St. Johannis (Glandorf)
The Church of St. Johannis the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in Glandorf (Lower Saxony). She belongs to the parish community St. Johannis / Immaculate Conception of Mary (district Schwege). The church is on Thieplatz in the center of Glandorf.
description
The oldest part of the churchyard castle was built around 1270 and consisted of a single-nave late Romanesque complex.
The church was continuously expanded in the following centuries, so a late Gothic new building followed around 1500 with an extension to the two-aisled hall. Between 1565 and 1665 there were several destructions, which were always repaired. T. led to changes in the architecture.
During the Thirty Years War, the church was completely burned down by Swedish troops on May 5, 1636. The event is indicated by an inscription carved in stone above a side entrance, the so-called bridal door, of the church. The subsequent reconstruction will be carried out using the old material.
In 1665 the roof collapsed after a heavy storm. The brick vault will not be rebuilt, instead a flat roof with visible oak beams and wooden planks will be built.
From 1817 to 1820 the building was changed to a classicistic hall church . A two-storey gallery was built on the west side , on the upper level of which the organ console can be found. In 1937 the tower was increased to 54 meters.
From 1991 to 1992, the outside of the church and steeple were renovated, including the reconstruction and expansion of the sacristy. The statics of the west facade and the tower were secured. From 1995 to 1996 the interior of the church was renovated, as well as the windows in the baptistery and the securing of the statics on the west wall and tower.
Furnishing
There are several works of art inside the church. The wooden lecture cross, which dates from the 13th century, and the sandstone side altar with the crucifixion relief, which was made in the 17th century, are particularly worth seeing.
organ
The organ was built in 1829 by the organ builder Vorenweg-Kersting . The instrument has been rebuilt several times. From the original instrument, 8 registers are still original, another 5 stops are from 1906. In 1996 the organ was extensively restored and technically rebuilt. The slider chests -instrument has a total of 26 stops on two manuals and pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
Before the Second World War, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen had already cast three bronze bells for Glandorf. These were destroyed in the war. After the capitulation, Otto cast two bells (g '- b') for the St. John's Church in 1949 and two more bells (c '- es') in 1958/9. The strike tone series is: c '- es' - g '- b'. The bells have the following diameters: 1586 mm, 1310 mm, 1093 mm, 574 mm. They weigh: 2794 kg, 1250 kg, 776 kg, 303 kg.
photos
Portal of St. Johannis
Inscription above the so-called bridal door of St. Johannis
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ church ( Memento of 8 January 2013, Internet Archive )
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the organ building company ( Memento from July 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ 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 523, 541, 545, 555, 576 .
- ↑ 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 in particular 486, 500, 503, 510, 534 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 53.4 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 9.2 ″ E