St. Martin (Nortorf)

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The Church of St. Martin in Nortorf

St. Martin is a neo-Gothic Evangelical Lutheran church in Nortorf in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein .

history

Even Ansgar from Hamburg to Nortorf a parish founded. The parish is first mentioned in the Visio Godeschalci around 1190. There, the farmer Gottschalk, who lived in Nortorf until around 1170, reports that the relics of Saint Martin were stolen from a Slav invasion in 1164, but returned in 1189. The first Nortorf church was founded around 1150 at the latest, when Henry the Lion came through Nortorf after subjugating Dithmarschen . A successor building was probably built around 1300, the layout of which was similar to the regional churches of that time. Until 1440 the parish of Nortorf was subordinate to the provost of Hamburg , who then transferred the patronage rights to the Itzehoe monastery .

The Reformation was introduced by the pastor Johann Acken and led to serious conflicts with the old-believing monastery Itzehoe and the priest sent by it. In 1527/28 the interior of the church burned out completely. In preparation for the submission of Dithmarschen in 1559, King Friedrich II. And the Dukes Adolf I of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and Hans von Schleswig-Holstein-Hadersleben gathered in St. Martin's Church

During the Torstensson War 1643-1645, the church was looted by Swedish mercenaries. In 1660 the church tower was blown over by the storm and only rebuilt in 1678. In the period from 1707 to 1783 the tower was struck by lightning three times. In the French Wars of 1813, the church was again badly damaged. After the battle of Sehestedt it served as a hospital. Almost the entire inventory was destroyed. In 1871 the decision was made to demolish the old church building and build a new one.

The parish, one of the largest in Schleswig-Holstein, has 28 villages and two chapels in addition to the Martinskirche. The Chapel of the Good Shepherd , inaugurated by Bishop Wilhelm Halfmann in 1958, is located in Groß Vollstedt , while the Paul Gerhard Chapel was built in Langwedel in 1967 .

Building description

Today's church, consecrated on October 15, 1872, was designed by JB Heyn from Hamburg as a three-aisled, neo-Gothic brick hall church with a west tower partly made of granite blocks. The Nortorf cemetery, where the dead of the parish comprising 28 villages were buried for 700 years, was then located directly next to the church.

In the ball under the weather valve on the 52 meter high church tower is a time capsule with historical documents from Nortorf. The documents have been supplemented over the past 280 years when the sphere left its place due to lightning strikes, storms or repairs. This last happened in 1973.

Furnishing

The altar from 1857 and the richly decorated baptism cast by Melchior Lucas in Husum in 1589 were taken over from the old church. The baptism was donated by the then pastor Samuel Meiger and bears a Latin-Low German inscription, translated: You will draw water from the well of the Savior - M. Samuel Meiger Pastor zu Nortorf after ( Isa 12.3  EU ).

organ

As early as 1875, the Marcussen organ building workshop (Aabenraa, Denmark) built an organ with 26 stops on two manuals and pedal and a prospectus with neo-Gothic style elements. In 1935 and 1964 the instrument was renovated and expanded by Eberhard Tolle, Preetz.

Today's organ was rebuilt in 1980 by the Emil Hammer Orgelbau workshop in the historic, listed housing. The number of registers was expanded to 35 in the course of this new building using 14 registers from the previous organ.

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Pommer 16 ′ T
02. Principal 08th'
03. Wooden flute 08th'
04th Reed flute 08th' M.
05. octave 04 ′
06th Flute 0 04 ′ M.
07th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′0 M.
08th. Flat flute 02 ′
09. Cornett V 08th'
10. Mixture V 02 ′
11. Cymbel III 0 1 ⁄ 2 ′
12. Trumpet 08th'
III Swell C – g 3
13. Dumped 08th' M.
14th Quintad 08th' M.
15th Dulciana 08th'
16. Italian principal 0 4 ′
17th Reed flute 04 ′ M.
18th Principal 02 ′ T
19th recorder 02 ′ T
20th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′0 T
21st Sif flute 01'
22nd Sesquialtera II
23. Sharp IV 01'
24. Bear whistle 16 ′
25th Cromorne 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
26th Sub bass 16 ′ M.
27. Principal bass 0 08th'
28. Pointed flute 08th'
29 recorder 04 ′
30th Choral bass 04 ′ M.
31. Night horn 02 ′
32. Basszink III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′0 T
33. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ M / T
34. trombone 16 ′
35. Trumpet 08th'

Remarks

M = organ builder Marcussen & Søn (1875)
T = organ builder Tolle (1962)

Technical specifications

Pastors and church musicians

  • Samuel Meiger (1532–1610) was pastor at St. Martinskirche in Nortorf from 1555 until his death. He wrote a pamphlet against wizards and witches.
  • Paulus Egardus (1578 / 79–1655), author of numerous edification writings, was pastor of St. Martin's Church from 1610–1655.
  • Günter Bongert (* 1953) was a church musician at the St. Martin Church in Nortorf from 1980 to 2014.

Web links

Commons : St. Martinkirche (Nortorf bei Neumünster)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish Nortorf - history. Ev. - Lutheran parish of St. Martin Nortorf, accessed on March 22, 2018 .
  2. ^ Bullet with content , Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, June 13, 2018
  3. ^ Nortorf in old views
  4. ^ Nortorf, Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) - Saint Martin Church. In: Organ Database Netherlands. Piet Bron, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Christian Eickhoff (Ed.): Organ of St. Martin's Church in Nortorf , Festschrift, Arnum 1980

Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 17.3 ″  E