St. Joseph (Weener)

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St. Joseph from the south
Attached chancel

St. Joseph in Weener is the only Catholic church in the otherwise largely Reformed Rheiderland in southwestern East Frisia . It was built in 1842/1843.

history

As early as 1746, the Catholics in Weener had requested the right to exercise their religion freely, which Frederick the Great granted them. The Reformed congregation, however, successfully sued in Berlin, citing the state constitution and the Emden Concordats of 1599, on the basis of which only the Reformed and the Lutheran denominations were allowed. Because of the resistance, the Catholic Church was not built until 1842/1843. The church was consecrated to St. Joseph in 1849 .

In 1959 the entrance was redesigned. In the course of a major renovation in 2000, a chancel was added and the neighboring Dechant-Friese-Haus was converted into a community center.

The four parishes of St. Michael in Leer, St. Marien in Leer-Loga , Assumption of Mary in Oldersum and St. Joseph in Weener have been merged into a parish association with a parish community since May 1, 2014. Since 2018 the four churches have formed three parishes with the parish community Moormerland-Weener-Leer. The communities belong to the Dean's Office of East Friesland in the Diocese of Osnabrück .

architecture

By architect H. Mecklenburg the building as was brick - church hall in the style of romantic historicism of the Schinkel school built. However, it found its location set back from the street and is also half hidden by the neighboring rectory. The small bell tower with a bronze bell from 1842 is located above the entrance on the street front. A flat wooden ceiling has been drawn in under the gable roof . The colored glass windows are arranged in pairs and end with a small round window (1886). They depict apostles and evangelists. On a sandstone plaque embedded above the south portal is the Latin inscription in broken capitals : NON EST HIC ALIUD NISI DOMUS DEI ET PORTA CAELI (“Here is nothing but the house of God and the gate of heaven”, Gen. 28:17).

Furnishing

Sanctuary
View towards the organ gallery

The interior is simply designed. The white wooden beam ceiling is supported by transverse beams. The south pore rests on two round pillars and serves as the installation site for the organ. The Dutch chandelier was purchased in 1860. The simple church stalls leave a central aisle free.

The organ dates from 1879 from the Carl Haupt company ( Ostercappeln ). It has nine registers on two manuals and a pedal and was renovated by Speith-Orgelbau in 1975 . The Vasa Sacra include an Empire chalice, a gilded chalice and a chalice from 1946 as well as the monstrance in the tabernacle .

See also

literature

  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 171, 173 .
  • Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000, p. 31 .
  • 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. 98.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiesow: Architecture Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 171.
  2. ↑ Monika van Lengen: Weener - Sankt-Josephs-Pfarrkirche , accessed on November 5, 2018 (PDF).
  3. ↑ parish community MoWeLeLe , accessed on 5 November 2018th
  4. ↑ a b c Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000, p. 31 .
  5. ↑ Kiesow: Architecture Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 173.
  6. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesische Landschaft : Weener , accessed on November 5, 2018 (PDF file; 75 kB).

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 '2.2 "  N , 7 ° 21' 8.9"  E