St. Ludgerus Church (north)

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St. Ludgerus Church

The Catholic St. Ludgerus Church in the East Frisian city ​​of Norden was built in 1885.

history

After the Reformation there was no longer any Roman Catholic parish in the Lutheran north and the Emden Concordats prevented a new one from being formed. Catholic services took place irregularly, initially underground and later regularly at the instigation of the strictly Catholic wife of Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen in the chapel of Lütetsburg Castle . Catholic services in a rental chamber at Großneustraße 1 in the north are documented for 1720.

On January 4, 1779, the Prussian King Frederick the Great permitted Catholics in the north and the surrounding area to practice their religion freely. As a result, a chapel consecrated to the Archangel Michael , together with a rectory and school, was set up in a building complex at Sielstrasse 55/56 . According to Pastor Franz-Josef Strieker, who served here from 1852 to 1861, it was barely larger than twelve by seven meters and could be called a “poor prayer hall, in an inconspicuous and hidden way, as if the Catholic community were hiding or would only be a tolerated or suppressed sect. ”In addition, the church cannot be recognized as such from the outside. At the beginning of 1859, helpers moved from house to house in two major districts of the diocese, Aurich and Osnabrück, to collect money for the planned church building in the north. A non-cancelable interest-free loan from the Münster fur trader Josef Hötte finally secured the financing. After ten years, the payment should begin "if it (note: the municipality) is able to do so".

In 1864, a parsonage with a chapel was built at Osterstraße 20 and, in 1885, a regular church was built on the rear of the property. In accordance with the wish of the founder, Hötte, the church was dedicated to St. Liudger , to whom the Northern Evangelical Ludgerikirche was already dedicated.

After the Second World War, the Ludgerus community experienced a strong growth spurt from the influx of expellees from Silesia . Today it has around 3,800 parishioners. St. Ludgerus is also a regional meeting place for the Catholic Vietnamese . Many boat people settled in the north themselves.

architecture

St. Ludgerus is a brick church in neo-Romanesque forms. The simple hall church has a transept and the rectangular choir in the north, and a narrower portal porch with an ornamental gable and a tower in the south. Here the outer wall is structured with blind arcades , arched friezes and pilaster strips . The portal is crowned by a semicircular tracery window .

Furnishing

View of the Sauer organ behind the historic prospectus

The Vasa Sacra originally used in Lütetsburg and the Norder Michaelskirche are no longer available. Today's church equipment dates from around 1884.

organ

The church received an organ in 1890. Johann Diepenbrock built the instrument with a one-manual, mechanically controlled cone chest . In 2007 the company Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer from Höxter-Ottbergen built a new instrument. The Diepenbrock prospectus was preserved in the style of historicism . The new instrument has two manuals and pedal as well as 1481 pipes . When this new organ was built, the wind chests, pipework and console were taken over from the former Seifert organ in the parish church of St. Cyriakus in Weeze .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Coupling flute 4 ′
5. Night horn 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera I-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II breastwork C – g 3
9. Reed flute 8th'
10. Principal 4 ′
11. Pointed 4 ′
12. octave 2 ′
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Scharff IV 1'
15th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Open bass 8th'
18th Beard pipe 4 ′
19th Piffaro II 2 ′
20th bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : hand register, a free combination, pleno, tongue holder

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 101.

Web links

Commons : St. Ludgerus Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Foraita: The times are yours, Lord. The history of the North Catholic Congregation. Published for the 100th anniversary of St. Ludgerus Church to the north . Norden 1985, p. 19.
  2. ↑ See also Ufke Cremer, Johann Haddinga : Norden. The city chronicle. Verlag Soltau-Kurier, Norden 2001, ISBN 978-3-928327-46-6 , p. 80 f.
  3. ^ Parish of St. Ludgerus in the north .
  4. ↑ More information about the organ of St. Ludgerus

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 48.9 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 31.2 ″  E