Hope Church (Westrhauderfehn)
The Evangelical Lutheran Hope Church is in Westrhauderfehn , a district of the East Frisian community of Rhauderfehn .
history
Westrhauderfehn was laid out as a feudal settlement in 1769 by the Rhauderfehn-Compagnie . The first settlers were religiously assigned to the parish of Rhaude as a parish . However, the building of a Protestant and a Catholic church had already been approved in the award document for the establishment of the Rhauderfehn of April 19, 1769.
In 1829 the independent parish of Westrhauderfehn was founded and services were held in the existing school building after it had been enlarged by about 10 feet (about 3 meters) for the altar on the east side . A total of 300 believers found space in the building.
In 1834 a parsonage and in 1848 the classicist church were built according to a design by the Hanover consistorial architect Friedrich August Ludwig Hellner . In terms of external shape and interior design, it shows great resemblance to the church in Ahlden, the St. Dionysius church in Bad Fallingbostel and the church in Düshorn, which were all designed by the same builder. The interior of the church shows a uniform classical form, which is evident in the design of the gallery, the pulpit altar and the organ prospect. The church was inaugurated on December 5, 1848 by the general superintendent Hicken. Overall, the construction costs amounted to around 9,000 Reichstaler. The church was originally planned and built in a classical, temple-like style without a tower, which was influenced by the Enlightenment. Decades later, this architectural style was no longer popular and no longer corresponded to the awakened German national consciousness, which demanded a traditional architectural style reminiscent of the Middle Ages and Gothic churches. So the community decided to build a church tower, which gives the classical church building a more traditional shape and takes away its enlightened sobriety.
The church tower was built in 1885/86 by master mason Schumacher from Leer according to plans by the Leer-based engineer Könecke in collaboration with the consistorial builder Conrad Wilhelm Hase from Hanover. This explains the great similarity with the church tower of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. St. Martin parish in Hanover, which is, however, much smaller. This also applies to the very similar steeple of the church in Horst , which is also relatively small, but has comparable design features, such as the octagonal shape in the upper part of the tower, which all three of the mentioned steeples have. The church tower in Westrhauderfehn is the highest in East Frisia at 53.5 meters. For this building, the community had to raise 48,000 gold marks including the bells and clockwork.
The interior of the church was renovated in 1984/1985 and fundamentally renovated in 2003.
During the celebrations for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the parish , state superintendent Oda-Gebbine Hölze-Stäblein baptized the church during the festive service on October 31, 2004 with the name Hope Church .
Today Westrhauderfehn is with 6200 parishioners the largest parish in the parish of Rhauderfehn.
Furnishing
The altar and pulpit date from the time the church was built. The stalls were also set up in 1848. It consists of 29 benches that can seat 290 worshipers. There are another 184 seats on the gallery. On both sides of the chancel there are further benches for the church leaders.
The baptismal font was donated by the community at Christmas 1886. It shows a plaster of paris angel kneeling on a pedestal, holding the new silver baptismal bowl shaped as a flat shell in his hands.
The chandeliers are more recent after two older ones from 1887 had to be given in to be melted down during World War I. In 1916 they were replaced by three ring-shaped wooden candlesticks, each with six electric candles in plate-shaped shades. These candlesticks were replaced in the 1950s by two larger ring-shaped wooden candlesticks, each two meters in diameter, which are still hanging in the nave today.
The Hope ship model is a one and a half meter long replica of the three-masted barque Hope built around 1880 . It is a work of the retired captain Hinderk Greetfeld from Ihrhove in 1944, who reminds of the community's attachment to seafaring.
organ
The first organ was built in 1852 by Gerd Sieben Janssen from Aurich. It had ten registers . The middle section of the prospectus, the wind chests of the main work, the drone 16 'and partly the oboe 8' of this instrument are still preserved today. In 1886 the two side panels were added as a pedal mechanism. In 1937 the organ behind the existing prospectus was largely rebuilt by the company Furtwängler & Hammer from Hanover as a two-manual organ with mechanical sliding chests. In addition to parts of the previous organ, parts of other organs were also reused. In 1984/85 the organ was technically improved by the company Alfred Führer from Wilhelmshaven, and the sound was further expanded, as well as a swell box for the upper work. Since then, the organ has had 24 registers , divided into the main work, swell and pedal. In 1997 the color of the organ case was restored by the Kummer company.
The arrangement of the organ is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Remarks
- * = Gerd Sieben Janssen (1852)
- ** = (1886 and later)
- o = Furtwängler & Hammer (1937)
- + = Alfred Führer (1985)
See also
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Menno Smid : Frisian churches in Emden, Leer, Borkum, Mormerland, Uplengen, Overledingen and Reiderland , volume 3. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1980, p. 99.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Westrhauderfehn (PDF file; 40 kB)
- Genealogy forum: Westrhauderfehn
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westrhauderfehn Church: Foundation of the parish , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Westrhauderfehn Church: Building , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ^ Ostfriesland.de: Hoffnungskirche , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ rhauderfehn.de: Hoffnungskirche Westrhauderfehn , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ Westrhauderfehn Church: Stalls , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ^ Church Westrhauderfehn: Taufstein , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ Westrhauderfehn Church: chandelier , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ Westrhauderfehn Church: Ship model , accessed on November 4, 2018.
- ↑ a b Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE e.V.): Westrhauderfehn, Ev.-luth Church - organ by Furtwängler & Hammer (1937) behind the historical prospectus by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1852) , accessed on September 17, 2017
- ↑ Westrhauderfehn Church: Organ , accessed on November 4, 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 10.6 ″ N , 7 ° 34 ′ 30.8 ″ E
