Oldersum Religious Discussion
The Oldersum Religious Discussion was a public debate between the Emden preacher Georg Aportanus (Protestant-Lutheran) and the Catholic Dominican prior Laurens Laurensen , initiated by Ulrich von Dornum in Oldersum in June 1526 . The text about the dispute, which Ulrich wrote afterwards, was widely circulated and thus contributed to the rapid implementation of Protestantism in East Frisia .
Only shortly after the reformer Martin Luther published his 95 theses in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517 in response to Johann Tetzel's sermon on indulgence , the Protestant teaching was accepted in East Friesland . As early as 1519, the Pastor Hinrich Arnoldi from Oldersum is said to have held services according to the evangelical confession, like Heinrich Brun in Aurich . Ulrich von Dornum (van Dornum) was an avid supporter of the Reformation . Ulrich, who had acquired half of the castle and glory Oldersum through marriage in 1494 , initiated and organized the public disputation between the preacher Georg Aportanus from Emden and the Catholic Dominican prior Laurens Laurensen from Groningen in June 1526 . Ulrich wrote a pamphlet about the dispute that was printed in Wittenberg.
Due to the influence of the Calvinists , especially through Johannes Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli , the vast majority of western East Frisia has since been Protestant Reformed .
Along with Emden, Oldersum was a center of the "East Frisian church reformers": Ulrich, the lord of the castle, housed Andreas Bodenstein (alias Karlstadt) in 1529 ; after that, Menno Simons and other “baptismal” ( Mennonites ) were most likely guests there.
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- Martin Thielke (Ed.): The Oldersumer Disputation of 1526 . Bilingual edition of the depictions of Ulrich von Dornum (translation by Gerhard Ohling) and Laurens Laurensens (translation by Enno Schmidt), Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft 2009