St. Martinus (Borsum)
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St. Martinus is the Catholic parish church of Borsum , a district of the municipality of Harsum in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Your parish of the same name belongs to the Borsum-Sarstedt deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
The church with the patronage of St. Martin goes back to the time of the Frankish Saxon Mission and the planned church organization under Charlemagne and his successors. The archdeaconate of St. Martin in Borsum is secured by the end of the archdeaconate division at the latest around 1020.
History and architecture
The church was built at the highest point in the village (around 91 meters above sea level ), but is still on the south-eastern edge of the village (Lange Straße 31). Here, as elsewhere, this is probably due to the fact that the settlement was largely in existence when the church was built. At the same time, the peripheral location over to the villages of Borsumer Kaspels , the historic parish , which until the Reformation or to set up their own parish churches in the 19th century the villages Adlum , Ahstedt , Edessum ( deserted ), Hönnersum , Hüddessum , Machtsum and Rautenberg included .
Today's St. Martin's Church is at least the third building in the same place. Its oldest part is the tower, which was built in 1499 at a time of feuds , at the same time as the churchyard was walled, as a defense tower , initially standing alone next to a smaller Romanesque or Gothic church, later through war, fire and restorations as well as the extension of the today's church has changed greatly.
The old church, of which no traces have been preserved, was demolished in 1710/1711 and replaced by the current, significantly larger baroque hall church of 35 m length. It was not consecrated until 1749 by Auxiliary Bishop Johann Wilhelm von Twickel .
In 2002 the church tower was extensively renovated. The copper plates on the spire were also renewed here. Clocks were also added, there are now tower clocks on all four sides of the tower helmet.
Since November 1, 2014, the parish of St. Martinus Borsum has also included the churches of St. Georg in Adlum, St. Bernward in Hönnersum, St. Matthias in Hüddessum and St. Nikolaus in Machtsum. In the previous years, these five parishes had already formed the Borsumer Kaspel pastoral care unit .
On April 14, 2018, the requiem for Hermann Schnipkoweit was celebrated in the church .
Furnishing
In the 18th century, the pulpit, the confessionals and the baptismal font, which have been preserved to this day, were built in the forms of the late Baroque. The classicistic aedicules of the altars come from the Derneburg monastery . They had been remade a few years before its secularization in 1803. The last prior of Derneburg, Johann Engelhard Piper, a native of Borsum, arranged for their storage and installation in St. Martinus in 1808/1809. The high altar contains two larger than life statues depicting St. Bernward von Hildesheim (left) and St. Godehard von Hildesheim (right), recognizable by their attributes. The upper end of the high altar is formed by the Lamb of God from the Revelation of John as the central symbol of the Eucharist .
On the occasion of the 400-year anniversary of the tower and the 150-year anniversary of the parish fair in 1899, the church was given a new interior painting in the neo-baroque style by the Mainz church painter Valentin Volk . The scenes in the vault show the Creed in the five main sections. The ceiling paintings in the sanctuary show Old Testament models for the Eucharist, these are completed by two paintings on the left and right in the sanctuary. The statements of the ceiling paintings are continued in the window reveals.
As part of the complete renovation in the 1980s, the current white popular altar was installed.
The community has a historical nativity scene (around 1900); this is set up on the right side altar. Also on the right side altar, a so-called “Holy Grave” is set up on Good Friday, a custom that is cultivated mainly in southern Germany and Austria. From Easter Sunday, a figure of the risen Christ (around 1900) replaces the grave Christ. The canopy used in processions is also historical.
The St. Martinus day care center (Landwehrstrasse 16) was built in 1996.
organ
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The baroque organ was built in 1767 by the Hildesheim organ builder Johann Conrad Müller . It comprises 1990 pipes , 110 of which are visible in the prospectus . The prospect pipes and pipes inside the organ are distributed over 25 registers in the main , upper and pedals . The prospectus is characterized by five pipe towers, two pedal towers and three towers that are formed from the principal pipes of the manual register. The organ also contains two cymbal stars with bells. The console includes two manuals and a pedal . In 1911 an electric fan was retrofitted. In 1968/69 the console was completely renewed by the master organ builder Manfred Gaulke from Hüddessum ( Harsum ).
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literature
- Catholic parish of St. Martinus Borsum (ed.): St. Martinus Borsum. Verlag Dorothea Lax, Hildesheim 1999/2002, ISBN 3-8269-6151-X
Web links
- Church on the website of the Heimatverein Borsumer Kaspel eV
- Pastoral care unit Borsumer Kaspel on the website of the deanery
- Signpost through the Catholic parish church St. Martinus in Borsum (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://trauer.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de/trauerbeispiel/hermann-schnipkoweit/53359656
- ^ Brother of Johann Gottlieb Müller
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 22.9 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 43.5 ″ E