City Church of the Holy Trinity (Delmenhorst)
The City Church of the Holy Trinity is a listed Evangelical Lutheran church in Delmenhorst , built in 1789 .
Building history
Instead of the first church in Delmenhorst, which is said to have stood on today's market square and which was destroyed in 1538, a half-timbered church was built on the church square . In 1614, Count Anton II of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst founded the construction of a new church, which was completed in 1619. It was probably furnished by the North German artist Ludwig Münstermann (altar, pulpit and so-called count's chair) and was given a crypt intended as a burial place for the count's house . In 1789 a new building was built, the surrounding walls (without the choir room) still exist today. In 1908 the church had to be expanded, adding the sanctuary and raising the tower to 54 meters. The previous entrance on the south side of the tower was relocated to the west side. In 1967 the interior was redesigned.
nature
Entrance to the nave
Above the glass door is the inscription “Praise, price and honor 'be always to the Holy Trinity” , which refers to the new name of the city church “To the Holy Trinity” and was painted by Hermann Oetken (* 1909; † 1998). Oetken was a church painter in the region who was closely associated with the town parish and was a member of the parish council for a long time.
epitaph
The small stone sculpture in the south wall, which shows the risen Christ, is an epitaph (memorial stone) and most likely comes from the earlier Delmenhorst Castle. It is said to have adorned the entrance door or a side wall of the castle chapel. The period from 1570 to around 1600 is regarded as the time of origin.
Dr. Karl Sichart studied this epitaph in detail in the late 1920s and came to the conclusion that it must be donated to commemorate an Arend von Elverfeld. From 1559 he was Drost (ie first administrative and judicial officer) from Delmenhorst and was married to the daughter of the Chancellor at the Oldenburg Grafenhof, Elisabeth Vogt, for the second time. The coats of arms on the console can be assigned to the two families. The Latin inscription freely translated from Job reads: "I know that my Redeemer lives and that I will be resurrected from the earth on the last day." ( Hi 19.25 EU ) The epitaph is incomplete, because the crowning, pillars as side parts and the Inscription panels that could provide information about the associated family are missing.
Sculpture in the chancel
The high column behind the altar consists of three levels and represents the trinity of Christian teaching.
- The lower level represents the creation with plants, animals, Adam and Eve.
- In the middle area, the suffering Jesus looks at the congregation in the nave. Turning to the back wall, the mother Mary is deeply veiled and the apostle Peter, who can be recognized by the rooster sitting on his neck, can be seen.
- The third, uppermost area of the column indicates the work of the Holy Spirit in the church. You can see Stephen, the first deacon, and the apostles John and Paul.
The column is the work of the artist Karl-Henning Seemann (* 1934 in Wismar), who created it in 1967 for the redesigned city church.
Altar window
In 1988 the choir received the colored windows. You have Pentecost as a theme. Wilhelm Buschulte from Unna designed the windows and they were made in a workshop in Taunus. They are made from "hand-blown, opalescent and opaque colored antique glasses" (W. Buschulte). The rear white wall was built so that its color and warmth can be transmitted more into the church.
Count's Crypt
In the so-called Grafengruft there are coffins of the last Oldenburgisch-Delmenhorst count family, namely Count Anton II (1550-1619), his wife, Countess Sibylla Elisabeth (1576-1630) and his children, Count Christian IX. (1612–1647) and the Countess Sibylla Maria (1608–1640). After a first church building was destroyed in an armed conflict in 1538, Count Anton II had a new church built from 1614 to 1619 at the current location of the church. Here he had a crypt built under the chancel, which he intended as a burial place for himself and his family. This room has been relocated several times over the centuries and is now again under the church's choir. The coffins show how the life of the count's family was steeped in Christianity. In addition to the personal and various family coats of arms, the coffins are provided with numerous biblical sayings, for example Psalm 73, 25-26 on the coffin of Sibylla Elisabeth " If I only have you, I don't ask anything about heaven and earth. If my body and soul are the same fainted, you are, God, always the comfort of my heart and my part. "
Facility
Liturgical items
Flemish crowns
Two old brass candlesticks, so-called Flemish crowns , decorate the chancel; a third hangs in the tower. They are foundations of Delmenhorst bourgeois families and were already in the first church room. All three candlesticks have inscriptions that provide information about the donors and the year of the foundation (in the chancel left: 1638, right: 1646, in the tower: 1756). The one in the oldest crown is particularly detailed: “Everything in its time - The 01 Gr: 01 Delm Vogt in the Stuer, Conradus Lippel, was buried in this church on October 6th in 1633 - God be gracious to his souls - and therefore I was subsequently ordained by Ludgern Thiman and his house frawen Catharinen ßrün / ngs in memory of this in 1638. "
Church silver The small shrine on the south wall houses the sacrament implements that were donated to the community by various pastors who were active here. These chalices and godparents are used at every celebration of Holy Communion .
