Rectory (Engerhafe)
| Vicarage Engerhafe | ||
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 South side of the rectory Engerhafe |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Engerhafe | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 29 '18 " N , 7 ° 18' 54.9" E | |
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The rectory in Engerhafe is one of the three oldest residential buildings in East Frisia, along with the Bunderhee and Ulferts Börg houses in Upgant-Schott . The two-storey building was built in the style of the East Frisian "Steensen" (stone houses), probably in the 13th century, and forms a unit with the Church of John the Baptist . At the end of the Second World War, there was a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in the parish garden , in which 188 prisoners died. A museum set up in the rectory reports on this.
history
According to the results of the excavations in 2011, the rectory is much older than previously assumed. The oldest parts are probably the cellar and a well discovered there during excavations, both of which date from the 13th century. The excavation technician of the archaeological service of the East Frisian landscape commissioned with the investigations , Axel Prussat, assumes that the castle-like complex was initially probably a chief's castle . From this building, the cellar vaulted with Bohemian caps and large parts of the rising masonry in the front part have been preserved. The three floors of the building originally consisted of a single room each, which was accessible from the narrow side of the building. The external stairs through which the upper floor and the basement in the east gable could be reached are also typical of stone houses. A staircase in the northeast corner connected all three floors inside the building. In the 13th century, the two upper floors were divided by a wall in the middle and a round column was erected in the cellar to carry the weight of the new walls. In the 15th century the front building was added to the width of a cellar yoke to the west. New chimneys and chimneys were built on the gable side and on the east gable. In the basement, the two western bays were also separated by a wall. The resulting space was filled with rubble and walled up before 1500.
The stone house may have been destroyed before 1530. Then it was rebuilt on the old foundation walls. Dendrochronological studies date the roof of the transept as well as all ceilings and beams to around 1535. In 1791 the two gables of the transept were renewed in the form of bell gables. Subsequently, no structural changes are documented in the parish archive until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1911 an extension was added to the building. For this, the neck and trunk of the rectory were torn down and rebuilt.
On March 16, 1942, the Todt organization confiscated the parish garden and parsonage of the then vacant parish in Engerhafe and erected barracks there for forced laborers, which were assigned to the construction of air raid shelters in the city of Emden. On October 21, 1944, the barrack camp was converted into a sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, the so-called Engerhafe concentration camp, which was dissolved on December 22, 1944. 188 inmates died within the two months that it existed.
The parsonage has been empty since 2009, as the pastor retired that year and a new parsonage was built elsewhere for his successor. As the buildings are in need of renovation, building historical and archaeological investigations were carried out in the cellar as a precaution. The East Frisian Landscape carried this out in spring 2011 in cooperation with the Engerhafe parish, the State Office for Monument Preservation and the Office for Building and Art Preservation Osnabrück, Aurich branch, as well as the building researchers C. and E. Tonndorf. In the long term, the demolition of the 1911 and modern extensions of the stone house in the 1960s and 1970s is planned. A museum with a memorial for the Engerhafe concentration camp has been set up in the building itself . A community center for the Lutheran parish of Engerhafe and the church archive will also be housed there. The local council paved the way for this on October 10, 2010.
description
The rectory of the Engerhafe parish consists of a medieval stone house and an attached parish house from 1911. The medieval part is built in the style of the East Frisian "Steensen" (stone houses) . The core structure is about eleven meters long, the younger extension with the east gable is 3.80 meters long. The gable width is about 6.90 meters. The ceilings of both floors rest on layers of beams. Since the floors are divided transversely to the longitudinal axis, the rooms extend over the entire width of the house. In the core building there is a hall with a fireplace in the west. Some small old windows are still preserved. They date either from 1535 or from the middle of the 15th century. The few remaining pieces of furniture date from the 17th to 19th centuries. Century. The baroque inner door was moved from an old house in Timmel to the rectory around 1970.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ostfriesische Nachrichten of October 11, 2011: Clear the way for the memorial in the rectory , viewed on May 24, 2013.
- ^ Adele von Bünau: Engerhafer rectory was a chief's castle . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung of May 14, 2011. Accessed on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Christian Meyer, Pastor i. R .: The oldest rectory in Lower Saxony is threatened with demolition , viewed on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Sonja König: Engerhafe, Gde. Südbrookmerland, Ldkr. Aurich, FStNr. 2509/3: 16. Excavations in the late medieval rectory ( memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB). In: News of the March Council for the Promotion of. Research in the coastal area of the North Sea. Issue 49/2012 . P. 31. Accessed May 24, 2012.
- ^ Günther Gerhard Meyer: No "concentration camp lock files" in the Aurich State Archives . In: Emder Zeitung of October 22, 2009. Accessed on May 24, 2013.
