Logabirum Church

The Lutheran Logabirum Church in Logabirum , a district of Leer ( East Friesland ), was built around 1300 as a hall church.

History and architecture

Logabirum Church interior view

The church was built around 1300 as a rectangular room made of bricks in the monastery format . The choir was originally vaulted ; later a wooden ceiling was put in place. In 1812 the nave was raised by 1.75 m and the large arched windows were broken in. Only in the east wall are two pointed arch windows preserved. The original bell tower with round arched sound openings stood separately in the cemetery. When it had to be demolished in 1879 due to its dilapidation, a three-storey west tower was built instead. After water damage (1892), lightning strike (1922) and shell damage in World War II, the tower was renewed between 1960 and 1976, a foundation was laid and the entire tower was encased. Its height is now 29.55 m .

Since 2008 the parish has been connected to Nortmoor by the parish.

Furnishing

Inside the church there are several grave slabs from the 16th and 17th centuries. The room is closed off by a wooden barrel vault. The pulpit dates from 1639. The Vasa Sacra include a chalice (1598), a box for wafers (1751), a jug (1766), a baptismal bowl (1767) and a sick cup (1847).

organ

Ahrend organ (1998)

In 1729 an organ is mentioned for the first time. The instrument, which had seven stops on a manual and an attached pedal , was sold in the course of a new building in 1812 to the parish in Cleverns, where the prospectus has been preserved. Gerhard Janssen Schmid built a new organ in 1812/1813 with nine stops on a manual and attached pedal. The instrument was replaced in 1928 by a used work by Wendt and Heise from 1907 (II / P / 8). The organ was destroyed in 1945 due to war damage. The Alfred Führer company built a new instrument (I / P / 8) in 1950/1951.

Today's organ comes from Jürgen Ahrend , who created a work with ten registers on one manual and pedal from 1994 to 1998. The case is based on the baroque organ from around 1725, but has been expanded to include the two flanking bass towers. Of the total of 670 pipes, 632 are made of metal and 38 are made of wood. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – d ³
1.	Principal	8th'
2.	Dumped	8th'
3.	Viol di Gamba	8th'
4th	Octava	4 ′
5.	Pointed	4 ′
6th	Octava	2 ′
7th	Sesquialtera II B / D
8th.	Mixture III

Pedal C – d ¹
9.	Sub bass	16 ′
10.	Trumpet	8th'

Pairing : I / P
Playing aids : Tremulant for the whole organ

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. 65.
Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .

Web links

Commons : Logabirumer Church - collection of images

Homepage of the parish
Heinrich Erchinger (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Logabirum (PDF file; 28.9 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 143.
↑ Homepage of the parish , accessed on April 14, 2019.
^ Walter Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 161-162 .
↑ Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE eV): Logabirum, Lutheran. Church organ by Jürgen Ahrend (1994–98) , accessed on April 14, 2019.

53.259623 7.434402Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 34.6 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 3.8" E

[Kiesow-1] Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 143.

[2] Homepage of the parish , accessed on April 14, 2019.

[3] Walter Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 161-162 .

[4] Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE eV): Logabirum, Lutheran. Church organ by Jürgen Ahrend (1994–98) , accessed on April 14, 2019.