Church of the Holy Cross (Pakens)

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Church of the Holy Cross

The Church of the Holy Cross in the village of Pakens in Wangerland is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Pakens- Hooksiel . The church, which was built in Romanesque style at the beginning of the late Middle Ages , stands on the raised western end of a former sea ​​dike . It is one of thirteen stations on the Wangerland pilgrimage route .

Building description

The Church of the Holy Cross, which is surrounded by a cemetery, is a rectangular one-room church with a semicircular apse facing east . The length of the church is 22, its width 7, the radius of the apse 2.25 meters. The walls of the church are about one and a half meters thick. The space between the outer granite and the inner plastered brick wall was filled with rubble and cuttings. To the south of the nave is the free-standing bell tower, a so-called parallel wall tower with four bells. The north and south walls of the Pakens Church and the lower sections of its east and west walls consist of granite blocks that were built with horizontal joints. The upper east wall consists of bricks in the format of a monastery , which were walled up in the gable area in a herringbone pattern. The west wall is also made of bricks that were walled up in an irregular bond. Various forms of jewelry can be found in the gable area. The so-called German band forms the upper end of the two granite walls . The masonry is held together by numerous anchors .

The entrance portal is on the west side. Three round arched window openings with sloping soffits are embedded in the upper parts of the north and south walls. Three more - albeit considerably smaller - arched windows can be found in the apse. Above the middle window there is a sandstone relief showing Christ crucified , his mother Mary and the apostle John .

At its eastern end, the church roof has a weather vane mounted on a sphere .

The way into the church leads through an anteroom, which is located under the organ gallery and is separated from the actual nave by a glazed wooden wall with a central door. From here a staircase leads to the organ gallery on the left; on the right is the small sacristy . The pews, box stalls from the 1640s with a baluster railing in the upper part, are to the right and left of the only aisle that connects the entrance area with the choir .

organ

Organ of the Church of the Holy Cross

The organ was built in 1664 by the Hamburg organ builder Joachim Richborn . The work had 8 parts on one manual , 4 of which are original registers . Originally she had the following disposition :

Manual CDEFGA – a 2
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octav 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Mixture III-IV
Trumpet 8th'
shelf 8th'
Beat (tremulant)
Bird cry
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Temperature : probably mid-tone
  • Tuning: approx. 1 whole tone higher

In 1679 the organ was given a color version. Johann Friedrich Constabel carried out a repair in 1756. In 1897 the Oldenburg organ builder Schmid III rebuilt and expanded it with a pedal mechanism . New mechanical cone chests and new box bellows were installed. In the period between 1937 and 1960, Alfred Führer (Wilhelmshaven) rebuilt the instrument several times. In 1937 a new pneumatic cone store, a magazine bellows and some new voices were built. In 1951, 1957 and 1960, Alfred Führer built a new mechanical slider-chest organ while retaining the old register. A very old register Oktav 2 ′ was added from the magazine holdings, which was initially in the background. In 1999, Bartelt Immer (Norden) finally cleaned and re-intonated the old registers and combined old voices in the main work.

Today's disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th' W.
Quintad 8th' Y
Octave 4 ′ W.
Reed flute 4 ′ Y
Octave 2 ′ Z
Mixture III W.
Dulcian 8th' Y
II Hinterwerk C – f 3
Dumped 8th' W.
It. Principal 4 ′ Z
Gemshorn 2 ′ Y
Nasard 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Y
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ X
Octave 8th' Z
Night horn 4 ′ Y
Cane fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Y

Remarks

  1. ↑ old, from magazine stocks
W = Joachim Richborn, Hamburg (1664)
X = Johann Martin Schmid (Schmid III) (1897)
Y = Alfred Führer, Wilhelmshaven (1937)
Z = Alfred Führer (1951/57/60)

Pakens pastors from the Reformation to 1917

Unless otherwise stated, the information given in the following list is taken from the list of preachers of the Duchy of Oldenburg .

