Langwarden

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Langwarden
Butjadingen municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 2 m above sea level NN
Residents : 286  (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 26969
Primaries : 04733, 04736
Langwarden (Lower Saxony)
Langwarden

Location of Langwarden in Lower Saxony

Langwarden is a place on the Butjadingen peninsula in the Wesermarsch district , Lower Saxony in Germany. The islands of Mellum and Minsener Oog once belonged to Langwarden .

history

Langwarden had a harbor until the Middle Ages , which was one of the reasons for Langwarden's economic importance and growth. Today's landmark Langwarden, the 850 year old St. Laurentius Church, bears witness to this phase of wealth.

In 1910 the municipality of Langwarden had 1519 inhabitants.

In 1933 the communities of Langwarden, Burhave , Eckwarden , Tossens , Waddens and Stollhamm became the new community Burhave, which was renamed Butjadingen in 1936. During the Second World War, the Langwarden heavy flak battery was built in Langwarden .

In 1948 three independent municipalities emerged again: Langwarden with headquarters in Tossens, Burhave and Stollhamm.

On March 1, 1974, the municipality of Butjadingen with its seat in Burhave emerged from the three municipalities.

Worth seeing

Laurentiuskirche

The church is a Romanesque tufa building and was built in the 2nd half of the 12th century as a not quite complete cruciform church consisting of a nave, transept and apse .

Too big for the small community and too expensive to maintain, it was reduced in size in 1844. Both transept arms were removed and the gable triangle of the east gable was renewed. The current shape of the apse also comes from this conversion, recognizable by the modern brick format. Inside you can still see the old crossing with both arches of the transept connections, from the outside only the northern arch.

Neo-Romanesque tower of the St. Laurentius Church

In 1903 the remains of the medieval west tower were removed and the nave in the west was shortened by seven meters. Today's tower was built.

  • Church from the north-east with a walled-up north arch

  • Church from the southeast with new brick walls instead of the transept, in the gable triangle and around the apse

  • Crossing from the inside with wide arches and two small round windows

  • 17th century organ

The church houses an organ that is around 350 years old and is one of the most important instruments in northern Germany. It was built in 1650 by Hermann Kröger and his master craftsman Berendt Hus , and Arp Schnitger added three registers in 1704/05. Most of the pipe material dates back to 1650. The spring shops have also been preserved in their original form. In 1934 Alfred Führer reversed the changes made by Gerhard Janssen Schmid (1818) and restored the original disposition. Hendrik Ahrend reconstructed the missing registers in 2015. In summer, organ concerts take place here as part of the Langwarder Organ Summer . The instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal.

I main work CDEFGA – c 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Quintadena 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Sharp Quint 3 ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Nasatquint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI A.
9. Trumpet 8th' A.
II breastwork CDEFGA – c 3
10. Dumped 8th'
11. recorder 4 ′
12. Swiss pipe 4 ′
13. octave 2 ′
14th Cimbel III A.
15th Krummhorn 8th' A.
Pedal CDEFGA – d 1 (= short octave )
16. Pedestal 16 ′
17th Praestant 8th'
18th octave 4 ′
19th Mixture IV A.
20th trombone 16 ′ A.
21st Cornett 2 ′ A.
A = Register by Hendrik Ahrend

Ghert Klinghe cast a Marienbell with a diameter of 168 cm for the church in Langwarden in 1468 . The bell broke in 1930. Since then, a small bell (32 cm in diameter) cast by Rincker has been hanging in the bell tower . The old bell was given a place in front of the church building in 2000.

South wing of the Pastorei, a Frisian stone house

Stone house

At the western end of the village and the Dorfwurt lies the Friesenkirchhof on the Friesenhügel. At times there was a second village church here. The parish still stands here today. The south wing is a Frisian stone house . In contrast to many others, whose towering masonry is made entirely of brick, the ground floor here was built mainly from sandstone and tuff in the first half of the 14th century , but has two small bricked-up pointed arch windows on the south side. The upper floor was made of brick at the beginning of the 16th century. Later the once steep gable was removed and most of the windows enlarged.

There is also a stele on the Friesenhügel in memory of the dead in the war of 1870/1871.

Ten mark banknote

The inn where Carl Friedrich Gauß stayed in 1825, today the Langwarden cultural center
Excerpt from the 10 Deutsche Mark note with Langwarden as a measuring point

The high-lying church in Langwarden had an important function in the context of land surveying in 1825, which was then carried out by way of triangulation by Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855). Gauss stayed in Langwarden from June 27 to July 12, 1825. The last 10 Deutsche Mark note, which was legal tender from 1991 to 2001, shows a section of the surveying network in which the Langwarden measuring point is also marked.

Transport links

Ferry connections exist over the Weser from Nordenham to Bremerhaven and, in the summer months, over the Jade Bay from Eckwarderhörne to Wilhelmshaven .

There is a train connection to Bremen from Nordenham .

The community is connected to the A27 via the Weser tunnel south of Nordenham . About Varel and Jäderberg is A 29 minute.

Personalities

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Waldemar Reinhardt: Frisian churches. Volume 4: Rüstringen, Frisian Wehde, Butjadingen, Stedingen and the city of Wilhelmshaven. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1982, DNB 880476478 , p. 58 ff.
  • Wolfgang Runge: Churches in the Oldenburger Land. Volume 1: Church districts Butjadingen, Brake, Elsfleth: with comments on Ludwig Münstermann . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1984, ISBN 3-87358-167-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Residents in the area around Wilhelmshaven (PDF; 406 kB), accessed on May 17, 2013.
  2. ^ German municipal directory 1900: Amt Butjadingen
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 276 .
  4. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume: Bremen / Lower Saxony. 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 827/828.
  5. ↑ See the restoration report by Fritz Schild: Denkmal-Orgeln. Documentation of the restoration by Organ Builders Guide 1974–1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 3-7959-0862-0 , pp. 585-613.
  6. ↑ Further information on the Kröger / Schnitger organ , accessed on June 7, 2011.
  7. ^ NWZ: Second concert of the Langwarder Organ Summer
  8. ^ Organ of the St. Laurentius Church on Organ index , accessed on October 1, 2018.
  9. ^ A. Rauchheld : Glockenkunde Oldenburg. In: Oldenburg Yearbook. 29, 1925, p. 110.
  10. ^ Wolfgang Runge: Churches in the Oldenburger Land. Volume 1, Holzberg, Oldenburg 1984, p. 82.
  11. ↑ Denkmalprojekt.org: Langwarden
  12. ^ G. Waldo Dunnington: Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science . The Mathematical Association of America, 2004, pp. 133 .
  13. ^ Cash of the Deutsche Mark