City church Walsrode
The town church of Walsrode with the patronage “St. Johannis the Baptist “is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Walsrode .
history
The St. Johannis-der-Täufer Church is a large, bright church in the classical style , which was built in the years 1848–50 by the consistorial architect Ludwig Hellner and has been preserved almost unchanged to this day.
There were at least three predecessor churches, these were built in the 10th, 12th and 15th centuries. The tower (1786) and the Marienglocke (1437) are older than the nave. Wall to wall to the south is the smaller monastery church. Both church buildings are connected by a door and a few windows.
Individual parts of the building and art objects have been preserved from the previous churches and are therefore older than the current church.
Furnishing
Church main nave
In the chancel there is the Walsroder crucifix, made around 1500 from the school of the woodcarver Hans Brüggemann, and wooden sculptures of the four evangelists, which were probably created by Cord Hinrich Bartelt, Celle, around 1702. The Elector's Bible (from 1768) is also shown in the chancel. It comes from the bookbinder Georg Heinrich Wächter from Hanover, who rebounded it as his masterpiece and gave it to the community on the occasion of his wedding in 1843 to Johanna Marie Luise Meyer in Walsrode.
On the wall of the tower are the epitaphs by Gabriel Meyer and Rudophus Lodemann. Gabriel Meyer was born in Walsrode in 1608. He took over the pastor's office in Walsrode in 1640 and died in 1679. He was the successor of the three pastors from the Kelp family. The superintendent Rudolphus Lodemann was born in Celle in 1639. He came to Walsrode in 1680 as the successor to Gabriel Meyer and died in 1714. Through his records, much is known about the Walsrode parish.
Meyer organ
In 1849, a two-manual organ was built in the Walsroder town church by Eduard Meyer from Hanover . After minor changes, the instrument has been in its original form since 1974 and is therefore of national importance as the largest preserved Meyer organ. In 2004 the organ building company Gebrüder Hillebrand restored the work and brought it back into good condition, especially in technical terms. A cornett in the sense of Meyers was newly installed in an originally free space as well as a pedal coupler and a tremulant. The more conservative for his time predisposed instrument is suitable for the living reproduction of a broad spectrum of organ literature.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P
- Tremulant
- Remarks
- (n) = subsequent register
Bells
The oldest bell , the Maria , dates from 1437. The second bell was melted down in 1942 for war purposes. As early as 1947, the church received a new bell, not made of bronze , but of iron . This bell was missing at the end of the 20th century and threatened to fall off. As a result, the church council, with the help of many donors, ordered a new bell from the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe. Their inscription reads:
"God, give us time from your eternity - time to believe, time to hope, time to love."
Before the 1st Advent 2012, the rusty iron bell was removed, it is now behind the church on the meadow. The rusty bells from the lantern were also removed. The new bell was decorated and driven once through the city center, then brought into the tower.
Thanks to some generous donors, two new bronze tower bell bells could be cast and raised in the lantern in 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the parish
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 39.3 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 47.1" E