Ox tower (Imsum)

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Ox tower from the southwest

The ox tower near Imsum is the remains of the medieval church in several villages. It stands on the terp with the still-operating cemetery, which rises just behind the sea ​​dike .

Parish

Imsum is now the westernmost district of the Langen district of the city of Geestland and borders the Weddewarden district of Bremerhaven to the north . Historically, however, both belong to the land of Wursten . The parish of Imsum comprised the villages of Dingen (today's Imsum, more than 1 km further inland), Weddewarden, Weddewarderbüttel and Lebstedt , and the Brinkamahof .

Building

According to written sources, the church was built in 1218. It was a rectangular field stone building with a recessed square choir . It was consecrated to Saints Bartholomew and Nicholas .

As can be seen from the different materials, in addition to the nave, the tower was initially made of field stone . In 1500 was in medieval monastery brick of wide granite arch bricked the western yoke to two smaller arches and the tower increases. To the south it has a basket-arched window , to the east, slightly higher, two unequal window openings walled up with modern brick, the smaller one with a segmental arch, the larger one with a segmental arch with a pointed apex. The tower is adorned with a Gothic frieze under the upper wall .

End as a church

Parish things in the country Wursten (Imsum)

In 1667 the Brinkama family's farm had to give way to a fort to defend the mouth of the Weser. The Lebstedt went down in the Christmas flood in 1717 . In 1875 the church burned down after a lightning strike. Thereupon the Hanoverian regional church erected a new church building in Weddewarden and sold the old one in the cemetery in 1877 for demolition - with regard to the nave; the buyer had to receive the tower as a navigation mark . The demolition took place in 1895. Large parts of the material were used for the substructure of the Hohe Weg lighthouse . The tower and tower yoke of the old church were secured and the round arch to the former nave was walled up with brick. A restoration was carried out in 1930.

The tower now serves as a lookout tower.

Myths and legends

  • From Lebstedt's last days
  • The ox tower
  • The Imsumer baptism

literature

  • Oskar Kiecker : The art monuments of the Wesermünde district . Part 1. The former Lehe district. Ed .: Provinzialverwaltung Hannover (=  Die Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Hannover . Volume 43 ). H. Th. Wenner GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück 1980, DNB  810118688 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen, Lower Saxony . Ed .: Dehio Association. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 778 .
  • Christiane Segers-Glocke , Doris Böker (arr.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. District of Cuxhaven (=  publications of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments / Lower Saxony State Administration Office . Volume 19 ). CW Niemeyer Buchverlage GmbH, Hameln 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8259-X .
  • Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt
    • Th. A. Schröter: The Imsumer and the Nordleda baptismal font and their fate . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 20/21 . Nordsee-Zeitung , Bremerhaven 1951, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 4.2 MB ; accessed on August 8, 2020]).
    • Matthias Dichter: The Marienglocke in Weddewarden and its caster. A piece of equipment from the old Imsumer church . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 816 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven December 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 10.4 MB ; accessed on July 5, 2019]).
    • Hartwig von Oehsen: Pastor Adolph Friedrich König - called the horse pastor. From the family history of the last pastor in the "Ochsenturm" church . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 824 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven August 2018, p. 2 ( digital version [PDF; 4.5 MB ; accessed on January 19, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Ochsenturm  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sagas of the country of Wursten - From Lebstedts last days on YouTube , accessed on August 7, 2020.
  2. ^ The downfall of Lebstedt - The legend of the downfall of the third village of the parish Imsum. In: imsum.info. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - The Ochsenturm on YouTube , accessed on August 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - The Imsumer Baptism on YouTube , accessed on August 7, 2020.

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 3 ″  E