City Church St. Marien (Celle)

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City Church St. Marien in Celle (Southeast)

The town church of St. Marien is the Evangelical Lutheran town church of Celle .

Building history

Floor plan (1763)
City church without steeple (1840)

The construction of the town church St. Marien probably started in 1292. At the time when Duke Otto II gave up Altencelle and founded a new settlement four kilometers to the north-west, which later became the city of Celle. The originally purely Gothic , transeptless, three-aisled hall church built from bricks and field stones was consecrated in 1308 to “our lewen frowe” - the Virgin Mary.

It was not until 1516 that the church received a tower. However, this was torn down again in 1530 and replaced by a belfry. A clock house was built above this belfry in 1532. In old documents a Sanguhr (a clock with a carillon ) is mentioned in 1551 . The bell cage was replaced by a roof turret in 1576 . This roof turret had to give way to the roof turret that is still preserved today. In 1896 a new tower clock was installed in the roof turret, which can still be viewed today and - with the exception of the hands - is still fully functional. In 1913 the 74 meter high steeple was built on the west side of the church. From around 1970 the clocks on the church tower were controlled by an electromechanical clock. In today's tower clocks, the time has been computer-controlled since 1999.

In 1967/68 the entire church was renovated on the basis of an expert opinion by Konrad Hecht . From 1993 the barrel vault was renovated.

Furnishing

Historical view, interior view with old seating (before 1835)
Similar view through the interior of the church 180 years later
Choir room and altar

Above the choir is the oldest sculpture in the church, a medieval crucifixion group that was created around 1495. Mary , Jesus' mother, and John stand under the cross .

Peter and Paul are standing on the pillars in front of the choir, which leads upwards with its Gothic rib arch . The stucco of the church is made with angels and plants.

The epitaphs in the choir are memorial stones to the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg who resided in Celle since the 15th century. They, including the prophets in the pictures on the second gallery and the evangelists in the pulpit, proclaim God's message: His love and closeness .

When Duke Ernst the Confessor and his superintendent Urbanus Rhegius introduced the Reformation in the Lüneburg and Celler Lands, the original Marienkirche became a Protestant parish church, a preaching church.

Italian artisans later took care of the ornate baroque design. The pulpit was made by Danish artisans.

The winged altar bears witness to the artistic creation of the time from the late Renaissance to the Baroque .

On the northern gallery there are pictures of the New Testament , on the southern gallery of the Old Testament , which can be viewed like a picture of the Bible .

The interior of the church was completely renewed in 1834/35.

Baroque organ

Baroque organ brochure from 1687

The richly carved, impressive organ front rises up surrounded by gallery pictures , behind which a new work was installed in 1999 based on the original plans from 1687. Duke Christian Ludwig donated this baroque organ in 1653, the facade of which has been preserved to this day. It was built by Hermann Kröger and Berendt Hus and expanded from 1685 to 1687. 1997–1999 the entire pipework was reconstructed in the traditional way by master organ builder Rowan West , the organ case was restored and restored and an additional backwork was added. Today the registers are divided into three manuals and pedal .

I Rückpositiv C – f 3
1. Principal 4 ′
2. Quintadena 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Octava 2 ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Sesquialtera II
8th. Scharff IV
9. Dulcian 16 ′
10. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Oberwerk C – f 3
11. Principal 8th'
12. Quintadena 16 ′
13. Gemshorn 8th'
14th Reed flute 8th'
15th Octava 4 ′
16. Double flute 4 ′
17th Quinta 3 ′
18th Super Octava 2 ′
19th Mixture V-VI
20th Dreaming 8th'
21st Vox humana 8th'
III Breastwork C – f 3
22nd Dumped 8th'
23. recorder 4 ′
24. Octava 2 ′
25th Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
26th Fifth flute 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
27. Upright shelf 8th'
28. Schalmey 4 ′
III Hinterwerk C – f 3
29 Principal 8th'
30th Transverse flute 8th'
31. Viola da gamba 8th'
32. Octava 4 ′
33. Cover flute 4 ′
34. Nasat 3 ′
35. Flute 2 ′
36. Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
37. Dreaming 16 ′
38. Hobo 8th'
39. Mixture IV 1'
Pedal C – f 1
40. Principal 16 ′
41. Sub-bass 16 ′
42. Octava 8th'
43. Covered bass 8th'
44. Octava 4 ′
45. Mixture VI
46. trombone 16 ′
47. Dreaming 8th'
48. Dreaming 4 ′
49. Cornet 2 '

Princely Crypt

→ Main article see Princely Crypt (Celle)

During a tour you will find memorial plaques and images, names of dead from the wars.

Princess Sophie Dorothea , known as Princess von Ahlden , was also buried in the royal crypt that belongs to the Welfenhaus . The last to be buried was the exiled Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde .

Tower and bells

Old tower clock from 1896

From April to the end of October, visitors can climb the 74 meter high tower.

In it hangs a large ring of four bells , of which the largest, 8.202 kg heavy peace bell ( strike tone : ges 0 ) was cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe in 2008 and inaugurated on the 1st of Advent of the same year. It was donated by the city council on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city church. Two clock bells in the striking notes b 1 and des 2 come from the same source. In the course of this, the three existing baroque bells from the years 1664 (b 0 ), 1701 (des 1 ) and 1723 (es 1 ) were restored. These hung in front of the tower in the vault under the church roof. The bells hang on wooden yokes in the wooden bell chair and have new forged clappers.

Images of the bells

  • Bell 1, peace bell

  • Bell 2

  • Bell 3

  • Bell 4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the town church St. Marien: The building
  2. ↑ a b brochure about the Evangelical Lutheran town church St. Marien
  3. ↑ On the history and disposition of the organ in the town church of Celle , accessed on October 18, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche St. Marien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 51"  E