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St. Marien (Maria Königin) is the Roman Catholic Church in Leer-Loga ( East Frisia ). The listed church was built in 1955 as a quasi- parish of St. Michael in Leer. Since 2018, both parishes have merged to form the parish of Seliger Hermann Lange .
history
After the introduction of the Reformation , East Frisia became completely Protestant. In the course of the troop movements in the Thirty Years War, Catholics came to East Frisia again. Others immigrated as a result of the plague year of 1623 or for economic reasons from the Münsterland, which had been re-Catholicized due to the Counter Reformation . In 1643 a Catholic mission station was established in Leer with 15 communicants who financed a priest with 50 guilders a year . In 1658 there were 120 communicants. A military chaplain was in charge of Leer's imperial protection force, the Salvegarde, from 1678 to 1744. Around 1700 Catholic services were held in a private house in Leer. The growing congregation bought its own house in 1719, which soon became too small as a place for worship services. In 1728 a small chapel was built on Kirchstrasse. After the construction of St. Joseph in Neustadtgödens , the first Catholic church building in East Friesland after the Reformation, the chapel in Leer was the second Catholic church in East Friesland.
When East Friesland became Prussian in 1744, the field priest remained in Leer as pastor of the Catholic community. Several times the Protestants prevented the construction of a larger church with a steeple. The construction of St. Michael was not approved until 1775. When East Friesland belonged to France from 1810 to 1813, the mission stations in Neustadtgödens, Leer, Emden and Norden were raised to separate parishes. They initially belonged to the diocese of Münster and were added to the diocese of Osnabrück in 1824 , which in 1835 formed the dean's office in East Friesland.
Because of the strong influx of people who were expelled from their homeland after the Second World War, the Catholic community grew rapidly, so that the St. Marien parish was founded. They first met at the Russell house. In 1953 the church council of St. Michael decided to build a church in the east of Leer. After the foundation stone was laid on December 8, 1954, the new church was consecrated on October 29, 1955. The architect was J. Feldwisch-Dentrup from Osnabrück. At the end of 1955 the community had about 1200 members. In 1956 the pastoral care district of Hesel was abolished, two years later Filsum, so that at the end of the 1950s St. Marien had to care for around 1,700 believers. Through the regional reform, the Jheringsfehn and Boekzetelerfehn Leer were incorporated; accordingly the number of Catholics of St. Marien grew.
In 1996, a major interior renovation was carried out and some new church furnishings were purchased. Due to the decline in parishioners in the 1990s, St. Marien formed a parish association with a parish community together with St. Michael and the Catholic parish Mariä Himmelfahrt in Oldersum, and St. Joseph in Weener. On January 1, 2018, the two communities in Leer merged to form the parish of Seliger Hermann Lange in the Dean's Office of East Friesland.
Building description
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St. Marien is a hall church made of red bricks on a rectangular floor plan with a semicircular apse . The church is not faces east , but aligned to the south-southeast. A saddle roof covers the church, on the north-western side of which a slender church tower is built. Three narrow, upright rectangular sound holes are embedded in the bell storey. The flat tent roof is crowned by a tower knob with a simple cross and a weathercock. The church tower serves as the west entrance and as a staircase to the organ and the bell house. It houses a four-bell ring from the Monasterium Eijsbouts bell foundry from 1963.
Seven tall, narrow windows on the long eastern side and five on the western side illuminate the interior of the church. The apse is closed in the south, but has a high triple window on each side. The church is accessed through a rectangular portal in the north under a high triple window. Narrow monopitch roofs on the long sides below the windows indicate aisles.
Furnishing
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The interior is simply furnished. The flat-roofed interior is closed off by a coffered ceiling . In the north the gallery serves as a place of installation for the organ.
