St. Dionysius Church (Asel)

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St. Dionysius Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Dionysius Church in Asel , a district of Wittmund , was built around 1200 as a Romanesque hall church made of granite ashlars .

history

In the 13th century, Asel was under the archdeaconate of the cathedral dean in Bremen and probably belonged to the Sendkirchen area of Jever . From 1420 the parish of Asel was a branch of the Sendkirche in Wittmund.

The flat-roofed church was built around 1200 as a rectangular one-room church on a terp . The colorful ashlar granite stones are preserved on three sides and characterize the Romanesque church. On the undivided long sides there are three high-seated arched windows with funnel embrasures; the southern arched portal is bricked up today. The original apse has not been preserved . The east wall has had a straight end since 1825, whereby the old stones were reused and two larger windows were created. In 1661 the free-standing brick bell tower was rebuilt. By Ghert Klinghe cast prayer bell dates from 1454. 1825 the church at 22 meters in length and 11 meters width has been reduced. In the course of a renovation, the benches were replaced by chairs. Today the parish has around 350 members, making it one of the smallest in Harlingerland .

Interior

Janssen organ (1856)

The interior of the church is simply designed and is closed off by a flat beamed ceiling. Claes Röttger created the pulpit in 1608, the paintings of which date from 1752.

The altarpiece from the 17th century as a five-part writing altar decorated.

A baroque baptismal angel from 1752/53 by David Benjamin Opitz hangs above the baptismal font .

The organ was built in 1855/56 by Gerd Sieben Janssen with seven registers on a manual with attached pedal . In 1953 the organ building company Alfred Führer redesigned the sound and added an independent pedal with two registers. Today it has nine registers. The originally preserved, stylistically late Baroque prospectus is particularly valuable . However, the prospectus pipes have not been preserved. Only three registers are still partly due to Janssen.

See also

literature

  • Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 26 .
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .

Web links

Commons : St. Dionysii Church (Asel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genalogieforum: Asel ( Memento of 22 December 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 17 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Church district: St. Dionysius Church Asel , accessed on September 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kiesow: Architecture Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 328
  4. ^ Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk : The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in northwest Germany . Verlag Schnell + Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-7954-1762-8 , p. 166 ff.
  5. ↑ Andreas Scheepker: The baptismal in the Church of Asel - Festschrift for the restoration of Aseler Taufengels. Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wittmund 2007.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 34.4 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 27.1"  E