Grimersum Church
The Evangelical Reformed Grimersum Church is located in the East Frisian town of Grimersum , in the Krummhörn . The important brick church is built in Romano-Gothic style, but has undergone a number of alterations and changes over the centuries.
history
The place Grimersum was a trading post in the Middle Ages, which was connected to the sea via a bay that is now silted up. The church was built between 1270 and 1280 in the transitional Romano-Gothic style. Above all, the wall reinforcements and buttresses form a new element in the architecture of the late 13th century, in which the emerging Gothic is reflected.
In the 16th century the Reformation found its way into Grimersum and altars and sculptures were removed as a result. A verifiably existing rood screen was also removed. Remnants of it were uncovered when the floor was repaired. It is assumed that it was a gallery building supported by three narrow vaulted fields, which was similar in structure to that of St. Mary's Church in Buttforde .
The separate bell tower was built in 1641. A memorial is located on its ground floor.
description
The rectangular one-room church with a straight end of the choir is 35.1 meters long and 10.1 meters wide. The east wall of the church facing the street is particularly artfully designed as a front side. Its gable is structured by staggered panels , the group of three windows below is flanked by two panel niches. Originally, the outer walls at the yoke boundaries and the corners were structured by pilaster strips running down to the floor , which, with the exception of the two western sides of the north side, are almost completely covered by modern buttresses. When it was built, the building had two entrances. The women entered the sacred building through the now walled-up door in the north . The south entrance was formerly reserved for men. It was later reduced in size, has articulated reveals and today serves as the main entrance.
Of the four almost square yokes with vaults that were previously available , the two eastern ones are still preserved today. The two western ones were completed in 1853 with a straight beam ceiling. Of the still existing yokes, the vault of the eastern one is underlaid with four diagonal ribs , which were provided with a hanging wooden end pin. In the yoke immediately next to it, the profile of the wall pillar templates indicates that ribs were at least provided.
The three western bays have one window each in the north and south, the east bay has two windows on the south side and the window on the north side is flanked by two blind niches. The round-arched windows are only slightly changed, the pointed arched windows were later enlarged downwards in order to let more light into the sacred building for reading.
Furnishing
The pulpit was created in 1663 and is a foundation of the preacher Lucas Ritzius. The benches set up around it and the missing altar indicate that the Grimersum Church is a Reformed sacred building.
The font was made in the 13th century and consists of Bentheim sandstone . It has been preserved in a badly damaged form and is the oldest Romanesque piece of equipment in this church. It consists of a separate upper and lower part, which were not originally created as a unit and were later joined together.
Several tombstones and tombstones have been placed in the church, some of which are reminiscent of the members of the Beninga chief family , whose coffins are in a crypt under the choir. The most important of these is the Renaissance tomb of Eggerik Beninga . It shows the chief and chronicler framed by six life-size coats of arms of the family.
organ
The organ with wing doors and mirrored treble fields was rebuilt in 1958 by the Ahrend & Brunzema company while retaining parts of the wind system and the pipework from the Rohlfs brothers from 1867. The instrument has eight registers on a manual with attached pedal. The disposition is as follows:
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- Remarks:
- ↑ 2-fold from treble
A = Ahrend & Brunzema (1958)
R = Rohlfs brothers (1867)
See also
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 59.
- Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 76, 91, 113, 167 ff .
Web links
- Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Grimersum (PDF file; 38 kB)
- Genealogy forum: Grimersum
Individual evidence
- ↑ organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 22, 2011.
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 39.3 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 15.2" E