The small, originally rural baroque half-timbered church in Nienburg's Erichshagen district is dedicated to St. Corvinus. Anyone driving through Erichshagen to Nienburg will inevitably pass it. The church dates back to the 18th century and has formed the center of Erichshagen-Wölpe for almost 250 years. However there was at least one predecessor building.
Two pewter candlesticks on the altar, the baptismal bowl and the late Baroque pulpit altar date from the time the church was built after 1757/58. A good 40 years later, the inscription on the bell that still hangs in the tower reads: "For the parish of Erichshagen I am cast to the call of the glory of God...anno 1796".
It is hard to imagine today, but there is a seating plan from the 19th century that allocates part of the gallery to the officials of the old Wölpe office (with an extra external entrance), and which also lists the names of the parishioners who had leased the pews for 6 years each. A letter from the then teacher and organist Ralfs to the Holtorf superintendent in 1870, in which he requests that "your maids must leave the seats in the chapel at Erichshagen, which are intended for the organists, properly free", reveals that things were not always done properly.
The village of Wölpe, today part of the Nienburg district of Erichshagen, is named after the count's family of the same name, which had its seat a few hundred meters away (the castle mound is still clearly visible today). The Wölp farmers probably visited the castle chapel; Erichshagen and its church did not yet exist at that time.
Two pewter candlesticks on the altar, the baptismal bowl and the late Baroque pulpit altar date from the time the church was built after 1757/58. A good 40 years later, the inscription on the bell that still hangs in the tower reads: "For the parish of Erichshagen I am cast to the call of the glory of God...anno 1796".
It is hard to imagine today, but there is a seating plan from the 19th century that allocates part of the gallery to the officials of the old Wölpe office (with an extra external entrance), and which also lists the names of the parishioners who had leased the pews for 6 years each. A letter from the then teacher and organist Ralfs to the Holtorf superintendent in 1870, in which he requests that "your maids must leave the seats in the chapel at Erichshagen, which are intended for the organists, properly free", reveals that things were not always done properly.
The village of Wölpe, today part of the Nienburg district of Erichshagen, is named after the count's family of the same name, which had its seat a few hundred meters away (the castle mound is still clearly visible today). The Wölp farmers probably visited the castle chapel; Erichshagen and its church did not yet exist at that time.
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