St. Johannis (Lüchow)
The Protestant Church of St. Johannis (also St. Johannes ) is a Gothic brick church in Lüchow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the parish of St. Johannis Lüchow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
History and architecture
The exact founding date of the church cannot be determined, as documents from the Middle Ages have not survived due to the effects of fire and war, but there is a documentary mention of a provost in 1298, which is the oldest documented mention of the parish of St. John. In 1616, the tower on the roof of St. John's Church was renovated. In addition, a first pictorial representation of the church was found in 1655, which was shown in the Merian . Field stone foundations, which were found during excavations in 1962, suggest the existence of a previous building. The current structure was built at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1691, the building was thoroughly restored. In 1866 a neo-Gothic redesign of the church was carried out by Conrad Wilhelm Hase . After a fire on March 27, 1967, the interior had to be renovated. In the years 1991–1993 another redesign was carried out by the architect Dieter Langemaack.
The church is a stately, arched, brick Gothic church. The west side is highlighted by a mighty stepped gable with plaster panels. The four-bay nave with side aisles is followed by a choir with a five-sided end. A former gate tower located about 100 m north of the church now serves as a bell tower. Pointed-arched windows with tracery added later and renewed drapery illuminate the interior. The central nave is covered by a wooden barrel vault, the side aisles are closed by flat ceilings. Pointed arcades without combatants separate the aisles from the nave. The separated side aisles of the choir, used as a sacristy, open up on the upper floor as galleries to the central nave.
Furnishing
The furnishings, such as the altar, pulpit, the lower west gallery and the gallery stalls, come for the most part from the redesign in 1866. The iconographic program of the altar relates to the Lord's Supper and the sacrificial death of Christ. In the center is the Lamb of God , who is surrounded by four figures from the Old Testament: Aaron , Abel , Melchizedek , Isaac . A crucifix in a mandorla crowns the altar structure. The oldest piece is a Gothic fifth , carried by three figures , which is dated to 1417 under a Low German inscription. Stained glass from the period between 1898 and 1939 are used in the east choir windows, the middle one was replaced in 1967. Two older chandeliers from around 1500 and 1600 have been preserved in the central nave.
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history
The owl organ was inaugurated on December 3, 2006 and has been in planning and construction since 1999 with the then fundamental decision of the church council. In 2001 the first framework plans with the dispositions and an organ concept were drawn up. In addition, an organ committee was established. Also this year various cost offers were obtained from selected organ building workshops. In the following year, trips were made to selected organs of the organ building workshops, which were shortlisted, and the organs were each subjected to a sound and technical test. As a result, in 2003 the organ committee recommended that the church council commission Eule Orgelbau to build the new organ. Karl Imfeld presented the organ model at a community festival on September 14th . The church council then passed a resolution on the financing framework for organ building. In the next year, 2004, the church council approves the conclusion of the organ building contract with the Hermann Eule company for the construction of the new organ. In retrospect, the organ building contract was also approved by the church authorities. In May 2004, all parishioners of St. John's Church received a letter in which they were informed about the status of the organ project and asked for support through a voluntary church contribution. In the further course of 2005, the organ sounds and individual timbres of the registers were listened to and specified for the Lüchower organ, and the pipe materials and construction methods were also precisely determined in connection with the sound properties. In November, as part of a workshop at the Eule company in Bautzen, many parts of the new organ were already under construction: registers made of metal and wood, the windchest and parts of the console . In June 2006 the organ was delivered and set up on the gallery by mid-August. The intonation work began on August 14th . The 77 organ prospectus pipes were made to sound for the first time in September . On December 3, 2006, on the 1st of Advent, the new organ was inaugurated with a large participation of the community and many foreign guests.
Disposition
The arrangement of the organ is as follows:
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- Pair : I / II, I / III, II / III, P / I, P / II, P / III.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen - Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 869.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Origin and structural history of the St. John's Church. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '54.8 " N , 11 ° 9' 24.7" E