St. Johannis (Rosche)
Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 11.2 ″ E The St. Johannis Church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Rosche , around 14 km east of Uelzen . The parish hall is right next to the church at a junction. The church is a neo-Gothic hall building made of brick and was thus one of the first in the area. In the west there is a massive church tower, in the north the church has a half-timbered vestibule through which the church can be entered. The interior of the church was marked by numerous preaches .
history
The first church is said to have been built at the time of Christianization around 800. The first permanent church was probably built in the 13th or 14th century. The village of Rosche is mentioned as early as 1133 under the name Rothessen. The place has been called Rosche since around 1370.
The two churches of Rosche and Suhlendorf, which were still a parish at that time, were supplied by the Benedictine monks from the Oldenstadt monastery until the Reformation . At that time the parish had about 2741 people in 1660. The two parishes were separated on October 27, 1774. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Rosche, as a small round village, was only the ecclesiastical center of the surrounding 22 farming villages. With the beginning of industrialization , it developed into a business and commercial center. At the place where the church stands today, there used to be the cemetery and instead of the war memorial there was a small, old church, which had fallen apart and was also poorly built, so that the roof structure was repeatedly damaged by moisture . In addition, the church tower was in danger of collapsing and it was considered to simply fall over. It was a construction made of field stones that only offered 350 people. The length was 75 feet and the height was only 19 feet .
Around 1840 a heated discussion arose because of the acute lack of space. Consideration was given to adding more preaches or expanding them to the east, but all these possibilities would have raised further problems. This led to the new building of the church in 1860, which was financed by donations from the parishioners, as well as a loan from the Hannoversche Landes-Kreditanstalt. The architect Ernst Willhelm Wagner was commissioned to build the church. The estimate without the clock and organ was 19,201 Reichstaler . First of all, the dilapidated church tower was demolished, the field stones of the tower were used for the foundation of the new church. The planned church was calculated with 1010 seats and special attention was paid to the desired large choir room and a lot of space in front of the altar, as this should offer space for 250 people at the Last Supper. The topping-out ceremony for the church was celebrated on December 20, 1861. At the time of its construction, the church served 25 village communities and farmsteads as a place of worship.
The inauguration of the new St. Johannis Church with the Hanoverian King George V took place on September 14, 1862. The visit of the king was a big celebration for the community to which many guests of honor appeared. For reasons that were not clarified, the church was not painted during construction, but it was not until 1905 that the pastor at the time decided to have the church painted in Art Nouveau style . The painter Ebeling from Hanover was commissioned with this task, and the seating was also repainted. The biggest differences to today's, reconstructed version are likely to be the marbling of the choir arch and the stucco heads in the spandrels above the floor.
Little can be said about the changes between 1906 and the end of the Second World War. It was probably at this time that the church got a heating system for the first time, consisting of oil stoves that were set up on the galleries. The church survived the war relatively well, with only minor damage to the roof and windows. The damage was estimated at 5,700 RM, the main cause of complaint was the loss of the two church bells.
Around 1950 the previously installed oil stoves were so damaged that they had to be replaced with underfloor warm air heating . A year later, the organ gallery in the west was expanded and expanded, and the lighting system was replaced at the same time.
All the families in the parish had named seats in several places in the church. Men and women usually sat separately, with the women sitting in the front half. During the renovation in 1952, the stalls were also painted and no new distribution by name was made.
In 1972 the church tower was re-crowned. At the beginning of 1988 the new roofing of the nave with slate was arranged, at the same time the restoration of the sandstone pinnacles with Ibbenbürener sandstone was approved. The total cost was about 425,000 DM.
After this restoration work, there were repeated complaints about the condition of the rest of the church, necessary work was: The laying of sandstone in the vestibule and in the front nave, the new glazing of the windows in the choir and nave, painting work in the entire interior, the installation of a new warm air heating, the renewal of the electrical installations, restorative work to expose the neo-Gothic ornamental paintings and the complete renewal of the lighting. In 1998 the restoration was completed, in which the condition of 1906 was restored, as it was painted over in 1952. The cost of the restoration amounted to around 540,000 DM. About half of this was raised by donations from the community, the other half was financed by grants from the church district.
The Roscher Church is one of the few that represent church construction in the mid- 19th century . It is clearly distinguished from the stylistically closed buildings of FAL Hellner in Himbergen , Kirchweyhe and Rätzlingen . These buildings from the beginning of the 19th century, with their simple, cubic structures, which are structured by themed windows , risalits , pilaster strips and niches, reflect the late classicist style of the time around 1800.
The church is currently being planned to be barrier-free; a ramp is to be built for this purpose.
Interior
organ
The organ was given to the community for the inauguration by King George V of Hanover , the value of the organ was 1500 Reichstalers. The royal coat of arms and a Latin saying (Ex Munificentia Georgii V Hannoverae Regis. Anno Salutis MDCCCLXIII.), Which means "From the generosity of George V, who rules over Hanover. In the year of salvation 1863", was attached to the organ to remember the king's generosity. The organ has 22 registers and was built by the Harz organ builder Johann Andreas Engelhardt .
To the left and right of the organ were the seats of the noble families Graf Grote Göddenstedt and Baron von Estorff Teyendorf. The organ got a complete overhaul in 1978, while the pipe material and the organ prospectus were retained. On July 2, 1978 there was a festive service to inaugurate the organ. The restoration cost 90,000 DM .
The organ pipes
at the organ
in front of the organ
Organist's place
Baptismal font
The baptismal font consists of a low marble column in the middle of which a metal bowl is embedded. On the edge of the bowl the words "Let the little children come to me and do not prevent them for such is the kingdom of God mt. 10, 14 " engraved.
