St. Mauritius (Hollern)

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St. Mauritius Church in Hollern
The organ of St. Mauritius

The St. Mauritius Church is a listed church building in Hollern, a district of the Hollern-Twielenfleth community in the Stade district ( Lower Saxony ). The Evangelical Lutheran parish Hollern-Twielenfleth is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Stade , in the Evangelical Lutheran Land Church of Hanover.

History and architecture

The colonization of the area began around 1135 by settlers from Holland, who were also granted the right to build their own churches. The first written mention of the church comes from around 1250. To protect the buildings from the floods, they were built on a terp. The church, together with that in Steinkirchen, was subordinate to the cathedral dean in Bremen, who had the right to tithe and exercised spiritual jurisdiction. With the Reformation in 1540, a preacher with a Lutheran creed was elected.

From the previous building in the Gothic style, after severe deterioration, only the foundation walls could be used for a new building, which was bricked up in 1901. In the old church there were four preaches for the influential families , which were not reinstalled .

The interior has a single nave , the whitewashed walls are plastered, and there is a gallery on the north and west sides. Semi-circular barrel vaults , which are framed in blue, were drawn into the nave and the chancel . They show reliefs of the sun, moon and stars.

Steeple

The tower , erected in the 12th century over a round floor plan, is the oldest part of the church and is also the oldest surviving structure in the Altes Land . He has mighty walls made of field stone , which are encased with brick. No other tower in the Altes Land is made of stone. Originally it also served as a defensive tower, as evidenced by loopholes in the masonry. The 25 meter high tower once served as a shelter during storm surges.

Furnishing

  • A statue shows St. Mauritius as a crowned knight with a sword, his face is black. The statue of the church patron and martyr is in a niche to the right of the pulpit.
  • The baptism is carried out by three young men standing on a pedestal on brick, it was made in the middle of the 14th century. The bronze kettle is forty centimeters high, the wooden lid is richly decorated. He carries sculptures depicting the baptism of Jesus and a tower-like attachment, the woodwork was made around 1662. The baptismal lid is lifted over a counterweight with an iron rod. The octagonal baptismal font from 1572 surrounds the basin. In the middle of the interior hangs a baptismal angel from the 17th century, which was originally connected to the baptismal font in such a way that one element rose when the other was lowered.
  • The oil painting on canvas shows the Sermon on the Mount.
  • The four-arm chandelier was made in 1681.
  • The box stalls were renewed in 1961.
  • The renaissance altar, a work from 1570, is bricked up and plastered. The altarpiece shows paintings, in the middle the Last Supper, the washing of the feet and the garden of Gethsemane. The two wings depict the adoration of the shepherds, the flagellation of Jesus, the drink of vinegar under the cross and the resurrection. Above the middle field is a picture with the Last Judgment, next to it are sculptural figures of the apostles Peter and Paul on both sides, and Martin Luther and Melanchton are also shown in medallions. The altar is crowned by a blown gable with a crucifixion group.
  • The pulpit, created in 1670, replaced another from 1559, which, in contrast to the current one, had no sound cover. Four sides of an octagon form the parapet, the paintings inside show the four evangelists. The cornice is provided with an inscription: 1671 VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM (The word of the Lord remains in eternity). The story of Pentecost is depicted on the underside of the sound cover .

Schnitger organ

The organ's console
View of the old organ

The organ was built by Arp Schnitger from 1688 to 1690 and has 24 registers , two manuals and a pedal . About half of the original stock of pipes and a large part of the case have been preserved. Vincent Lübeck examined the instrument on September 21, 1690, Philipp Furtwängler from Elze rebuilt the instrument in 1858. Instead of the breastwork, he put on a backwork with a new drawer and partly new pipework. From 1966 to 1967 the company Kemper from Lübeck rebuilt the organ; In order to get space for a new breastwork, the upper part of the Hauptwerk case was raised. The measure was not particularly successful, the sound image was considered regrettable. The Ahrend company from Leer completely renovated and reconstructed the organ; it was inaugurated on August 28, 2011.

literature

  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 .

Web links

Commons : St. Mauritius (Hollern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community membership
  2. ^ Pages of the regional church
  3. ↑ Prehistory
  4. ↑ New building from 1901
  5. ↑ vault
  6. ↑ Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 . Page 162.
  7. ^ Church tower
  8. ↑ Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 . Page 162.
  9. ^ Statue of Maritius
  10. ↑ Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 . Page 162.
  11. ↑ Baptismal font
  12. ↑ Altar
  13. ↑ pulpit
  14. ↑ Organ

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 29.1 ″  E