Rotenburg City Church (Wümme)

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Rotenburg City Church (Wümme)

City Church

Denomination : Evangelical Lutheran
Patronage : Luke
Parish : City parish Rotenburg
Address: Am Kirchhof 27356
Rotenburg (Wümme)

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 33.4 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 20.5 ″  E The city ​​church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the city center of the Lower Saxony district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) . Until 1945 it was the only Protestant church building in the city that served a parish as a place of preaching, and was thus the city's church . In terms of art history, the church is an important representative of neo-Gothic architecture in Lower Saxony. Until 1960, it was surrounded by a churchyard with a wall and ornate iron gates.

history

On the site of a previous church, the current building was built from 1860 to 1862 according to plans by the architect Ernst Klingenberg due to the increasing number of residents and the dilapidation of the church building at that time . For cost reasons, the baroque bell tower from 1752 has been preserved from the previous church. At the beginning of the 1930s, the interior was changed by adding a singing gallery below the organ gallery and the exterior by removing numerous neo-Gothic architectural elements. In 1962 the interior was given a new color scheme; a modern pulpit was erected. In 2002, the municipality returned the area to its historic color scheme.

Until 1945 the city parish comprised the entire area of ​​the city of Rotenburg, of which over 92 percent of the inhabitants were Protestant at the time. It was not until 1964 that the parish area of ​​the city church was reduced in size through the establishment and separation of new parishes.

construction

View from the organ to the altar
Gallery supported by cast iron columns
Baptismal font

The town church is divided into two parts, the muddy bell tower built from field stones in 1752 in the west and the neo-Gothic nave from 1862 in the east. The five-axis unplastered red brick structure of the ship has buttresses and multi-lane windows with rich tracery . In the east the building is crowned by a stepped gable. A strongly recessed altar house with a 5/8 end adjoins the nave . In the plastered interior of the almost 50 m long rectangular nave with around 800 seats , a hall opens up, which is flanked on the sides by very narrow ancillary rooms that accommodate the galleries . These rest on narrow pillars. The gallery balustrades carry large cast-iron columns with neo-Gothic tracery that support the net vaults . The architect based his design very much on the Friedrichswerder Church in Berlin by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , completed in 1830, and used numerous details of this building in his Rotenburg Church, which is particularly clear in the elevation and floor plan. At the same time, the building complies with the essential architectural guidelines of the so-called Eisenach regulation .

The builder created a high quality church building under the influence of the Schinkel School. Since church construction also meets the current requirements of the Protestant regional churches for a sacred building, it is a typical and good example of a Protestant church building of the 19th century.

Furnishing

Many parts of the original interior were retained.

  • The altar structure , donated by the superintendent Kersten and designed by the church architect Klingenberg, is designed in the form of a Gothic fial architecture, as it was popular in many neo-Gothic sacred buildings of the 19th century. It has a picture with the depiction of Christ crucified, which is often to be found in Protestant churches. The picture comes from the artist W. Bergmann and is a copy of a picture by the Hanoverian painter Oeltzen.
  • The organ front from 1865 (the modern instrument was created by the Klais company in Bonn in 1983) and the stalls from the period of construction remained unchanged in their neo-Gothic design.
  • The modern pulpit from 1962 was replaced in 1986 by a neo-Gothic one from a church in Papenburg (Emsland).
  • The simple baptismal font from 1582 was taken over from the earlier churches due to lack of money, with the base from 1862. The bowl is a donation of the first Protestant bishop of Verden, Eberhard von Holle , whose coat of arms can also be seen on the inside.
  • The cast-iron columns from the Varel foundry ( Oldenburg ), which support the vaults and galleries and are among the oldest of their kind in Germany, are remarkable . Here the modern material iron is shown openly without cladding in the interior of a sacred building.
  • In 1955, the important Protestant church painter Rudolf Schäfer created a painting in the tower hall as part of a memorial to the fallen.
  • The brass candlestick under the gallery also comes from a previous church and was donated by the Swedish Colonel Luttermann in 1649.
  • Two medieval bells hang in the tower , the Margarethenglocke (1379) and the Marienglocke (1400/1450).

organ

Organ and cast iron pillars

Today's organ was built in 1983 by the organ building company Johannes Klais (Bonn). It is located in the historic and listed organ case, which was made in 1865 by the Rotenburg carpenter Ernst Rinck for the organ of the Furtwängler und Hammer (Hanover) organ, completed in 1866 . It is made of solid oak. The organ work comprises 36 registers with two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop action are mechanical. The electronic capture system acts directly on the mechanical tracker action .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. Cornet V 8th'
10. Mixture IV
11. Cymbel III
12. Trumpet 16 ′
13. Trumpet 8th'
14th Clairon 4 ′
II Swell C – g 3
15th Salicional 8th'
16. Vox coelestis 8th'
17th Quintad 8th'
18th Reed flute 8th'
19th Principal 4 ′
20th recorder 4 ′
21st Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Octavine 2 ′
23. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Sifflet 1'
25th Scharff IV
26th Dulcian 16 ′
27. Hautbois 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
28. Principal 16 ′
29 Sub-bass 16 ′
30th octave 8th'
31. Dumped 8th'
32. Tenor octave 4 ′
33. Rauschpfeife IV
34. trombone 16 ′
35. Trumpet 8th'
36. Clarine 4 ′

literature

  • Enno Heyken : Rotenburg - church, castle and citizens. Rotenburger Schriften, special issue 7 Rotenburg / Hann. 1966, pp. 104-181.
  • Enno Heyken: The churches in the old district of Rotenburg (Wümme). Part 2. In: Heimatbund Rotenburg / Wümme (ed.): Rotenburger Schriften Heft 60, 1984, pp. 50–61.
  • Stadtkirchengemeinde Rotenburg (ed.): Stadtkirche Rotenburg 1192 - 1862 - 1987. Commemorative publication for the 125th anniversary of the construction of the nave, Rotenburg 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City church and war memorial. In: www.rotenburg-wuemme.de. City of Rotenburg (Wümme), 2015, accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ More information about the organ of the city church

Web links

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