St. Martin (Nörten-Hardenberg)

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St. Martin

St. Martin is the Catholic parish church in Nörten-Hardenberg in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony . The neo-Romanesque basilica was built in 1894/95 according to plans by Richard Herzig . Your parish belongs to the deanery Nörten-Osterode in the diocese of Hildesheim .

Location and surroundings

Wayside shrine at Stiftsplatz

The building is located in the north of the village on a site that drops several meters to the west to the valley of the Leine . This Stiftsplatz is surrounded on three sides by several half-timbered houses that are under monument protection, including the Stiftspfarrhaus built in 1823 and the former fire station in the southwest. In 1698 a saint post was erected nearby to commemorate the former place of justice of the canons. The St. Josef daycare center is also located as a Catholic institution on Stiftsplatz; it was run as a kindergarten in 1894 by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim and has been sponsored by the parish of St. Martin since 1996.

history

middle Ages

The origins of St. Martin's Parish in Nörten go back to the time of St. Boniface and Charlemagne's mission to Saxony in the 8th century. According to written sources, the parish church of St. Martin was founded in Leinegau between 741 and 768. The original parish became archdeacon for twelve main churches with up to three hundred assigned churches and chapels. For centuries, its history was linked to that of St. Peter's Monastery in Nörten . Since its foundation in 1055, the parish church has also served as the monastery liturgy. In 1259, St. Martin's Church was incorporated into St. Peter's Monastery . After a fire around 1300, the Martinskirche was built as a Gothic building.

Modern times

St. Martin around 1650 on a Merian copper engraving by Nörten

She shared the changeful fate of the monastery in the disputes between the archbishopric Mainz , to which the Petersstift belonged as an exclave , the Guelph dukes, the city of Göttingen and the Hardenbergers . The time of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War left severe damage that could only be repaired poorly. The abolition of the monastery took place in 1809, when Nörten belonged to the Göttingen district .

The Gothic Martinskirche was so dilapidated towards the end of the 19th century that it was demolished. For the representative new building, the Hannoversche Klosterfonds contributed funds from the secularization mass of the Petersstift. The new parish church was built just north next to the previous building and on October 6, 1895 by Bishop William Sommerwerck ordained .

On January 28, 2003, the branch church of the Divine Providence in Angerstein, built between 1965 and 1967, was profaned . Since March 1, 2004, the church has belonged to the then newly founded Nörten-Osterode deanery , previously Nörten was the seat of its own deanery of the same name. Since September 1, 2010, the St. Martins parish has also included the St. Marien Church in Hardegsen . Today (2011) the parish has around 3,000 Catholics.

In 2014, the Stiftsplatz was repaved . Archaeologists uncovered human bones on the north side of the church, which were earlier burials or reburial. On the south side, the scientists discovered the Nörten Abbey Crypt, which was initially dated to the 12th century, under the former chancel of the previous church .

architecture

Main portal
Sanctuary

Richard Herzig designed the Nörten parish church as a stone building in the form of high Romanesque forms . Style and effort - especially the two choir-flank towers - were intended to memorialize the great times of the Nörten monastery. The geostete three-nave church consists of the two nave - Jochen , the transept, the choir with its two flank towers and polygonal apse . The main tower above the west portal rises four storeys on a square floor plan and ends in four gables with pointed helmets . All wall surfaces are structured with arched friezes and pilaster strips .

In the tympanum of the main portal, half- relief depicts Christ as Pantocrator between the patron saint Peter and the parish patron Martin. On the south wall of the transept is the scene of the division of St. Martin pictured. Carl Dopmeyer created the sculptures . They are framed by psalms based on Paul's second letter to Timothy and the Pauline letters . The memorial plaque to the local victims of the First World War is connected to the monument . There is also a memorial plaque for canon Johann Vinzenz Wolf , who worked here. The Crucifixus on the north wall was carved around 1900 in Val Gardena .

The flat-roofed interior gets its character mainly from the wide arches of the crossing as well as the arches, pillars and services of the central nave walls, between which the view of the main altar and the apse with its three arched windows falls.

Furnishing

The furnishings of the church combine pictures and statues from the time it was built with newly created pieces from the second half of the 20th century.

organ

View to the organ gallery

The organ , which was built in 1904 by the organ building company Furtwängler und Hammer , is significant . The German-romantic predisposed instrument is almost close to original and was designed by the organ builder in 1995 Christian Scheffler extensively restored. It has 24 registers (approx. 1,300 pipes ) on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are pneumatic (tube pneumatics). The organ case is probably older than the organ work. It shows baroque and classical style elements. It has an overall sill .

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Open flute 08th'
Gamba 08th'
Dolce 08th'
octave 04 ′
Flute harmonique 0 04 ′
Mixture III-IV
Trumpet 08th'
II subsidiary work C – f 3
Violin principal 0 08th'
Darling Dumped 08th'
Salicional 08th'
Vox coelestis 08th'
Aeoline 08th'
Fugara 04 ′
Soft flute 04 ′
Piccolo 02 ′
oboe 08th'
Pedal C – d 1
Violon 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Dacked bass 0 08th'
Chorale bass 04 ′
trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing: II / I, I / P, II / P (pedal flap)
    • Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I, II / II
  • Playing aids: shelf, register crescendo

See also

literature

  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 138/139.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Researcher: Remains of the oldest church in Lower Saxony in Nörten-Hardenberg at hna.de from March 12, 2013
  2. ↑ History (PDF; 236 kB)
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger . No. 2/2004. Hildesheim 2004, p. 35
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.bistum-hildesheim.de
  5. ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim 2011
  6. ↑ From HNA.de of September 22, 2014: Archaeologists find bones and a crypt in Nörten-Hardenberg
  7. ↑ Architecture and building decorations (PDF; 330 kB)
  8. ↑ To the organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '3.4 "  N , 9 ° 56" 12.5 "  E