In the center of the apse is the fresco-like depiction by Hans Exler (Osnabrück) based on a design by Walter Mellmann . It shows Mary, the Queen of Heaven on the crescent moon, with the Trinity on the background of a quatrefoil : Mary lifts up the baby Jesus, while on the right side the dove stands as a symbol for the Holy Spirit. God the Father spreads His blessing hands over it, surrounded by a large circle. The relief of the sandstone altar shows four scenes from the Gospel according to John : in front the wedding at Cana, behind the washing of feet, on the left the miracle of feeding and on the right the woman at Jacob's fountain. The ambo on the left is also made of red sandstone and has the sinking Peter as a motif on the front. The octagonal sandstone baptismal font on the right is covered by a bronze lid depicting Jonah with the fish. Behind the altar, the burning bush is depicted on the tabernacle . In front of it, a bronze medallion with a Eucharistic motif is set into the ground, a peacock (symbol for man) who receives life through the grapes (Christ).
The narrow side aisles behind square pillars bear depictions of the Stations of the Cross on the walls . At the southern end of the eastern side aisle, St. Liudger , the East Frisian missionary, can be seen on a sandstone relief, in the western side aisle St. Hedwig von Andechs , patron saint of the expellees from Silesia. In the nave, the simple wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free.
organ
The congregation only received a pipe organ in 2016 , after an electronic organ had long served to accompany the congregation's singing. The originally wood-sighted instrument with an oak case was built in 1959 by Jürgen Ahrend & Gerhard Brunzema for the Zorgvlietkerk in Scheveningen with 24 registers on three manuals and a pedal with mechanical playing and register action . Advisors were Cornelius H. Edskes and Willem Talsma. A year later, the registers Fluit 2 '(on the pedal) and Schalmei 4' (on its own wind chest ) were added. In the main work , the two registers Preestant 8 'and Octaaf 4' are doubled in the treble, in accordance with old Dutch tradition. The flat prospectus is characterized by the double doors, the horizontal trumpet in the main case and some gold-plated chased and embossed pipes. The gilded veil boards based on a design by the artist Seldenthuis were made by the wood sculptor Grummer from Groningen. The seven-axis main housing, like the five-axis Rückpositiv in the gallery parapet, has an elevated central flat field.
The first three-manual new building of the young company led to a return to the traditional craft techniques of organ building in the Netherlands. A new intonation followed in 1976 by Ahrend and a first color version, in 1993 an implementation in the Zorgvlietkapel by Stan Arnauts and in 1995 an adaptation of the intonation by Ahrend, later a new version. Hendrik Ahrend carried out an overhaul of the organ in 2002 and expanded the sesquialtera in the bass. After the Dutch church building was no longer used for worship services from 2009, the instrument was sold to St. Marien in 2016 and relocated in the same year. Bach-Kellner was set as the musical temperature. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Zimbelstern
Bells
The 24 meter high church tower houses a four-way bell. The bell foundry Monasterium Eijsbouts (formerly Feldmann & Marschel ) from Münster cast the bell on October 29, 1963, which was consecrated on December 8, 1963. The bells were hung up on December 13th and rang for the first time on December 24th, 1963. The tone combination follows the bell motif Christ has risen .
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location | Mass (kg) |
Diameter (mm) |
Chime |
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| 1 | Christ King | 1963 | Eijsbouts Monastery , Münster | 1750 | 140 | d 1 |
| 2 | St. Ludger | 1963 | Eijsbouts Monastery, Münster | e 1 | ||
| 3 | St. Hedwig | 1963 | Eijsbouts Monastery, Münster | g 1 | ||
| 4th | Mary Queen | 1963 | Eijsbouts Monastery, Münster | a 1 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish of Seliger Hermann Lange , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ^ Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike . Volume 6 ). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 388 .
- ^ Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike . Volume 6 ). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 390 .
- ^ Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike . Volume 6 ). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 393 .
- ^ Church of St. Marien Leer-Loga , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ^ A church for Leer - on the way , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ^ Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Leer (PDF file; 150 kB)
- ↑ a b c d Our parish church , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ↑ kerk-en-orgel.nl: Ned. Hervormde kerk - Zorgvlietkerk , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ↑ mowelele.de: The Ahrend & Brunzema organ , accessed on March 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ E
