St. Johannis (Salzhausen)

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St. Johannis Salzhausen - tower
Back of the church
St. John's Church - southeast view

The Protestant St. John's Church is a listed church building in Salzhausen , a municipality in the Harburg district ( Lower Saxony ). With its high walls made of boulders, it is a typical heather church. The parish belongs to the Winsen parish in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

History and architecture

The archdeaconate Salzhausen has been documented since 1205, it comprised the area from Hitbergen in the northeast to Hanstedt in the west, from the Elbe in the north to Bispingen in the south. The ecclesiastical judicial system was subordinate to the archdeacon, he was always a member of a noble family. The names of some archdeacons have been recorded since 1228. The Go Court, which had been an organ of cooperative self-administration since ancient times, also met under a linden tree on the church hill. The exact age of the building is not known, but the patronage of John for the Baptist Church suggests that it was founded in the ninth century. In the building findings there is evidence of the age of the base of the altar for the beginning of the 12th century, the first documentary mention comes from 1300. The choir from 1464 is equipped with a Gothic ribbed vault, the triumphal arch also comes from this time. At the end of the Thirty Years War, extensive renovations were carried out in 1643, the original vault was demolished and replaced by a wooden barrel vault and the interior was painted. Some angels from this painting are still preserved on the vaulted caps. The half-timbered gable lined with bricks also dates from the 17th century. In 1967, Charles Crodel created the windows of the chancel in the classic modern style. The windows show the Good Shepherd, the baptism of Jesus and the story of the wise and foolish virgins.

tower

The round church tower dates from the 12th century. It was connected to the church in 1464, and there are similar towers in Betzendorf and Amelinghausen. The walls are extraordinarily thick at 2.5 meters.

Furnishing

Baptismal font
  • The altar structure is a work by Schnittker von der Heide from Salzhausen from the period 1693 to 1697. The version changed in the Classicist period was made in 1697. The panel in the center shows the crucifixion of Christ, the one below the Last Supper and that above the resurrection. The carved figure of Moses with the tablets of the law is on the left, that of John the Baptist on the right.
  • The pulpit is in the Renaissance style, it is not known whose hand it came from. Urbanus Rhegius , a friend of Martin Luther and a local reformer, preached from this pulpit .
  • The baptismal font from the 14th century stands on four figures and is designed in the manner of the Lüneburg grape foundry.
  • Thirteen paintings from the end of the 17th century hang on the parapet of the organ gallery. They show Jesus with his disciples and the apostles.

organ

organ

The organ was built in 1997 by the organ builder Michael Becker (Freiburg). The instrument was arranged in the baroque style. It has 18 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 08th'
2. Reed flute 08th'
3. Octave 04 '
4th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
5. Octave 02 '
6th Mixture IV 0 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
7th Trumpet 08th'
Rückpositiv C – g 3
8th. Principal 04 '
9. Dumped 08th'
10. Reed flute 04 '
11. Forest flute 02 '
12. Sesquialtera II 0 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
13. Scharff III 01'
14th Dulcian 08th'
Channel tremulant
Pedal C – g 3
15th Sub-bass 16 '
16. Principal 0 08th'
17th Octave bass 08th'
18th Octave bass 04 '
19th trombone 16 '
20th Trumpet 08th'

Bells

The original bells have not been preserved, the bell with the name Anna was cast in 1304, it was recast in 1883, like the smaller bell from 1498. In the tower hang a bell from 1883 and one from 1953.

Church as a bat quarter and FFH area

The roof structure including the tower of the church, together with the roof structure including the tower of St. Michaelis Church in Schnega , was designated in 2004 as an FFH area Mausohr nursery area Elbe catchment area. On the roof structure including the tower of the churches there is a nursery room for the bat species Great Mouse Ears (Myotis myotis).

literature

  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Salzhausen: St. Johannis Church on lueneburger-heide.de, accessed on May 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Kirchenkreis Winsen , accessed on May 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d St. Johannis Church Salzhausen on wir-e.de, accessed on May 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d St. Johannis Salzhausen on heidekirchen.de, accessed on May 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Information about the organ (as of November 26, 2018)
  6. ↑ 2727-332 Mausohr nursery area Elbe catchment area.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 25, 2017.

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 11.6 ″  E