St. Marien (seven trees)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary is located on an oval hill in the center of Siebenbäumens, surrounded by the village cemetery.
Construction and history
The village of Siebenbäume was first mentioned as a parish in 1286, when the neighboring village of Kastorf was ecclesiastically added to the parish of Siebenbäume. It can be assumed that there was already a church building in the village at that time. There are documentary mentions of a church building in Siebenbäume from the years 1320 and 1344.
The first church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , but there is evidence of a new church as early as 1667. In 1741/1742 the tower was renewed by the Hanoverian court architect Jakob Heumann. Documents on the history of the church prior to 1791 are extremely sparse, since at the end of 1791 the pastorate at that time burned down with all the archive material stored there. At the end of the 19th century, the existing half-timbered church was so dilapidated that it was decided in 1862 to tear it down. In the process, charred remains of a previous building came to light, which, however, could not be clearly classified in time. The new building began in 1864 and was consecrated on December 17, 1865 in the name of St. Marien .
Today's neo-Gothic building is a 27.5 m long and 11 m wide brick building on a field stone base , which was built by master builder Wanzenberg from Ratzeburg under the supervision of the Prussian agricultural inspector Carl August Lohmeyer. The long nave with 300 seats dominates; the polygonal choir is quite short and has two low extensions on the left and right. A wooden tower is placed above the west gable. The interior is based on elements of Tudor Gothic and shows bundled pillars, high-seated Tudor arches and appropriately adapted ceiling structures. In the western part of the interior there is a circumferential gallery with the organ in the middle.
The 32.6 m high tower is a special constructional feature. It consists of the oldest parts of the church. On the basis of various references in the tower, it was possible to reconstruct that the then heavily damaged tower from 1742 was completely repaired in 1851. Today's tower and parts of today's west side were built over a period of three years. The somewhat newer remaining church was then attached to the renovated older tower.
Furnishing
There are three bells in the tower. The smallest, a 400 kg bronze bell from 1929, comes from the Ohlsen foundry workshop in Lübeck. The two larger bells made of cast steel from 1954 weigh 550 kg and 850 kg and were produced by the Bochumer Verein . The large bells are a replacement for two older bronze bells that were confiscated for armaments production in 1942.
The altar is neo-Gothic and dates from the construction time of today's church. His part of the picture was completely redesigned and modernized by Willy Schulz-Demmin from 1964 to 1965 . The motif of the Last Supper on the predella was replaced by four modern symbols of the evangelists and the psalm texts on the compartments of the reredos were replaced by a crucifixion scene based on a template by Stefan Lochner from the 15th century and images of the apostles , in the background of which the silhouette of the village of Siebenbäume is shown is.
The pulpit also originates from the time the church was built, only the four wooden figures on the side walls were renewed in 1981. The baptismal font dates from 1865, the silver baptismal bowl is a bit older, on it you can find the year 1826. The windows are uniformly designed and only a small part consists of colored glass. In the nave, the windows are rather wide and take up the arch shape of the interior, in the choir they are narrow and pointed and based on Gothic forms.
In the church there are still three pictures of pastors of the parish from different centuries. They show Petrus Damerovius (pastor from 1616 to 1665), Caspar Heinrich Starck (1681–1750) and Andreas Andresen (pastor from 1893 to 1931).
organ
The original organ was built by Marcussen Orgelbau in 1890 . Over the years there have been various modifications and, in some cases, major changes to the disposition, of which the 1978 modification in particular completely changed the original character of the instrument. From 2007 the parish planned to reconstruct the original state of the organ. After the financial difficulties had been overcome, Paschen Orgelbau carried out the renovation from 2011. Old pipes from broken Marcussen organs from other churches were sometimes used. Since 2011, the organ has again had 12 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: I / II, I / P, II / P
graveyard
The cemetery was expanded several times from what was originally a round area around the church and since 1920 has comprised almost 3,200 m² of space for over 800 possible graves. At the main entrance to the cemetery there is a memorial for those who died in the First World War ; There is a memorial plaque for the fallen in World War II in the entrance room of the church. The morgue in the cemetery was built in 1971.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 58.6 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 40.7 ″ E
Choir view
South facade with side entrance
Interior in the Tudor Gothic style
Baptismal font with baptismal bowl
literature
- Georg Dehio (Greetings): Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ) . 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-422-03033-6 , p. 901 .
- Hermann Augustin (Hrsg.): Country, hear the Lord's word: Ev.-luth. Church and churches in the Duchy of Lauenburg . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1984, ISBN 3-7950-0700-3 , p. 253-258 .
- Hans-Martin Petersen, Poland Monczynski: The Marcussen organ in St. Mary's Church in Siebenbäum (Flyer) . Ed .: Parish Siebenbäum. Self-published, Siebenbäum 2011.
- Dirk Jonkanski, Lutz Wilde : Village churches in Schleswig-Holstein . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02845-2 , pp. 55 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e section "About us" on the parish homepage. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- ↑ In Augustin (ed.): Ev.-luth. Church and churches in the Duchy of Lauenburg . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1984, p. 256 . explains why Siebenbäum is only mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register in a late version from the middle of the 14th century.
- ↑ Heumann, Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 5 .
- ↑ Carl August Lohmeyer was also the architect of the reconstruction of the Marienkirche in Sandesneben , the interior design of which is very similar to that in Siebenbäume.
- ↑ a b section "History of the Church" on the parish homepage. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- ^ Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1969.
- ↑ Instrument list from Orgelbau Paschen. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- ↑ Entry in the orgbase.nl database . Retrieved November 4, 2019.
