Veenhuser Church
The Evangelical Reformed Veenhuser Church in Veenhusen , East Frisia , was built as a hall church around 1290 .
History and architecture
At the end of the 13th century people settled on the Veenhuser Sand Ridge, built the first houses and built a rectangular hall church with an adjoining cemetery. They reused the stones from the demolished church in Osterwinsum on the nearby Emsinsel. Due to the changing course of the river, this settlement together with the church was abandoned in 1283.
"Wilted Osterwinsum plach tho liggen, daer nu de Emse hen geit int Westen vant Voorwerck thom Dyke, and de kercke is transferred tho Veenhuysen, and worth wel genoemet tho Nienhove."
"Where Osterwinsum used to lie, the Ems now runs west of the Vorwerk ( Thedinga Monastery ) to the dike, and the church was carried over to Veenhusen, and is probably still called Nienhove."
In the Middle Ages Veenhusen was under the provost vacancy in the diocese of Münster . In the course of the Reformation , the parish turned to the Reformed Confession around 1540 . Crosses, pictures and the altar were removed and Dutch was introduced as the church language.
The bell tower was originally free in the northwest and gave way to a west tower in 1869, which was added to the nave and also serves as an entrance. The octagonal pointed helmet is unusually crowned by a fish as a wind vane. In the 19th century a second gallery was built in the west area. The wooden floor was renewed in 1960. During the renovation of the sagging floor in the 1990s, remnants of the medieval floor tiles were found, reminiscent of the tiles with which the central aisle was re-covered.
In the course of the peat colonization progressing to the east , the place moved with it, so that the old church is now located on the western edge of the village. Because of the long way to the church, the school initially served as a provisional church service room until a new community center was built in the village center in 1971, which was expanded in 1981. The temporary steel bell cage was replaced by a new bell tower in 1986. With the fundamental renovation in 1997, today's "Friedenskirche" was created. Today the parish has around 2750 parishioners (as of 2011).
Furnishing
In 1641, the carver Tönnies Mahler created the pulpit . It is his earliest work and is still without images.
organ
The organ , built by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs in 1801/02 and largely preserved , has eight stops on a manual and an attached pedal. The instrument is supplied with wind via three wedge bellows. In 1993 Bartelt Immer carried out a restoration together with Reinalt Johannes Klein and Uwe Knaak.
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literature
The Evangelical Reformed Church Congregation Veenhusen. (Church leader)
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. 48.
- Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 , p. 64-65 .
Web links
- Genealogy forum: Veenhusen
- Organ on NOMINE eV
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Evangelical Reformed Church Community Veenhusen.
- ^ Critical edition: Eggerik Beninga: Cronica der Fresen . Vol. 2. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1961 (Sources on the history of Ostfriesland, Vol. 4), p. 829.
- ↑ Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 42 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike; 6).
- ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 64.
- ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 64 f.
- ↑ Genealogy Forum: Veenhusen ( Memento from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Organ on NOMINE eV , seen September 26, 2010.
Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 26.6 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 17 ″ E
