Seefeld Church
The Evangelical Lutheran Seefeld Church is a hall church built in the style of the North German Baroque in Seefeld , a district of Stadland in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony .
history
In front of today's church there was a chapel in Seefelderaußendeich, in which a service was occasionally held by the Schweier pastor. There was also a cemetery there. Count Anton I von Aldenburg , Count Anton Günther's heir , had a church built for the newly established Seefeld community in 1675 . It was built on the dike built between 1584 and 1590 . The community was officially referred to as "Neuenkirchen", but the name did not catch on.
On Palm Sunday in 1676 the church was consecrated by the Schweier pastor Anton Günther Faselius. The tower was added a little later . Before his death in 1680, Anton von Aldenburg ordered the altar , pulpit and baptism in Hamburg , but could no longer receive them during his lifetime. It was not until 1691 that the altarpiece made by Master Engel zur Burg in Varel could be picked up. The cost was 33 thalers. The pulpit ordered by the count failed to materialize, which is why the Seefeld hiring workers financed a pulpit that was installed in 1695. It came from Harm Backenköhler from Delmenhorst . Although he had limited financial means, Count Anton II gave the Seefeld Church 100 thalers for a baptismal font in 1701. The stone was procured a year later. Three galleries were added during the 18th century (1713, 1754, 1796).
There was a renovation of the church in 1956. In 1971 the figure of St. Mark in the pulpit was stolen. A memorial to the fallen with three steles and a cross is located between the cemetery and the pastory .
Construction features
The building is a rectangular brick building, which is closed on the east side with five sides of a dodecagon. The wall is made of bricks in monastery format , the corners have hewn sandstones . The gable roof is high, covered with tiles and hipped to the east . There was a collar to the west of the south portal . Two originally free-standing steles are also incorporated into the wall here.
Steeple
The tower is square and has an octagonal, compact helmet , without its own east wall. The original bell is no longer preserved, the current casting contains it
Inscription: “I am called Gustav Adolph Bentinck. Cast in 1840 by H. van Bergen and Claudy Fremi in Stickelkamperfehn. MY MOUTH SHOULD PROVIDE THE LORD'S PRAISE. ”The noble Bentinck family are the descendants of the church's founder Anton von Aldenburg.
coat of arms
Above the south portal there is a coat of arms with an inscription of the church patron :
"WE ANTHON OF HEIL. RÖM REICHS GRAFF FREYHERR ZU ALDENBURG MR ZU VAHREL AND KNIEPHAUSEN RITTER EC CURRENTLY KING KING. DANNEMARCK AND HIGH FURNITURE DAY 9 JUNY ANNO 1675. "
Above the walled-up north portal are the coats of arms of the Count of Aldenburg Chamber Master Georg Heilersieg and the Schweier Vogts Alverich Hoddersen.
Interior
The interior is almost stylistically shaped from the period between 1675 and 1750. The floor is covered with reddish sandstone slabs and there are floorboards under the benches. The doors of the benches are decorated with forged hinges. The beam ceiling has an ornamental painting. The organ is located above the west gallery .
altar
The richly decorated reredos features an oil painting on canvas depicting Golgotha . Jesus hangs on the cross, his mother has a sword in her breast (prophecy: Luke 2:35). According to Wolfgang Runge, Magdalena kneels at the trunk of the cross , who supports the feet of Jesus. Above the picture is "IT IS COMPLETE" ( John 19:30), below the picture on a plaque is written "FATHER IN YOUR HANDS I COMMAND MY SPIRIT" (Luke 23:46). More recent research sees in the female figure at the foot of the cross the personified Fides (faith), who takes faith into the heart with the cross. After Bardenfleth (1624), Eckwarden (1626) and Osternburg (1636), the church in Seefeld is the fourth of seven churches in the Oldenburg area that takes up this motif.
pulpit
The pulpit is equipped with a gate, stairs, basket and sound cover . The gate is decorated with twisted half-columns and forged hinges as well as three pine cones. The essay above the gate reads: "Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may proclaim your glory" (Psalm 51:17). Cherubium heads are on the pulpit . There is also an admonishing inscription: "Accept the teaching like a great treasure of silver and keep it like a heap of gold" (Sirach 51 v.36). Moses , the four evangelists and Jesus are attached as three- dimensional figures. Johannes has the double-headed eagle of the German Empire as an accompanying symbol .
