St. Ludgerus (Norderney)

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Island church St. Ludgerus , view from the east (right the Kaiser Wilhelm monument)
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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Ludgerus on the East Frisian island of Norderney was built in 1883/1884 as a neo-Gothic hall church and is a listed building.

history

After there had been no Catholics on the island since the Reformation , the Roman Catholic parish was re-established in 1884. It is named after the holy Frisian missionary St. Ludgerus . The beginnings of the parish go back to 1840, when the north pastor Heinrich Lackmann asked the diocese of Osnabrück for a clergyman for Norderney. Due to the short bathing season and the small number of Catholic island guests (around 100 around 1850), the request was refused. On May 29, 1883, a building contractor from the north received the order to build the parish church of St. Ludgerus at the Friedrichstrasse / Herrenpfad intersection. Most of the site was acquired through donations from spa guests. The church consecration took place on July 17, 1884. In 1909 the first pastor was appointed, for whom a parsonage was added to the church building in 1912. In 1923 the parish of Norderney was granted the status of an independent curate community , and in 1974 it became a parish . In the post-war years it grew to over 800 members due to the influx of displaced persons from the German eastern regions and currently (November 2014) has 1156 members. Between 2007 and 2009 the interior of the church was fundamentally renovated and redesigned. Since then, St. Ludgerus has been used as a weekday church in summer, and services are celebrated there on weekends in winter. Due to the high number of participants, the Sunday Eucharist celebrations take place in the Stella Maris church building . The parish belongs to the Deanery East Friesland in the Diocese of Osnabrück.

Building description

The brick building was built as a hall church with a retracted polygonal apse in the neo-Gothic style. The long sides each have four and the apse three pointed arched windows and are supported on the outside with buttresses. A small vestibule is built in front of the entrance to the west. A roof rider is attached for a small bell . Inside, the apse is connected to the nave by a pointed triumphal arch . The roof structure is partially open and reveals the wooden structure.

Interior

Interior of the church in 2019

The interior is simply designed and offers space for 80 worshipers. The glass painting was created by the Swiss painter Barbara Berlin in 1908. In the course of redesigning the interior of the church, the pews were replaced by movable chairs, which are grouped elliptically around the two focal points of the altar and ambo . This unusual arrangement, which the church, based on the early Christian model , is supposed to bring to life as communion , was not without criticism. The Cologne artist Arne-Bernd Rhaue designed the sacred objects as cube-shaped blocks made of solid Anröchter stone without relief, the altar with stylized wavy lines, the ambo with tongues of fire. The choir area is separated by a glass wall. In the western entrance area, a glass construction serves as a vestibule; There is a baptismal font made of a stone in the shape of a cube, which also serves as a holy water font.

organ

The organ that Orgelbau Mayer (Heusweiler) built in 1973 with eight registers on two manuals and a pedal is mounted above the porch . In 2007 the case was rebuilt and an overhaul with intonation by the Westphalian organ builder S. Sauer . The game and stop action are mechanical.

I. Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II. Manual C-g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

See also

literature

  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 .
  • Ingrid Winkler: Origin and development of the Catholic parish of St. Ludgerus on Norderney . In: Heinrich Smeins (Ed.): Norderney on the way into the third millennium. The past and present of the North Sea island of Norderney . tape 2 . Self-published, Norderney 1993.
  • Walter Zahner: St. Ludgerus and Stella Maris Norderney . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-567-7 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dirk Kähler: Small exhibition for the 125th In: Norderneyer morning . No. 277 , October 8, 2009, p. 1 ( online edition PDF; 1.2 MB).
  2. ^ Walter Zahner: St. Ludgerus and Stella Maris Norderney . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-567-7 , p. 3 .
  3. ^ Walter Zahner: St. Ludgerus and Stella Maris Norderney . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-567-7 , p. 4 .
  4. ^ Walter Zahner: St. Ludgerus and Stella Maris Norderney . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-567-7 , p. 6 .
  5. ^ Ingrid Winkler: Origins and development of the Catholic parish of St. Ludgerus on Norderney . In: Heinrich Smeins (Ed.): Norderney on the way into the third millennium. The past and present of the North Sea island of Norderney . tape 2 . Self-published, Norderney 1993, p. 105 .
  6. ↑ a b churches on Norderney . Catholic Parish Community Coast. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  7. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen and Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1977, p. 692 .
  8. ^ A b Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 370 .
  9. ↑ Verena Leidig: Remodeling leads to discussions . In: Norderneyer morning . No. 20 , November 24, 2008, p. 3 ( online edition PDF; 1.0 MB).
  10. ^ Walter Zahner: St. Ludgerus and Stella Maris Norderney . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-567-7 , p. 17 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 30 "  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 40.3"  E