Johannes de Doperkerk ('s-Heer Abtskerke)

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The Johannes de Doperkerk
The old church of Sinoutskerke 1887

The Johannes de Doperkerk ( German  Johannes-der- Täufer -Kirche ) is a Gothic Protestant parish church in the district 's-Heer Abtskerke of the municipality of Borsele in the Dutch province of Zeeland .

history

The church, which was consecrated to St. John the Baptist until the Reformation , was built in the 14th century. It is considered to be the most preserved medieval village church on Zuid-Beveland . Dirk VII. Count of Holland donated Abtskerke to Middelburg Abbey in 1196 . After that there was a parish as Abpfarrung of Middelburg West Minster . From here, subsidiary churches were founded in the neighboring towns of Nisse and Sinoutskerke .

The oldest part of the Johannes Church is the choir, which originally had a straight ending. In the 16th century the 3 ⁄ 5 closure was added. In addition, the tower and the single-nave nave with its later chapel-like side aisles in the north and south come from the 14th century. On the north side of the choir there is a walled-in arch, where a larger aisle was probably originally planned, which was never built. During the restoration of the church from 1964 to 1968, a simple arched window from the 14th century was reconstructed on the south side of the chancel and a sacristy was added to the old foundations.

Since the closing of the medieval church in the neighboring Sinoutskerke in 1906, the local believers have also belonged to the Protestant parish. The parish belongs to the Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, which was created in 2004 .

organ

The organ was built in 1872 by the organ building company Société Anonyme des Grandes Orgues (Brussels). The abrasive loading -instrument has 5 registers on a Manual (C-g 3 : Montre 8 ', Bourdon 8', Salicional 8 ', Flute 4', Trompette 8 '), the pedal (d C- 1 ) is attached. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

literature

  • Peter Don: Kunstreisboek Zeeland , ed. from Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist 1985.
  • H. Janse: Kerken en torens in Zeeland , Zaltbommel 1969.

Web links

Commons : Johannes de Doperkerk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ (Dutch)

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 15 ″  N , 3 ° 52 ′ 52 ″  E