Liudgeri Church (Holtgaste)

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Liudgeri Church from the south
View from the north with the bell tower

The Liudgeri Church in Holtgaste dates from the 13th century and is considered the oldest church in the Rheiderland in southwestern East Frisia .

History and description of the building

Interior with triumphal arch

Since its beginnings around 820, the Holtgast church has been under the Werden monastery , which was founded by Liudger . The monastery had in Holtgaste country and let its Benedictine -Mönche on a mound a wooden church built and dedicated it Liudger. A brick church replaced the wooden previous church in the first half of the 13th century. The Romanesque building originally had an apse and two side apses . The monastery sold the church in 1282 to Bishop Eberhard von Münster, who after two years sold it on to the Johanniterkommende in Jemgum . Around 1290 the apse was replaced by a vaulted choir with an almost square base. A pointed triumphal arch separates the choir from the nave . This wall is the oldest surviving part of the building today.

The hagioscope , a so-called leprosy fissure, on the south side is walled up today. In the pre-Reformation period, the church then belonged to the Propstei Hatzum in the diocese of Münster . In the choir room and the area in front of it, seven grave sites have been set up for hereditary burials of important families. It is said that the Vitalienbrüder used the church as a base, because at that time there was still a waterway to the Ems via a small branch .

Since after the Reformation in 1534 Count Enno II from the House of Cirksena received the Johanniterkommende as church patronage , the Holtgast church became Lutheran against the resistance of the Reformed church members . After the nave had suffered badly in the Thirty Years War , it was demolished in 1644 and shortened by six meters during the reconstruction.

In 1855 the church was rebuilt, creating a western entrance and installing three windows instead of the northern entrance. Previously, the church had only one window in the north wall and two in the south wall. The vault was removed in the choir and the wooden ceiling was inserted in the nave.

The exterior of the church was renovated in 1990/1991. Between 2001 and 2003 the interior of the church was extensively renovated.

As is often the case in East Frisia, the bell tower is separate. The massive tower southeast of the church was rebuilt in 1711 on the medieval foundations, using old monastery stones in the lower area. A small ridge is attached to the pyramid roof . The older bell has no inscription, but is dated around 1280-1300, which is taken as an indication of the first stone church. The younger bell was made in 1379 and dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria , as the inscription reveals. They are the oldest bells in the Rheiderland and are among the oldest in East Frisia. The bell tower and bells were extensively renovated in 2007.

The Lutheran Holtgast parish today shares a parish with Bingum .

Furnishing

Altar fragment in the Rheiderland Local History Museum
Mahler pulpit

In the course of the renovations in 1644, a new pulpit with a sound cover by Master Tönnies Mahler was installed, which is decorated with rich wood carvings and inlays . He probably also transformed the original Gothic holy water font into a baptismal font with the three-tier wooden carved top.

The remaining altar retable remains of the valuable old carved altar with scenes from the Passion story, which was made around 1520 and was obviously based on Albrecht Dürer , can now be viewed in the local history museum in Weener .

A brass chandelier was donated in 1737. The Vasa Sacra includes a silver chalice and a sacrament bowl, which were procured in 1766 as a replacement for the sacrament implements stolen from the troops of the Freicorps Conflans. The box stalls come from the 19th century. The two donated lead glass choir windows were designed in 1929.

organ

Rohlfs organ from 1865

The small one-manual organ was built by Gebr. Rohlfs in 1864/1865 and has seven registers and an attached pedal . It is original and in good condition. In 1990/1991 the Krummhörner organ workshop carried out a renovation. The disposition has remained unchanged since 1865:

Manual C – f 2
Principal 8th'
octave 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Hollow flute 4 ′
Piccolo 2 ′
Pedal C–
attached
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind supply:
    • Two wedge bellows
    • Wind pressure: 65 mm water column
  • Mood :
    • Height a 1 = 440 Hz
    • Equal mood

See also

literature

  • Peter Karstkarel: All middeleeuwse kerken. Van Harlingen dead Wilhelmshaven . 2nd Edition. Uitgeverij Noordboek, Groningen 2008, ISBN 978-90-330-0558-9 , p. 768-769 .
  • Wilhelm Lange: The families of the parish Holtgaste (1695-1900) . Upstalsboom-Gesellschaft, Aurich 2001, ISBN 3-934508-05-7 .
  • Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000.
  • Freek van Lessen: Holtgaste . 2nd Edition. Sollermann, Leer 1998.
  • Robert Noah: God's houses in East Frisia . Soltau-Kurier, Norden 1989, ISBN 3-922365-80-9 .
  • Günther Robra: The Liudgeri Church of Holtgaste in Reiderland . Self-published, Holtgaste 1996.
  • 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. 80.

Web links

Commons : Liudgeri Church (Holtgaste)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Menno Smid : East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 19 (Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches, Vol. 6).
  2. ↑ a b Homepage of the parish , accessed on November 6, 2018.
  3. ^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 158 ff.
  4. ^ Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike. Vol. 6). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 42.
  5. ↑ a b c d Freerk van Lessen (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Holtgaste (PDF file; 49 kB), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  6. ^ A b Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 148 .
  7. ↑ a b c Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000, p. 16 .
  8. ↑ Karstkarel: Alle middeleeuwse kerken. 2008, p. 769.
  9. ↑ A short guide through the Lutgerikirche Holtgaste (PDF file; 474 kB), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  10. ↑ Holtgaster Bells , accessed on November 6, 2018.
  11. ^ The Rohlfs organ from 1865 , accessed on November 6, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '52.6 "  N , 7 ° 21' 48.5"  E