St. Sixtus and Sinicius

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St. Sixtus and Sinicius

The Evangelical - Lutheran Church of St. Sixtus and Sinicius is a Grade II listed church in Hohenkirchen in the municipality Wangerland in Lower Saxony . The late Romanesque granite square church was built in the 12th century.

history

The church of St. Sixtus and Sinicius goes back to a wooden church founded by St. Ansgar in the 9th century , which was the mother church of the historic Gaus Wanga . As a district church, it was the send church for the surrounding churches of Mederns , Minsen , Tettens , Middoge , Wiarden , Wüppels , Oldorf and Wangerooge . A stone church was built around 1143 on a six meter high terp . The Romanesque Holy Communion chalice, created in the 13th century, is now in the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History , also a carved Anna herself third around 1500 .

Extensive records exist of the preachers since the Reformation.

architecture

Today's church is 33 meters long, 13 meters wide and has a gable height of 19.5 meters. It is a late Romanesque granite square church with arched windows in the longitudinal walls and a semicircular apse , which was added around a hundred years later. The church consists mainly of granite blocks and is characterized by the very careful processing of the granite blocks. The building fabric is almost original, only the west gable has been replaced by brickwork due to the weather . The lintels of the nave are made of sandstones that come from the quarries in the Weserbergland . This construction method is typical for some granite square churches in the region as well as for churches on the lower reaches and the mouth of the Weser and in the Ammerland .

In the Middle Ages it probably served as a fortified church , as the remains of a double moat were found around the church.

Furnishing

View through the nave to the altar, pulpit and baptismal font

altar

The altar of the Church of St. Sixtus and Sinicius is considered to be one of the most beautiful carved altars by the Hamburg sculptor Ludwig Münstermann and is the most important work of art in the church. It dates from 1620. The altar base shows a Christmas story designed as a bas-relief. Above this is a recessed middle section that shows a moment from the Last Supper when Jesus foretold to his twelve disciples that one of them would betray him. Münstermann expressively depicts the horror and despair of the figures. To the side of the middle section there are pictures of the four evangelists and on the outside left and right the pictures of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon are attached as side wings. The altar is crowned by a crucifixion group .

pulpit

The pulpit from 1628 also comes from the workshop of Ludwig Münstermann. It is richly decorated with ornaments , reliefs and statues and shows the prophets Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel in the pulpit . The virtues of faith, hope, love, temperance, patience and truth are depicted at the corners . The four evangelists can be found in the base area.

Baptismal font

The font from 1260 is the oldest object in the church. The work of art is made of sandstone and stands on lion's feet. The walls of the baptismal font are decorated with relief depictions of the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Three Kings, the Baptism of Christ and the two church patrons Sixtus and Sinicius . At the upper edge there is a frieze made of tendril threads . The wooden lid of the baptismal font was probably made in the last quarter of the 17th century by master woodcutter Hinrich Cröpelin from Esens . The basin rests on three lions, one of which has a human in its mouth.

Sandstone epitaph

On the south wall of the church there is a sandstone epitaph from 1640, which serves as a tomb for a pastor and his wife. On it, the kneeling family of the founders is shown under a crucifixion scene .

organ

Kayser organ from 1694

In 1694 Joachim Kayser from Jever built an organ that initially only consisted of a manual with ten registers and an attached pedal . At an unknown point in time, Kayser added a chest movement with five registers and in 1699 an independent pedal movement with six registers. In 1884 Johann Martin Schmid extensively rebuilt the organ and replaced the breastwork with a swell with romantic timbres. In 1974 the Alfred Führer company from Wilhelmshaven restored the condition from 1699. The case, main mechanism and pedal drawer , nine registers and large parts of the action are originally from Kayser. The instrument has 21 registers on mechanical sliders and, according to the spelling at the work, has the following disposition :

