Andreas Church (Plaggenburg)

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The Andreas Church

The Lutheran St. Andrew's Church was built in 1904 in Plaggenburg , a district of the East Frisian town of Aurich . It is named after the apostle Andrew .

history

Plaggenburg was built as a bog colony from 1777 . Ecclesiastically, the village was initially assigned to the two Protestant communities of Aurich. In 1904, the three villages of Plaggenburg, Pfalzdorf and Dietrichsfeld were the first to be separated from the Aurich parish and henceforth formed their own communities. In addition to the Plaggenburg school, construction of the Andreas Church began in the same year.

In 1952 the church interior was redesigned for the first time.

In the years 1970 to 1973 the community had the roof and tower renewed and the interior of the church was fundamentally redesigned. The church received a brick floor and new lead-glazed windows. The benches have been removed and replaced with chairs. Services took place in the school building during this time.

Since the reopening in 1973, the church building has been dedicated to St. Andrew.

description

The building was built in the neo-Gothic style. The nave has a width of 10 meters and a length of 15.5 meters. The church tower is 22 meters high and connects to the nave in the west. The entrance to the church is also located there. The rectory is built onto the windowless north side of the ship. The south side is divided into four fields by buttresses, in which there are just as many pointed arched windows. In the east an apse adjoins the church interior, which has small, high-seated, round windows in the south and north, and in the east behind the altar three narrow, pointed arched windows of different heights.

Furnishing

The font, pulpit and altar are the work of the Oldenburg artist Max Herrmann (1908–1999). The chandeliers were donated in 1904 by the political community of Plaggenburg for the opening of the church. The artist Walter Arno (1930–2005) from Elmshorn near Hamburg designed the baptismal bowl made of chrome-nickel steel and the cross on the altar with a baroque body from around the first half of the 18th century. The Vasa Sacra consist of a chalice with the Lamb of God, paten, jar and jug. It has no engraving.

The organ is a work of the organ building workshop Alfred Führer from Wilhelmshaven. It was built into the case of the previous instrument made by P. Furtwängler & Hammer from 1905–1906 between 1982 and 1984 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Andreaskirche (Plaggenburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Folkert Frieden, Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Plaggenburg, Stadt Aurich, Landkreis Aurich (PDF file; 125 kB), viewed on October 20, 2010.

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 8.5 ″  E