Larrelter Church

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Larrelter Church
Choir with tracery windows and blind niches

The Evangelical Reformed Larrelter Church in Larrelt , East Frisia , a district of Emden , was built at the end of the 15th century.

history

The first church was built in the 13th century as a hall church made of light tuff stone with a polygonal choir closure. The brick bell tower was built around 1300 and designed as a defensive tower . Around 1475, the nave and choir were demolished and rebuilt in the Gothic style using the heavily processed materials from the first church . The ship was originally six Jochen arched. When the vault collapsed in 1780, a wooden barrel vault was pulled in. The large pointed arch windows are equipped with ornate tracery in the shape of a fish bubble , while the east choir has partly pointed arched niches and is closed off inside by a star vault. Outside buttresses support the building.

Furnishing

Organ of the Larrelter Church

Of the vaults, only the star-shaped one in the choir is preserved, while the nave is closed off by a wooden barrel. Various Romanesque stone sarcophagi with lids are noteworthy. Some of them can be seen today in the East Frisian State Museum in Emden . Also in the choir, which is separated from the nave by a gallery, is the Romanesque tympanum (arched door field), which was created around 1200 from red sandstone for the previous building. It depicts an old man with a beard named Ippo, who is identified on the inscription as the founder of the tympanum, as well as the builder Ludbrud and the sculptor Menulfus.

The font dates from 1420 and is provided with an old French inscription. Albert Frerichs created the pulpit with a sound cover in 1720.

In the tower there is a stately box that was reserved for the local chiefs. The upper floor was once vaulted and is now open to the ship through a round arch.

The organ in Larrelter Church was built from 1618 to 1619 by Johannes Millensis (van Mill ), who took over registers from the previous organ from the 16th century. Between 1848 and 1855 Gerd Sieben Janssen carried out a renovation . Since then the work has had eleven parts on one manual. However, half of the old Renaissance registers were retained and reflect the early Dutch influence on organ building in East Frisia. On both sides of the organ there are simply designed patronage seats from the Baroque period.

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. 35.
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .

Web links

Commons : Reformed Church (Emden-Larrelt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Genealogy Forum: Larrelt ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), as of October 16, 2010.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 63f.
  3. ^ Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1986, ISBN 3-925365-07-9 , p. 20.
  4. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 64.
  5. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 63.
  6. ↑ organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 22, 2011.
  7. ^ Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 , p. 112f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '53.8 "  N , 7 ° 8' 59.8"  E