Mitling marker church

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Reformed Church in Mitling-Mark
View from the south of the Kirchenwarft
Walled up hagioscope (left) and walled up women's door in the north wall

The Evangelical Reformed Mitling-Marker Church in Westoverledingen , East Frisia , was built on a terp in the 13th century .

History and description of the building

In the 13th or 14th century at the latest, the brick church was built as a rectangular hall building. The location outside the village, the rubble in the terp and the traditions of a monastery suggest that the church originally belonged to a monastery that was demolished in the pre-Reformation period. Perhaps it was a branch church of the Kommende Muhde . In the Middle Ages it was consecrated to the Holy Cross . Before 1520 the choir was renewed. Since then, it has been closed by a hipped roof and supported by two buttresses. The unusual bell tower, which consists of a parallel and covered wall to the west wall, was added later. The portal with a pointed arch in the south wall and the large round arched windows were broken in later. The original north portal, the so-called women's door, and the two former hagioscopes in the south and north walls are now walled up.

The small parish had its own pastor until 1939 and has been looked after by the Papenburg parish ever since . The old rectory opposite has been converted into a leisure home.

Attached bell tower
Gravestones set up on the west side

Furnishing

The font made of Bentheim sandstone from the 12th century has a double tendril frieze and rests on four lions. The baroque pulpit dates from 1723. The pulpit fields are structured by twisted columns and decorated with carved bas-reliefs showing vines and vines. A simple communion table stands on the east wall under the gallery. A chandelier donated in 1764 escaped delivery of other metal objects for the armaments industry during the two world wars. In the choir, some grave slabs from 1592 and 1623 indicate that the owners of the Marker Castle were buried here.

organ

Brond de Grave Winter built the organ with seven registers as his first instrument in 1859/60 . It is his only organ that has been almost completely preserved. In 1917 the prospect pipes had to be handed in for armament purposes; It was reinstalled in 1919. The instrument has eight registers, which are distributed on a manual and pedal. The organ is currently in need of renovation and is to be thoroughly restored by Bartelt Immer . The estimated costs are € 90,000.

I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Dumped 8th'
3. Double flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Flute amabile 4 ′
6th Fifth 3 ′
7th Flautine 2 ′
Pedal C – h 0
8th. Sub bass 16 ′

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Mitling-Marker Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Mitling-Mark (34.5 kB; PDF), viewed September 8, 2010.
  2. ↑ Kiesow: Architecture Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 177.
  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. 149 f.
  4. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 90.
  5. ↑ Recreation Home Altes Pfarrhaus , as seen on September 8, 2010.
  6. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 91.
  7. ↑ Organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 23, 2011.
  8. ↑ organ recovery , seen on April 7 2016th

Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 56.2 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 42.5 ″  E