Baptismal font
The font, carved from gray sandstone, stands on an octagonal base. A square base plate is located on this. Four putti , adorned with flower garlands, surround the supporting column. They carry the octagonal cup with their hands and heads . This is decorated with acanthus leaves. In the baptismal font there is a brass kettle in which there is a brass bowl. The onion-shaped wooden lid can be lowered from the attic onto the basin using a roller. It is provided with an inscription: "AD MDCCII A PATRONO ECCLESIAE DONATUM MDCCLXXXII ET MCMVLI RENOVATUM" (donated by the patron saint in the year of the Lord 1702, renovated in 1782 and 1956.)
photos
Baptismal font
altar
organ
Church bell
pulpit
portal
Monument to the fallen in Seefeld
Memorial to the First World War
The church in the aerial photo from 2013
North side
Steeple
Pastors
| Period | Surname |
|---|---|
| 1676-1680 | Anton Günther Adami |
| 1680-1683 | Magister Magnus Gardener |
| 1685-1695 | Johannes Bode |
| 1695-1707 | Reinhold Haffner |
| 1708-1712 | Petrus Andreas Bergstede |
| 1712-1723 | Johann Caspar Claussen |
| 1723-1755 | Hinrich Gerhard Wiggers |
| 1755-1758 | Georg Hinrich Lagreuther |
| 1796-1808 | Diedrich Wilhelm Gramsberg |
| 1808-1811 | Anton Wilhelm Rüther |
| 1812-1836 | Wilhelm Gerhard Mohr |
| 1837-1847 | Bernhard Gramberg |
| 1848-1872 | Peter Friedrich Ludwig Büssing |
| 1872-1875 | August Christian Axen |
| 1875-1892 | Anton Reinhard Friedrich Ricklefs |
| 1892-1903 | Sieve Gerhard Marcus |
| 1903-1915 | August Richard Johann Friedrich Oetken |
| 1916-1925 | Waldemar Berthold Ludwig Rohden |
| 1926-1935 | Johann Gerhard Friedrich Suhren |
| 1947-1965 | Alfred Wilke |
| 1965-1969 | Harald Maetz |
| 1969-1970 | Helmut Pollack |
| 1971-1977 | Wilhelm Herbst |
| 1977-1985 | Hans Fricke |
| since 1985 | Walter Janßen |
From April to October 1808 the following representatives were available during a vacancy: Achgelis (Schwei), Menzel (Abbehausen), Frisius (Esenshamm). In the vacancy period from 1935 onwards, August Thümler worked as a substitute in Seefeld, and in the meantime also H. Mierau.
literature
- Wolfgang Runge: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seefeld. Oldenburg 1981.
- The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg, volume: 5. Oldenburg, 1909.
- Hermann Goens : The farms of the Moormarsch and the desert country. Schweiburg, Jade, Seefeld, Schwei, Strückhausen, Hammelwarden, Holle, Neuenhuntorf together with Warfleth and the Neuenkoop farmers. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 1929.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Churches worth seeing in the Wesermarsch , accessed on February 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Wolfgang Runge: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seefeld . Isensee, Oldenburg 1981, p. 1-8 .
- ↑ K.-H. Ziessow / A. Eckhardt .: Oldenburg local dictionary. LZ . Ed .: Albrecht Eckhardt. tape 2 . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2011, p. 834-835 .
- ^ Rolf Schäfer / Joachim Kuropka / Reinhard Rittner / Heinrich Schmidt: Oldenburg Church History . 1999, p. 293 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Hugo Ahlhorn: The history of Seefeld . 1984, p. 37 ff .
- ↑ Wesermarsch newspaper . December 28, 1985.
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Church SEEFELD: Walter Janßen gives up office as a district pastor. April 7, 2012, accessed September 24, 2019 .
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '26.5 " N , 8 ° 21' 29.3" E