St. Thomas and Maria (Hodenhagen)
The Evangelical Lutheran listed chapel of St. Thomas and Maria is on Kapellenweg in Hodenhagen , a municipality in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony . The parish belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
history
The history of the Protestant chapel St. Thomas and Maria goes back to the year 1300. Parts of the choir still exist from this chapel . This chapel was renewed in 1425 by the landlord Hodenberg and, according to an inscription, again in 1768. In the 1980s, the chapel including the organ that organ builder Ernst Wilhelm Meyer had built in 1842 was renovated.
description
The simple, uniformly plastered hall church has a choir with a three-sided closure in the east and a roof tower in the west. The walls of the nave and the choir are supported by buttresses . The interior of the choir , which is covered with a vault , has simple tracery windows in some cases , while the nave , which is covered with a wooden barrel vault, has segmented arched windows . The church furnishings include a pulpit altar donated in 1769 . A crucifix comes from the end of the 15th century. In the chapel there is a grave slab for Marquardt v. Hodenberg and his wife, who shows a full- length representation of the deceased, and an epitaph for Ortgise v. Hodenberg and his wife Magdalena v. Bothmer .
literature
- Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 739.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 25.3 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 24.6" E