Pakens
Pakens is a village in the municipality of Wangerland in the district of Friesland in northern Lower Saxony .
geography
Pakens is located in Jeverland , around twelve kilometers northwest of Wilhelmshaven , one kilometer west of Hooksiel and thus one kilometer west of the road 810, which leads from Wilhelmshaven via Hooksiel to Horumersiel and Schillig on the North Sea coast .
Attractions
church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross is a one-nave late Romanesque granite block building from the second half of the 13th century. The west wall was renewed in brick in 1782 .
The organ was created in 1664 by Joachim Richborn from Hamburg. The paintings on the folding wings of the organ front show a band of warriors and angels making music. The signature is Ludewig Grimmers, 1679 .
In 1909 the Wüppels parish was merged with the St. Joost parish to form one parish . Together with Pakens-Hooksiel it forms a community parish office.
literature
- PAKENS Gem. Wangerland. Ev. Church of the Holy Cross. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-422-03022-0 , p. 1087.
- Hermann Rothert: Church building and economy in the Frisian March in the 13th century - illustrated using the example of the parish of Pakens , Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wilhelmshaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-930510-43-6 .
- Axel Bürgener , Klaus Siewert: Saalkirchen im Wangerland , Verlag "Auf der Warft", Münster - Hamburg - Wiarden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939211-97-6 , pp. 59 ff.
Web links
- The churches of the ev.-luth. Parishes of Pakens-Hooksiel & St. Joost-Wüppels
- Northwest travel magazine: Church of the Holy Cross, Pakens
- Hooksiel then & now: Pakens
- Monument to the fallen of Wangerland-Pakens
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen Lower Saxony. Munich / Berlin 1977, p. 948
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '34.6 " N , 8 ° 0' 24.8" E