Möhlenwarfer Church

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Church from the East

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Möhlenwarf , a district of the East Frisian town of Weener , was built in 1909.

history

The place Möhlenwarf was first mentioned in 1727 in the church records of Weener. Since the mid-1880s, auxiliary preachers have held regular services in the Möhlenwarfer village school at the intersection. In 1905 the independent parish Möhlenwarf was established that - in order to obtain sufficient church members - to the district Beschotenweg been added, previously part of the parish Weener, partly league was assigned, as well as the parish Holthusen belonging part of Tichelwarf. A few years later, the church was built in 1909 by the building contractor J. Knoop from Weener with considerable financial support from Kommerzienrat Hesse from Weener, who also provided large funds for the cemetery established in 1912.

In 2016, the parishes of Möhlenwarf, Weenermoor and St. Georgiwold were connected to the parish.

Building description

The hall church was built in the neo-Gothic style from bricks in the Oldenburg format; the facade is decorated with light bands of plastering mortar that imitate sandstone. The floor plan of the church is asymmetrical and not east- facing : on the north-western front, the two church doors form two axes, while the main window of the gallery staircase forms the third axis. The tower has a height of 38 meters. For cost reasons, only a roof turret should initially be built instead of the church tower. The pair of pointed arcades are reminiscent of the shape of the two tablets of the law , while the ten blind arches on the gable front and the ten skylights above the nave indicate the number of the Ten Commandments. The three small rectangular windows above the entrance portal represent the Trinity .

Interior

View towards the organ gallery
Empire pulpit, in front of it the Lord's Supper table with the Bible donated by Auguste Victoria

The interior is closed off by a vaulted ceiling . A small gallery adjoins the north-western organ gallery to the east. The church, inaugurated in 1909, was designed with 343 seats. The construction costs were estimated at 44,300 marks , or around 130 marks per seat. The interior design and the various furnishings take up the symbolism of the Trinity and the Ten Commandments. The church has art and religious history furnishings, some of which are older than the building and combine different styles into a harmonious whole. The pulpit in the Empire style , the stalls in the Art Nouveau style and the hymn boards in the classicism style of the French Reformed Church in Emden. When this parish was absorbed by the German Reformed at the end of the 19th century, it donated its inventory to the new parish in Möhlenwarf. The pulpit Bible with silver fittings and a personal dedication was donated by Empress Auguste Victoria . The Vasa Sacra includes two new silver goblets, two new silver plates, a new silver jug ​​and a brass baptismal bowl. They were purchased for the dedication of the church in 1909.

organ

Reil organ from 1968

In 1968 the church in Möhlenwarf received a new instrument from the company Reil from Heerde in the Netherlands after the old pneumatic organ had been abandoned , which has eight stops on a manual and pedal . The organ builder Winold van der Putten from the neighboring province of Groningen renovated the organ in 1999. The plan is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Praestant 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture IV-VI
Trumpet B / D 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Bourdoon 16 ′

literature

  • Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Möhlenwarfer Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Weenermoor, municipality of Bunde, district of Leer (49 kB; PDF), accessed on May 16, 2011.
  2. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 45.
  3. ↑ a b Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Möhlenwarf, Stadt Weener, Landkreis Leer (PDF file; 12 kB), viewed on May 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b City and Country Churches. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Vol. XXVIII, No. 23, March 21, 1908, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-41565 , pp. 163–164.
  5. ^ Ostfriesland.de: Church in Möhlenwarf , accessed on September 4, 2017.

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 32.6 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 14.1"  E