St. Georg (Sottrum)
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Georg Church is a church building in the village of Sottrum in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .
history
From the originally medieval church building, the core (minus the brick patchwork), probably the Romanesque west tower, can still be seen today. In 1737 the ship was renewed by the Bremen builder Hermann Uhlhorn (see the inscription plaque above the south portal) and built mostly from field stones and boulders in the form of a simple rectangular hall.
architecture
The single-nave hall church is covered by a flat arched barrel . The entire structure is 29.80 meters long and 11.70 meters wide. The massive west tower is 24.15 m high and has a wall thickness of a good 1.40 meters.
Furnishing
A coarse offering box near the entrance was donated in 1655 by the then bailiff Ulrich Prange. The local locksmith Karl Hüsing worked on the wrought iron chandelier in 1947. The former wooden baptismal font was exchanged for a new, modern one in 1961.
George group
Between 1510 and 1530 the wood-carved free sculpture of Saint George fighting the dragon , to whom the church was consecrated in the Middle Ages, was created. A dendrochronological examination revealed a felling date of the wood used around 1509. The mentioned dating is confirmed by the Riefel armor , as it was worn around 1510–1530.
pulpit
The sandstone pulpit from 1609 comes from the previous building and was donated in memory of Johann Clüver, who died that year. Its central support is formed by a figure of Moses with the tablets of the law, the four evangelists are depicted on the arched areas of the pulpit . In 1737, with the baroque reconstruction of the nave, the sermon chair was included in the construction of a new pulpit altar and a fifth image field with St. Paul was added.
organ
The first organ probably also came from the 17th century. After this had become obsolete, a new organ was made at Rohdenburg in Lilienthal in 1861 . It had 17 registers and had to be overhauled several times. After exactly 100 years, a new organ was commissioned in 1961, which was finally completed in 1982 by the Hillebrand organ building company from Altwarmbüchen . It has 22 registers, which are divided between the main work, breast work and pedal .
Epitaphs
Two epitaphs recall members of the Clüver family, who had been wealthy in the region since the high Middle Ages. The one with the sandstone reliefs of the crucifixion and the resurrection was intended for Johann († 1606) and Göste Clüver, who also donated the pulpit; Perhaps only a little older is the grave monument for Borchard Clüver († 1603) and his wife Lise von Düring († 1593).
- Furnishing
St. George fights the dragon. Around 1520
Epitaph Clüver 1603
Pulpit altar from 1603/1737
Sacrificial box from 1655
painting
Three oil paintings are from the 18th century: The Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection. Two further paintings were created by the Rotenburg church painter Rudolf Schäfer (1878–1961) in 1950 , they show Jesus and the disciples in Emmaus and the Annunciation to the Shepherds .
Bells
The younger (1672) of the former two bells was melted down during the First World War . The older bell, cast in 1638, cracked and was cast in 1751 by Johann Andreas Bieber in Hamburg, because of its solemn and solemn sound it is considered one of the most valuable bells in the region. In 1927 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen near Bremen supplied a bell to replace the melted bell. The Gießer Bieber bell had to be handed in in 1942 during World War II , but returned undamaged in 1948. In 1965 it was decided to add two more bells to form a four-part ensemble.
|
No. |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (mm) |
Weight (approx kg) |
Chime |
| 1 | 1965 | Rincker , Sinn | 1,045 | 720 | g 1 |
| 2 | 1751 | Bieber, Hamburg | 1,040 | 650 | a 1 |
| 3 | 1927 | Otto , Hemelingen | 850 | 389 | b 1 |
| 4th | 1965 | Rincker, Sinn | 790 | 300 | c 2 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Siebern: The art monuments of the districts Verden, Rotenburg and Zeven. (Reprint of the Hanover 1908 edition). Osnabrück 1980, p. 169-174 .
- ^ 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, here in particular pp. 188, 189, 410, 530 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here especially 181, 385, 491 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 59.7 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 45.7" E