Marienkirche (Woquard)

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Lutheran Church, October 2010

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary in the East Frisian Woquard is one of the three Lutheran churches in the Krummhörn. It was built in 1789/90 in the Rococo style.

history

Woquard is listed in the Werden arable land around 1000 . In the Middle Ages the place had its own church and belonged to the Groothusen provost in the diocese of Münster . In the course of the Reformation , Woquard first switched to the Reformed Confession and appointed a certain Dirius as the first Protestant preacher. This was transferred in 1578 by Count Edzard II in favor of a Lutheran clergyman. Since then, the Woquard Church has been Lutheran, even if many members remained Reformed. In 1712 a dispute broke out when a new Lutheran pastor so angry the Reformed members that he had to be transferred as early as 1713.

After the previous building had collapsed, construction manager Frantzius built the new church on top of the old churches in 1789/90. For financial reasons, the church tower was only added 75 years later, as the community had to finance the church itself. In 1967, a lightning strike in the tower destroyed the electrical system and severely damaged the organ. In 1972 Woquard became a chapel congregation without its own pastor. In the course of a new building area, however, the number of parishioners grew quickly and the church regained its previous status as an independent parish. The parish today has around 900 members and shares a common pastoral office with Pewsum .

Building description

The simple church is a rectangular hall building with large arched windows and a semicircular east end. It is one of the few Rococo churches in East Frisia. The neo-Gothic tower, built in 1865, protrudes into the nave and is lavishly designed on the upper floor. Above the pair of pointed arch windows on the upper floor, which serve as acoustic arcades , it is closed by a pointed helmet, which is decorated with four small corner towers. At 22 meters, the church tower is the highest in the Krummhörn . There hangs one of the oldest bells in East Frisia, which still comes from the previous church. It is estimated that it dates back to 1250.

Furnishing

Müller organ from 1804

The interior is closed off by a wooden segmental arch ceiling. The pulpit is from the year the church was built.

organ

The organ was built in 1804 as the last work by the Wittmund organ builder Hinrich Just Müller . With its clear prospect structure, it is still designed in late Baroque style, while the vases on the top already point to classicism . Except for the Vox humana (Karl Puchar, 1939), all registers are original. In 2005/06 Bartelt Immer carried out a restoration. The instrument has nine registers on a manual and attached pedal and has the following disposition :

Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Drone 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Nassat 3 ′
6th Octava 2 ′
7th Mixture IV-V
8th. Trumpet B / D 8th'
9. Foxhomane 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
attached

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 80 .
  2. ↑ Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 43 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
  3. ↑ a b Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Woquard (PDF file; 30 kB), accessed on April 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE eV): Woquard, Ev.-luth. Marien Church - organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1804) , accessed on April 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Ev.-luth. Church district Emden-Leer: The ev.-luth. Marien-Kirchengemeinde Woquard , accessed on April 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ woquard.de: Church History , accessed April 29 of 2019.
  7. ↑ Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE eV): Woquard, Ev.-luth. Marien Church - organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1804)

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '51.4 "  N , 7 ° 5' 3.1"  E