St. Paulus Church (Filsum)

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St. Paul Church
View of the interior

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paulus Church is a single-nave hall church in Filsum , the administrative seat of the East Frisian joint community of Jümme . The church is named after its former patron saint Paul . According to the assumed construction times and recognizable shapes, the nave lies between Romanesque and Gothic , the choir between Gothic and Renaissance .

history

Presumably today's church had a previous building made of wood.

It is unknown when the construction of the stone church in Filsum began. It is assumed that around the middle of the 13th century a hall building with a semicircular apse made of bricks was built on a slightly raised area in the center of the village. End of the 15th or the late 16th century substituting the vestibule by the present chorus polygonal 5 / 8 Accounts and initially high, narrow windows. The windows of the nave were subsequently enlarged. The choir windows were also changed.

Building description

The St. Paulus Church is a single-nave hall church, the apse of which has not been preserved. The building is 25 meters long and 7.30 meters wide. The choir is vaulted and heptagonal. At the west end there is a portal with three doors. Several names and the year 1787 are written above the main door. A beam in the choir bears the year 1597. The walls of the nave are not articulated and decorated with a jagged frieze. There is a walled up portal on the south wall. The three original windows were expanded and a fourth was added.

The choir extension is separated from the nave by a round arch and does not continue the church interior in a straight line, but is slightly bent to the left. It is believed that the interior of the church is supposed to represent the body of Jesus crucified and the choir his head inclined to the left. The choir had five windows when it was built. Two of them are walled up except for narrow openings, the northern one is completely closed.

The nave closes at the top with an arched wooden ceiling. In 1976 it was renewed and painted by the church painter Oetgen from Delmenhorst. It is divided into individual areas on which the Beatitudes can be read.

If the building ground was too soft, the bells were erected free-standing in East Friesland, as was the case in Filsum. Like the church, it dates from the 13th century and was built in the parallel wall type.

Furnishing

Führer organ from 1961

The altar is possibly a northern Dutch late Gothic winged altar from the second half of the 15th century. The middle section was probably adorned with a portrait of Mary, which was destroyed during the Reformation and replaced by a representation of the Lord's Supper. On the inside of the wings there are two large medieval reliefs. The right wing shows the adoration of the baby Jesus by Mary and the angels, the left wing shows the adoration of Jesus by the kings. The shrine and predella were repainted after the mid-17th century. Since then, the four evangelists have been depicted on the predella.

The pulpit from 1660 was created by the carpenter, carver and painter Tönnies Mahler from Leer. It is provided with reliefs of the four evangelists and round arches with apostles as herms in between as well as fittings .

The box stalls with traljens and knobs were erected in 1687, the prieche with openwork tendrils in the 18th century. The Vasa Sacra consists of a simple goblet, dated 1815, by the goldsmith C. Hartmann from Leer with a matching paten and a pewter jug ​​made in 1915 with a matching box from the James Dixon a. Sons from Sheffield and a new silver jug ​​from 1895. The wooden baptismal stand was created around 1700 in the shape of a cup. It has a lid richly decorated with fruit pendants and acanthus leaves. The two chandeliers were donated in 1707 and 1770.

The church received an organ relatively late. The west gallery was built around 1800, into which an organ by the master Folkert Becker from Hanover was installed in 1878 against the resistance of some community members, especially from Lammertsfehn . The instrument was replaced in 1961 by a new building by the Wilhelmshaven organ builder Alfred Führer with a new case.

Parish

The St. Paulus parish of Filsum comprises the villages of Filsum, Stallbrüggerfeld, Lammertsfehn, Ammersum and Busboomsfehn with around 1750 parishioners.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Menno Smid : Frisian churches in Emden, Leer, Borkum, Mormerland, Uplengen, Overledingen and Reiderland , volume 3. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1980, p. 63.

Web links

Commons : St. Paulus Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Haffke St. Paulus Church / 1250–2000 / 750 years (PDF file; 7.5 MB), commemorative publication for the 750th anniversary in May 2000, published on behalf of the church council of the Evangelical Lutheran St. -Paulus Kirchengemeinde Filsum, accessed on January 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Monika van Lengen: Church of St. Paulus Filsum , viewed on March 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d e local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Filsum, Samtgemeinde Jümme, district of Leer (PDF; 53 kB), accessed on September 6, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b Kirche-Filsum.de: History , accessed on September 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Filsum.de: Filsum , accessed on September 6, 2010.

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 41.7 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 29.3"  E