Zion's Church (German: Zionskirche, Low Saxon: Zionskark) is a Lutheran parish church in Worpswede, Lower Saxony, Germany. The church is used and owned by the Lutheran Congregation of Worpswede within the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover. It was completed in 1759 and forms a landmark located on top of the Weyerberg hill.
Plaque in Latin commemorating George II as principal of the Zion's Church, hanging on its outside wallZion's Church: Typical Protestant Kanzelaltar, topped by the Tetragrammaton of God's Hebrew name יהוה.The new organ by Hendrik Ahrend [it], inaugurated in 2012Zion's Church as seen from southwest, painting by Fritz Overbeck, ca. 1900
Moor commissioner Jürgen Christian Findorff [de][1] carried out the construction of the church building,[2] following the plans by Johann Paul Heumann [de], Electoral Hanoverian court architect of King and Elector George II Augustus of Great Britain and Hanover. As summus episcopus, i.e. the supreme governor of the Lutheran State Church of Hanover, he provided financial support for the construction of the church. The church was built between 1757 and 1759 during the wearisome Seven Years' War, which had its American version as the Anglo-French and Indian War.
The brick hall church is not oriented, but directed on a southwest–northeast axis.[2] Its else rather modest interior is beautified by a typical Protestant Kanzelaltar, combining pulpit and altar table, created in Rococo forms.[2] The pulpit altar is structured by columns and pilasters, in their midst the pulpit.[2] It bears the Tetragrammatonיהוה in a top auriole and to the left of the pulpit the king's rocaille-ornamented initials GR (Georgius Rex, hidden on the photo by a painting of a temporary exhibition).[2]
Lofts (or matronea) span between the outer walls and the columns of Tuscan style.[3] The structure of the lofts and the columns carrying them show already clear classical influence.[3] In typical classical manner the ceiling was originally completely flat, until in 1898 the central section was changed to barrel vault.[3] Due to the loft columns connecting to the flat ceiling only the central section could be changed to barrel vault, disturbing the classical appearance of the hall, giving the impression of a three-nave structure.[3]
There are heads of cherubim by Clara Westhoff and floral ornaments by Paula Becker at the pendentives and the columns, connecting to the ceiling.[3] After in 1900 Westhoff and Becker, both then members of the artists' colony in Worpswede and still students, had rung the church bells for fun, which was generally understood as a fire alarm, they were fined.[3] They could not pay and were allowed to perform instead by way of offering these decorative elements to the church.[3]
The church tower with its spire in baroque forms had been added at the northeastern end of the actual church building only in 1798. Zion's Church is located on the Weyerberg hill, and with its tower it is a landmark, often used as subject of paintings by the artists.
The organedit
In 1763 Dietrich Christoph Gloger [de] created the first organ, which is not preserved.[4] Deteriorating over many years, several times repaired, it went out of order in the 1890s.[5] A new organ by the Peternell Brothers turned out too prone to repairs and was replaced in 1959. That organ by Alfred Führer [de] underwent the same fate so that the presbytery of the congregation voted for a new organ in 2004.[5] On 4 March 2012 this new organ by Hendrik Ahrend was inaugurated.[6] Following traditions of Arp Schnitger and his disciple Erasmus Bielfeldt [de], Ahrend designed an instrument resembling in its disposition to Gloger's organ, the disposition of which had been recorded.[7]
The churchyardedit
Sculpture Der Übergang (i.e. the passage) by Waldemar Otto on the grave of family Lippold.Modersohn-Becker's grave sculpture by Bernhard Hoetger.
The cemetery is a churchyard, thus it actually spreads around the church building. It was designed after plans of Findorff and attracts many visitors because of its elevated location on the Weyerberg and due to the graves preserved there. Among these are those of 80 known painters, authors, musicians and artisans, many of whom were members of the Worpswede Artists' Colony.
