St. Martin's Church, Groß Ellershausen

The St. Martini church is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the hamlet of Great Ellershausen the city of Göttingen.

History

The origins of the church are not recorded accurately. Leave Structural studies suggest that the massive transverse rectangular Romanesque bell tower was built in the 10th or 11th century. Remnants of a fireplace on the first floor show that it had originally been a fortified tower house of a noble family, probably of the Lords of Ellershausen, whose possessions are here detectable. As such, the tower of St. Martini Church for such an early epoch is unique in the region and one of the oldest preserved buildings of southern Lower Saxony. The church hall is certainly much younger than the tower, he was probably built in the Baroque to reflect a part of the earlier building and 1838 repaired. It was also the southern portal with the year " 1838 " refreshed on a sandstone lintel.

Bells

Records of 1608 and 1610 demonstrate the existence of two bells for the St. Martini Church. The larger of the two bells had to be delivered during the First World War in 1916, when a metal collection. On Christmas Eve 1922, two of the company Bochum clubs for 11,500 RM acquired, steel replacement bells were consecrated.

On 27 September 2002 three new bronze bells of different sizes were cast at the Bell Foundry Petit & Gebr Edelbrock. Each of the bells bears a name inscription, it is the Latin name assigned in "Soli ", " deodorant " and " Gloria " (engl.: "God alone be the glory "). The existing steel bells were removed after a final bells from the tower and have since 2003 built up at the cemetery chapel in the cemetery in the United Ellershausen. The following day, the three new bronze bells were installed in the tower. The acquisition was financed through donations.

They are electrically rung, duration, sequence and composition of the chime is set depending on the occasion.