St. Georg (Fürstenau)
St. Georg in Fürstenau is the parish church of the Fürstenau parish , which belongs to the Bramsche parish of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
Building history and description
The church dates from the late Gothic period, the exact construction time is not known. It is a hall church with a two-bay nave and a recently closed choir bay made of quarry stone and boulders . At first there was no church tower , it was only between 1896 and 1899 that today's neo-Gothic west tower was introduced to the facade.
The nave has a ribbed vault that was badly damaged in a fire in 1606. The windows are ogival . A sacristy with cross vaults is attached to the north side of the choir .
Interior
The two-story, wooden altar by Georg Dollart from Münster was erected in 1695. The pulpit , choir stalls , gallery parapets and baptismal font also date from around 1700. In addition, several epitaphs have been preserved in and on the church. The epitaph for Canon Otto von Langen from the beginning of the 17th century probably comes from Adam Stenelt's workshop .
literature
- 1608-2008. 400 years of St. George's Church in Fürstenau. Fürstenau, 2008.
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen / Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 481 f.
- Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover, part IV. Administrative region Osnabrück, volume 3. The districts of Wittlage and Bersenbrück. (Booklet 13 of the complete works) Hannover 1915, p. 125 ff.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 35 ″ E