List of performers of arts and crafts buried in Worpswedeedit
Ludwig Ahner; 1911–1979, sculptor and stone chiseller
Karl Arste; 1899–1942, painter and author
Waldemar Augustiny [de]; 1897–1979), author
Wilhelm Bartsch [de]; 1873–1953, painter
Annemarie Bertelsmann; 1913–1997, painter
Erna Bertelsmann, née Lundbeck; 1880-1956, sculptor and painter
Jürgen Bertelsmann [de]; 1913–1942, painter
Walter Bertelsmann [de]; 1877–1963, painter and graphic artist
Sophie Böltjer-Mallet; 1887–1966, painter
Willy Dammasch; 1887–1982, painter and graphic artist
Heinz Dodenhoff [de]; 1889–1981, painter and lyricist
Tobias Weichberger [de]; 1951–1998, painter, etcher and illustrator
Paul Ernst Wilke [de]; 1894–1971, painter and graphic artist
Arrigo Wittler [de]; 1918–2004, painter and illustrator
Maryan Žurek [de]; 1889–1943, painter and sculptor
Sergius Žurek, cabinet maker
Charlotte Žurek-Schenk; 1910–1971, painter
Notesedit
^Findorff was in charge of draining and colonising the moorland called Teufelsmoor. So he also built three new churches in the area, besides Zion's Church also the churches of Gnarrenburg (1785–1790) and Grasberg (1785–1789). Cf. Hans-Christoph Hoffmann, "Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit", in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.), Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol. I 'Vor- und Frühgeschichte' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-7-5), vol. II 'Mittelalter (einschl. Kunstgeschichte)' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-8-2), vol. III 'Neuzeit' (2008; ISBN978-3-9801919-9-9), (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vols. 7–9), vol. II: pp. 389–517, here p. 487.
^ abcdeHans-Christoph Hoffmann, "Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit", in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.), Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol. I 'Vor- und Frühgeschichte' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-7-5), vol. II 'Mittelalter (einschl. Kunstgeschichte)' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-8-2), vol. III 'Neuzeit' (2008; ISBN978-3-9801919-9-9), (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vols. 7–9), vol. II: pp. 389–517, here p. 487.
^ abcdefgHans-Christoph Hoffmann, "Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit", in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.), Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol. I 'Vor- und Frühgeschichte' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-7-5), vol. II 'Mittelalter (einschl. Kunstgeschichte)' (1995; ISBN978-3-9801919-8-2), vol. III 'Neuzeit' (2008; ISBN978-3-9801919-9-9), (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vols. 7–9), vol. II: pp. 389–517, here p. 488.
^Helmut Stelljes, "«Königin der Kirchenmusik" in der Worpsweder Zionskirche", in: Heimat-Rundblick. Geschichte, Kultur, Natur, No. 100, 1/2012 (springtime 2012), ISSN 2191-4257, pp. 16–17.
^ ab"Worpswede, Zionskirche: Orgel der Firma Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau (2012)" 6 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, on: Norddeutsche Orgelmusikkultur in Niedersachsen und Europa (Nomine) 30 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
^Die neue Orgel 27 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
^"Die Orgel" 22 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, on: Die neue Orgel 27 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
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Zion s Church German Zionskirche Low Saxon Zionskark is a Lutheran parish church in Worpswede Lower Saxony Germany The church is used and owned by the Lutheran Congregation of Worpswede within the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover It was completed in 1759 and forms a landmark located on top of the Weyerberg hill Zion s ChurchZionskirche in German Zionskark in Low German The northeastern tower seen from the churchyardZion s ChurchShow map of Lower SaxonyZion s ChurchShow map of Germany53 13 14 N 08 55 21 E 53 22056 N 8 92250 E 53 22056 8 92250LocationWorpswedeCountryGermanyDenominationLutheranArchitectureFunctional statusparish churchArchitect s Johann Paul Heumann de design Jurgen Christian Findorff de construction Architectural typeHall churchStyleRococo and Classical styleCompleted1759SpecificationsMaterialsbrickAdministrationSynodChurch of HanoverDioceseStade diocese de DeaneryOsterholz ScharmbeckParishWorpswedeClergyPastor s Jorn Contag Contents 1 Church building and furnishings 1 1 The organ 2 The churchyard 2 1 List of performers of arts and crafts buried in Worpswede 3 Notes 4 External linksChurch building and furnishings edit nbsp Plaque in Latin commemorating George II as principal of the Zion s Church hanging on its outside wall nbsp Zion s Church Typical Protestant Kanzelaltar topped by the Tetragrammaton of God s Hebrew name יהוה nbsp The new organ by Hendrik Ahrend it inaugurated in 