Reconciliation Church (Hinrichsfehn)
The Reconciliation Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hinrichsfehn district of Wiesmoor . It was built between 1963 and 1965. It belongs to the classical modern church building .
The building and its equipment
The outer shape of the house represents a tight crystalline body. The design goes back to the Oldenburg architect Rainer Herrmann. The aim of the architect was to give the visitor to the house a stop. The forecourt of the building, which is protected from three sides, helps. On the other hand, the architect lets the visitor take a three-fold turn when inspecting the church square and church building. The visitor follows a kind of snail walk. He is led inwards, to concentration, to inner concentration.
The windows of the Church of Reconciliation go back to the artist Max Herrmann (1908–1999), a master student of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann . They come from two different creative periods of the Oldenburg artist, who turned to abstract modernity after the war. The glass concrete windows of the north and south facades create a light, bright church space. The individual segments of the two facades were made in the Oidtmann glass painting from Bossois and Dall glass according to the instructions and designs of Max Herrmann in Linnich and installed in 1964. In 1999, shortly before his death, the artist designed the “Himmelswiese” as his last major work. It includes four stained glass windows for the west facade. As an artistic advisor, the artist brought in the Oldenburg artist Etta Unland alongside his partner, the ceramist Helga Brandhorst. The two artists accompanied the production of the windows in Peters' glass painting after Max Herrmann's death. The windows were installed as part of the major repairs to the church in 2002.
“The strong colors of the Himmelswiese prove to be very beneficial in the interior of the Reconciliation Church. The work in the immediate vicinity of the glass concrete walls does not lose any of its effect, especially since it is the only source of this wonderful lightness. "
The glass painting A and O also testifies to this lightness . Your design also goes back to Max Herrmann. Made in Peters stained glass, this window from the rectory represents the artistic connection to the church.
Furthermore, the sacrament tableware designed by Helga Brandhorst and Max Herrmann was created in 1999 .
The organ of the Church of Reconciliation was built in 1965 in the Alfred Führer organ workshop in Wilhelmshaven. In 2002 Martin ter Haseborg added a sub-bass 16 ′ ( pedal ).
The bell cage houses four bells made in 1964 by the Rincker foundry . They show the extremely rare combination of the striking notes a ′ - b ′ - c ″ - d ″.
(Construction) history
With the settlement of working-class families from the Wiesmoor peat power plant since 1946 and the families who had lost their homes in the Second World War , Hinrichsfehn, the youngest district of Wiesmoor, had grown steadily. The Wiesmoor evangelical parish sought a second pastoral position for pastoral care in this part of the community and built a parsonage in Hinrichsfehn in 1959/1960. On October 1st, 1959, a parish deacon office was set up. The pastoral office was set up on Jan. 1, 1963.
After the inauguration of St. Johanneskirche in Oldenburg-Kreyenbrück in April 1960, Rainer Herrmann as its architect and Max Herrmann as co-designer of the Oldenburg church were commissioned to design the church in Hinrichsfehn. On April 25, 1965, this was inaugurated by State Superintendent Siefken as a branch church of the Wiesmoor parish . The architecture of the Oldenburg Johanneskirche as well as the Hinrichsfehner Kirche are shaped by the intention to create a structural shell, a TENT OF GOD:
“The lines are simple and clear, with sparse furnishings, as befits a TENT. And the space had to be changeable, because the people who enliven it also change: Generations come and go. "
The bell tower , southeast of the nave, kept concise and functional by Rainer Herrmann , was 13 meters high. On April 15, 2001, the new bell cage (9 m high) designed by Horst Wetzel to the northeast of the nave was handed over to its destination. The bell tower, which was designed by Rainer Herrmann and placed southeast of the nave, was demolished in 2001 due to irreparable damage.
The church building was designed by Rainer Herrmann to be expanded into a community center. This was done in a first step by adding a community room in 1975. The south wing of the house, designed by the architect Gregor Angelis in 2006–2008, completed the community center with its 'large room', the youth room and its functional rooms. The long foyer gives the visitor a view of the church building from the south. The construction of the belfry and the south wing, which was inaugurated in 2008, was made possible by the willingness to donate and the high voluntary commitment of the bricklayers, tilers and painters from the community.
The artistic connection between the 'sacred' north wing and the south wing of the church center are the LICHTSprünge . For five of the three-meter-high windows in the foyer, the artist Etta Unland created photographs of cracks in the glass bodies of the concrete glass facades of the church building designed by Max Herrmann. Of the five windows designed, a first was made in Peters stained glass and installed in 2009.
"As evidence of a tension between different materials that react differently to weathering processes, these leaps refer back to transience, to nature as a permanent process of creation."
After returning from her two-year stay in the United States, the artist revised her designs in 2016. Funded by donors from the community, two of them were intended for implementation and installed in May and November 2017. Produced in the digital printing process by Peters stained glass, the windows refer to the digital age not only through their manufacturing technology. The designs had already been created by Etta Unland using a combination of manual and digital techniques. The LICHTSprünge II and III with the incorporated characters '0' and 'I' raise the theme of the art project, the tension between human design and the forces in nature, to the height of the digital age.
