St. Cosmas and Damian (Wunstorf)
St. Cosmas and Damian in Wunstorf is now a Protestant church that goes back to a canonical foundation founded in 871 by Bishop Theoderich von Minden . It got its name from the twin brothers Cosmas and Damian and served in the Middle Ages both as an archdeacon church and as a collegiate and parish church . Colloquially, the church is known locally as the collegiate church in order to distinguish it from the nearby town church (also called market church ) St. Bartholomaei .
Building description
Of the Ottonian basilica , which was probably built after a fire in 1010 , the massive triple arcade in the west building has been preserved. The remains indicate a three-tower westwork , which lay like a bolt in front of a three-aisled nave .
After the church and the monastery were destroyed around 1183, large parts of the church were rebuilt. The cruciform, Romanesque vaulted basilica made of quarry stone and ashlars with a west tower, which has largely been preserved, comes from this new building in the second half of the 12th century . Despite structural changes in the 14th and 17th centuries as well as a comprehensive restoration in the period 1853 to 1859 under the country builders Eduard Wellenkamp and Georg Ludwig Comperl the church reflects the architectural tradition of the Western Saxony of the 12th century in the last third under Henry the Lion resist .
organ
The organ was built in 1859 by the organ builder Eduard Meyer (Hanover) and inaugurated together with the renovated church. In 1939/1940 the sound pattern was permanently changed by replacing numerous fundamental registers with higher-sounding registers. The instrument has 37 registers on three manuals and a pedal . It was not until 1987 that the organ received new prospect pipes , now again made from a tin alloy, as is usual for prospect pipes. The original prospectus pipes had been given for war purposes in 1917 and were initially not adequately replaced.
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- W = 1940 replaces more fundamental register.
Church robbery
The band of robbers of Nikol List , which is notorious over Saxony and Northern Germany and is widely ramified as well as operating on a large scale, was particularly known for its spectacular church robberies, such as those of the Hamburg Cathedral , the Golden Plate in Lüneburg and the Brunswick Katharinenkirche - certainly with local participation, because this crook- Syndicate had important bases in and around Blumenau and a large number of members. As a result, numerous raids took place in the area, including the visitation of the Wunstorf collegiate church Cosmas and Damian on the night of March 27, 1696. They let go of all the “sacred vessels dedicated to worship”, including the “vasa sacra”, such as also two beautiful gilded goblets partly set with precious stones, two gilded wafer plates, a large silver jug, etc., and they didn't even spare the poor box.
literature
- Urs Boeck : The collegiate church in Wunstorf ( large architectural monuments , issue 249). 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1998.
- Ernst Oeters: The collegiate church in Wunstorf. Your building history and position within Saxon architecture . Publishing house of the University of Art History, Marburg / Lahn 1941.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ^ Joachim Lehrmann : Gangs of robbers between Harz and Weser - Braunschweig, Hanover, Hildesheim and southern Lower Saxony. A historical review . Self-published, Lehrte 2004, ISBN 3-9803642-4-0 , pp. 97f.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 36 " N , 9 ° 25 ′ 52.5" E