St. Lamberti (Hildesheim)

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St. Lamberti from the south
View from the Kehrwiederwall

The St. Lamberti Church in Hildesheim is a late Gothic hall church , the only hall church in the city, and was the parish church of Hildesheim Neustadt . It is named after St. Lambert of Liège .

location

The church is on Goschenstrasse; on its north side is the Neustädter Markt .

history

The two-tower Romanesque predecessor building can be seen on the seal of the Neustadt (around 1300)
Ruins of the southern extension. The long-term “provisional” tower roofing is clearly visible in the background.

Excavations in the summer of 1952 revealed that the first Lamberti Church was a cruciform Romanesque basilica similar to the nearby Godehardikirche of the same age , the size of which already corresponded to the current church and which had a transept , the extent of which corresponds exactly to today's choir additions. The oldest representation of the Hildesheim Neustadt seal, which was made around 1300, shows the church as having two towers. Since the day of St. Lambertus was already celebrated in the Neustadt in 1226, the building must have been built before this date. The foundation stone for the new building took place according to an inscription on the northeast buttresses of the choir in 1474, more precisely, on 13 May this year. The consecration certificate dates from 1488 - the year the choir was completed - but it took more than 30 years to complete. The previous building or parts of it that had not yet been demolished were likely to continue to be used temporarily.

View from the organ gallery through the nave to the east

With the introduction of the Reformation in Hildesheim by Johannes Bugenhagen , St. Lamberti became Lutheran in 1542, like all parish churches in the city, unlike the cathedral and most monastery churches . The Lambertikirchhof was only closed for funerals in 1812 and converted into a garden in 1816.

The Lamberti Church was badly damaged in the devastating Allied bombing raid on March 22, 1945. As early as February 22, 1945, high-explosive bombs had caused considerable damage to the choir, transept, roof and windows. The reconstruction, which was funded by the Evangelical Church Construction Hut, was completed in 1952.

architecture

Side portal

The clear central nave with its seven (6½) bays delimits a five-eighth apse . Simple octagonal pillars support the ribbed vaults, which rise slightly higher in the central nave than in the two aisles . You are about to close the aisles. The lateral vault pressure is taken up by buttresses and multi-storey Gothic additions on the north and south sides. From the outside, these two wings are reminiscent of a transverse building strangely offset from one another, but do not affect the overall impression of the hall church either inside or on the south front. The two-storey southern extension, completed in 1482, was left in ruins as a warning ruin after the Second World War . The sacristy , which was originally located there , has since been in the northern extension. In the west, roughly the width of the central nave, rises a massive tower structure, structured like floors by cornices . With its temporary gable roof, it looked a bit dull in the meantime until it was given a new hood in 2007.

Furnishing

Retable of the Peter and Paul Altar

The Peter and Paul Altar is a fragment of an anonymous work from the 1st quarter of the 15th century. The side wings were removed around 1780 and are now in various museums. The middle section set up in the Lambertikirche shows the crucifixion in the middle picture, at the top left Christ before Pilate, at the bottom the carrying of the cross, at the top right the lamentation and below the burial of Christ. The merging of the outer scenes with the central picture is remarkable.

The baptismal font in the east of the north aisle from the beginning of the 16th century comes from the Menteschen foundry in Braunschweig, the lid was cast from brass by Hans Meissner in Braunschweig around 1550.

organ

The large organ was built from 1953 to 1960 by the organ builder E. Palandt (Hildesheim) using pipe material and parts from older organs as a two-manual instrument. In 1992 the organ building company Rietzsch (Hemmingen) added the breastwork. The slider chests -instrument today 39 registers and an effect registers on three manuals and pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Viola da gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Hollow flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 23
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Sesquialter II
10. Mixture IV
11. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II breastwork C – g 3
12. Dumped 8th'
13. Transverse flute 8th'
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Nasat 2 23
16. Forest flute 2 ′
17th third 1 35
18th Oktavlein 1'
19th Dulcian 8th'
star
III Rückpositiv C – g 3
20th Dumped 8th'
21st Praestant 4 ′
22nd Covered flute 4 ′
23. octave 2 ′
24. Fifth 1 35
25th Terzian II
26th Sharp III
27. Cymbel II
28. shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
29 Principal 16 ′
30th Sub bass 16 ′
31. octave 8th'
32. Thought bass 8th'
33. octave 4 ′
34. Night horn 1'
35. Rauschpfeife II
36. Mixture VI
37. trombone 16 ′
38. Trumpet 8th'
39. Cornett 2 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P

Bells

The tower of the Lambertikirche houses a total of five bells in its interior, three of which date from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

No.
 
Casting year
 
Foundry, casting location
 
Mass
(kg)
Diameter
(mm)
Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 1655 Jakob Koerber about 1000 1,210 f 1 -5
2 1952 FW Schilling 632 990 g 1 -6
3 1952 FW Schilling 355 820 b 1 -5
4th 1534 Brant helmets approx. 220 710 d 2 -5
5 1523 unmarked approx. 200 700 it 2 -6

Youth cellar

During work on the heating system of the community hall, which is located next to a kindergarten and a language therapy kindergarten in a U-shaped building complex directly north of the church, the medieval cellar of the Neustädter Marktschenke was found in 1986. Three of the four vaults under the inner courtyard, framed by the church and outbuildings, stretching almost to the church, were then converted into a youth cellar.

Well-known pastors

See also

literature

  • Fritz Garbe: St. Lamberti in Hildesheim from the fathers days to our time. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1960
  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer : History of the Neustadt Hildesheim. Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1937, ISBN 3-8269-6305-9
  • Nicolaus Heutger: From Hildesheim's church history. Lax, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-7848-4027-2
  • the same, 500 years hall church St. Lamberti in the Hildesheimer Neustadt 1488–1988. Festschrift on the occasion of the festival week from September 17 to 25, 1988. Hildesheim 1988

Individual evidence

  1. Information on the main organ
  2. Hildesheim, St. Lamberti | kirchengemeindelexikon.de. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : St. Lamberti (Hildesheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 17 ″  E