St Ludwig's Church, Celle
St. Louis is the main Catholic church in Celle, a district town in Lower Saxony. It stands on the western edge of the city center, outside the historic old town ( street canon 1). The central axis of the French Garden runs right up to the wide turret front of the church.
History
Since the Reformation, there were only a few Catholics in Celle, mostly foreigners in the diplomatic service or in offices at court. Niels Stensen in 1678 prompted the appointment of a permanent pastor for them. 1710 a private house outside the city was converted into a chapel, placed under the protection of the Apostles Peter and Paul and was ordained in 1711 by Agostino Steffani. One hundred years later the construction of the representative church was envisaged. The consecration took place in 1838:
" Kingdom of Hanover. In September past year is in Celle, the Catholic church, whose construction has taken the beginning in early 1835, through our Most Reverend Bishop eingeweihet been solemnly of Hildesheim. The Church has received the Patron Saint Louis, at the same time to preserve this majesty of the name, the grateful memory of their generous benefactor, King Ludwig of Bavaria for the latest offspring faithful. Because of the ample support of that monarch and the contributions from the Catholic Bayer land it has become possible, so far perform this construction in an area where all the materials are very expensive, that he the externals after completed is because at least. The zealous and well-deserved pastor of Celle, Mr. Glad wine has all mobilized in order to fully equip the church can. Even after England he has made Wherefore a journey; Only the success crowned not been like to wish his efforts. The poor community, which has done everything possible, looked into the sad necessity staggered to get into debt, and yet the Church nor the bells, an organ, a Communikantenbank and other needs lacks; so that hardly utter the decoration of the church is possible Being in a long time without mild posts. Indeß but the celebration of the feast of the dedication was a sublime Freudetag for Catholics of Celle, since so far by existing laws only in a prayer hall of worship was to be held. In recent times, now the proportion has friendlier, so that even the church, which stands in a simple but sublime figure, and the dedication of the same, in which, in music and singing and other neighborly loving sympathy, many Protestants proved obliging, a testimony stores that if the so long missed unity of faith is still not returned, but a philanthropic toleration and recognition of best practice, and the citizens as equivalent to citizens. "
The draft Ludwig church dates from the Lübeck architect Johann Anton Spetzler. The towers were completed in 1881 by Conrad Wilhelm Hase. At the same time the church was a painting of Wilhelm Clausing, which was later removed.
St. Louis was to St. Clemens in Hanover and St. Michael in Göttingen, the third Catholic parish church of the new diocese of Hildesheim circumscribed outside the former Bishopric and the once kurmainzischen Eichsfeld. Your parish handed to the North Sea.
As a patron you chose Saint Louis, King of France - a tribute to King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who had the building funded by funds and a collection in Bavaria.
Architecture and Facilities
St. Louis is a stylish pure construction of classicism. Only the first 1881 completed on the existing sockets towers show features a romanticized historicism.
The church is a three-aisled hall. The aisles have flat ceilings, while rises a kassettiertes barrel vault over the nave, which is supported by twelve high, white, fluted columns. Pastel pink wall strips and narrow gold bands accent colors.
The sanctuary is a narrower, only slightly increased continuation of the nave with a flat wall statements, the command of the Tabernacle and above a large, reminiscent of early Romanesque models Crucifixus. Prior to standing altar and ambo modern times.
The semi-circular window in the Trinity vault of the chancel and the saints windows of the aisles are works of the late 19th century.
On June 29, 1986, the Peter- and -Paul 's Chapel was consecrated, which is attached to the south-west side of the church and serves as a space for quiet prayer and worship on weekdays. A baroque altarpiece contrasts effectively with the contemporary architecture and furnishings.
Since November 1, 2006 belong to the parish of St. Louis and the churches of St. Hedwig in Celle, St. Raphael in Lachen village, St. Mary and St. Barbara in Nienhagen in Wath.
Organ
The organ of the Ludwig church was rebuilt in 1998 by the organ builder Martin ter Haseborg ( Südgeorgsfehn ). As model for the disposition of the first organ in the church of Ludwig Carl Wilhelm and Eduard Meyer to 1841, of which only some registers, however, were still present, which are reused in the new organ. Even the prospectus was reconstructed from photographs of the first organ.
- Pairing: Normal Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Suboktavkoppeln: II / II, II / I