St. Martin (Sophiental)

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St. Martin

The St. Martin Church is a Lutheran church in the village of Sophiental for the parish Wahle and Sophiental with Fuerstenau . The church belongs to the Vechelde provost within the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig .

The construction drawing was drawn up in 1889 in the Braunschweig Building Inspection , headed by the district building inspector Wilhelm Krahe . Building councilor Ernst Wiehe , a senior member of the ducal building management, had laid down the planning guidelines for the church and the neighboring school. The church building, designed in neo-Gothic style, complies with the recommendations of the Eisenach regulation . It is a listed building.

Building history

After the Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie (1683–1767) bought the fiefdom Haslere in 1716 in what is now known as Fürstenau, she not only had a pleasure palace but also a small half-timbered chapel built there on the square surrounded by a moat . A parsonage was built at the entrance to the palace complex, which Pastor Degener lived in from 1730. After his transfer to Salder in 1739 , it was used as a school and a teacher's apartment. After the death of the Duchess, Prince Ferdinand (1721–1792) determined that the parish of Fürstenau-Sophiental received pastoral care from Wahle, which is still the case today.

In the second half of the 19th century, the chapel had become dilapidated. Also demographically a change had taken place. The number of inhabitants in Sophiental had more than doubled in contrast to that in Fürstenau. The space available in the chapel and in the school had become so tight that new buildings were required. Due to the larger population, it was decided to locate it in Sophiental.

The church was inaugurated after two years of construction by superintendent Christian Oberhey on the fourth Advent in 1890 and named after St. Martin . It offers space for 110 people. The school children had been attending the new one-class school next to the church for a year.

Exterior view

The church stands as a red brick building in the southwest of the village on a high plinth made of limestone blocks . The floor plan of the church is a Latin cross with shortened side arms . A four buttresses -provided choir forms a northeastern Five-eighth circuit . In the southwest, a square tower indented on both sides closes the nave . It is covered with an eight-sided kink helmet . The sound openings of the bell projectile are designed as a group of three. The pointed arch windows of the nave are provided with lead glazing in light gray tones of a cathedral glass and are framed by molded brick walls .

A horizontal structure is a clover leaf fries below the eaves and with a Wasserschlaggesims from sandstone at the level of Fenstersohlbänke achieved. It encloses the entire church building. In the choir area it is designed as a coffin cornice and on the church tower it runs as a frame around the entrance portal , which is also framed with molded brick walls. Its plank door is artfully covered with wrought iron fittings .

A band of glazed bricks is striking; a style element that was also common in secular buildings at the time. It leads over the pointed arches of the windows and connects their fighting points as a double band .

Interior and equipment

Inside, the church is plastered and extensively painted in a yellowish, pastel shade. Only in the choir is a rib vault , which rests there on graceful services , set off with stuccoed bricks in red. Its capitals are adorned with gold-colored foliage. At the top, the interior of the church is closed off by a flat wooden ceiling glazed in a natural shade between profiled beams. It is decorated with a stencil painting made of gray-green foliage. The pulpit , pews and organ loft are also left in the natural wood tone. The organ gallery is supported by four posts that are stiffened with headbands . You are on the lower longitudinal edges concave grooved and bright green caught. This creates an arched impression - in keeping with the neo-Gothic style. The barrel-shaped beam heads of the gallery and the fluted headbands are adorned with notch-cut rosettes . The parapet fields of the gallery are broken up by a quatrefoil- like pattern.

The altarpiece , lectern and organ case were made in 1890 by the Brunswick court sculptor Wilhelm Sagebiel .

The pulpit is on a pillar of the crossing . The short side arms of the transept together with the pressed pointed arches of the crossing create the impression of a central width.

organ

The organ , made in 1889 by the court organ builder Gebrüder Euler from Gottsbüren , is still intact today. The instrument was changed slightly in 1947 by the Braunschweig master organ builder Friedrich Weißenborn and thoroughly overhauled in 2004 by the organ builder Christoph Grefe from Bülten .

The prospect , designed in neo-Gothic forms, has three axes. The middle wide pipe field and the two narrower side pipe fields are closed with pointed gables. The decorative gables are studded with crabs and accompanied by pinnacles .

