Blunt Tower (Lemgo)
The Stumpfe Turm is the free-standing bell tower of the Evangelical Reformed parish church of St. Johann in Lemgo .
History and architecture
At the site of today's church there was probably a previous building made of wood from the year 780, which was probably replaced by a successor building made of stone. At the time Lemgos was founded by Bernhard zur Lippe in the 12th century, possibly not until the 13th century, these previous buildings were overbuilt by a larger church; it was consecrated as the baptistery of St. Johannis extra muros ("in front of the city walls"). It was a church where the bishop originally performed baptism. When the church was destroyed in 1638, only the tower remained. It stands in the middle of an atmospheric cemetery , where a bone find was recently dated to the year 780 and where countless peasant families from the area who once belonged to the St. John's Parish are buried. The numerous massive tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries tell of them.
The tower with its sparse slots and sound holes is reminiscent of a defensive tower . Instead of the former helmet, it has a simple tile roof; hence the name Blunt Tower .
Bells
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history
Two bells hang in the two-field wooden bell chair. The smaller one is the oldest dated bell in Lippe; its casting date is May 25, 1398, its caster presumably Master Grawick. A similar bell hangs in the Evangelical-Reformed Nicolauskirche in Lemgo-Brake ; this has very similar decorations and - as the foundry mark of Master Grawick - also a g-minuscule; it is said to have originated around 1400. There are also two forked crucifixes and five coin prints on the bell mantle. The inscription running between two cord strips reads:
- † AN (N) o . D (O) M (INI). M o . CCC o . XCVIII. THE. VRBANI. M o . IHESVS. MARIA. JOHN
- (In the year of the Lord 1398, on the day of the martyr Urban; Jesus, Maria, Johannes).
In terms of sound, it is regarded as an early example of bells in a Gothic triad rib . Two other bells of this type are the Nicolai Bell (13th century) in St. Nicolai Lippstadt and the prayer bell (13th century) in Lemgo Nicolai Church .
In 1779, the Fricke bell foundry added a second bell with a d 1 strike tone . This had to be delivered in the First World War. It was replaced by the 1,672 kg c sharp 1 bell from St. Marien, cast in 1835 by the bell founders Jacob Greve & H. Humpert ( Brilon ) . She stayed on the tower until 1942. As a replacement, a cast steel bell in tone d 1 was cast by the Bochum Association in 1962, which was consecrated on September 23 of the same year. Their inscription reads: CHRIST IS OUR PEACE .
Data
|
No. |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
| 1 | 1962 | Bochum Association | 1,500 | 1,430 | d 1 |
| 2 | 1398 | Hans Grawick | 1,290 | ≈1,500 | f 1 |
Ringing order
The ringing order stipulates that on Sundays and public holidays at 9 o'clock - one hour before the beginning of the service - the "wake-up call" with the old bell (No. 2) should be heard. Both bells ring together for all church services and to ring in Sunday on Saturday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 6:10 p.m. (parallel to St. Nicolai , St. Marien and St. Pauli ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of the more than 1,200 year old parish. (No longer available online.) Ev. ref. St. Johann parish, Lemgo, archived from the original on May 30, 2017 ; accessed on May 30, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ The inscription names DIE VRBANI (Day of Urbanus = 25 May).
- ↑ picture at www.lemgo-brake.de
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 53 ′ 29 ″ E