Great Midlum Church
The Evangelical Reformed Church Groß Midlum is located in the East Frisian town of Groß Midlum in the Hinte community .
History and description of the building
The church in Groß Midlum was built at the end of the 13th century. Due to lack of buttresses this is Gothic brick church like the Romano-Gothic attributed, however, were virtually all wall openings from the start gothic - pointed arch and the lost vaults ogival are barrel vaults get. Before the Reformation it was consecrated to Saint Martin and belonged to the Hinte provost in the diocese of Münster .
The rectangular hall church with a length of four bays was originally vaulted, as indicated by the still existing shield arches. A semicircular apse is attached to the east end . The small raised windows on the north wall are original. The south wall is more richly structured by high-seated blind niches and the later enlarged pointed arched windows. The masonry of the east gable is characterized by a herringbone bond. Several renovations changed the appearance of the church. Side altar windows, so-called hagioscopes , have been preserved on the eastern edge of the south and north walls . A crypt for the noble residents of the castle was created under the apse in the 17th century and is now walled up. In 1839 the vaults were removed and replaced with a wooden ceiling.
The medieval bell tower was demolished in 1876 due to disrepair and not rebuilt. Since then, the bells have been built into the south wall of the church. Because board doors usually closed the sound holes, the saying arose: “In Groß Middlum you can only see the bells when you hear them!” Due to renewed dilapidation, the bells were removed from the church and found their temporary place on their own base . A “noon bell” has been in the roof turret on the church since 1997, after the previous one had to be demolished in 1973 due to its dilapidation.
As in many of the East Frisian terp villages, the cemetery is located around the church. From it connecting paths run radially to the foot of the terp . As a former place of retreat and protection from the North Sea floods, the church is located in the center and at the same time at the highest place in the village.
Until December 31, 2010, Groß-Midlum and the neighboring Freepsum formed a parish, which was then divided. Freepsum was united with the parishes of Canum and Woltzeten under one rectory and Groß-Midlum was united with the parishes of Hinte and Westerhusen under one rectory. They all belong to the Evangelical Reformed Church .
Interior
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Instead of the original vault, the interior has been closed off by a wooden mirrored ceiling since 1839. In front of the east wall, which separates the choir and apse from the nave, there is a wooden gallery with a vault in the middle. It serves as an organ gallery. Peter Gerkes Husmann created the baroque pulpit with a hexagonal sound cover in 1690. The round arched fields of the pulpit are structured by winding corner columns.
An unknown organ builder created an organ that was repaired in 1579/80 and others in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today's organ was originally built by Johann Friedrich Wenthin in 1803/04 with 13 stops on a manual and attached pedal . After the Second World War, the instrument was almost unchanged, except for the prospect pipes that were ceded during the First World War , but it was in a desolate condition. The responsible church music director, Rolf Hallensleben, judged in an expert report in 1952 that Wenthin's work had “not been changed in its pipe inventory since then, apart from the addition of the prospectus pipes after the First World War. ... The sound body is in a z. In part indescribable condition - which is due to botchers who tried to "improve" the work. ... The tongues, whose components are all present, have bells that, after "factual" treatment, have the most bizarre shapes: they are badly dented, compressed and z. Sometimes twisted together like a flower bag at the top. ”The work has not been restored. Instead, in 1956 , Alfred Führer built a new factory behind the historic housing while retaining the old wind chests . Today the instrument has twelve registers on a manual and an independent pedal.
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- Pairing : manual / pedal
See also
literature
- 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. 158, 161 ff., 168, 170 .
Web links
- Genealogy forum: Groß-Midlum
- Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Groß-Midlum (PDF file; 31 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 43 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
- ^ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland - Natural and Cultural Landscape . German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 116.
- ^ 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. 96 ff.
- ^ Genealogy forum: Groß-Midlum ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), as of August 2, 2011.
- ^ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland - Natural and Cultural Landscape . German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 113f.
- ↑ Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 , p. 218 .
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 36.8 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 29.7" E