St. Maria Church (Marienchor)

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St. Maria Church Marienchor from the south with a leaning tower
Building ensemble on the terp with a former rectory

The Evangelical Reformed St. Maria Church in Marienchor is located in the East Frisian Rheiderland . The hall church of brick with West tower on a mound is at the core of the 1668 back and has her authoritative classical obtained at the end of the 18th century form.

History and description of the building

The current church probably had a previous building in the pre-Reformation period, as it had a bell from 1479 by Barthold Klinghe, son of Ghert Klinghe . The name of the church indicates that it was consecrated to St. Mary in the pre-Reformation period. In the Middle Ages, the Marienchor belonged to the Propstei Hatzum in the diocese of Münster , but around 1500 it was illegally incorporated into the Johanniterkommende Dünebroek .

In the course of the Reformation , the community first joined the Lutheran and finally the Reformed faith. In 1660 the Lutheran pastor was deposed. In 1668 a baroque preaching church was built to meet the needs of the Reformed Confession. In the course of time, however, the building collapsed and got slightly tilted, as a foundation was dispensed with and the building was built over the meter-thick layer of peat. In the last quarter of the 18th century the church was almost completely rebuilt. Only the old east wall was preserved, while the long sides were renewed and a west tower was added. The year 1798 above the portal indicates the completion of the construction work. The Klinghe bell jumped in the 19th century and was cast by Heinrich Ludwig Lohmeyer in Gütersloh in 1861. In 1917 it was delivered to the armaments industry and melted down.

Pastor Heinrich Gerhard Bokeloh was a member of the Confessing Church and spent several years in prison from 1939 onwards because of a dissident sermon. Marienchor had its own pastor until 1960. Today the parish is looked after by the Jemgum pastor together with Böhmerwold . In the 1970s, the east gable was rebuilt by a local bricklayer.

architecture

Eastern gable wall with the year 1668
Bell from 1581

The east-facing rectangular hall church is a brick building with a straight choir closure. Four arched windows on each of the long sides, which are divided by pilasters , and two eastern arched windows illuminate the interior. The four wall anchors on the eastern gable wall indicate the year of construction 1668. Only the east wall shows the large bricks in the monastery format, while smaller bricks were used on the long sides and on the west tower.

The small western bell tower comes close to the old pastorate. The walled-up tower shaft extends to the height of the roof ridge of the nave and has two pilasters each to the south and north. It is covered by a tent roof, which is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weather vane as a weather vane. The windowless tower has two arched sound holes for the bells to the south and north below the eaves. A small Renaissance bell from 1581 has been preserved ( strike note g 2 , weight around 120 kg, diameter 556 mm). It bears the inscription between two surrounding friezes : "HANS DER BORCH GOET MI TO EMBDEN MV c LXXXI". The round arched south portal in the west tower is marked in the keystone with the year 1798.

Furnishing

Interior to the west
Decorated pulpit

A slightly arched wooden barrel vault was drawn into the church. The polygonal, wooden pulpit as well as the wooden box stalls and the bronze candlestick date from 1668, when the church was built. The pulpit has round arched pulpit fields between corner pillars. It bears the inscription: "ANNO 1668 IS DISE STOLE GEMAKET". The circular sound cover is decorated on the side by a cross-arch frieze. In front of the pulpit, according to Reformed tradition, there is a simple communion table.

Two pries are built into the west wall . In the choir room three grave plates of pastors from the 18th century are buried. A jug donated in 1867 belongs to the Vasa Sacra . Cups, bread plates and baptismal bowls date from the 20th century.

organ

Organ positive from 1953

To accompany the congregation singing, the congregation initially purchased a harmonium , which had been built in 1875 by the Stuttgart company Gschwind. Today's positive organ was built by the Alfred Führer company in 1953. It has three registers on a manual and an attached pedal . In 1962 it was acquired by the community and moved to Marienchor, after it had previously been privately owned in Böhmerwold. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Principal B / D 2 ′
Pedal C – d 1
attached

See also

literature

  • Anna Sophie Inden (text), Martin Stromann (photos): God's houses in the Rheiderland . In: Ostfriesland Magazin 2/2015, SKN Druck und Verlag, Norden 2015, p. 48 ff.
  • Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000.
  • Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

Web links

Commons : St. Mary's Church  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Menno Smid : Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike. Vol. 6). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 42.
  2. ^ Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike. Vol. 6). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, pp. 293, 476.
  3. ^ A b Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000, p. 21 .
  4. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 53.
  5. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Marienchor , accessed on November 6, 2018 (PDF file; 24 kB).

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 54.9 ″  E