Protestantse Kerk (Vrouwenpolder)
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The Protestantse Kerk (also called Pelgrimskerk , German pilgrim church ) is a late Gothic Protestant-Union parish church in Vrouwenpolder in the Dutch municipality of Veere ( province of Zeeland ).
history
1314 a chapel is mentioned in Vrouwenpolder first time, this was 1324 parish church, as the place of Oostkapelle was abgepfarrt. Until the Reformation, it bore the patronage of St. Mary as the Church of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze Lieve Vrouw), from which the place name Vrouwenpolders as Frau von den Poldern results. After 1416 the sacred building developed into a pilgrimage church and a pilgrimage destination through the possession of a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary. In 1494 the church was badly damaged by a storm surge, in the course of which the statue of Mary was also destroyed. Around 1500 a new late Gothic church was built and a new image of the Virgin Mary was created, which temporarily gave strength to the veneration of Mary on the eve of the Reformation. The image was lost in the course of the iconoclasm of the Reformation . It reappeared in Bruges in 1926 and has been in the Marienkapelle of the Roman Catholic Sint Petrus en Pauluskerk in Middelburg since 1931 .
After the church was badly damaged by Spanish troops in the course of the Eighty Years' War in 1572 , the faithful came together in a wooden makeshift church that fell victim to a storm in 1591. As a makeshift church services were then held in a barn until the restored old church was put into use as a Protestant preaching church in 1624 . In the course of the construction work, it was reduced in size and made into a hall church with a turret, using some of the old masonry.
Furnishing
The organ was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the organ building company P. van Dam for a Catholic church in Friesland. In 1936 it was installed in the Protestant Church of Vrouwenpolder by the organ building company Valckx & Van Kouteren. The slider chest instrument has eight manual registers (C – f 3 : Prestant 8 ′, Holpijp 8 ′, Gamba 8 ′, Octaaf 4 ′, Fluit 4 ′, Octaaf 2 ′, Mixtuur IV, Dulciaan 8 ′). The pedal has only had its own pedal register since 2005 (C – d 1 : Subbas 16 ′). The playing and stop actions are mechanical. The manual can be linked to the pedal.
literature
- Brochure Open Monument Day 2008: Middelburg-Veere-Vlissingen .
- Carel van Gestel: Van kerk naar kerk , Volume 3: Walcheren / Noord-Beveland, Zaltbommel 2009.
Web links
- Pelgrimskerk in Vrouwenpolder: Website of the tourist association VVV Zeeland (Dutch, German, English)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 36.6 " N , 3 ° 36 ′ 59.9" E