Steenfeld Church

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Steenfeld Church

The Lutheran Steenfeld Church in Steenfelde , East Frisia , municipality of Westoverledingen , was built as a hall church in the 13th or 14th century .

history

The late Romanesque church, built on a circular, flat elevation as a rectangular hall church made of brick, is consecrated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas . It is surrounded by a three-meter-high earth wall overgrown with trees. The bell tower, which was located north of the church in the form of the free-standing "parallel wall type", also dates from the time the church was built. Since the systematic settlement of the place took place in the 12th and 13th centuries from Völlen , Steenfelde was subordinate to the Diocese of Osnabrück in the Middle Ages . After the collapse of the eastern part of the church in 1429, the reconstruction was financed with an indulgence given by Pope Martin V on December 1st. J. announced. The east side received an extension of the choir with a smooth finish. After the Reformation , the congregation switched to the Reformed Confession, but was forced to adopt the Lutheran confession from 1601 by order of Countess Katharina Wasa , the Swedish king's daughter and wife of Edzard II . In 1681, a bricklayer is said to have removed two smaller altars from the pre-Reformation period and discovered relics in a closed vessel, the contents of which an enclosed document identified as the bones of St. Francis . Nothing is known about its whereabouts.

Five buttresses support the outside walls of the church. The old arched portals and some of the original small windows on the long sides are bricked up today. In contrast , the toothed frieze has been preserved under the rain eaves. Today's arched windows go back to an enlargement in 1860. In the 20th century, the nave was extended to the west and a porch was added .

Furnishing

Hillebrand organ behind historical prospectus (1860)

The church interior is closed off by a flat, wooden mirrored ceiling. The chalice-shaped baptismal font comes from the 15th, the simple pulpit from the 17th and the red-painted box stalls from the 18th century. The organ was built between 1858 and 1860 by Gerd Sieben Janssen with nine registers on one manual. In 1913 the organ building company P. Furtwängler & Hammer rebuilt it in the old case. The Hillebrand brothers created today's organ with twelve stops on two manuals and a pedal behind the historic prospectus in 1984–86 . The altarpiece is designed in a neo-Gothic style.

See also

literature

  • 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. 109.
  • Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 179 .
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 180 .

Web links

Commons : Steenfelder Kirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy Forum: Steenfelde ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Michael Heinze: Steenfelde , viewed September 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesische Landschaft : Steenfelde (PDF file; 49.2 kB), viewed May 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ Kiesow: Architecture Guide Ostfriesland . 2010, p. 180.

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 15.3 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 22.4"  E