St. Marien (Ueffeln)

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View from the southeast
View from the southwest

The Marienkirche (locally also St. Marienkirche ) in the Bramsch district of Ueffeln is the parish church of the parish Ueffeln, which belongs to the parish of Bramsche of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

Portal on the south house wall

Building history and description

The early Gothic hall church with two-bay nave , just closed choir and west tower was built in the second half of the 13th century. As a building material of the near-served Gehn mined Ueffelner sandstone .

The windows are ogival . In the nave yokes and in the tower there are groin vaults with pointed arches , but without shield arches , in the choir there are rib vaults with pear-shaped vault ribs and shield arches added at a later date.

The pointed arch portal in the south wall of the western Langhausjochs is a birnstabförmig profiled jambs equipped. The outermost frame is covered with sculptures of unclean animals and human figures symbolizing sin .

Interior

The oldest piece in the church is the late Romanesque font made of Bentheim sandstone ( Bentheim type ) from the 13th century. The rococo - altar was in 1767 by Joseph Geitner created the Crucifixion picture is from 1892. The originally mounted above the altar choir organ from the 18th century was replaced in the 20th century by an essay. From the 18th century also the hexagonal, wooden stem pulpit (1767) and a brass - Chandelier (1717).

There are medieval wall paintings in the nave . In the vault of the central yoke which is Judgment shown, on the north wall of the Western yoke carrying the cross Christ . The paintings date from the 15th or early 16th century. They were uncovered during a renovation of the church in 1903, restored and most of them painted over.

A bell was cast by Rincker in Osnabrück in 1814 . The bell disposition is f ', g', b '.

The organ goes back to a work by the Osnabrück organ builder Berning (1721), a large part of the work comes from Alfred Führer (1963), the Mense Ruiters company restored the instrument in 2004 and renewed the trumpet.

Disposition:

Manual Gedackt 8 'Principal 4' Reed Flute 4 'Fifth 3' Octave 2 'Forest Flute 2' Sesquialtera 2f. Mixture 4f. Trumpet 8 'B / D

Pedal Subbass 16 'pedal coupler

literature

  • Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony. Presentation of historical methods, techniques and materials , Dresden 2009 ( PDF file; 7.58 MB ).
  • Arnold Nöldeke : The Art Monuments of the Province of Hanover , IV. District Osnabrück, 3. The districts of Wittlage and Bersenbrück (Issue 13 of the complete work), Hanover 1915, p. 188 ff.

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche Ueffeln  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Homepage of the parish: http://stmarien.wir-e.de/

Individual evidence

  1. Church district Bramsche: St. Marienkirche Ueffeln ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchenkreis-bramsche.de
  2. a b c Dehio, p. 1278.
  3. a b c d e Nöldeke, pp. 188 ff.
  4. Lindemeier, Catalog A, p. 45 ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 54.7 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 31 ″  E