Wolthuser Church

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Wolthuser Church (ev.-ref.)

The Protestant Reformed Wolthuser Church was built in 1784 to replace a previous building that was dated to the second half of the 15th century.

history

The Wolthuser Church has at least one previous building, which was built in the second half of the 15th century in the center of the Dorfwarft . It is still unclear whether there was a wooden church in the village before. Over the centuries the medieval church became more and more dilapidated. From 1775, therefore, by order of the city, no more services could take place in the old church. The congregation then decided to demolish the church. As a replacement, today's building was built in the same place in 1784. The day the foundation stone was laid was recorded in a memorial stone that is now located above the main entrance. The church building combines the church interior and the bell tower under one roof. Instead of a bell tower, the church has a roof turret with a cock on the ridge. Until the expansion in 1912, the Wolthuser church was a rectangular one-room church. Until then, it had a length of 20.5 meters and a width of 8.6 meters. Thanks to the new wing attached to the south, the building now has a T-shaped floor plan.

Furnishing

The interior is closed off by a flat vaulted wooden ceiling. Numerous items of equipment were taken over from the previous building in the current building. These include the hexagonal pulpit and sound cover, which are dated to 1648 and, according to the inscription, were made by Jacob Eiben. The communion table was donated to the parish in 1611 by Katrine Klassen. The bell was cast in 1620 by Francois Simon from Lorraine . The pews in the old church were initially preserved until they were replaced by newer pews after the Second World War .

As early as the 17th century, the Wolthuser Church had an organ , the size and builder of which are no longer known. From 1790 to 1793, Johann Friedrich Wenthin built a new instrument with eight registers , half of which are still original. The Alfred Führer company carried out a restoration in 1985, in the course of which three lost registers and the keyboard were reconstructed in the old style.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Reformiert.de: Evangelical Reformed Church Wolthusen , viewed on June 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 , p. 82 .
  3. ↑ organ on NOMINE eV , seen April 22, 2011.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '12.3 "  N , 7 ° 14' 0.6"  E