The instrument was made with a mechanical performance and register action and today has 11 registers in the following disposition :

I. Manual C-f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Mixture III 2 ′
II. Manual C – f 3
7th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
8th. Salizional 8th'
Portal flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Principal bass 8th'
Remarks
  1. ↑ 1947 replaced by Friedrich Weißenborn in place of gamba 8 ′.
  2. ↑ The register button shows a mixture 4-fold 2 ′. However, like the original, the register is a mixture starting 3 times with a length of 2 ′.
  3. ↑ 2004 expanded by Christoph Grefe; the register was taken from an organ in the church in Olxheim. This organ was built by Heinrich Faber (Salzhemmendorf). The register consists of conical oak pipes in typical Euler design. It was installed at the request of the long-time organist Marlis Schäfer (Fürstenau) after it had been recommended by an organ expert .

Bells

Two bronze bells hang in the bell tower. During the First World War , both should be delivered for the production of bullet cases. The parish achieved that at least the lighter of the two was allowed to remain in the bell tower. It was not until 2000 that donations made it possible to complete the two-bell ringing again.

A small, historically valuable bell , donated by Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie for the former chapel in Fürstenau, now hangs in a dormer on the side of the church tower facing the village. It strikes every half hour, triggered by a tower clock from the JF Weule company in Bockenem am Harz , which was bought there in 1891. It also moves the hands of the dials, which show the time on two sides of the church tower.

Casting year Chime Weight
(kg)		 Width
(cm)		 inscription Bell foundry
1726 H" unknown 42 ELISABETH SOPHIE MARIE SHC Helmholtz ( Braunschweig )
1891 e ″ 110 55 SEARCH JESUM AND HIS LIGHT / ANYTHING ELSE WILL NOT HELP YOU Radler & Sons on Galgenberg in Hildesheim
2000 cis ″ 200 70 GIVE US YOUR PEACE
Thanks to the donors / Sophiental - Fürstenau / 1986–2000		 Rincker ( sense )

Events

For the last few years, the Pax Nobis choir under the direction of organist Hans-Dieter Karras has been delighting its audience on the fourth Advent in Advent .

literature

  • Hannelore Wiese, Margrit Seidel: St. Martin's Church in Sophiental: for the 100th Kirchweihtag, 1890–1990 . Printed by W. Schmidt, Braunschweig 1990, p. 43.

photos

  • Former school,
    now kindergarten

  • graveyard

  • War memorial
    1914–1918 / 1940–1945

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Sophiental)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Falko Rost: Krahe, Peter Theodor Julius Wilhelm. In: Horst Rüdiger Jarck: Braunschweigisches biographical lexicon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 344.
  2. ^ NLA location Wolfenbüttel: K 14880: Hochbaukreis Braunschweig I, drawing for a church for Sophiental .
  3. ↑ State Church Archives Wolfenbüttel LAW LKA OA 16, new building of the church and school for the parishes of Fürstenau-Sophiental . P. 46.
  4. ↑ Thomas Budde: Pleasure palace, former military courtyard and border base of the Brunswick dukes in Fürstenau . Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 3, 1999, pp. 139–142.
  5. ↑ NLA location Wolfenbüttel: 126 New No. 1209: Among other things, a historical overview of the parishes in Fürstenau and Sophiental .
  6. ↑ LAW LKA OA 16, new church and school for the parishes of Fürstenau-Sophiental .
  7. ^ NLA location Wolfenbüttel: 2 Z Nr. 365: curriculum vitae and catalog raisonné of Wilhelm Sagebiel .
  8. ↑ Archive of the Wendeburg community: invoices for income and expenses of the Sophienthal community treasury from 1890 .
  9. ↑ Work of Friedrich Weißenborn , accessed on December 28, 2017
  10. ↑ Uwe Pape : The organs of the Braunschweig district . Self-published, Wolfenbüttel 1968, pp. 30 and 85.
  11. ↑ State Church Archives Wolfenbüttel: LAW LKA Glockenkartei (Acc. 084/94)
  12. ^ Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Braunschweig, vol. 2: The architectural and art monuments of the Braunschweig district excluding the city of Braunschweig , Zwissler, Wolfenbüttel 1900, p. 269.
  13. ^ Tower clock from St. Matthias in Meiningsen , accessed on March 24, 2015
  14. ↑ Hans Pfeifer: Bell founders families in the state of Braunschweig . Appelhans, Braunschweig 1927, p. 66 ff.
  15. ^ Christmas concert with the Pax Nobis choir , in Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung of December 22, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '34.45 "  N , 10 ° 20' 55.76"  O