2012 nbsp Zion s Church as seen from southwest painting by Fritz Overbeck ca 1900 Moor commissioner Jurgen Christian Findorff de 1 carried out the construction of the church building 2 following the plans by Johann Paul Heumann de Electoral Hanoverian court architect of King and Elector George II Augustus of Great Britain and Hanover As summus episcopus i e the supreme governor of the Lutheran State Church of Hanover he provided financial support for the construction of the church The church was built between 1757 and 1759 during the wearisome Seven Years War which had its American version as the Anglo French and Indian War The brick hall church is not oriented but directed on a southwest northeast axis 2 Its else rather modest interior is beautified by a typical Protestant Kanzelaltar combining pulpit and altar table created in Rococo forms 2 The pulpit altar is structured by columns and pilasters in their midst the pulpit 2 It bears the Tetragrammaton יהוה in a top auriole and to the left of the pulpit the king s rocaille ornamented initials GR Georgius Rex hidden on the photo by a painting of a temporary exhibition 2 Lofts or matronea span between the outer walls and the columns of Tuscan style 3 The structure of the lofts and the columns carrying them show already clear classical influence 3 In typical classical manner the ceiling was originally completely flat until in 1898 the central section was changed to barrel vault 3 Due to the loft columns connecting to the flat ceiling only the central section could be changed to barrel vault disturbing the classical appearance of the hall giving the impression of a three nave structure 3 There are heads of cherubim by Clara Westhoff and floral ornaments by Paula Becker at the pendentives and the columns connecting to the ceiling 3 After in 1900 Westhoff and Becker both then members of the artists colony in Worpswede and still students had rung the church bells for fun which was generally understood as a fire alarm they were fined 3 They could not pay and were allowed to perform instead by way of offering these decorative elements to the church 3 The church tower with its spire in baroque forms had been added at the northeastern end of the actual church building only in 1798 Zion s Church is located on the Weyerberg hill and with its tower it is a landmark often used as subject of paintings by the artists The organ edit In 1763 Dietrich Christoph Gloger de created the first organ which is not preserved 4 Deteriorating over many years several times repaired it went out of order in the 1890s 5 A new organ by the Peternell Brothers turned out too prone to repairs and was replaced in 1959 That organ by Alfred Fuhrer de underwent the same fate so that the presbytery of the congregation voted for a new organ in 2004 5 On 4 March 2012 this new organ by Hendrik Ahrend was inaugurated 6 Following traditions of Arp Schnitger and his disciple Erasmus Bielfeldt de Ahrend designed an instrument resembling in its disposition to Gloger s organ the disposition of which had been recorded 7 The churchyard edit nbsp Sculpture Der Ubergang i e the passage by Waldemar Otto on the grave of family Lippold nbsp Modersohn Becker s grave sculpture by Bernhard Hoetger The cemetery is a churchyard thus it actually spreads around the church building It was designed after plans of Findorff and attracts many visitors because of its elevated location on the Weyerberg and due to the graves preserved there Among these are those of 80 known painters authors musicians and artisans many of whom were members of the Worpswede Artists Colony List of performers of arts and crafts buried in Worpswede edit Ludwig Ahner 1911 1979 sculptor and stone chiseller Karl Arste 1899 1942 painter and author Waldemar Augustiny de 1897 1979 author Wilhelm Bartsch de 1873 1953 painter Annemarie Bertelsmann 1913 1997 painter Erna Bertelsmann nee Lundbeck 1880 1956 sculptor and painter Jurgen Bertelsmann de 1913 1942 painter Walter Bertelsmann de 1877 1963 painter and graphic artist Sophie Boltjer Mallet 1887 1966 painter Willy Dammasch 1887 1982 painter and graphic artist Heinz Dodenhoff de 1889 1981 painter and lyricist Rudolf Dodenhoff de 1917 1992 photographer Hans am Ende 1864 1918 painter Bruno Fischer Uwe de 1915 1992 painter Martin Goldyga 1894 1956 gallery owner Bernhard Huys de aka Benny 1895 1973 painter Herbert Jaeckel 1904 1981 copperplate engraver Bernhard Kaufmann de 1896 1980 publisher Martin Kausche de 1915 2007 graphic artist and painter Edwin Koenemann de 1883 1960 author Karl Krummacher de 1866 1955 painter and author Angelika Lehmann Billaudelle de 1920 1964 sculptor Peter Lehmann de 1921 1995 sculptor Ernst Licht de 1892 1965 composer Fritz Mackensen 1866 1953 painter Otto Meier de 1903 1996 ceramic artist Willy Meyer Osburg 1934 2005 painter Leberecht Migge 1881 1935 landscape architect regional planner and protagonist of the life reform movement Paula Modersohn Becker 