Barbara Church (Strackholt)

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Barbara Church from the southeast

The Barbara Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the East Frisian village of Strackholt in the community of Großefehn , which was built in the 13th century.

history

The list of names of the preachers at Strackholt

The church was built in the middle, but at the latest in the second half of the 13th century. It was before the Reformation of St. Barbara consecrated. Latin inscriptions from the 15th century on the wall of the choir tell of past times of need and threats. During a raid by Count Gerd the Brave in 1473, old measuring instruments of the church were lost. In the course of the Reformation, the congregation switched to the Lutheran creed.

In 1853, the church was expanded to include the northern extension, and windows were also removed from the facade and the appearance was greatly changed. At the time of Pastor Remmer Janssen , as the church was always overcrowded, a wing had to be added on the south side. In the 1960s, Pastor Johannes Riese initiated a major renovation of the church. The bells were switched to electrical operation, the church was electrified and the altar was rebuilt. In 2000, two western walls were re-erected.

architecture

View from the west

The rectangular hall made of red brick was originally vaulted , as indicated by the wall projections on the eastern inner corners. Today the interior is closed off by a flat wooden beam ceiling. The retracted semicircular east apse, which was added later, still has its original small arched windows from the Romanesque period. Several small wall niches are set into the apse inside. The choir is connected to the main nave by a round-arched triumphal arch in which a round rod is inserted. Due to the expansion of the nave in the 19th century, the building is now presented as a cruciform church . The extensions on the north and south sides have two pointed arch windows on all three sides. The corner pilasters are connected by a battlement frieze.

The medieval belfry of the parallel wall type stands south of the church. It dates from the beginning of the 14th century and is richly decorated with blind niches on the gable ends.

Furnishing

Winged altar from 1654
inside view

The font made of Bentheim sandstone dates from the 13th century . In the apse there is a sandstone basin that was used for ritual ablutions in the Middle Ages. Other niches in the south wall of the choir and in the apse were intended as storage space for jugs; the smallest niche was originally a hagioscope . The crucifixion group was created on the beam in the triumphal arch in the 15th century . The crucifix (renewed in 1881) is flanked by Maria and Johannes (with a new head since 1956). All three figures received a new color version in 1956.

The winged altar dates from 1654. The four evangelists are depicted in the predella , the crucifixion of Christ on the main panel and scenes from the childhood of Jesus on the wings. In 1791 the splendid chandelier was donated by a Strackholter family. The hexagonal Rococo pulpit with sound cover was made by Joachim Kaspar Hessemeier (Hessemius) in 1801. It has a staircase and is decorated with delicate carvings and partly gilded tendrils and a crowning angel playing the trumpet. The green-painted stalls have red-colored traljen grids.

organ

Schmid organ from 1799

The organ was built in 1798 by Gerhard Janssen Schmid with twelve stops on a manual and a pedal attached above the altar. The five-part prospectus of the work with three round towers, a profiled cornice and openwork tendrils and volutes is based on late Baroque forms. When the organ was moved to the south pore in 1883, a second manual was added and new wind chests were built (II / p / 14). In 1971 Hans Wolf added a substation and an independent pedal mechanism, which was completed after his death in 1973 by Hermann Hillebrand and Franz Rietzsch, who restored the remaining historical parts of the organ. In a second step, the four still vacant tongue registers were made by Hillebrand in 1986. The rebuilding of the organ, which today has 23 registers, was like building a new one. The Strackholter organ is thus one of the largest village organs in East Frisia. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th' W.
Drone 8th' S.
octave 4 ′ S.
Reed flute 4 ′ S.
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ S.
octave 2 ′ S.
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ S.
Mixture IV H
Trumpet 8th' H
II substation C – f 3
Dumped 8th' S.
Principal 4 ′ W.
Coupling flute 4 ′ W.
Forest flute 2 ′ W.
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ W.
Sharp III W.
Krummhorn 8th' H
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ W.
octave 8th' W.
octave 4 ′ W.
Night horn 2 ′ W.
Mixture IV (S)
trombone 16 ′ H
Trumpet 8th' H
S = Schmid (1798)
W = Wolf (1971)
H = Hillebrand (1973/1986)

Peal

Pastor Janssen ordered a bronze bell from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen in 1897 . It had a diameter of 1370 mm and weighed 1527 kg, striking sound: dis '(es'). It no longer exists today. During the First World War , a bell had to be removed from the bell tower for war purposes. In World War II , two other bells were delivered. In 1919 the emigrants in the USA collected for a new bell. After the Second World War, the other two bells were replaced. In 1970 the Otto foundry cast two new bells for the Barbara Church. They sound on it and g; their diameters are 1333 mm and, 1058 mm; the bells weigh 1479 kg and 734 kg.

Church records

The parish registers have been preserved since 1726. They are summarized in a local family book up to the year 1900.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn. Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 42.
  • Gerd Kroon, Rudolf Onken (ed.): The families of the parish Strackholt. With Auricher Wiesmoor II, Fiebing, Spetzerfehn, Vosbarg, Wilhelmsfehn II and Zwischenbergen (1706–1900). Upstalsboom-Gesellschaft, Aurich 1988, ISBN 3-9806023-7-0 .
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Church (Strackholt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage of the parish: History , accessed on October 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ For the end of the text and translations, see Ortschronisten der Ostfriesische Landschaft : Strackholt , p. 2, accessed on October 30, 2019 (PDF; 55 kB).
  3. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Strackholt , accessed on October 30, 2019 (PDF; 55 kB).
  4. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 246 .
  5. ^ Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1986, ISBN 3-925365-07-9 , p. 111 f .
  6. ^ Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1986, ISBN 3-925365-07-9 , p. 143 .
  7. ^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 62 f.
  8. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 247 .
  9. ^ Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 220 .
  10. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 558, here in particular pp. 509, 562 .
  11. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 475, 516 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  E