St. Osdag (Mandelsloh)
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The Protestant Church of St. Osdag is a late Romanesque brick church in Mandelsloh , a district of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the parish of Mandelsloh in the Neustadt-Wunstorf parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and is also known as St. Osdacus Mandelsloh .
history
It is possible that the Church of St. Osdag was founded in the Carolingian period by a Saxon nobleman named Osdag. The current building was probably built in the second half of the 12th century. Presumably in 1384, during the War of the Lüneburg Succession, the auxiliary buildings of the choir and the southern side apse were demolished. The west tower must also have been largely destroyed in 1384. The reconstruction of the tower in Raseneisenstein took place after an inscription from 1494 on the west side in the 15th century. In 1538 the south aisle was renewed, as can be seen from a portal inscription. The north aisle was restored in 1872 or 1874. During a profound restoration in the years 1874–79, Conrad Wilhelm Hase added a sacristy to the southern arm of the cross, created a romanized west portal, added rounded arches to the doorway and redecorated the interior. In the years 1896/97, Hase's sound openings were redesigned in Gothic style by Eduard Wendebourg from Hanover. In 1956 the west tower was restored after a partial collapse.
architecture
The church is the earliest monumental brick building in northwest Germany; only the base and the inner warriors are made of stone. A direct influence of Henry the Lion on the building cannot be proven; the unusual size for a Romanesque village church with a length of 52.45 m, a width of 26 m and a height in the crossing of 10.95 m as well as the building material suggest this assumption.
The cruciform, flat-roofed pillar basilica shows a clear Romanesque structure with a mighty square west tower made of lawn iron stone, which was once open without a portal and to the central nave. This is followed by a wide three-aisled nave with five axes on low arched arcades on squat, squat pillars. Axial arched windows are located in the high, undivided walls of the central nave. The slightly elongated transept wings and the choir bay with apse adjoin to the east. The apse shows stepped approaches to the apse arch. A small side apse was once attached to the southern transept, while the northern transept had an apsidal chapel. The coffered ceiling was installed in 1835. The plastic architectural decoration shows northern Italian influence and is limited to the fighters on the main apse and on the cross-shaped crossing pillars; there are partly palmette and chessboard friezes to be found. The exterior of the main apse is structured with a cross arch and sawtooth frieze.
Wall paintings and furnishings
In the choir there are monumental wall paintings dated to 1421, which were uncovered and greatly supplemented by Friedrich Koch in 1907/08 . They show a cycle of apostles in the lower zone, above the Last Judgment in the north and saints in the south; the representation of the Trinity in the apse was probably not created until the beginning of the 16th century (1521?). The rest of the ornamental painting was mostly made in the years 1874–79. Remnants of colored wall decorations from the end of the 12th century, which enlivened the architecture with geometric motifs, were exposed. Further paintings on the crossing arches and in the south transept are dated to 1601.
The romanizing altar shrine was created under Conrad Wilhelm Hase. The simple octagonal sandstone baptism with images of animals and plant motifs in bas-relief is dated to the year 1512. The pulpit with decorative columns at the corners of the basket was probably built in 1601 and was not painted until 1695.
The west gallery and the high-quality neo-Gothic organ front were designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase. The organ is a work by Philipp Furtwängler & Söhne from 1878 with 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . It was restored by the Jörg Bente Orgelbau company .
The ringing consists of three historical bronze bells. The first bell with the strike note e 1 was cast in 1730 by Thomas Rideweg from Hanover. The second bell with the tone f 1 was made in 1427 by a bell caster unknown by name. The third bell has the strike note f 2 and was probably made in the 14th century by a foundry, also not known by name.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen - Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 916–917.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mandelsloh. Ph. Furtwängler & Sons 1878. In: www.bente-orgelbau.de. Jörg Bente, accessed on May 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Report of the bell expert. In: www.st-osdag.de. August 1, 2017, accessed May 3, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 59.4 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 17.8" E