Former Wymeer Peace Chapel
The Evangelical Free Church Peace Chapel Wymeer (also called Baptist Chapel ) was the church of the former Wymeer Baptist congregation. It was built in 1900 and sold to a private buyer in 2017.
history
Initially, the local Baptists visited the congregation in Ihr , which is considered the mother congregation of all older East Frisian Baptist congregations, or the Dutch Baptist congregation in Vriescheloo. The believers in Wymeer were initially looked after as a branch church by theirs. In 1876/77 Hinderk Wilms, the son of the Baptist preacher Harm Willms from Ihr, moved to Wymeer and leased the mill there. The villagers noticed Wilms because he didn't sell bread on Sunday. Six people from the circle of friends created around Wilms, which initially met in Johann Haken's private house, were baptized by 1888. First, travel preachers led these meetings. In 1893 Wymeer was founded as an independent station and the services were held in the house next to the chapel today. The peace chapel with attached preacher's apartment dates from 1900. In 1921 the branch congregation became independent and appointed its own pastor, whom the congregation shared with the Baptist congregation in Ditzumerverlaat . Between 1930 and 1964, preachers from the neighboring congregations carried out substitute services. Then it came back to a cooperation with Ditzumerverlaat. From 1997 to October 31, 2010 the Wymeer congregation had its own preacher and has been vacant since then . In 2016 the community gave up its independence. The majority of its members joined the Weener Baptist Church. After the building was sold in 2017, it was converted into a residential building in 2018.
Building description
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The simple brick building with a gable roof is part of a housing estate. The long sides of the building are structured by pilaster strips and finished off with a frieze . The gable side facing the street is also emphasized by a frieze. In 1962 the assembly room was redesigned. In this train, a large window front to the north side of the street was broken into and the main entrance was relocated to the right, western long side as seen from the street front. At the same time, a small foyer was created with cloakrooms and the community book table. On the north east side there was a raised round window with glass blocks and behind it two rectangular windows with glass blocks. A white cross was walled in to the left of the large window on the street side, the window and cross were framed by a white rectangle.
List of pastors
In the course of its history, the Wymeer Baptist Church was looked after by 14 pastors. The clergy mentioned in the following list were usually not only responsible for Wymeer. They took on additional tasks in the neighborhood, for example in the Baptist congregations Ditzumerverlaat , Weener and in various places in the neighboring Netherlands .
| No | Pastors | Period | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hans Penner | 1920-1925 | Penner moved to the Augustfehn Baptist Congregation - Südgeorgsfehn in 1925 and emigrated to the United States with 20 East Frisian Baptists in 1927 . |
| 02 | Hermann Gebauer | 1925-1930 | |
| 03 | Karl Rausche | 1930-1943 | |
| 04 | Ulrich Brouwer | 1944-1947 | |
| 05 | Johannes Schwitzke | 1947-1950 | |
| 06 | Paul Kerstan | 1950-1954 | Kerstan switched to the Baptist Congregation Bad Pyrmont (branch of the Baptist Congregation Hameln ). |
| 07 | Hermann Gebauer | 1955-1962 | |
| vacancy | 1962-1964 | ||
| 08 | Erhard Handelmann | 1964-1968 | Handelmann moved to the Schwenningen Baptist Church . |
| 09 | Bernd Stuut | 1969-1974 | |
| 10 | Klaus-Jürgen Meyer | 1974-1979 | |
| 11 | Wolfgang Hagen | 1979-1985 | |
| vacancy | 1985-1987 | ||
| 12 | Ralf Vogel | 1987-1992 | |
| vacancy | 1992-1996 | ||
| 13 | Ulrich Haß | 1996-2010 | As a retired pastor, Haß served in the community. |
| 14th | Gunter Johns | 2010-2017 | Johns, who died in December 2017, was a retired pastor in the Ditzumerverlaat Baptist congregation, but also looked after the remaining members of the Wymeerster Baptist congregation. |
See also
literature
- 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 ( online , PDF).
- Ulrich Haß: The Baptist Congregation Wymeer. The story of an evangelical free church community . Wymeer 1999
- Harm Wiemann: From days gone by. Chronicle of the combined community of Bunde. Self-published, Bunde 1983, p. 96 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiemann: From days gone by . 1983, p. 96 f.
- ^ 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 ( online , PDF), accessed on September 15, 2018.
- ↑ Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Wymeer (PDF file; 55.9 kB), accessed on August 21, 2016.
- ↑ The list of pastors is based on Ulrich Haß: Die Baptistengemeinde Wymeer. The story of an evangelical free church community. Wymeer 1999, p. 5.
- ↑ EFG-Augustfehn.de: list of pastors ; viewed on September 17, 2018
- ↑ Baptisten-Hameln.de: History ; viewed on September 18, 2018
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 4 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 36.3" E