Wülfeler Chapel

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The Wülfeler Kapelle was a chapel in the town of Wülfel, which was incorporated into Hanover in 1907, in today's Lower Saxony . The chapel was converted into a syringe house and demolished in 1916.

The chapel in Wülfel
(taken around 1900)

history

Depending on the source, around 1350 or 1450, the residents of the village of Wülfel built a chapel in the Kleiner Freie at their own expense. The Ernst family provided a garden as a building site. Wülfel was a subsidiary of the parish of St. Petrus in Döhren . The namesake of the chapel is unknown, the Kirchweihtag was celebrated on Margaretentag. Like the church in Döhren, the chapel has been Protestant since 1529 .

The Wülfeler Chapel was used three times a year for the Döhren pastor's services. The bell in the roof turret rang at funerals and as a prayer bell. The chapel was used by the “Sprützengemeinschaft” founded in 1812 in the villages of Döhren, Wülfel and Laatzen to store the fire engine they had procured together . When the community dissolved, Wülfel had had its own volunteer fire brigade since 1894 . At the turn of the century, a riser tower was added to the chapel and the building became the first Wülfeler syringe house . In 1916 it was demolished to make way for a planned ammunition factory. The adjacent country road, Wilkenburger Strasse, was also relocated. The remaining old section of the street is now called Stiegelmeyer Strasse.

A new church in Wülfel was planned to replace the chapel since the end of the 19th century. After a painstaking search for a location, the Matthäikirche was built on Loccumer Straße from 1909 to 1911.

description

The Wülfeler chapel had external dimensions of 10.8 m long and 7.5 m wide. Its walls were made of rubble stones with corner blocks. The west end hipped tiled roof wearing a here pfannenbehängten square ridge turret. The east side was closed off by a pan - hung half-timbered gable . The weather vane was according to tradition, a wolf . To the west of the chapel and the adjoining road, the area sloped steeply towards the Leinemasch , so that the chapel was visible from afar.

The building had a 45 cm wide, with outward slope and on the north side groove profiled arched window. On the south side there was a 45 cm wide Romanesque window with deep bevels on the outside and inside and a pointed arched door with bevels on the outside that was bricked up later . One of bricks created triumphal arch with decorative profiling on its exterior was bricked late 19th century as part of the eastern exterior wall. Remnants of an octagonal, vaulted choir made of quarry stone were attached to this east wall . The nave had a wooden beam ceiling .

graveyard

During construction work in 1916, rows of graves from a cemetery that had been forgotten before 1700 were dug up on the site immediately south of the former chapel.

The Old Wülfeler Friedhof , which was used until 1892, was built "[...] before 1811" about 400 m from the chapel in the north of Wülfel on Hildesheimer Straße. It was abandoned in 1920 and then turned into a green area .

Others

According to the inscription, the church bell , cast by JC Weidemann in Hanover in 1818 , had a diameter of 60 cm. The upper part of an unadorned baptismal font with a diameter of 64 cm bore the year 1678. After the chapel was closed, both came to the Vaterländisches Museum in Hanover.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wülfel in numbers. www.haz.de, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Oblau: Wülfel - a town through the ages. (PDF; 1.88 MB) in: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary . Schützengesellschaft Wülfel from 1896 e. V., pp. 33–39 , accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jens Schade: History from Döhren-Wülfel: The old chapel last served as a syringe house. www.myheimat.de, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Wehr: The Wülfeler chapel. from: Das kleine Freie, messages from the history of Döhren-Wülfel-Laatzen, recorded by Pastor Ernst Wehr (1936) . Church council of the St. Petri congregation, Hanover-Döhren, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Church of St. Michael. www.st-bernward-hannover.de, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  6. ^ History. Wülfel local fire department, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c Wülfel . In: Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Issue 1: Districts of Hanover and Linden . Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1899, p.  48–49 ( online [PDF; 3.0 MB ; accessed on February 17, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Wülfel . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p.  685-687 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 31.4 "  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 37.2"  E