Ostgroßefehner Church

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Lutheran Church Ostgroßefehn

The Evangelical Lutheran Ostgroßefehn Church is located in the Ostgroßefehn district of the East Frisian community of Großefehn . The associated parish bears the title Resurrection Church.

history

Today's Ostgroßefehn was created around 1790. In church terms, the residents initially belonged to the communities Aurich-Oldendorf and Timmel . In 1839 a first cemetery was laid out south of School IV, and another at School VI in 1864. In this schoolhouse, a wooden partition was also removed between two classrooms in order to create a room in which services could be celebrated. In 1867 an assistant preacher got a job and in 1872 the place was declared a parish collaboration. A few years later, the rectory was built in 1881 and the parish was founded in 1889. The previous parish administrator was appointed the first preacher.

In October 1894, construction work began on today's church, which was consecrated a year later on December 22, 1895, under the direction of the architect and builder Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Jacob . In 1975/76 volunteers restored the building.

Building description

The Ostgroßefehner church was built from bricks in the neo-Gothic style with a polygonal apse . Its outer walls are divided into five fields with narrow pointed arched windows by four supporting pillars. Light falls into the choir room through three small pointed arch windows. In the western part of the church there is a porch that serves as a vestibule. Instead of a bell tower, the church has a roof turret at the western end of the ridge.

Furnishing

Organ from 1895

The pulpit and altar date from the time the church was built. They were also created in the neo-Gothic style. The simple altarpiece was acquired in 1890 when the congregation was founded. The hand-blown, lead-edged panes in the side windows were procured in 1970. In 1895 the company P. Furtwängler & Hammer built an organ with 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal. Martin Haspelmath carried out a thorough repair in 1980 on the instrument, which has been completely preserved.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Ostgroßefehn (PDF file; 59 kB), accessed on June 15, 2011.

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 31.2 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 4.3"  E