Simonswoldmer Church

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Simonswoldmer Church

The Evangelical Reformed Simonswoldmer Church is in Simonswolde, East Frisia , Ihlow parish .

history

The church had at least one previous building made of wood. This stood in front of the village on the "barges" and was destroyed on December 14, 1287 by the Lucia flood . The current church was then built on a three-meter-high terp in the village center in the late Gothic style as a one-room church. An octagonal choir was added to it in the 15th century . The wide lancet windows on the south side probably date from this time . The north wall has no windows, the west wall was completely renewed in 1791 and received a porch.

To the north of the ship is a free-standing church tower, which is lower than the church building. Its origin is dated to the Middle Ages. It is a belfry of the parallel wall type.

Furnishing

Müller organ from 1777

The pulpit from 1598 is one of the oldest examples of sacred Renaissance art in East Frisia. Originally it was decorated with apostle figures, which were lost in the 20th century.

The oldest piece of equipment is a grave slab from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century with a Templar cross (paw cross). This was taken over from the previous church.

The Vasa Sacra includes a goblet donated in 1621 and a jug that was made around 1700.

The baptismal font was procured in 1863.

organ

The single-manual organ with attached pedal has seven registers and was built in 1777 by Hinrich Just Müller on a specially built-in gallery. Except for the replacement of the keyboard in 1941, it has been completely preserved. The technology was restored in 1939 and 1981. In 2001 the console (manual and pedal), organ bench, register buttons and register labels were completely renovated. With the exception of a later built-in engine bellows, the instrument features original technology and is considered to be one of the few Müller organs whose pipework has been completely preserved and which still has the original intonation and pitch of 466 Hz ( chorus tone ).

Manual C – c 3
1. Principal 4 ′
2. Axed 8th'
3. Pipe flute 4 ′
4th Quinta 3 ′
5. Octava 2 ′
6th Mixture IV
7th Trumpet B / D 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – c 1
attached

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Ernst Behre / Hajo van Lengen - East Frisia. History and shape of a cultural landscape. Aurich 1995, ISBN 3-925365-85-0 , p. 301.
  2. ↑ Organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 244.
  4. ^ Organ of the Simonswoldmer Church on Organ index , accessed on October 1, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 56 ″  E