Nicolai Church (Rorichum)
The Evangelical Reformed Nicolai Church in Rorichum , municipality of Moormerland ( East Frisia ), was built on a terp at the beginning of the 14th century .
history
The brick church in monastery format was built as a rectangular one-room hall without an apse . The free-standing bell tower , which is a few decades older than the church, indicates the existence of a previous building . The bell “St. Petrus ”was cast in 1497 by Gerhard van Wou and is the largest medieval bell in East Frisia with a diameter of 125 cm. A second bell dates from 1627.
In the Middle Ages, Rorichum belonged to the Leer provost in the Münster diocese . Shortly after the Oldersum Religious Discussion in 1526, the community changed to the Reformed Confession. Rorichum has had no pastors since 1920 and is looked after by the Oldersum parish.
On the south side, larger windows were broken into during the Reformation. The south portal is now walled up and still shows the traces of a small porch. In the eastern part of the south wall, several hagioscopes were set in. The western wall was later renewed.
The old pastorate dates from 1791 and was designed as a residential house with a Gulf barn and built on the site of a late medieval stone house. Together with the former school building, the four buildings on the highest point of the mound form an unusual ensemble.
Furnishing
In the room behind the organ gallery there are three grave slabs from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The first organ was built by the Rohlfs brothers in 1867–1869 and has largely been preserved in its original form to this day. In 1938 at the latest, the woodworm- eaten drone 16 ′ was replaced. The listed instrument has eight registers on a manual and pedal . With the powerful trumpet it fills the church well. The actions are mechanical. In the course of the restoration in 2017/2018 by Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau , the keyboard, the bellows and the lost pedal register were reconstructed, the pipework revised and the case stabilized. The wind chest , which like many other pieces of wood, was heavily infested with woodworms , also had to be restored . The disposition is as follows:
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The Vasa Sacra includes a goblet made in 1610 by the Emden goldsmith Jürgen van Ham, a pewter plate (around 1830) by T. Ronstadt from Leer and a pewter jug (1857) as well as an undated pewter baptismal font with a lid.
See also
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. 45.
- Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 , p. 72-73 .
- 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. 157 .
Web links
- Homepage of the parish
- Klaus Euhausen (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Rorichum (PDF file; 48.1 kB)
- Genealogy forum: Rorichum
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Klaus Euhausen (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Rorichum (PDF file; 48.1 kB), viewed May 17, 2011.
- ↑ a b Homepage of the parish ( memento of the original from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen October 10, 2010.
- ^ 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. 120 ff.
- ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 73.
- ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 72.
- ↑ More information about the organ , accessed on January 12, 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 15.1 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 17 ″ E
