Riepster Church

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Riepster church with the characteristic tower

The Evangelical Lutheran Riepster Church is in the East Frisian town of Riepe , municipality of Ihlow . The current building was erected in 1554 after a cruciform church from the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century collapsed on the same site.

history

The village of Riepe is possibly one of the oldest localities in East Friesland that were created according to the right to erect . A church was built in the place very early. When exactly this happened is still unclear. The current building had at least two predecessors in the same place. Another church or chapel probably stood in the de Oldehof area at a point that was repeatedly flooded during storm surges.

During archaeological excavations in 1967/68, charcoal, remains of beams and skeletal remains were discovered, which were interpreted as the remains of a wooden church and cemetery. Two sarcophagus lids made of Bentheim sandstone with an ornamental and figurative surface design have also been preserved from this ensemble . Further evaluation of the excavation results showed that the wooden church of the 13th or 14th century by an initial end cruciform church was replaced brick, which in their design similarities with the stack Moorer church had. It was significantly larger than the current building, had domical vaults and a rood screen and possibly also had an apse.

Like many churches in what was then Brookmerland , the unsafe building site was probably her undoing. The Aufstrecksiedlungen were built on long settlement walls. In addition to these ramparts were mounds raised directly on the moor ground, so many churches in the Middle Ages were dilapidated. In Riepe, the building apparently collapsed in the 16th century. It was then rebuilt in 1554 in a greatly modified and reduced form and consecrated to Saints Vincenz and Gertrude. From the previous church, part of the north wall with the original, now walled-up small windows, so-called hagioscopes , has been preserved.

In 1717 the church and the free-standing bell tower were badly damaged by the Christmas flood in 1717 . A flood mark that was affixed at the time is still on the tower today, which was given a curly baroque hood as part of the repair work in 1730 , from which it owes its popular name Riepster Teebüs (tea caddy ).

Building description

The Riepster Church is a late Gothic hall church made of brick. Its medium-sized structure is elongated. The long walls as well as the north wall are structured by wide pointed arch windows. The portal crowned with a high pointed arch is in the south wall. In its tympanum there is a circular screen and three pointed arch niches, which may have originally been intended for statuettes. The interior is closed at the top with a wooden barrel vault , which probably dates back to the time the church was built, as no traces of wall services for a stone vault were discovered on the walls .

Close to the north wall of the main building, but free-standing, is the bell tower. It has a square base and an octagonal upper floor with a curved baroque helmet.

Interior

The organ by Johann Friedrich Wenthin from the years 1776–1785.

The oldest fixtures and fittings in the church are two trapezoidal tombstones from the mid-12th century, which come from the cemetery of the wooden church. One of them is decorated with a cross between two crooks, the other with the figure of a deceased. Both are now placed on the side walls of the choir. The baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone was preserved from the stone cruciform church. The pool stands on figures whose meaning has not yet been clarified. The edge of the pool is decorated with friezes made of leaves.

In the north wall, under the east gallery, a sacrament niche with an iron lattice door under a keel arch has been preserved, which is dated to the 16th century. Altar, pulpit, paintings, west gallery and stalls are works of the 17th century.

Johann Friedrich Wenthin created a single-manual organ with 10 stops from 1776–1785 , of which the prospectus including the pipes has been preserved. It is located on a curved Rococo gallery above the altar, the organ location that was widely used in East Frisia until the middle of the 19th century. In 1900 P. Furtwängler & Hammer built a new organ behind the Wenthin Prospect. The prospect pipes remained silent, but were made to sound again when the Alfred Führer company built their new organ more in the style of Wenthin from 1967-1970 and included the prospectus. It was not until 1990 that the four stops that remained vacant were added, so that the organ now has 14 stops on a manual and an independent pedal.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 48 f.

Web links

Commons : Riepster Kirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ihlow.de From the story of Riepe ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 18, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihlow.de
  2. ^ A b Hermann Haiduck: Reconstruction of torso-like medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area in: Ostfriesische Landschaft , Gerhard ten Doornkaat Koolman Foundation, Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden , Johannes a Lasco Library, Great Church Emden , Lower Saxony State Archive, State Archive Aurich : Emder Yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia , volume 80/2000. ISSN  1434-4351 . P. 20ff.
  3. ^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 59 ff.
  4. ↑ a b c Monika van Lengen: Ihlow - Sankt Vincenz and Gertrud Church in Riepe (link to [http://www.ostfriesland.de/nc/kultur/kirchen/liste-kirchen.html?catitem=8401&backlink=%252Fnc % 252Fkultur% 252Fkirchen% 252Fliste-kirchen.html% 253Frand% 253D0% 2526page% 253D7] currently not available), viewed on May 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 239.
  6. ^ 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. 1128.
  7. ↑ Organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 23, 2011.

Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 15 ″  E