St. Lucas (Pattensen)

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The Church of St. Lucas from the northeast
The altar wall with altar, pulpit and organ prospectus
The organ

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Lucas in the small town of Pattensen in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony is located on Corvinusplatz. The reformer Anton Corvinus was pastor in Pattensen from 1542. To the south of the church is Dammstrasse, which is separated by a one meter high wall.

history

The church was originally built in the 12th century. It is probably a foundation of the diocese of Minden . It was a three-aisled, Romanesque basilica, probably with a transept and a straight choir . Only remains of this basilica are visible in the triumphal arch . The west tower was built in the middle of the 13th century. Around 1400 a larger hall was built on the foundations of the old church. From 1801 to 1802 the church was rebuilt into today's hall building according to plans by the engineer-captain G. Chr. Lasiusin , whereby the vaults of the nave and the choir, as well as the pillars, were removed.

The church

Today's nave has an almost square floor plan. The church was built from ashlar stones, partly also from quarry stone. The two western portals were dated 1398 and 1407, they are probably the dates of the conversion into a Gothic building. A three-aisled hall with a length of three bays and a choir two bays wide was built on the foundations of the old church . Around 1500 a sacristy was added to the north-east side of the church. A serious reconstruction of the church took place from 1801 according to plans of the chief engineer Georg Giegmund Otto Lasius from Hanover with a classicistic refurbishment of the now columnless interior.

The Gothic windows of the ship were replaced by rectangular windows during this conversion.

The west tower was built in the middle of the 13th century. There are corner pilaster strips on a base and the basement , the upper part of the tower has no structure. Under the roof there are ogival arcades. The main helmet is octagonal, on the right and left there are two small helmets. The helmet was erected in its present form around 1890.

The church was renovated from 1967 to 1968.

The inner

Attic room with a view up to the ridge. The original construction of the plank roof from 1801/02 with its filigree rafters can be recognized by its dark color. Yellow colored timbers are modern support structures for cross bracing and full-surface cladding.

The semicircular arrangement of the chairs is striking inside, the ceiling is a shallow barrel with a segmented arch. The former sacristy has a ribbed vault . The upper floor of the sacristy was open to the choir, it was probably the noble gallery.

The altar wall was erected in the first quarter of the 19th century, it separates the nave from the choir. The community has been located here since 1966. Above the altar there is a polygonal pulpit and above it an organ gallery with an organ prospect .

The organ prospect has five axes, to the right and left of the prospect there are two apostles in niches. The organ with a new organ front is now located above the west gallery. This organ was built in 1954 by Emil Hammer , using pipes from the organ above the altar. The font dates from the second half of the 17th century, with the base from the 19th century.

The roof structure (plank roof)

During the renovation in 1801/02, an arched roof was built over the nave, whereby Lasius explicitly referred to Berlin construction models from David Gilly's environment . The eye-catching roof was originally referred to in the literature as the "Tudor arch roof". In terms of construction, it is a plank roof - one of the few examples of such roof structures from the 19th century that has survived in Lower Saxony. The upper end of the church space was also constructed with a wooden vault in plank construction. Neither could by any means meet the initially promised expectations of durability and durability of the new type of construction, so that extensive additional support structures had to be installed, which today only reveal the special plank structures in the roof space at second glance. Structural damage histories are a typical feature of plank roofs, which are significant in the history of construction technology.

  • Exterior view from the southeast (2010)

literature

  • Andreas Kleine-Tebbe: On the medieval building history of the Lukaskirche in Pattensen, in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter new series, year 52, 1998, pp. 137-170.
  • The art monuments of the province of Hanover, Vol. I.3 District Springe, edited by Heiner Jürgens, Arnold Nöldeke, Joachim Frhr. v. Welck, Hannover 1941, pp. 163-167.
  • Detlef Brandes: Born out of necessity: an extravagant church building experiment. On the renovation of the St. Lucas Church 1801-1802 , in: Kirchblick, Gemeindebrief der Kirchenregion Pattensen, Issue 2/2009, and Issue 3/2009 (each without page numbers).
  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 13.1, Hanover district, edited by Hans-Herbert Möller , edited by Henner Hannig, Friedrich Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Bremen, Lower Saxony, edited by Gerd Weiß with the collaboration of others, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0
  • Eckart Rüsch: Building construction between innovation and failure. Verona, Langhans, Gilly and the plank roofs around 1800. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 1997, ISBN 3-932526-00-7

Web links

Commons : St. Lucas in Pattensen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On this in detail: Kleine-Tebbe 1998.
  2. ↑ More details in Kleine-Tebbe 1998.
  3. ↑ Die Neue Presse on the condition of the organ
  4. ↑ Kleine-Tebbe 1998, p. 147 (with a detailed quotation from the draft promemoria of August 19, 1801). - On the Berlin plank roof propaganda by David Gilly cf. Rüsch 1997, especially p. 31 ff.
  5. ↑ See monument topography, district Hildesheim 1988, p. 233 f.
  6. ↑ See Rüsch 1997.
  7. ↑ See Rüsch 1997, p. 106 ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 49.8 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 34.2"  E