Clergy Period Remarks
Dominus Everhard before 1540 Everhardus was “the first to preach the gospel here after the abolition of the papacy. Is buried next to the choir. "
Petrus Kempis 1540? to ? Kempis developed a liturgy based on Martin Luther's Deutsche Messe - first for Jever , then for Pakens.
Magister Johannes Wagner 1585-1588 Wagner was born in Oldenburg.
Fridericus Bose 1588-1596
Arnoldus Rudolphi 1596-1619 Rudolphi died in Pakens. His grave slab is in the anteroom of the Holy Cross Church.
Magister Theodorus Eimken 1619-1631 Eimken was born in Hanover .
vacancy 1631-1634
Magister Ericus Notelius 1634-1657 Notelius was born in Hanover. At the end of August 1634 he held the funeral service for the deceased Jever superintendent Aegidius Conrad Gualtperius . The sermon is available in printed form.
Magister Lüderus Wiggers 1657-1659 Wiggers was born in Berne .
Georgius Decker 1658-1693 Decker was born in Hamburg .
Mathias Cajus Ahrends 1694-1728 Ahrends was born in Delmenhorst .
Christian Carstens 1728-1754 Carstens was born in Minsen in Wangerland.
Anton Günther Rittershusen 1754-1775 Rittershusen was born in Neuende (today part of Wilhelmshaven ).
vacancy 1775-1777
Friedrich August Janssen 1777-1784 Janssen was born in Neuende .
Konrad Friedrich Berlage 1785-1793 Berlage was born in Neuende .
Heinrich Toel 1793-1800 Toel was a native of Jever .
Christian Carstens 1800-1808 Carstens was born in Funnens near Hohenkirchen .
Wilhelm Tiarks 1808-1823 Tiarks was a native of Jever .
Friedrich Wilhelm August Reuter 1823-1827 Reuter was a native of St. Joost .
Franz Berlage 1827-1837 Berlage was a native of Pakens. He was the son of the former Pakistani pastor Konrad Friedrich Berlage.
Christian Carl Woehrmann 1838-1849 Wöhrmann was a native of Eutin .
Martin Bernhard Ludwig Geiler 1849-1870 Geiler was born in Oldenburg .
Ludwig Konrad Martin Schauenburg 1870-1886 Schauenburg was born in Sandel .
Johann August Wilhelm Zeidler 1887-1888 Zeidler was born in Bremervörde .
vacancy 1888-1880
Wilhelm Gerhard Janssen 1890-1897 Jannsen was born in Friedeburg .
Diedrich Schmidt 1898-1901 Schmidt was born in Sandhausen near Hasbergen ,
Adolf Gustav Dietrich Bergmann 1901-1911 Bergmann was born in Eckwarden .
Hermann Max Hille 1912-1917 Hille was born in Alt-Eibau in Saxony . He was the last pastor of the Holy Cross Church who worked exclusively for the parish Pakens-Hooksiel.

See also

literature

  • Hans Saebens, Christel Matthias Schröder : The churches of Jeverland. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1956, pp. 13, 36 ff.
  • Wolfgang Runge: The Church of the Holy Cross in Pakens. (printed as a manuscript), Oldenburg 1981.
  • Günter Müller: The old churches and bell towers of the Oldenburger Land. Kayser-Verlag, Oldenburg 1983, p. 121 f.
  • Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: God's houses in Friesland and Wilhelmshaven. Verlag Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1991, ISBN 978-3-922365-95-2 , p. 66 ff.
  • PAKENS Gem. Wangerland. Ev. Church of the Holy Cross. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 1087.
  • Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 114 f.
  • Wolfgang Koppen: Jephtha sacrificed whatever came to meet him first when he returned home. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of January 27, 1996.
  • Hans Ney , Heino Albers (photos): Weathered contemporary witnesses. Pakens grave steles tell local history . Ev.-Luth. Parish Pakens / Hooksiel (ed.), Wangerland 1997.
  • 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. 38, 40, 140 .
  • Ingeborg Nöldeke: The stuff that churches are made of. Granite, tuff, sandstone and brick are used as building materials for medieval churches on the East Frisian peninsula. Heiber Druck & Verlag, Schortens 2009, ISBN 978-3-936691-40-5 , pp. 43-46.
  • Evangelical Lutheran Parish Pakens-Hooksiel (ed.): Church to the Holy Cross. Ev.-luth. Church for Pakens and Hooksiel. Wangerland 2012.
  • Axel Bürgener , Klaus Siewert: Saalkirchen im Wangerland , Verlag "Auf der Warft", Münster - Hamburg - Wiarden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939211-97-6 , pp. 59 ff.

Web links

Commons : Church of the Holy Cross  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pilgrimage to the North Sea , Wangerland Touristik GmbH, viewed on August 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Nöldeke: The stuff the churches are made of. Granite, tuff, sandstone and brick as building material for medieval churches on the East Frisian peninsula , Schorten o. J., p. 43
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Runge: The Church of the Holy Cross in Pakens (printed as a manuscript), Oldenburg 1981, p. 12
  4. ^ Bells of the Church of the Holy Cross in Pakens, accessed on September 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Runge: The Church of the Holy Cross in Pakens (printed as a manuscript), Oldenburg 1981, p. 12
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Runge: The Church of the Holy Cross in Pakens (printed as a manuscript), Oldenburg 1981, p. 4
  7. ↑ a b Pakens, Zum heiligen Kreuz on nomine.net, accessed on April 26, 2018
  8. ↑ Organ of the Church of the Holy Cross on Organ index , accessed on September 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ Hans Warntjen (published on behalf of the Oberkirchenrat): Die Prediger des Herzogtums Oldenburg , appendix in: Die Prediger des Herzogtums Oldenburg from the Reformation to the present , Oldenburg 1980, p. 30.
  10. ↑ Quoted from Hülsverein for the Provinzialschule (ed.): Contributions to the Specialgeschichte des Jeverlandes , Jever 1853, p. CXXXIII
  11. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Pakens-Hooksiel (ed.): Church to the Holy Cross. Ev.-luth. Church for Pakens and Hooksiel , Wangerland 2012, p. 16
  12. ↑ Ericus Notelius: Ehrengemächtniß / Or Christian funeral and lament sermon / About the deadly / yet blessed stepping / Des weyland Wolverworthy and highly educated Mr. Aegidii Conradi Gualtperii, SS. Theologiae Licentiati, and wolverorden / highly deserved pastoris and superintendentis, the In full gathering / and in the presence of the whole Ministerii, employed in the year 1634. on August 29th, because his body was deposited in the church at Jhever / and held , Kallenbach 1634 ( Google Books )

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