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Church in Böhmerwold

The Evangelical Reformed Böhmerwolder Church was built in 1703 and is located in Böhmerwold , a district of the Jemgum municipality , in the middle of the Rheiderland , in southwestern East Frisia .

history

Building inscription

In 1703 the brick church was built to replace a small half-timbered building made of wood and clay. The church has 138 seats, which were sold to the congregation members to finance the building. In the course of time, several minor alterations were made and the west tower was added with a south portal, through which the church is entered today. In 1828 the building was expanded and an organ was installed, as the community had grown through the incorporation of Bunderhammerich and Süder- and Norder-Christian-Eberhardspolder.

Böhmerwold and Marienchor have shared a pastor's position since 1936. Today the two village communities are supplied by Jemgum.

architecture

Church from the southwest

The hall church has a polygonal choir supported by buttresses. The building receives light through narrow windows that end in round arches.

The massive, windowless bell tower has two arched sound holes for the bells in the south and north below the eaves. Above the richly decorated portal with basket arch in the south wall is an inscription cartouche decorated with putti heads and acanthus tendrils. The Dutch building inscription reads: “ANNO DOMINI 1703 HEBBEN DE INTERESTENTEN VAN BEMERWOLD DESE KERCK EN TOREN GEBOUWT. SYNDE BOELMAN ABELS KERCKVOOGT ”. A small pointed helmet is placed on the tent roof, which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and a horse as a weather vane.

Furnishing

View towards the west gallery
pulpit

Inside, the blue wooden barrel vault rests on consoles decorated with ornaments . The curved west gallery serves as the installation site for the organ.

The simple church furnishings such as the wooden pulpit and box stalls date from 1705. The stalls leave a central aisle free. The round pulpit is structured by pilasters that are decorated with garlands and angel heads. The round sound cover is profiled.

Instead of an altar, a simple communion table is common in Reformed churches. The Vasa Sacra includes a mug dating from 1636 and a bread plate from 1730.

organ

Rohlfs organ

The small one-manual organ was built in 1828 by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs from Esens using older pipe material and has seven registers and an attached pedal . It has largely been preserved in its original form and is characterized by the red and gold prospectus and an extremely colorful sound. Oral tradition has it that it is a "prince organ" from the Aurich Castle . This tradition was obviously nurtured by Rohlfs taking over some stops with heavy lead pipes from an older baroque organ of unknown origin and at the same time working on the organ of the princely chapel in Aurich. This work had eleven stops on one manual and was in great need of repair. Rohlfs brought the instrument for Böhmerwold from his workshop in Esens to Aurich and had it picked up by men from Böhmerwold in order to assemble it himself on site. In 1890 Johann Diepenbrock carried out an overhaul of the instrument and an exchange of registers. In 1989 the Krummhörner organ workshop carried out a renovation. The disposition has been since 1890:

Manual C – f 3
Praestant 4 ′ R.
Dumped 8th' V / K
Dumped 4 ′ V / K
octave 2 ′ R.
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ V / R
Mixture II R.
Gamba 8th' D.
Pedal C – g 0
attached pedal
V = Baroque predecessor organ
R = Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1828)
D = Johann Diepenbrock (1890)
K = Krummhörner organ workshop (1989)
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind supply:
    • Two wedge bellows
    • Wind pressure: 62 mm water column
  • Mood :
    • Height a 1 = 440 Hz
    • Unequal mood
Remarks
  1. ↑ Ab c 2 : 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′.
  2. ↑ Originally trumpet 8 ′.

See also

literature

  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .
  • Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000.
  • Robert Noah: God's houses in East Frisia . Soltau-Kurier, Norden 1989, ISBN 3-922365-80-9 .
  • Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 .
  • Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .
  • Anna Sophie Inden (text) | Martin Stromann (photos): God's houses in the Rheiderland . In: Ostfriesland Magazin 2/2015, SKN Druck und Verlag, Norden 2015, p. 48 ff.

Web links

Commons : Böhmerwolder Church  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 51.
  2. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Böhmerwold , accessed on November 5, 2018 (PDF; 28 kB).
  3. ↑ Monika van Lengen: Ditzum Jemgum - Church in Böhmerwold , accessed on November 5, 2018 (PDF).
  4. ↑ organ on NOMINE eV , accessed on 5 November 2018th

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  E