Loquard Church

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Church - south side
Church - north side

The Evangelical Lutheran Loquard Church is located in the East Frisian Wurtendorf Loquard , in the Krummhörn .

history

The Loquarder Church was built in the second half of the 13th century in the center of the village of throws . Until the Reformation it belonged to the diocese of Münster . The original structure was shorter than the current building. At the end of the 15th century, a tower was added to the west, which subsequently served as a navigation mark. A representation of this building with a pointed tower is preserved on the communion jug from 1710. During the Christmas flood in 1717 it was so badly damaged by hurricane gusts that the upper floors had to be demolished. The church tower was thus included at the height of the church roof and the basement with the church interior.

Building description

Gable wall east side
View into the nave.

The Loquarder church is a rectangular one-room church made of brick, which was built in the Romanesque style. It has a length of 34.2 m and a width of 9.7 m. At the time of its construction, the church was entered through portals in the north and south, which are now walled up. They were relocated after the west tower was built, in which the west portal has been the main entrance ever since. There is a roof turret at the western end of the structure.

The east wall is structured by a staggered group of three windows in the center and two flanking panels . The four original, small pointed arch windows have been preserved in the north wall. It is also decorated with a wall recess and pilaster strips arranged between the windows . The windows on the south wall were enlarged after the Reformation to allow more light into the interior of the church. A hagioscope that once existed in the east of the south wall is now walled up. The west wall is occupied by the ogival portal. This is enclosed in a rectangular frame. Above the door there are five shamrocks and immediately above the fragments of a rose window .

Originally the church was vaulted with four square bays, of which the eastern one above the choir was preserved. A staircase in the west wall that still exists today probably led to the church tower, which was later shortened. The altar device was once kept in the niches in the eastern part of the building.

South of the main building is the free-standing bell cage of the parallel wall type. It was also built in the Romanesque style and, like the nave, is dated to the second half of the 13th century.

Interior

The altar.
The font.

The most important piece of equipment is the altar. It is one of only seven carved altars from the late Middle Ages that have been preserved in East Frisia. He stands on a early in 1964 by the east wall in the choir area Stipes . The retable is made of oak and was created around 1510 in a Flemish workshop and was probably donated by the local chief Viktor Freese .

The raised central part is about 0.90 m wide and has Gothic canopies.

The shrine is 1.73 m wide and 2.59 m high. Five scenes from the Passion of Christ are shown in a continuous sequence without any architectural subdivisions. Starting at the top left, these are Jesus before Pontius Pilate , the carrying of the cross (bottom left), the crucifixion on Calvary (middle, bottom), the Descent from the Cross (top right) and the entombment of Christ (bottom right). The cross and body were no longer there for years. They were recreated in 1973 by an artist from Oberammergau and added by the sculptor Brüggemann, Winsen an der Luhr.

The predella has a width of 1.8 m and a height of 0.68 m. It is decorated with a folded structure that is similar to the organ gallery in neighboring Rysum .

The fragmentary baptismal font of the church was made around 1200 from Bentheim sandstone in the Romanesque style. It is not one of the original furnishings, but was donated by the Lutheran congregation of Westerholt in 1965 after it had been there for years in the parish garden. The heavily damaged (and later added) baptismal font rests on four stylized lions; The baptismal bowl and the baptismal font lid made of brass with a rock crystal knob are the work of the Marby company from Brünninghausen .

The simple pulpit was created in 1732. Box stalls and east gallery are also kept simple.

On the north wall there is a portrait tombstone by Conrad van Vaerel from 1546. In 1793 Hinrich Just Müller created an organ, of which the prospectus is still preserved. Behind it, the Alfred Führer company built a new plant with eight registers in 1966/67.

A swan above the keyhole symbolically points to Martin Luther .

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 74 f.
  • 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. 148, 158 ff., 163, 168, 207, 212, 216 ff., 223 .

Web links

Commons : Loquarder Kirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Loquard (PDF file; 39 kB)
  2. ^ 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. 98 ff.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992). ISBN 3-422-03022-0 . P. 865
  4. ↑ a b c d Herbert R. Marwede: Pre-Reformation altars in East Friesland (PDF; 1.3 MB), dissertation, Hamburg 2006, p. 188ff.
  5. ↑ a b Ev.-luth. Church district Emden-Leer: Loquard , accessed on May 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 72.
  7. ↑ Organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 23, 2011.


Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '24.9 "  N , 7 ° 2' 42.9"  E