Other liturgical objects
The other furnishings of the church - pulpit, sandstone altar and baptismal font, bronze candle holder, baptismal bowl, candlestick for the Easter candle - are kept modern. The latter are adorned with natural stones, as is the simple standing cross on the altar. These items came into the church during the major renovation in 1967.
Paintings There are four paintings on the walls in the nave. Nothing is known about those on the north face. The pictures on the south wall are painted by Fritz Stuckenberg . The two pictures from his early days (1908) adorned the altar until 1946; it was not until 1997 that they returned to the church. The large painting shows "Christ walking across the lake" (Matt. 14, 22-33) at the moment when he comes to save Peter. With the portrait of Maria with the child, Stuckenberg recalls the first church in Delmenhorst that was consecrated to the Mother of God.
Memorial plaques for canons and pastors
Above the glass door you can see an ornament from the former pulpit of this church and on both sides a plaque providing information about all the canons and pastors who have worked on this church and its predecessor buildings since the Reformation. These panels are also painted by Hermann Oetken.
Memorabilia in the showcase
In a showcase there is a communion chalice that was used as a sick chalice, lists of names of councilors and parish councilors, which were or are kept in the spheres of the weather vane , an old "lease" for a so-called "church chair" (family-owned closed space in the nave) and a drawing of the tombs that existed in this church in 1751, as it was customary to bury in the church. The parish priest at the time, Pastor Vollers, recorded the distribution of the graves in the church (and in the cemetery surrounding them at the time) with these drawings.
Bells
A triple bell hangs in the tower hall, which is tuned to -c'-, -es'- and -ges'-. It was donated by the industry in Delmenhorst after the First World War, manufactured by the “Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gussstahlfabrikation” and consecrated on April 13th in 1924. The bells bear the inscriptions: “In solemn time - consecrated to the Lord - us to bliss” and “Rejoice in hope - patiently in tribulation - hold on to prayer” (Rom. 12, 12).
Organs
The organ was built in 1957 by Alfred Führer in Wilhelmshaven and adapted to the appearance of the new room after the church was rebuilt in 1967. In 1987 it was renovated and re- voiced according to the advanced organ building technology . It has 2178 pipes, distributed over 32 registers , which are played by three manuals and a pedal .
A transportable chest organ with three registers - made in 1992 by Berend Veger and Winold van der Putten , Winschoten (NL), specially for this church - is used for choir rehearsals and performances, as a solo instrument and for sacred chamber music. The town church is a church music center with many different musical offers throughout the year.
Pastors
source
Some of the text has been taken, with the kind permission of the authors, from Little Companions for a Walk through the Evangelical Lutheran Church. City Church of Delmenhorst "On the Holy Trinity"
See also
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Waldemar Reinhardt: Frisian Churches - Rüstringen, Friesische Wehde, Butjadingen, Stedingen and City of Wilhelmshaven , Volume 4. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1982, p. 109.
- 200 years of the nave of the Delmenhorst town church from 1789 to 1989 ; Editor: Ev.-luth. Parish Stadtkirche Delmenhorst, 1989
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 9.
- ^ The Delmenhorst Protestant church buildings since the Reformation. from Dr. Karl Sichart, Osnabrück, in Oldenburg Yearbook Volume 39/1935.
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 51.4 ″ E