St. Nicolai (Coppenbrugge)
The St. Nicolai Church in Coppenbrügge is an Evangelical Lutheran church. It belongs to the Elze district of the Hildesheimer Land-Alfeld church district in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district .
History of the parish
Since the Middle Ages, the Nicolaikirche has been the main church in Grafschaft Spiegelberg . Until the introduction of the Reformation in the county (1540) it belonged to the Archidiakonat Oldendorf (Salzhemmendorf) of the Diocese of Hildesheim , later to the Lutheran inspection of Oldendorf. The patronage rights were held by the owners of the county of Spiegelberg until 1819. After the county was sold to the Kingdom of Hanover , they were exercised by the respective sovereign.
In 1821 the parish was assigned to the superintendent of the Münder Inspection. In 1867 she came back to Oldendorf. By decree of August 5, 1913, the headquarters of the Oldendorf Inspection was relocated to Coppenbrügge. The first and only superintendent based in Coppenbrügge was Christian Becker. After his retirement in 1936, the superintendent position remained vacant and was administered from Springe . From 1951 Hemmendorf was the seat of the superintendent. On March 1, 1974, the superintendence was abolished and the church district office was relocated to Elze.
On January 1, 1999, the church members living in Marienau were reclassified from the St. Nicolai parish of Lauenstein to the St. Nicolai parish of Coppenbrügge.
Church building
The oldest parts of the single-nave plastered quarry stone church with a transverse rectangular Romanesque west tower date from the 12th century. The tower is crowned by a slated, eight-sided helmet. To the east, the building is completed by an irregular five-eighth choir with rib vaults, dated 1565 and built by the Hamelin master builder Cord Tönnig.
The flat-roofed interior, renovated in 1670, is structured by a wooden horseshoe gallery. In the choir there are four colored windows depicting the apostles Peter and Paul and the reformers Luther and Melanchthon (1917).
The two-storey baroque altarpiece probably dates from 1685, the carved pulpit from 1673. One of the oldest works of art is the baptism from the mid-16th century. To the right of the main portal on the east wall of the ship is a stone epitaph for Count Simon zur Lippe († 1559), who died young.
literature
- Irmgard Netter: The Nikolaikirche in Coppenbrügge . 1972
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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 13 ″ N , 9 ° 32 ′ 53 ″ E