Firrel Baptist Chapel

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Old Baptist chapel in Firrel (1936), which is now used as a meeting room for community celebrations
New Baptist Chapel (1989)
Inside of the new chapel

The Evangelical Free Church Baptist Chapel Firrel is located in the district of the same name in the East Frisian community of Hesel . It was built in 1936 and expanded with a new building in 1989.

history

The beginnings of the Baptist congregation in Firrel go back to the missionary activity of Baptists from their own, which is considered the mother congregation of all older East Frisian Baptist congregations. In 1855, Baptist families moved to the neighboring towns of Schwerinsdorf and Poghausen . After the first baptisms from 1856 in Schwerinsdorf, the Schwerinsdorf / Neudorf station was founded in 1865 and the independent congregation of baptized Christians in Neudorf in 1873 . In the following years the church work shifted to Firrel. It was here that the first people came to the congregation through baptism in 1877 . Firrel thus became a new focus of community work. In 1896 the first chapel - and thus the first church in this village - was built here. After the construction of the first Firrel chapel, the name was also changed. The congregation of baptized Christians in Neudorf became the Firrel Baptist congregation .

In 1936 the first chapel was demolished to make way for a larger successor building. A simple brick building with small windows was built in its place, the only decoration of which was a cross embedded in the gable front (see picture). In 1962 a smaller, separate building followed, in which there was also space for a kitchen in addition to the sanitary facilities. In 1989, behind the second Baptist chapel in Firrel, a new community center was built and harmoniously connected to the old building from 1936. In addition to a church hall, to which another room can be added if necessary, the new church has numerous group rooms and a spacious foyer. The old chapel building now serves as a common room, where, among other things, community and family celebrations take place. The new assembly room is closed off by a wooden ceiling and has a simple design. The furnishings include a wooden pulpit and a communion table. In addition, the community owns a small organ from the Dutch organ builder by Hendrik Jan Vierdag from 1971, which has five stops on a manual and an attached pedal. On the grounds of the Firrel Baptist Chapel there is a large parking lot, a playground and a barbecue hut.

In 1932 a branch chapel was built in Remels , which was followed by a new building in 1975. After the church services in Firrel were led by part-time preachers (“theologians in peasant rock”) for a period of over 90 years, the parish of Firrel received its first full-time pastor in 1958. In 1985, the Evangelical Free Church Community Firrel-Remels was granted the rights of a public corporation by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs . In 2004, the two parts of the community became independent. The corporate rights were transferred to both the municipality in Firrel and the municipality in Remels. In 2010, 180 baptized members belonged to the Firrel congregation.

The Baptist congregation Firrel belongs to the Evangelical Free Church State Association of Baptists in the Northwest and within the state association to the regional working group Ems-Jade-Mission .

literature

  • Hero Jelten: And the gentleman came up. 125 years of the Baptist church in the Hesel / Uplengen area . Remels 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b EFG Firrel: History , seen November 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Johann Wilken (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Firrel , (PDF file; 29.7 kB), viewed November 10, 2010.

Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 41.3 ″  E