The name
On October 1, 1987, the districts of Hinrichsfehn, Mullberg , Rammsfehn , Wiesmoor-Süd and parts of Wiesederfehn were spun off from the Wiesmoor parish and have since formed the independent parish of Hinrichsfehn. While the Wiesmoor mother church received the name Friedenskirche , the Hinrichsfehner church was named the Reconciliation Church at the same time . This naming is in a still young tradition. In Germany this name was given at the turn of the century before last. The majority of the Reconciliation Churches were built after the Second World War. After the Second World War, the “Church Father of the 20th Century”, Karl Barth , re-developed the heart of the Christian message as reconciliation in Christ in his Church Dogmatics . In it he starts from the apostle Paul's call in the 2nd letter to the Corinthians:
"God was in Christ and reconciled the world to himself and did not attribute their sins to them and established the word of reconciliation among us."
With regard to the Hinrichsfehn Reconciliation Church, the naming represents an echo of the retrofitting debate. It was triggered by the NATO double decision and shaped the foreign and domestic policy debates in the Federal Republic of the 1980s. From 1963 to 1989, NATO nuclear anti-aircraft missiles of the ' Nike Hercules ' type were stationed in the immediate vicinity of the church building (1.5 kilometers away) .
The Church of Reconciliation in Current Events
On January 13, 1989, a serious plane accident occurred over Hinrichsfehn. In the collision of several low -level military aircraft over the elementary school in the district, the residents only narrowly escaped a catastrophe. After the initial shock, the Church of Reconciliation formed a protest against such a threat to the civilian population. Pastor Buchhagen said in the service on the following Sunday what many felt and thought in the village. In the following weeks, the bells of the Church of Reconciliation rang for half an hour every day from 9:52 a.m., the time of the accident. On the Monday after the accident, a citizens' meeting was held in the Church of Reconciliation under the leadership of Pastor Buchhagen. Around 400 citizens came to the overcrowded church. The constituent meeting of the “Wiesmoor citizens' initiative against low-level flights” took place on January 19th in the parish hall of the parish. The resolution she formulated against low-level flights was signed by 10,866 citizens. On January 22nd, the Buchhagen couple raised their thoughts and feelings about the crash in a round-table on the program “Low flight - What has changed since Wiesmoor” on the third TV program.
Pastor at the Church of Reconciliation
- Ulrich Dobschall (1957)
- Richard Langholf (1959–1961)
After the consecration of the church:
- Werner Otte (1966)
- Walter Jetschmann (1966–1967)
- Harald Mundt (1967–1974)
- Walter Scheller (1974–1976)
- Henning Buchhagen (1978–1994)
- Rainer Münch (since 1995)
literature
- Gregor Angelis, Walter Arno, Max Herrmann, Horst Neidhardt; 25 years of St.Johannes in Oldenburg-Kreyenbrück , [1985].
- Gitte Blücher: Reconciliation Churches and Reconciliation Churches in Germany . In: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Leipzig Reconciliation Church, Leipzig 2013, pp. 4–8.
- Michael Müller (Ed.): Open in spirit. The artist Max Herrmann and his work. Exhibition catalog. State and University Library, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88722-727-2 .
- Rainer Münch: Young congregation - young pastors. The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Hinrichsfehn . In: Hinrichsfehn. 50 years 1946–1996. Pictures Memories Reports , 1996, pp. 93-104.
- Rainer Münch (Ed.): Do you recognize yourself? 100 pictures from 50 years. Memories and reports , Hinrichsfehn 2018.
- [Heinz-Werner Theesfeld,] Churches in the city and old district of Aurich, Aurich 1981.
- Wiesmoor citizens' initiative against low-level flights (ed.); Friday the thirteenth. Information on the plane crashes near Wiesmoor on January 13, 1989 , Wiesmoor 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maj-Britt Wilkening, Max Herrmann: Biography. In: Michael Müller (Ed.): In the spirit open. The artist Max Herrmann and his work , p. 13.
- ↑ Daja Pisetzki in her article on 'Himmelswiese' in the Bremen exhibition catalog. In: Michael Müller (Ed.): In the spirit open. The artist Max Herrmann and his work , p. 55.
- ^ Gregor Angelis, 25 years Johanneskirche in Osternburg, in: Gregor Angelis u. a .; 25 years of St.Johannes in Oldenburg-Kreyenbrück, p. 4.
- ↑ Etta Unland at the beginning of the art project 2007, http://www.versoehnungskirche-hinrichsfehn.de/aktuell.html , accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Gitte Blücher, Reconciliation Churches and Reconciliation Churches in Germany, p. 5.
- ↑ See Karl Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik , IV, 1-3: The Doctrine of Reconciliation , 1956–1959. On 2 Cor 5:19: IV, 1, pp. 78-83.
- ↑ www.atomwaffena-z.info , accessed on May 5, 2015.
- ↑ www.spiegel.de , accessed on May 5, 2015.
- ↑ The events are documented in: Wiesmoorer Citizens' Initiative against Low-Flying Flights; Friday the thirteenth , Wiesmoor 1990.
- ↑ Cf. Heinz-Werner Theesfeld: Churches in Stadt and Altkreis Aurich , p. 195.
- ↑ See also the following: Rainer Münch (ed.): Do you recognize yourself? , Hinrichsfehn 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 40.8 " N , 7 ° 45 ′ 2.5" E