Old Reformed Church (camping)

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Old Reformed Church in Campen

The old reformed church in Campen in the Krummhörn ( East Friesland ) was built in 1905 in the neo-Gothic style.

History and description of the building

Line drawing of the first church from 1866

The old reformed parishes emerged from a separation movement from the Reformed Church . The congregation in Campen is the first old reformed church in East Friesland and owes its establishment in 1854 largely to the farmer and lay preacher Heye Gossen Heikens (1806–1884). In 1848 Heikens appeared with a first sermon. In 1851, his catechetical writings caused a sensation and the first printed sermons were written. As more and more listeners came to his Bible studies and the private meeting room became too small, a small church was built in 1866. A line drawing from the year of construction shows a simple one-room hall church with a gable roof and four side arched windows.

At the site of the old church, today's building was erected as a hall church with a gable roof on a rectangular floor plan. The church, built in the neo-Gothic style, has two small pointed arch windows in each of the gables, three larger windows on the long sides and two smaller pointed arch windows on the back of the church. There is a small bell in a roof turret. Buttresses support the building at the corners of the building and between the side windows.

After the congregation had acquired a former inn as a pastorate in 1901, a new parsonage was built in 1959 on the site of the previous building. In 1977 a parish hall was added to the pastorate. As of December 31, 2014, the community had 201 members. At the beginning of 2015 it merged with the community in Emden, which comprised 71 members.

Furnishing

Ott organ (1948)

The interior of the church is simple. The old hexagonal wooden pulpit on the west wall with a sound cover has been removed and replaced by a slightly raised open pulpit in the northwest corner. The old wooden church stalls with doors also gave way to modern benches, which were aligned with the new location of the pulpit. In the organ gallery there is an organ made by Paul Ott in 1948. Originally the parapet organ had nine registers on a manual and an attached pedal. Since the renovation by Bartelt Immer (1995/96) it still has six registers. Since 2004, a new wooden pulpit-like lectern, which Heye Mollema from Emden created, has been used for reading.

See also

literature

  • Gerrit Jan Beuker: The Evangelical Old Reformed Congregation Campen 1854-2004. From private assembly to parish . Self-published, Campen 2004, ISBN 3-929013-20-7 ( online [PDF; 7.3 MB ; accessed on August 25, 2018]).
  • Gerrit Jan Beuker: Reversal and Renewal. From the history of the Evangelical Old Reformed Church in Lower Saxony 1838–1988 . Ed .: Synod of the EAK in Lower Saxony. 2nd Edition. Hellendoorn, Bad Bentheim 1988, ISBN 3-929013-04-5 .

Web links

Commons : Old Reformed Church (camping)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beuker: The Evangelical Old Reformed Congregation Campen . 2004, p. 12 ( online , 7.25 MB), accessed on August 25, 2018 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Beuker: Reversal and Renewal . 1988, p. 162.
  3. ^ Numbers according to Der Grenzbote . No. 1, 125th year, January 18, 2015, p. 17.

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '5.6 "  N , 7 ° 3' 5.3"  E