St. Matthias (Jork)

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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 55 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 51.1"  E

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The St. Matthias is a Lutheran church in Lower Saxony Jork in the district of Stade . It is surrounded by canals on an old Wurt right in the center of the village. With a main building 40 m long and 14 m wide, it is one of the largest churches in the Altes Land .

History and construction of the church

The parish of Jork is first mentioned in 1221 in a document from the Verden bishop Iso von Wölpe . Since that time there has certainly been a church in Jork, which has been rebuilt or renewed several times. There is evidence of a letter from 1586, in which the dilapidated condition is deplored and it is recommended that the structure of the church and sexton be "thoroughly taken care of". This fundamental renewal only took place in two phases, 1664 and 1709. The western part up to the pulpit is the older of the two parts, the eastern part with the three-sided choir is the younger. The nave is made of brick and designed as a hall church .

The badly dilapidated west gable had to be renovated in 1931

Furnishing

A wooden along the entire length of the interior spans barrel ceiling , the blue color, the blue of the sky is supposed to represent and which is decorated with golden stars sheet. The number of stars should correspond to the number of psalms at the time of building . The room appears spacious and spacious, as the walls are kept in white and there are no complete lateral galleries . Only the preaches of the von Haaren family and the pulpit with its sound cover protrude into the interior.

The church stalls, richly decorated with carvings, date from the 17th century. On the doors to the individual pews there are many different motifs as symbols of good luck, e.g. B. suns, rosettes or trees. Among them is a motif with a pagan background: grazing deer in a crown of leaves. The names of the previous tenants are carved into the cheeks. In the sanctuary, the bench seats can be adjusted so that their users can see the pulpit unhindered during the sermon . The Juraten stalls , in which the church council sat, the preacher's chair , which today serves as the sacristy , and the chair for the preacher's wife are further emphasized by decorations .

The richly decorated pulpit from 1664, together with the pulpit cover, is a foundation of the local von Haaren family, who in the 17th century often held the office of the Graefen in the old country.

The 8 m high late baroque altar from 1710 is a striking one-off piece. Johann Rinck is named as the manufacturer, the founder was the married couple Claus and Anna Schuback from Jork right, and was awarded a burial place near the altar. The lower part of the altar shows the Last Supper as a painting, the crucifixion as a carved central scene and the burial also as a wooden relief in the upper part. The three scenes are surrounded by figures of the four evangelists and are closed at the top by a representation of the resurrection .

The simple stone baptismal font dates from 1791 and was supplemented with a brass baptismal bowl and lid in the 20th century .

In the center aisle, some of the grave slabs from the earlier burials are still in the church floor. The church has silver sacrament implements and silver altar candlesticks from the 18th century. Originally the church had three large chandeliers , one of which is still in existence today, the other two were melted down for armament purposes during World War II .

The organ loft is adorned with 31 paintings from the early 18th century depicting different scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Illustrations by the engraver Matthäus Merian often served as a model for these pictures . There are also five portraits in the interior . Four show pastors: Franciscus Fexerus, during whose term of office the construction of today's church began, Clemens Diekmann, during whose term of office the construction was completed, his successor Johann Samuel Büttner and a portrait painted by Richard Eggers of the last superintendent of the Old Country, Franz Bernhard Focken . A much smaller picture next to the pulpit shows the merchant Johannes Schuback , who made extensive donations to the community in the middle of the 18th century.

  • Ornate front door

  • Nave with organ gallery

  • pulpit

  • altar

  • Church chandelier

organ

Organ prospectus

The organ has had an eventful architectural history and parts ( prospectus and prospectus pipes) are still made of materials from Arp Schnitger . As can be proven from invoices, the church already had an organ in the 16th century, but nothing else is known about it. In 1679 Schnitger built an organ, which he had extensively rebuilt in 1709 by his journeyman Nikolaus Stöver . There followed several repairs by various organ builder: 1764 Marcus Hinrich Petersen , 1772 John Paul Geycke , 1789, 1807 and 1834/1835 the Stader organ building family Wilhelmy . In 1914 the Faber & Greve company built a completely new building in the old housing , which was renovated in 1978 by Rudolf Janke . At the beginning of the 1980s, it was decided to return closer to the original Schnitger disposition and commissioned Alfred Führer with a corresponding new building. The old prospectus was also preserved here, and in 1999 Führer changed the layout slightly again.

Today's disposition is:

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal S 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Mixture V
8th. Trumpet0 8th'
II Rückpositiv C – f 3
09. Dumped 8th'
10. Principal S 4 ′
11. Reed flute 4 ′
12. Forest flute 2 ′
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Sesquialtera II0
15th Scharff IV
16. Dulcian 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
17th Principal S 16 ′
18th octave 08th'
19th octave 04 ′
20th Mixture IV
21st trombone 16 ′
22nd Trumpet0 08th'

S : Still existing prospect pipes from Arp Schnitger

Bells and tower

The bells are in a wooden bell tower from 1685, which is now covered with slate. This year can be found on the weather vane . The 35 m high tower is structurally separated from the nave, but was built directly next to it without any significant open space. The entire construction was last completely renovated from 1998 to 1999.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted in Hannelore Bitter-Wirtz: Churches in the Old Country . 2nd Edition. Newspaper publisher Krause, Stade 1985, p. 28 .
  2. ↑ Construction history and dispositions. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Presentation of the organ with sound samples on the parish website. Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved June 30, 2016.

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