St. Mary's Church (Nesse)

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Lutheran Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church is in the East Frisian town of Nesse in the municipality of Dornum . A special feature of the church is the sandstone baptismal font, which dates from the 13th century.

history

The St. Mary's Church was built towards the end of the 12th century in the early medieval trading settlement of Nesse on a long yard . As building material, the villagers used tuff , a volcanic rock that was imported from the Eifel by sea to East Frisia from the middle of the 12th century and processed by Rhenish builders . This is very soft and in the weather conditions in East Friesland does not have a long lifespan, so that all tuff stone churches in the region have been remodeled or replaced by brick buildings over the centuries. In Nesse, too, only remnants of the original building material have survived today. Only the west wall is made entirely of tuff. Numerous brick repairs were carried out on the south side. When the parish of Nesse became independent, the church was probably increased at the end of the 15th century. Brick was used as a building material for this measure. In addition, a Gothic style choir was added to the building in 1493 .

Building description

The St. Marien Church is a building in the Romanesque style . The one-room church is 35 meters long and 9.35 meters wide. At the time of its construction, the church was a simple apse . There were five narrow, arched windows on each side of the outer walls. They can still be seen in the north wall, although they have been walled up over the centuries. The south windows were widened when the choir was added to allow more light into the interior of the building. The final arched frieze is only partially preserved.

The polygonal closed choir made of bricks is divided into two rectangular yokes . It forms an octagon that is closed on four sides. One corner of this polygon is arranged in the longitudinal axis of the church. The corners and yoke boundaries are provided with buttresses. In the choir extension, the originally existing vaults have been preserved, while the nave is closed at the top with a flat ceiling.

The ensemble of the church also includes the free-standing bell tower and the two-story rectory to the west (the so-called stone house) with a brick gable from the first half of the 16th century.

Furnishing

Hillebrand organ behind a historical prospectus

A stone rood screen, which was built into the church in the 15th century, has been preserved from the furnishings before the Reformation . The three-arched barrier rests on cruciform brick pillars with chamfered corners. A special hagioscope has been preserved under the southern arch of the rood screen . The sandstone baptism is also of pre-Reformation origin. It is assigned to the Westphalian cylinder type and is decorated on the outside with eight arched arcades in which, among other things, the announcement, birth and baptism of Christ are depicted. The upper edge is provided with a tendril frieze. For conservation reasons, the original is now air-conditioned in the East Frisian State Museum in Emden. A copy was made for the church in Nesse.

The rood screen is decorated with paintings of Christ and the twelve apostles as well as pictures of donors. The three chandeliers were donated by parishioners in the 17th century.

The archway of the church dates from 1759. Behind the organ prospect in neo-Gothic style by Otto Carl Wilhelm Lorentz, built in 1861/62, an organ by P. Furtwängler & Hammer was hidden from 1921 , which was replaced by a new building between 1986 and 1988 the Hillebrand brothers were replaced. The instrument has nine registers on a manual and pedal .

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Heinz Ramm: Frisian churches in Auricherland, Norderland, Brokmerland and in Krummhörn , Volume 2. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever (2nd edition) 1983, p. 86 f.
  • Robert Noah: The church in Nesse ( Ostfriesische Kunstführer , booklet 8). Aurich 1986.
  • 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. 14, 16, 18, 191, 193 f., 211 ff .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Monika van Lengen: Church of St. Marien , viewed on June 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Nesse (PDF file; 34 kB), viewed on June 27, 2011.
  3. ^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 131 ff.

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 14.6 "  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 50.6"  E