Willehadi Church (Eystrup)
The Willehadi Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Eystrup .
description
The tower is Romanesque and has a simple tent roof . The nave was given its current classicist shape in 1750–1752. The galleries and the pulpit altar also date from this period. Inside the church there is a baptismal font from 1599 and two altar candlesticks from 1628. On the outside wall of the church there are numerous tombstones and slabs from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
history
It is not known when a parish came into being in Eystrup. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1179 , in the Pope Alexander III. confirms possession of churches and goods to the Archdiocese of Bremen - u. a. the church at Eystrup ( "ecclesiam parochialem Estorp" ). In 1961 the church was named after Saint Willehad .
One story reports that nobles from the neighboring manor and the nearby “Siebenmeyerhof” donated stones for the construction of a church and collected them close to their own farm. One night the people from the manor stole the stones from the Siebenmeyerhof and brought them to their place. Where the church is today.
In the cemetery surrounding the church is the former mausoleum of the von Kronenfeldt aristocratic family from 1890, which the parish bought in 1950 and has been used as a cemetery chapel since 2010 .
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger: Churches in the Hoyaer Land , Verlag Hermann Lüers, Jever 1988
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Also room for people of different faiths ( memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 31.8 " N , 9 ° 12 ′ 26.7" E