St. Bartholomew (Himbergen)
The classicist St. Bartholomew's Church in Himbergen in the Lüneburg Heath is the Evangelical Lutheran place of worship.
The hall church with a west tower is a brick building on a granite base .
history
Today's church is not the first church that was built in Himbergen. Little is known about the previous building, a wooden church. The Himberg Church is believed to have been founded in the 14th century. It is mentioned for the first time in Verden historical sources towards the end of the 14th century. After the old wooden church was closed, the stable and barn building was furnished by Kröger Bergmann as an interim church . The stable and barn building, 50 feet long and 32 feet wide, only offered space for about 200 people. Kröger Bergmann received 46 Thalers lease.
The cost of the facility is 127 thalers and 22 good groschen . What was no longer needed was sold to the highest bidder, like the morgue . The proceeds were used to build the new church. On December 15, 1832, it was decided to build a new church. 14,000 thalers were estimated as the construction sum to be raised by the parish budget. The design came from the consistorial architect Hellner . Construction began in 1842 and by Michaelmas 1843 the church was ready. The church is 28.75 m long, 18.65 m wide and 9 m high. The church tower is 34 m high. The furnishings of the old wooden church were taken over as far as possible: sculptures, altar , hourglass, sound cover over the pulpit and benches. The construction was largely completed on December 13, 1844. The total costs including the church wall, organ (1000 thalers) and manual and tensioning services totaled 18,000 thalers, plus the expenses for two new school buildings with 3200 thalers.
| Pastor list name |
Term of office |
|---|---|
| Jacobus Windtisem | 1422-1439 |
| Hinricus Perbrandt | 1440-1960 |
| Simon Hornius | 1460-1481 |
| unknown | 1481-1509 |
| Gerd Harding (or Gerding) | 1510-1540 |
| Petrus Schmidt | 1541-1577 |
| Simon Horn | 1581 |
| Johann Hülsemann | 1582-1608 |
| Bernhard Baumgardt | 1608-1615 |
| Heinrich Montanus (miner) | 1615-1647 |
| Wilhelm Montanus | 1647-1657 |
| Christian Rausch (Rauschker) | 1657-1670 |
| Julius Eickhoff | 1670 |
| Johannes Carstens | 1670-1682 |
| Ernst Polemann | 1670-1711 |
| Heinrich Polemann | 1711-1741 |
| Carl Ludwig Lodemann | 1741-1758 |
| Laurentius Nicolaus Rodewald | 1759-1767 |
| Friedrich Guden | 1768-1770 |
| Friedrich CB Culemann | 1771-1789 |
| Johann Friedrich Knopff | 1790-1821 |
| Johann Ludwig Conrad Becker | 1821-1822 |
| August Ludwig Wilhelm Hölty | 1823-1849 |
| Gottfried Heinr. Joh. Oldendorf | 1849-1851 |
| Carl Gottlieb Lyssmann | 1851-1861 |
| Franz Gottlieb J. Mummbrauer | 1861-1883 |
| Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt | 1884-1894 |
| Heinrich Christian Wilh. Fuck | 1895-1912 |
| Christian Theodor J. Achilles | 1913-1934 |
| Carl Emil HB Otto habenicht | 1935-1939 |
| Günther Max Julius Marr | 1939-1941 |
| Hedenreich | 1942-1943 |
| Hildebrandt | 1943-1944 |
| Otto Heinrich Dohmeier | 1944-1951 |
| Helmut Dierich Carl Erdsiek | 1952-1973 |
| Guntram Tscharntke | 1973-1980 |
| Klaus Schulz-Sandhof | 1981-1991 |
| Gabriele Ahnert-Sundermann u. Dr. Hans Georg Sundermann |
1992-1998 |
| Rüdiger Kitzmann | 1999-2010 |
| Ulf Cyriacks | 2010– |
Church furnishings
organ
The Furtwängler company from Elze was commissioned to build the organ in 1862, for which the community spent 1395 thalers. The organ was to be installed by April 1, 1863, whereby a deposit of 1000 Talers was to be paid upon delivery and the rest of 395 after revision . In 1863 the old organ was sold and in November the new organ was rated as excellent by the appraiser.
Bells
The big bell was cast in Hamburg in 1616 and recast in Lüneburg in 1731 . In 1942 the bells were transported to Hamburg to be melted down. The big bell (1020 kg) was found in Lüneburg in 1947 in a bell cemetery and was ready for transport to Himbergen. She was received on July 30, 1947 in Himbergen. After a crack in 1958, the bell was welded on site by the Lachenmeyer company from Nördlingen with a guarantee of sound and shape retention. It bears the inscription: “Come to me all you who are troublesome and burdened; I want to refresh you. "and the word of promise:" So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, on whom all who believe in him would not be lost, but have eternal life. "
The second, smaller bell was allegedly cast from a cracked older bell in Lüneburg in 1688 and bears the inscription " Soli deo gloria ".
Two more bells were cast by the Rincker bell foundry in Sinn / Dillkreis on March 15, 1966. The larger one (534 kg) was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the two world wars with the inscription: “ Graciously grant us peace , Lord God, in our times!” was consecrated in 1966. The smaller one (231 kg) bears the inscription: "Sing to the Lord a new song."
Steeple
In the 1940s it became necessary to overhaul the tower, which was covered with natural slate, as the slate had rusted through many prisoners . The renovation was carried out by master roofer Walter Kaiser in the summer of 1949. Since the slate roof was still a source of danger, as slates fell occasionally and damage had to be repaired in the framework, master Bade from Bad Bevensen replaced the old slate roof with a new copper covering in 1965. The costs amounted to 29,000 DM.
Interior decoration and art
Above the tower entrance there is an inscription plaque with the text “Zur Ehre Gottes! 1843. ”, above a circular window, the lattice work of which reminds of King David. Sound hatches and dials dissolve the surfaces of the bell storey. On the long sides of the nave with a total of seven window axes, uniaxial risalits protrude at the corners, on which, on the two narrow sides, round-arched windows are arranged on two floors. The portals lie in the central axes and are lifted out by narrow plaster strips. With the exception of the tower, the exterior is unadorned.
Inside, the central nave is vaulted with a mirrored ceiling, the circumferential gallery is supported by Doric columns below , which are repeated above to take the weight of the ceiling. The parapet in the frame and paneling stretch between them. As is customary with Hellner, the cornice below the mirror vault is divided into an architrave , a toothed frieze and cornice. For a new and wider organ, the west gallery was pulled forward and placed on thin cast iron supports. The altar wall is characterized by fluted Doric pilasters below in six fluted columns above. The pulpit is set up between the two middle ones.
The figures of a crucifixion group on the east wall come from the center shrine of a late Gothic carved altar.
graveyard
The new cemetery created at the coupling was almost five acres in size. In 1869 the parish bought land to enlarge the cemetery.
literature
- 1000 years in the municipality of Himbergen. Editor: Bruno Große. 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ HIMBERGEN. Ev. Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 735
- ↑ HIMBERGEN. Ev. Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 735
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 35.8 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 43.8" E