Vellager Church

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South side of the Vellager Church
East side with ogival panels

The Evangelical Reformed Vellager Church is located in Vellage , a district of Weener , in the East Frisian Rheiderland . The dating of the brick church ranges from the 13th to the 15th century.

history

In the Middle Ages, Vellage was subordinate to the broadcasting area of ​​the local church in the Diocese of Osnabrück as a daughter church of Aschendorf . The small Vellager church on a mound may be traced back to a Romanesque hall church from the 13th century, after which the small arched windows and the (later walled) portal on the north side and the dentil frieze point. The building is the remainder of a monastery property, which was donated by the Johannitern , who maintained a Vorwerk in the neighboring holding . During the Gothic period, the church underwent extensive renovations. According to another opinion, the first stone church in the Gothic was completely replaced by a successor building.

In the course of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Reformed Confession. Over the centuries, the tower has sunk a little sideways; it was stabilized in the 20th century by a longitudinal anchor.

architecture

The hall church with a straight east end is covered by a gable roof. The rectangular floor plan is 14.6 meters × 7.8 meters with a height of only 3.4 meters.

On the north side there is a loopholes in the west and a hagioscope to the east . A sacrament niche and a niche for an earlier piscina have been preserved on the north and east sides . The west tower with a tent roof was added in the 14th or 15th century. The east side has two walled-in arched windows in the lower area and three staggered ogival panels in the gable field .

Furnishing

Wall paintings on the north side
inner space

In the middle of the 19th century, a wooden barrel vault was installed in place of the original flat beamed ceiling . The fresco paintings on the north wall date from the pre-Reformation period, fragments of which were exposed again in 1930 during renovation work. They show how Christ carries the cross. In addition, St. Veronica with the handkerchief , Mary, John, Simon Peter and a rider are depicted in faded colors .

There are consecration crosses on the two inner walls of the long sides . In the choir there are two gravestones from 1613 and 1704.

Between 1885 and 1888 the Rohlfing brothers built the organ behind a neo-Gothic prospect . The instrument has six registers on a manual and pedal and has largely been preserved. The Vasa Sacra includes a mug from 1782 on which the names of all 61 donors are engraved, as well as two pewter plates and a pewter jug ​​(1865).

See also

literature

  • Peter Karstkarel: All middeleeuwse kerken. Van Harlingen dead Wilhelmshaven . 2nd Edition. Uitgeverij Noordboek, Groningen 2008, ISBN 978-90-330-0558-9 , p. 917 .
  • Gottfried Kiesow : Architecture Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 163-166 .
  • Justin Kroesen, Regnerus Steensma: Churches in East Friesland and their medieval furnishings . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-159-1 .
  • Robert Noah: God's houses in East Frisia . Soltau-Kurier, Norden 1989, ISBN 3-922365-80-9 .
  • 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. 93.
  • Insa Segebade: Reformed churches on the Ems . Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1999, ISBN 3-00-004645-3 , p. 34-35 .
  • Jürgen Sternsdorff: The Emsdorf Vellage and the abbey estate hold. A chronicle . 3. Edition. Vertaal & Verlaat publishing house, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86840-004-5 .

Web links

Commons : Vellager Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiesow: 13th century; Local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : 13th to late 14th century; Karstkarel, p. 917, Segebade, p. 34, and Evangelical Reformed Congregation Vellage : 14th century; Noah, p. 150: around 1400; Kroesen / Steensma, pp. 22-23: 15th century
  2. ^ Menno Smid : Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (= East Friesland in the protection of the dike. Vol. 6). Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 44.
  3. ↑ a b Monika van Lengen: Weener - Church in Vellage , accessed on November 5, 2018 (PDF).
  4. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 34.
  5. ↑ Kroesen / Steensma: Churches in East Friesland and their medieval furnishings. 2011, pp. 22-23.
  6. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 163 .
  7. ↑ a b c Ortschronisten der Ostfriesische Landschaft: Vellage (PDF file; 52 kB), accessed on February 18, 2018.
  8. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 35.
  9. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 166 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 56.2 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 23.7"  E