St. Catherine's Church (Schönemoor)

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St. Katharinen Church Schönemoor

The St. Katharinen parish in Schönemoor , a district of the Ganderkesee parish , is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .
The parish has transferred several functions to the regional office of the parish of Delmenhorst / Oldenburg-Land, based in Delmenhorst.

history

The St. Katharinen Church is a brick church from 1324 and one of the best preserved churches of this time in the North German Plain. The church is named after the Byzantine martyr Catherine of Alexandria , who allegedly died in 306 or 307. The St. Catherine's Church is attested as a pilgrimage church by papal indulgence from 1333. The original of the certificate is in the Oldenburg State Archives . There are extensive records of the preachers from the Reformation up to 1903.

organ

Hillebrand organ from 1976

The organ was built in 1976 by Gebrüder Hillebrand Orgelbau from Hanover. It has two manuals and a pedal with the following registers :

I main work C–
Wooden flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture IV
II upper structure C–
Dumped 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′

graveyard

Several grave steles from the 17th / 18th centuries have been found in the cemetery . Century preserved.

Bell jar

In 1681, the brass caster Joh. Otto Kroeger, Oldenburg, cast a bell. It was recast in 1790 by the bell caster JP Bartels, Bremen. The bell is tuned to the tone G sharp and has a diameter of 0.97 m.

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 128 f.
  • Stephan Meyer-Schürg, Dietmar Bödeker, Jürgen Woltmann: Old churches in the Delmenhorst parish | Oldenburg-Land. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89995-719-8 .
  • Dagmar Jestrzemski, Katharina von Alexandrien - The Crusaders and their Saints , Lukas Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-086-3 .

Web links

http://www.kirche-schoenemoor.de/

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Functions of the regional office. Retrieved October 12, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Runge, Klaus Rohmeyer, Heinrich Prochmann: Churches in the Stedinger Land, Stalling Oldenburg 1971
  3. ↑ Dagmar Jestrzemski: St. Katharinen Church in Schönemoor in Nordwest-Heimat, supplement of the Nordwest-Zeitung Oldenburg, published on October 15, 2011
  4. ↑ Stephan Meyer-Schürg, Dietmar Bödeker, Jürgen Woltmann: Old churches in the parish of Delmenhorst / Oldenburg-Land , Isensee Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89995-719-8
  5. ^ The preachers of the Duchy of Oldenburg since the Reformation. Retrieved March 23, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Oldenburg Society for Family Studies, downloads, 489 historical grave steles http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/index.html accessed on October 12, 2012
  7. ^ A. Rauchheld , Glockenkunde Oldenburgs, in Oldenburger Jahrbuch 29 (1925), pages 15 and 180

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 37.1 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 22.6 ″  E