Uphuser Church

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Uphuser Church.

The Evangelical Reformed Uphuser Church in the East Frisian town of Emden was built in 1440 as a successor to a church from the 2nd half of the 13th century.

history

The village of Uphusen throws has grown together over time from three individual wards . The oldest part was before the 9./10. Century piled up. The church yard was added in the 13th century. Then the construction of the first church began here, which was replaced by a new one around 1440. Chief Wiard von Uphusen is said to have initiated the new building.

The Reformation began in East Frisia from 1520 and a few years later it also found its way into Uphusen. The community has been continuously reformed since 1593. Due to the special East Frisian law , the Lutheran Christians were part of the Reformed community with all rights and obligations.

The early baroque sandstone portal on the north wall was added to the building in the middle of the 17th century and the western wall was rebuilt in 1884.

In 1970, the Lutheran Christians were separated from the community and have been part of the Martin Luther community in Emden ever since. The Uphusen Reformed Church currently has around 470 members.

Building description

The distant bell tower with parallel masonry comes from the time the first church was built.

The church is 29.21 meters long and 11.68 meters wide. Its brick walls are 1.17 meters thick. Its longitudinal walls are structured by pilaster strips and have high-seated, pointed-arched windows. The east gable shows a rising group of three windows, above blind arches and slender arches at the top of the gable. The choir is closed at the top with a flat wooden arched ceiling and the nave with a barrel vault . Both rooms are separated by a wooden wall.

Furnishing

The font from the pre-Reformation period was, like so many baptisms in East Frisia, made from Bentheim sandstone in the 13th century . Four stone lions carry the cuppa , which is surrounded by tendril friezes. In the choir of the church there are several tombstones from the 16th to 18th centuries. Two artfully carved coats of arms of the Wiards von Uphusen family also hang in the choir. Their tombstone should be in the floor.

The organ was built between 1825 and 1831 by Wilhelm Caspar Joseph Höffgen from Emden. It is located on a simple gallery parapet in front of the choir room. The strong central tower and the two smaller side towers are set up on ornate console baskets. The towers themselves have three figures showing Kronos and two angels. Otherwise the instrument is kept white. The side wall organ has 14 registers and is almost completely original. Only the prospect pipes were renewed and are now made of zinc.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Menno Smid : Frisian churches in Emden, Leer, Borkum, Mormerland, Uplengen, Overledingen and Reiderland , volume 3. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1980, p. 40.
  • Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 167 ff., 171 f., 176 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c reformiert.de: Ev.-ref. Uphusen parish , accessed on September 18, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Monika van Lengen: Church and organ in Uphusen , viewed on May 10, 2012.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 14.5 ″  E