Bell jar
The church is equipped with two bronze bells and a clock chime. In 1889 the church received its two bells from the Radler bell foundry in Hildesheim . The smaller one has a diameter of 101 cm and has the strike note f sharp. The larger one (125 cm, tone D) was confiscated on July 27, 1942. On August 21, 1949, the bell cast by the Weule company (strike tone a`) was inaugurated as a replacement . The two bronze bells bore the following inscription: Large bell: "me fecit Lueneburgensis 1681 duce Georgio Guillelmo Hans Voss" / Small: "duce Christiano Ludovici 1658 Paul Voss me fecit". Around 2010, the bell foundry Petit & Edelbrock in Gescher cast a new bronze bell for the community, the old steel bell is now in front of the church.
The bells strike every full hour, one chime is calculated for every hour, this happens in the 12-hour system. The bells only strike once every half hour. In addition, the bells strike before church services, on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (this rings in Sunday) and in the event of deaths always at 12:00 p.m.
The war memorial
The war memorial, which stands directly in front of the church on the left, was built to commemorate those who fell in the First World War . On the front there is the inscription "Our warriors, who gave their lives for us during the World War, dedicated in grateful love.
The church community Rosche, Joh. 15,13 "(At this biblical passage it says:" Nobody has greater love than that he gives his life for his friends. ") On the other three sides of the monument the fallen are listed by name, rank , Place, date of death and a comment on the circumstances of death The two smaller stones of the memorial each bear the years of the Second World War 1939–1945.
Namesake of the church
The church is named after John the Baptist, who was a Jewish penitential preacher who appeared in Galilee and Judea around 28 . In the New Testament , which was written in Greek by early Christians, John is represented as a prophet of the end times and a pioneer of Jesus Christ with his own following. Subsequently, many churches venerated him as a saint .
local community
The parish of Rosche in the Uelzen parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover , to which the Polau parish of the St. Laurentius Chapel also belongs, currently has a good 2,300 parish members in 27 towns and settlements.
The pastors 1602 to 1986
The following is a copy of the pastors from the booklet for the 125th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran. St. John's Church Rosche 1862–1987
| year | Surname | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1602 | Pastor Worke | |
| before 1658 | Pastor Crusius (Krause) | |
| until 1659 | Patos Crusius, the son | † 1659 |
| 1659-1667 | Pastor Michael Praetorius | † Roshe 1667, age 36 |
| 1668-1688 | Pastor Hinrich Blumenthal | † Roshe 1688 |
| 1692-1695 | Pastor Biedermann | |
| -1720 | Pastor Henrich Ernst Roffsack | † Roshe 1720 |
| 1720 | Pastor Petrus Helm | † 1722, only 4 weeks here |
| 1721-1725 | Pastor Georg Christian Hasselmann | † Rosche 1725, buried in the Polau chapel |
| 1726-1762 | Pastor Heinrich Karl Schlötke | † Rosche 1762 He was the son of a farmer from southern Hanover. He found large deposits of limestone marl in the Molbath field marrow and encouraged the bears to lime the fields. He has done a lot for the agriculture of our area. |
| 1760-1763 | Pastor Chr. Aug. Knophf | past. adj. married the daughter of Pastor Schlötke |
| 1763-1773 | Pastor Johann Hinrich Kahle | |
| 1773-1801 | Pastor Friedrich Willhelm Mannes | was pastor in Roshe for 28 years. † 1801, 73 years old |
| 1803-1836 | Pastor Melchior Friedrich Christian Clasing | † Roshe October 25, 1838, buried in the newly laid out cemetery |
| 1836-1856 | Pastor Lewin | |
| 1856-1566 | Pastor Wittrock | during his tenure the new church was built |
| 1866-1873 | Pastor Joel | |
| 1874-1882 | Pastor Röhrsen | |
| 1882-1889 | Pastor thanks | † Roshe May 27, 1898 |
| 1898-1907 | Pastor Alpers | |
| 1907-1934 | Pastor Schünemann | |
| 1934-1942 | Pastor Arnold Kreckow | killed in Russia in 1942 |
| 1942-1946 | Retired Pastor Lohmann | from Uelzen |
| 1946-1971 | Pastor Berthold Riechardt | During his tenure, the parish hall, the rectory and the sexton's house were rebuilt. For many years he was deputy provost of Uelzen. |
| 1971-1982 | Pastor Johannes Jansen | During his tenure, the chapel in Polau was restored and the morgue built, and the organ in Rosche was renewed and the church tower was re-covered. He was the deputy chairman of the church district assembly in Uelzen . |
| 1983-1985 | Dieter Knauer | During his tenure, the church grounds were also redesigned in connection with the redesign of the town center. |
| from 1986 | Henner Krause |
Trivia
About ten years after the inauguration of the Rosch Church, the Wechold community decided to add a new nave to its church tower . After considering various construction plans, the community of Wechold had its St. Mary's Church built according to Wagner's plans for the Rosch Church . Except for a few small things on the outside of the church, it is exactly the same as in Roshe.
When the coronation was re-crowned in 1972, information was found in the ball about the bottles with documents and coins built into the foundation stone at the northeast corner of the church. In these documents, among other things, cholera and the construction of the church were reported.
Web links
- Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Johannis, Rosche - entry at kirche-uelzen.de
- St. John's Church in Rosche - samtgemeinde-rosche.de
- War memorial
bibliography
- Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. John's Church in Rosche - planning and construction history. Hanover 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hanover, 2000, p. 6.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hannover, 2000, pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hanover, 2000, p. 11 ff.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hanover, 2000, p. 40 ff.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hanover, 2000, p. 42 ff.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hannover, 2000, p. 48 ff.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hannover, 2000, p. 52 ff.
- ↑ Michael Alexander Flechtner, Torsten Müller: The St. Johannis Church in Rosche - planning and building history. Hanover, 2000, p. 37.