St. Petri Church (Aurich-Oldendorf)

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St. Peter's Church

The St. Petri Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Aurich-Oldendorf district of Großefehn .

History and description of the building

In the Middle Ages, (Aurich-) Oldendorf belonged to the Leer provost in the diocese of Münster , but is assigned to the Brookmerland in the Hinte provost in a municipality register around 1500.

The one-room church was probably built around 1270 to 1280 and was originally dedicated to Saint Peter or James. The arched windows on the long sides of the nave were originally drawn higher with pointed arches . The hall church has a retracted choir with a rectangular floor plan and three small round-arched east windows. The free-standing tower of the closed type in the northwest also dates from the 13th century. The ship was originally vaulted with three bays; only the choir vault is preserved. In 1755 the west wall of the church collapsed. For the reconstruction in the same year Frederick the Great approved a house collection in Prussia. The entrance of the church was moved into the western wall and the portals in the north and south were walled up. While the side altar window, a so-called hagioscope , was preserved in front of the choir recess on the south side, the hagioscope in the north facade is now walled up.

Furnishing

Organ with historical prospectus from 1691, which was originally in Bunde

The interior is now completed by a flat ceiling with a haunch . The remnants of a mural from the second half of the 13th century have been preserved on the east wall of the rectangular choir. It shows two riders and a ship with a mast. Apparently it is the only surviving medieval ship depiction in a church in Lower Saxony. A small Bentheim baptismal font from the 13th century is badly damaged as it was probably used as a drinking trough in the meantime.

In 1691/92 the original organ of the church was built by Valentin Ulrich Grotian in Aurich for the Reformed Church in Bunde . When Hinrich Just Müller built a new instrument there in 1791, he sold the old Grotian organ to Aurich-Oldendorf. From Weener it was transported to the church in a peat ship. An organ gallery was built in the church in 1792 and the organ was only completed in 1794, as indicated by the year on the central tower. In 1916 it was replaced by a new work by P. Furtwängler & Hammer . Today's organ dates from 1973 ( Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden ). Only the old prospectus from 1691 has been preserved. The pulpit showing Christ and four evangelists dates from 1698, the lectern from 1697.

Church records

The church books go back to the year 1700. There is a local family book .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Petri Church (Aurich-Oldendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Menno Smid : East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 42 (Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches, Vol. 6).
  2. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 248.
  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. 50 ff.
  4. ^ Rolf-Jürgen Grote, Kees van der Ploeg: Wall painting in Lower Saxony, Bremen and in the Groningerland . Catalog volume, Berlin 2001, p. 97.
  5. ^ A b Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 249.
  6. ^ Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 67 f .

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 53.1 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 8.5 ″  E