Gandersum Church

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Gandersum Church

The Evangelical Reformed Gandersum Church in Gandersum , East Frisia , was built as a hall church in the 14th century , but has undergone significant structural changes over the centuries.

History and architecture

Interior of the Gandersumer Church

In the Middle Ages Gandersum was under the provost Emden in the diocese of Muenster . The brick hall church was built on an old terp in the 14th century, i.e. during the Gothic period . Presumably there was a previous wooden building in the same place. It had a choir on the east side . Since its demolition in the last quarter of the 18th century, the church interior has only had a simple rectangular floor plan. The window reveals have partly pointed arches on the outside, partly an irregular in-between thing between round and pointed arches. However, the walls of the largest windows suggest a subsequent enlargement. The squat bell tower is attached to the nave in the west and is lower than the church. A Reformed preacher is attested to in 1552. The Marienglocke from 1458 is now in the East Frisian State Museum , while the bell from 1582 was melted down in 1912. In 1912 the parish acquired a bell from the St. Nicholas Church in Borssum , which dates from 1774. In the course of the renovation of the Borssum church, the Gandersum parish gave this bell back in 2000 and had its own bell cast in the same year.

Renovations in the 18th and 19th centuries fell victim to furnishings such as the sound cover of the pulpit and the colorful stained glass windows. Shortly before or during the Second World War , the roof leaked and finally collapsed completely on February 22, 1945. After artillery hits in the last days of the war, only the outer walls remained, so that the church deteriorated more and more in the years that followed. After initial planning from 1958, the reconstruction was completed in 1962. In 1994/95 the outer walls were re-grouted. The parish has shared a pastor's position with Tergast since 1938 .

Furnishing

Gandersum organ

After the renovation in 1962, the original arrangement of the stalls, organ and pulpit was not restored. In order to combat the moisture in the walls, another inner wall was put in front of an insulation layer.

A flat wooden ceiling has been drawn into the interior. The undated Vasa Sacra include the jug, chalice, bread plate and baptismal bowl.

The organ goes back to a house organ from the 18th century. After the church closed around 1938, the instrument was transferred to Emden, where it was installed and used in the Swiss church . When a new organ was built there in 1962, the old organ was returned to Gandersum. The organ building workshop Winold van der Putten and Berend Veger from Winschoten carried out a comprehensive restoration in 1990/1991, which sought to reconstruct the original sound and external condition. The purely mechanical instrument has five stops on a manual without a pedal and is tuned according to Neidhardt .

I Manual C – f 3
Gedackt 8 ′
Prefix 4 ′
Flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture II-III

See also

literature

  • Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 , p. 79-80 .

Web links

Commons : Gandersumer Church  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Euhausen: Gandersum , accessed on April 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Klaus Euhausen (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Gandersum , accessed on April 12, 2019 (PDF; 36 kB).
  3. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 79.
  4. ↑ a b c nordwestreisemagazin: Evangelical Reformed Church Gandersum , accessed on April 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Homepage of the parish: The Gandersum bell , accessed on April 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Genealogy Forum: Gandersum ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 80.
  8. ↑ Organ on NOMINE e. V. , accessed April 12, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 24.7 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 43.7"  E