Großwolder Church

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Reformed Church in Großwolde

The Evangelical Reformed Großwolder Church in Westoverledingen in East Frisia was built around 1350 as a late Romanesque hall church.

History and architecture

The farming village was moved from the Hammrich to the higher Geest in the 12th century due to the rising groundwater . In this context, the previous brick church was demolished between 1250 and 1350 and rebuilt at its current location. A squat bell tower is built on the west side. The niches uncovered during the renovation work in 1969/1970, which served as a repository for Vasa Sacra , as well as a cross with two shepherd's and bishop's staffs, date from the Catholic period . In the eastern area there is a hagioscope close to the former altar area, which gave lepers a view of the Holy Mass in the Middle Ages .

In 1560 the congregation converted to the Reformed Confession .

Today's large windows with slightly flattened round arches were broken into the walls of the nave in the 17th or 18th century. Before the renovation in 1969 it had two windows with ogival reveals in the east gable wall .

A bell that was cast in 1744 comes from the Reformed New Town Church in Gumbinnen , which is now Russian Gussew ( Northeast Prussia ) and was destroyed in 1944 . She "survived" on the Hamburg bell cemetery .

Furnishing

A flat vaulted wooden ceiling completes the interior. The font made of Bentheim sandstone from the early 13th century obviously comes from the previous building. The cylindrical basin is provided with a frieze of tendrils and animal figures and rests on four lion feet.

In 1969/1970 the stalls were renewed and the pulpit was moved from the east wall into a corner of the choir .

organ

Organ brochure from 1884

The organ on the curved west gallery was created in 1883/1884 by Gerd Sieben Janssen as his last work. It had eight stops on a manual and an attached pedal. The interior was replaced in 1919 by the company Furtwängler & Hammer . Eleven registers on pneumatic pocket drawers are divided between two manuals and a pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Open flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Progressive II – III
II Manual C-g 3
Flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Distance flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, II / II

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Großwolder Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the parish of Großwolde about the parish and its church ( Memento from February 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) The last picture of the series that can be viewed under “Our Church” shows the east window before it was walled up.
  2. ↑ Genealogy Forum: Großwolde ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 95.
  4. ^ 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. 142 ff.
  5. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 94.
  6. ↑ Homepage of the parish , accessed on April 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Organ on NOMINE e. V. , accessed April 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 39.2 ″  E