1876 1907 painter Walter Muller aka Muller Worpswede 1901 1975 graphic artist and interior architect Bettina Muller Vogeler 1903 2001 handloom weaver and tapestry weaver Friedrich Netzel aka Fritz 1891 1945 gallery owner and art merchant Friedrich Netzel jun 1929 1994 gallery owner and art merchant Friedrich Netzel sen 1854 1931 merchant and bookbinder Walter Niemann de 1915 1986 painter and graphic artist Willy Ohler 1888 1975 ceramic artist and painter Lisel Oppel 1897 1960 painter Udo Peters de 1884 1964 painter Hans Georg Rauch de 1939 1993 illustrator Albert Peter Rehberg 1895 1956 sculptor Werner Rohde de aka Tut 1906 1990 painter and photographer Eugenie Saebens nee von Garvens 1881 1964 author Hans Saebens de 1895 1969 photographer graphic artist and painter Agnes Sander Plump 1888 1980 painter Wilhelm Scharrelmann de 1875 1950 author and novelist Albert Schiestl Arding de 1883 1937 painter Max Karl Schwarz 1895 1963 landscape architect Fritz Uphoff de 1890 1966 painter Lore Uphoff Schill 1890 1968 painter Jan Vogeler de 1923 2005 philosopher and professor of Lomonosov University Martha Vogeler de nee Schroder 1879 1961 painter and tapestry weaver Martha Vogeler Schnaars aka Mascha 1905 1993 weaver Heide Weichberger 1922 1980 ceramic artist Tobias Weichberger de 1951 1998 painter etcher and illustrator Paul Ernst Wilke de 1894 1971 painter and graphic artist Arrigo Wittler de 1918 2004 painter and illustrator Maryan Zurek de 1889 1943 painter and sculptor Sergius Zurek cabinet maker Charlotte Zurek Schenk 1910 1971 painterNotes edit Findorff was in charge of draining and colonising the moorland called Teufelsmoor So he also built three new churches in the area besides Zion s Church also the churches of Gnarrenburg 1785 1790 and Grasberg 1785 1789 Cf Hans Christoph Hoffmann Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom fruhen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit in Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser 3 vols Hans Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz Joachim Schulze eds Stade Landschaftsverband der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden 1995 and 2008 vol I Vor und Fruhgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 7 5 vol II Mittelalter einschl Kunstgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 8 2 vol III Neuzeit 2008 ISBN 978 3 9801919 9 9 Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden vols 7 9 vol II pp 389 517 here p 487 a b c d e Hans Christoph Hoffmann Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom fruhen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit in Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser 3 vols Hans Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz Joachim Schulze eds Stade Landschaftsverband der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden 1995 and 2008 vol I Vor und Fruhgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 7 5 vol II Mittelalter einschl Kunstgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 8 2 vol III Neuzeit 2008 ISBN 978 3 9801919 9 9 Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden vols 7 9 vol II pp 389 517 here p 487 a b c d e f g Hans Christoph Hoffmann Die Kunstlandschaft zwischen Elbe und Weser vom fruhen Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit in Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser 3 vols Hans Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz Joachim Schulze eds Stade Landschaftsverband der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden 1995 and 2008 vol I Vor und Fruhgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 7 5 vol II Mittelalter einschl Kunstgeschichte 1995 ISBN 978 3 9801919 8 2 vol III Neuzeit 2008 ISBN 978 3 9801919 9 9 Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem Herzogtumer Bremen und Verden vols 7 9 vol II pp 389 517 here p 488 Helmut Stelljes Konigin der Kirchenmusik in der Worpsweder Zionskirche in Heimat Rundblick Geschichte Kultur Natur No 100 1 2012 springtime 2012 ISSN 2191 4257 pp 16 17 a b Worpswede Zionskirche Orgel der Firma Jurgen Ahrend Orgelbau 2012 Archived 6 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine on Norddeutsche Orgelmusikkultur in Niedersachsen und Europa Nomine Archived 30 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 6 November 2012 Die neue Orgel Archived 27 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 6 November 2012 Die Orgel Archived 22 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine on Die neue Orgel Archived 27 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 6 November 2012 External links edit nbsp Media related to Zionskirche Worpswede at Wikimedia Commons Zion Church Cemetery at Find a Grave Portals nbsp Christianity nbsp Architecture nbsp Visual arts nbsp Germany Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Zion 27s Church Worpswede amp oldid 1140465077, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
