St. Michaelis (Gross Munzel)

St. Michaelis Church in Groß Munzel

The St. Michaelis Church in Groß Munzel , a district of the city of Barsinghausen near Hanover , was rebuilt between 1801 and 1804 after it burned down completely in a village fire in 1787. It is located at Am Steinhof 2 and belongs to the Süd-Land region in the Evangelical Lutheran church district of Neustadt-Wunstorf .

The church is kept bright inside and has a circumferential gallery over the aisles . The organ gallery is included in the western area . On the altar there is a sculpture that depicts the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. A man-sized wooden sculpture depicting the battle of Archangel Michael , who defeated Lucifer in the form of a dragon, stands at the north exit of the nave . The baptismal font from the 15th or 16th century to oral tradition by already as Kuhtränke on a Holtenser pasture, as a flower pot in Wunstorf - Kolenfelder Pfarrgarten have served before he found his original place again in the church.

organ

The organ was built in 1878 by the organ builder Furtwängler . The instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3 Drone 16 ′ Principal 8th' Gamba 8th' Hollow flute 8th' Octave 4 ′ Octave 2 ′ Mixture IV Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – f 3 Lovely Gedackt 16 ′ (from c 0 ) Violin principal 8th' Salicional 8th' Flute 8th' Flute harmonique 4 ′ Gemshorn 4 ′ oboe 8th'

Pedal C – e 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Violon 16 ′ Principal bass 8th' Dacked bass 8th' Octavbass 4 ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
• Playing aids : Kalkant, Evacuant, Tutti

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Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 53.3 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 29.4"  E