Ochtelburer Church

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Ochtelburer Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ochtelbur is located in the East Frisian town of Ochtelbur , municipality of Ihlow .

history

It is still unclear whether today's church had a previous building. The current building was erected in the second half of the 13th century. After many renovations and repairs over the centuries, not much can be seen of this structure. Remains of old arched windows with acute-angled recesses have been preserved. In the 18th century the church was so dilapidated that the east wall had to be rebuilt in 1742. On this occasion, the structure was shortened by moving the new wall back a little to the west. The north wall was renewed in 1861.

Building description

The Ochtelburer church is a rectangular one-room church . It was built from bricks in the Romanesque style. The interior is closed at the top with a vaulted wooden ceiling.

Furnishing

The organ from 1972.

The oldest piece of equipment is the font made from Bentheim sandstone . It is a work from around 1200. The basin rests on four lions and is decorated with dew ribbons and tendril friezes . The pulpit with the winding corner columns and four evangelist figures was created in 1678. Due to the great similarities to other works, it could have come from the workshop of Hinrich Cröpelin from Esens. The preaching chair is dated to the time around 1700, the early Biedermeier western gallery to the time around 1800.

The organ was built by the Alfred Führer organ building workshop in Wilhelmshaven in 1972.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ochtelburer Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working group of the local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Ochtelbur, Ihlow municipality, Aurich district (PDF; 653 kB), accessed on March 14, 2012.
  2. ^ A b Georg Dehio: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992). ISBN 3422030220 . P. 1010.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 238.

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 42.9 "  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 31.2"  E