St. Fabian (Ringstedt)

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St. Fabian from the northeast

The village church of St. Fabian is located in the middle of Ringstedt in the street "Am Osterkamp". It was named after the Roman bishop Fabianus . He is said to have died a martyr in 250. The Ringstedt Church is a simultaneous church used by the Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed congregations . The Reformed Lutheran Simultaneum has existed since 1706.

Building history

The south wall with the remains of an original window

The nave was built around 1230, making it the oldest part of the church. In 1320 the eastern choir was added with Gothic brick windows. The brick windows of the ship are modern. The current church tower was built in 1884, its medieval predecessor collapsed in 1680.

architecture

Nave

The nave is bricked with field stones. The large windows were added later, which can be seen from the brick edging. One of the original small windows can still be seen on the south wall, but it was walled up.

Choir

The lower part of the choir is also made of field stones, while bricks were used in the gable area . The choir is significantly narrower than the nave, but has roughly the same ridge height. This results in a steeper roof slope for the choir section.

tower

The tower, built in the neo-Gothic style from 1884, has a square floor plan and has a narrow, octagonal helmet. Brick was used as a building material. The masonry is structured by corner pilasters and a final frieze . Each side shows two large ogival sound openings and above the clock face of the tower clock.

inner space

The altar with tablets and rich decorations

The interior is characterized by simple chairs and a circumferential gallery . At the top, a barrel vault closes the nave, while the choir has a ribbed vault . The brown-tinted gallery with gold decorations rests on simple wooden pillars. Pictorial representations have been completely dispensed with. This was done out of consideration for the Reformed Church's ban on images .

Furnishing

altar

With its rich ornamentation of flowers, fruits and volutes , the magnificent altarpiece contrasts with the otherwise simple interior. However, here too there are neither pictures nor larger figurative representations. Instead, confessional texts and passages from the Bible can be read on four large panels, including the ten commandments.

organ

The interior to the west with galleries and organ

The organ was built in 1680 at the time of Cantor Alarich Hons, who now called himself “organist”. In 1788 the simultaneous community had organ builder Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy from Stade build a new instrument. Today's organ is located above the west gallery , the simple case of which, made in 1974 by Alfred Führer , adapts to the gallery in terms of shape and color. Most of the pipe material of the current organ, which was built in 1974 by Alfred Führer (Wilhelmshaven), comes from the previous instruments by Wilhelmi and Johann Hinrich Röver . The foiled prospect pipes come from Wilhelmy. The company Harm Dieder Kirschner from Weener carried out the last renovation in 2005.

I main work C – f 3
Quintadena 16 ′ W / R
Principal 8th' W.
Reed flute 8th' F.
octave 4 ′ W.
Reed flute 4 ′ W.
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ W.
octave 2 ′ W.
Mixture III-IV W.
Trumpet 8th' W.
II breastwork C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th' W / R
Principal 4 ′ F.
Forest flute 2 ′ F.
Terzian II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ F.
octave 1' F.
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ R.
octave 8th' R.
octave 4 ′ W.
bassoon 16 ′ F.
Remarks
W = Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmi (1788)
R = Johann Hinrich Röver (1871)
F = Alfred Führer (1974)

Bells

The tower houses two bells that were taken over from the previous belfry.

1 2
diameter 900 mm 860 mm
Caster C. Hauptner Bartels
Casting year 1716 1817
Casting location Stade Bremen
volume ais ′ H'

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Fabian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. the work of Diederichs-Gottschalk and the Wikipedia page Font Altar .
  2. ↑ www.orgelbauwerkstatt.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 34.8 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 54.7"  E