegidien Church . In: Organs and Organ Builders in Braunschweig . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-921140-99-4 , pp. 438 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael glasses: Romanesque churches in the Braunschweiger Land. Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-854-6 , pp. 22-23 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c History: Ev.-luth. Parish of Rautheim. kirche-rautheim.de, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Rautheim on braunschweig.de, accessed on October 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Paul Jonas Meier : Rautheim . In: The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Braunschweig . tape 2 : The architectural and art monuments of the Braunschweig district excluding the city of Braunschweig . Julius Zwissler, Wolfenbüttel 1896, p. 113–118 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Rautheim 1968 (PDF) orgelbewegung.net.
  6. ^ Pastor: Ev.-luth. Parish of Rautheim. In: kirche-rautheim.de. kirche-rautheim.de, accessed on March 16, 2018 .