I main work CDE – c 3
Principal 8th' K
Gedact 8th' K
Octava 4 ′ K
Pointed flute 4 ′ F.
Quinta 3 ′ K
Super octave 2 ′ K
Sifflöt 1' F.
Sexquialtera II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ F.
Mixture IV-VI 1' K / F
Trumpet 8th' F.
II breast positive CDE – c 3
Gedact 8th' F.
Flute 4 ′ F.
Pointed flute 2 ′ F.
Sifflöt 1' F.
Tertian II 4 ⁄ 5 ′ F.
CDE – d pedal 1
Quintads 16 ′ K / F
Principal 8th' K
Octava 4 ′ K
Mixture VI F.
Trumpet 8th' F.
Cornet 2 ′ F.
Play area

More information:

Remarks:

K = Kayser (1694/1699)
F = leader (1974)

Bell tower

The brick-built bell tower of the church is, like almost all churches on the East Frisian peninsula, separate and was built around 1500. It is three-part and is located northeast of the church.

War memorial in front of the church

In front of the entrance to the church there is a war memorial erected in 1923 in the form of a brick gate. Sandstone slabs with inscriptions are embedded in the front, in the passage and on the back of the gate. On the back are the names of residents who are in the First World War have fallen.

After the Second World War , the war memorial was expanded by erecting a wall behind the gate on which the fallen soldiers of the Second World War are immortalized.

See also

literature

  • Hans Saebens, Christel Matthias Schröder : The churches of Jeverland. Verlag CL Mettcker & Sons, Jever 1956, pp. 7, 13 f., 44 ff.
  • Günter Müller: The old churches and bell towers of the Oldenburger Land. Kayser-Verlag, Oldenburg 1983, p. 72 ff.
  • Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987, Volume 1, pp. 485–486.
  • Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: God's houses in Friesland and Wilhelmshaven. Verlag Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1991, ISBN 978-3-922365-95-2 , p. 42 ff.
  • Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 76 f.
  • Wolfgang Koppen: Barley, cheese and butter from every farm as "pastors' wages". In: Jeversches Wochenblatt from September 16, 1995.
  • Justin Kroesen, Regnerus Steensma: Churches in East Friesland and their medieval furnishings . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-159-1 .
  • Axel Bürgener , Klaus Siewert: Saalkirchen im Wangerland , Verlag "Auf der Warft", Münster - Hamburg - Wiarden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939211-97-6 , p. 11 ff.
  • Wolfgang A. Niemann: The 875th anniversary is being celebrated in a big way . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of December 30, 2017, p. 12.
  • Rainer Hinrichs: Gaukirche first mentioned 875 years ago. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of May 19, 2018, p. 7.

Web links

Commons : St. Sixtus and Sinicius (Hohenkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Hartwig Harms: Church history then and now. - The church “St. Sixtus and Sinicius ”has existed for 870 years. In: Friesische Heimat , 462nd supplement of the Jeverschen Wochenblatt of March 7, 2013, p. 3, accessed on January 5, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kroesen, Steensma: Churches in East Friesland. 2011, pp. 150, 205.
  2. ^ The preachers of the Duchy of Oldenburg since the Reformation. Retrieved March 21, 2014 .
  3. ^ Hermann Haiduck, The Architecture of the Medieval Churches in the East Frisian Coast, Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich, 1986, p. 23
  4. ↑ Kroesen, Steensma: Churches in East Friesland. 2011, p. 263.
  5. ↑ Kroesen, Steensma: Churches in East Friesland. 2011, p. 228.
  6. ↑ See the restoration report by Fritz Schild: Denkmal-Orgeln. Documentation of the restoration by Organ Builders Guide 1974–1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 , pp. 505-534.
  7. ^ Organ in Hohenkirchen , accessed on January 26, 2014.
  8. ^ Organ of the Church of St. Sixtus and Sinicius on Organ index , accessed on September 29, 2018.
  9. ^ Bells of the Church of St. Sixtus and Sinicius in Hohenkirchen, accessed on September 7, 2018.
  10. ↑ Monument project fallen memorials: Wangerland-Hohenkirchen, Friesland district, Lower Saxony , accessed on January 25, 2014

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 59.4 ″  E