Weenermoorer Church

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Weenermoorer Church from the south
Neo-Romanesque west tower from 1867

The Weenermoor Church is located in Weenermoor , a district of the city of Weener in East Frisia , and belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church . The classicistic hall church was built in 1824, the neo-Romanesque west tower was added in 1867.

history

In pre-Reformation time the place was under the provost Hatzum in the Diocese of Münster . In the course of the Reformation , the congregation joined the Reformed faith in the 16th century . As a result of the progressive cultivation of the moor , Weenermoor moved further and further west and took the church with it. The first church building is believed to be on Geiseweg, but is not archaeologically secured. The parish register of Münster names the church in 1496. A bell dating from 1411 indicates the existence of the church. The second church was built in 1660, which the cemetery on Middelweg still bears witness to today.

After the road to the church had become too long for the residents and the building had deteriorated so badly that the west side collapsed in 1815, they built a new church in 1824 according to plans by the building inspector Reinhold. This third building was financed by renting out the seats. The right to an inherited seat was not waived until 1954. The west tower was not added until 1867.

Since 1927 the parishes of Weener and St. Georgiwold have shared a parish. In 2016 the parish was connected to Möhlenwarf and St. Georgiwold.

architecture

The roughly east- facing hall church made of red bricks with a west tower and straight east end is built in the classicism style. Four arched windows on the long sides and two in the east wall are divided by pilaster strips . The ship is covered by a gable roof with a crooked hip.

The western bell tower, which also serves as an entrance, is built in the neo-Romanesque style on a square floor plan. The windowless tower hall is accessed through an arched portal. Above it, a rectangular plaque bears a building inscription: "Built in 1867 by the community / AW Driemeier pastor / GP Schulte / PI Süthoff / IL Meinders / HI Franconia church board / WW Dreesen teacher / IH Vespermann master builder in Weener". The upper part of the tower shaft has corner pilaster strips and a round arch frieze below the eaves. A round window is mounted in the middle in the west, which corresponds to two round blinds in the south and north. The arched sound holes for the bells are set in on the three free-standing sides. The slated pointed helmet is crowned by a tower knob with a simple cross.

Furnishing

View towards the organ gallery
pulpit

The interior is closed off by a segmented wooden barrel vault that rests on small consoles. The west gallery, which is supported by two square posts, serves as the installation site for the organ. The parapets on the side of the organ are decorated with diamonds. The simple, wooden, polygonal pulpit is placed in the middle on the east side. The pulpit fields have coffered panels that are structured by slender corner columns with Corinthian capitals . The hexagonal sound cover has a top made of openwork cross arches. In front of the pulpit, according to Reformed tradition, there is a communion table with baluster legs . The simple church stalls leave a central aisle free. The strong petrol contrasts with the rest of the church furnishings in various shades of gray. The upright rectangular cheeks of the stalls enclose a small traljen grille above.

The Vasa Sacra include a goblet from the 17th century, a jug and baptismal bowl from the 19th century, and two bread plates from the 20th century.

A wooden memorial plaque hangs on the north wall of the tower hall. It is decorated with rocailles and bears the names of the three fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 and the eleven surviving returnees between two laurel tendrils .

organ

Rohlfing organ from 1906

The organ of the organ building company Gebr. Rohlfing from Osnabrück is on the west gallery. The organ parapet has coffered panels of different sizes. The five-axis, flat prospectus has arched fields between pilaster strips. The pneumatic instrument from 1906 has nine sounding stops on two manuals and a pedal and has been completely preserved.

I Manual C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Salicional 8th'
flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Subbass (from I. Manual) 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, super octave coupling I / I

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Weenermoorer Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 42 (Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches, Vol. 6).
  2. ↑ a b c Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 161 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Weenermoor (PDF file; 49.2 kB), accessed on September 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p. 47.
  5. ^ A b Monika van Lengen: Rheiderland churches. Journey of discovery to places of worship from eight centuries in the west of East Frisia . H. Risius, Weener 2000, p. 34 .
  6. ^ Segebade: Reformed Churches on the Ems. 1999, p.

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 42.7 "  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 20.2"  E