St. Bartholomew (Tossens)
The Protestant Church of St. Bartholomew is a listed church building in Tossens , a district of Butjadingen in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony .
History and architecture
The core of the late Romanesque , free-standing brick building was built at the beginning of the 13th century. The round arch of one of the old narrow windows can still be seen on the south wall, while the original eaves cornice made of quarter-round shaped stones has been preserved in the middle part of the north wall . The stucco frames of the north portal and the small low-slung window next to the south portal may be original. Towards the end of the 15th century, a polygonal choir with wide pointed arched windows and buttresses was added. The low belfry is built directly to the west, it consists of two parallel walls. The Wurtenkirche stands on an artificially raised hill to protect it from the flood. The building defines the townscape.
Murals
In the chancel were murals exposed from around the 1500th The preserved paintings are probably fragments of a generous painting of the chancel. Its expansion indicates that the initially intended indentation was not carried out.
- The depiction of the apostle Peter with a fragment of inscription is embedded in tendril ornamentation and consecration crosses .
- The depiction of the Apostle Paul with an inscription fragment is also embedded in tendril ornamentation and consecration crosses.
- The depiction of the apostle John with an inscription fragment is also embedded in tendril ornaments and consecration crosses.
Furnishing
The hall church houses a remarkable set of furnishings by Ludwig Münstermann and his workshop; including the altarpiece , the baptismal font with cover and the sound cover of the pulpit.
organ
In 1660 the first organ was built by an unknown organ builder. The work had ten registers , of which six parts and the old case are still preserved today. The pedal was attached. The organ builder Christoph Nordt dismantled the instrument in 1811. In 1815 the building was rebuilt in an expanded form by Gerhard Janssen Schmid , who added a second manual. According to his own statements, he incorporated parts of another organ (probably from Twistringen) from the second half of the 18th century, so that the instrument now had 14 parts in the manual. Johann Martin Schmid delivered new bellows in 1885. The organ got its present shape in 1963 when Alfred Führer added a Rückpositiv and a pedal unit. The old pipe work and the old manual double drawer (for main work and pedal) were retained. Since then the organ has the following disposition:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- A = old registers from 1660
- S = Gerhard Janssen Schmid (1815)
- F = Alfred Führer (1963)
See also
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Waldemar Reinhardt: Frisian churches - Rüstringen, Friesische Wehde, Butjadingen, Stedingen and the city of Wilhelmshaven , volume 4. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1982, p. 56 f.
- Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 150 f.
Web links
- Monument Preservation (accessed on May 20, 2012)
- Information about the organ (accessed on May 20, 2012)
- Equipment (accessed on May 20, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz sign: Organ Atlas of historical and modern organs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 3-7959-0894-9 , p. 230.
- ^ Organ in Tossens , accessed on September 7, 2016.
- ↑ Organ of St. Bartholomew's Church on Organ index , accessed on October 1, 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 2.8 " N , 8 ° 16 ′ 10.9" E