St. Gertrud (Cuxhaven)
The Church of St. Gertrud in Cuxhaven - Döse , Steinmarner Straße 5a, is under the protection of historical monuments in Lower Saxony and is included in the list of architectural monuments of the outskirts of the city of Cuxhaven .
history
Döse - first mentioned in 1394 - had a small chapel “buten den Dieck” before the Reformation. The place has been Lutheran since around 1528 after Hamburg became Lutheran. The Döser asked the Ritzebüttel bailiff, Dirk Lange, “We'd like to have a little Kercke and a preacher”, and first the “nien Kercke up der Stenmarne” was created for the merged settlements of Döse and Steinmarne . In the middle of the 16th century Döse separated from the mother church in Altenwalde . In 1584 a choir was added to the church, it was now a parish church.
The dilapidated half-timbered church was demolished in 1860 and was in the same place until 1886 for the rapidly growing place the nave brick church with about 500 seats, an engaged Choir and the open visible structure by architect Gustav Church Pauer, Hamburg, in the epoch of historicism with a facade in the neo-Romanesque style and an interior in the neo-Gothic style . The nave is 24.00 m long, 12.70 m wide and 10.80 m high.
In 1944 the old bell tower was destroyed and the nave damaged. In 1955 a new bell tower for six bells was built and the church was restored by 1965.
The old chapel and the church were named after the abbess Gertrud von Nivelles (626–659).
Inside
The baroque altar from 1640 was donated to a Hamburg church and later sold by Döse. Above the Last Supper scene there is a crucifixion image and an image of Christ as well as four carved evangelist figures on the side: Matthew with angel, Luke with bull, Mark with lion and John with eagle. There are two coats of arms between the pictures.
The pulpit from 1641 south of the reveal of the chancel arch also comes from Hamburg and was donated by the bailiff Hinrich Esich after the renovation of the church. Moses and Christ as world rulers adorn the side entrance and the four panels are pictures of the four evangelists. The sound cover was donated by Hamburg Senator Hermann Stubbe in 1695 for the inauguration of the new church building.
The bronze baptismal font from 1573 was cast by the Hamburg gun founder Orban Schober for the Döser church.
The epitaph from 1699 is to the Vogt auf Neuwerk Peter Thode and his wife Anna, geb. Dedicated to Oldendorps.
The portrait shows pastor (from 1632 to 1641 †) Johann Elfring in official costume.
The two wooden sculptures from 1958 in front of the chancel as allegories of the Old and New Testaments were made by the sculptor K. Schubert.
organ
The first organ from 1709 and the second organ are said to have been of poor quality. The third organ was destroyed in World War II. Today's fourth organ on the west gallery of was built in 1956 by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau , Hamburg. It is a mechanical slide organ with two manuals with 23 registers . The Rückpositiv can be played with the first manual and the major work with the second.
Parish
The ev.-luth. St. Gertrud-Gemeinde looks after the districts of Döse, Duhnen , Stickenbüttel and the island of Neuwerk . She has day care centers in Döse and Duhnen and Kreise u. a. for music, women, men, socializing, bible and handicraft.
There are old tombstones and tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries in the church cemetery.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 58.1 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 14.8" E