Andreaskerk
This church is a 13th-century Romanesque-Gothic church with a straight-ended chancel and a roof turret.
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The present church is the remnant of an original late Romanesque cruciform church. The simple yet valuable furnishings form a harmonious whole. The pulpit (clad with Baroque panels featuring chequered arches on claw-shaped supports), the choir screen and the churchwarden’s bench date from the mid-seventeenth century.
Beneath the pulpit is a small offering box anchored to the floor. The organ, with its neo-Gothic case – which is unusual for a Protestant church – was installed by Van Oeckelen in 1874.
Once, in 1398, a murder was committed in this church. The Schieringers…
The present church is the remnant of an original late Romanesque cruciform church. The simple yet valuable furnishings form a harmonious whole. The pulpit (clad with Baroque panels featuring chequered arches on claw-shaped supports), the choir screen and the churchwarden’s bench date from the mid-seventeenth century.
Beneath the pulpit is a small offering box anchored to the floor. The organ, with its neo-Gothic case – which is unusual for a Protestant church – was installed by Van Oeckelen in 1874.
Once, in 1398, a murder was committed in this church. The Schieringers and the Vetkopers were locked in a struggle for power. Schieringer Eppo van Nittersum chased the Vetkoper Hayo Wibbens from the church into a nearby vicarage farm. Eppo then set fire to the farmhouse in order to smoke Hayo out. According to the old chronicles, this succeeded: “Thus Hayo Wibena ran back into the church, where he was seized before the high altar and beaten to death.”
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H.F.N. Helmantel - Abt. Emopad 2, Westeremden 0596-55 14 15
The Vasse-Helmantel family - Abt. Emopad 4, Westeremden 0596-85 55 86