St. Martin (Nienburg / Weser)
The Protestant Church of St. Martin in Nienburg / Weser is a Gothic brick church in the district of the same name in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the parish of St. Martin in the parish of Nienburg / Weser of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
history
The Church of St. Martin has been attested since the end of the 13th century; In the hall choir of today's church, parts of a cruciform basilica have probably been preserved from the first half of the 13th century. In 1441 the three-aisled hall church was consecrated from brick and partly from porta sandstone with a square west tower. The buttresses on the chancel were reinforced in the 18th century, the north-eastern pillar is dated 1718. In the years 1830/31 it was restored by Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem . In 1896 the upper parts of the tower were made of brick with an octagonal copper-roofed helmet.
architecture
The exterior of the nave is characterized by three-lane, renewed tracery windows between stepped buttresses. It is crowned by tall, sometimes reaching over two yokes gables , adorned zweizonig and layered in depth panels, similar to the choir gables of Stephani Church in Bremen .
The choir was built partly in sandstone, partly in brick and has no gable.
The west tower shows windows with flamboyant tracery and a renewed portal.
The compact interior of the nave consists of three slightly transverse rectangular yokes and three naves; to the east is a one-bay hall choir with a polygonal end comprising all aisles and consisting of six sides of a fourteenth corner. The side aisles, which are narrowed to half the width of the central nave, are continued in two gusset panels made of three-beam vaults.
The ribbed vaults in the nave are supported by round pillars similar to those in St. Mauritius in Minden , while in the choir, by contrast, they are supported by cross-shaped pillars with rectangular pillars and by some figurative consoles on the walls. The structural system of the crossing from the 13th century has been preserved in the irregular pillars and the semicircular belt and divider arches and templates of the western choir bay. In the eastern choir bay, on the other hand, the templates and separating arches were probably adjusted during the restoration in 1830/31. The inner wall of the choir shows blinded pointed arch arcades in the base area. The sacristy on the south side was added in the 19th century.
In the vault of the northwestern nave yoke and on the east wall of the northeastern yoke, remains of late Gothic wall paintings have been preserved, which were restored in 1964.
Furnishing
Twelve expressive little sandstone apostle figures from around 1515/20 with individual facial features and varied posture and size are placed on the altar, which can be traced back to the so-called Snetlagemeister from the workshop of the master from Osnabrück . They had been removed from the church in 1830 and bought back from the art trade in 1987. A romanizing font is dated to the year 1869.
The organ is a work of the Thomas Jann Orgelbau company from 1997 with 38 registers on three manuals and pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P (also as super octave coupling)
Several valuable epitaphs and tombs, especially from the 16th century, are to be mentioned. A mannerist wooden epitaph for the military leader Hilmar von Münchhausen († 1573) and his wife († 1583) from the year 1574 is richly decorated with coats of arms, grotesques and fittings . It is a shrine -Rahmung with Corinthian columns on pedestals and small, lateral coordinate columns and a crowning triangular pediment with the bust of God the Father. In the predella , the kneeling family is depicted in prayer and in the main field a painted offering of Christ in the temple.
In the tower hall there is a grave slab in high relief for Count Otto VIII von Hoya († 1582) and his wife Agnes . In the choir is the corresponding two-story epitaph made in Bremen with the figures of the deceased in front of a resurrection relief in a mannerist architectural frame.
The rounded baroque epitaph for Johann Georg Steigerthal († 1740) made of different colored marble with a blown gable and two female accompanying figures is attached to a central nave pillar .
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen, Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 982-983.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 23.9 ″ E