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The church was built in the early Baroque style and is influenced by the Dutch. It is a red brick building with light stone structures. Inside it contains a sermon room with a centralistic tendency, which is unique in early Protestant church architecture.Source and more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Kirche_(Emden)
March 26, 2023
"The New Church in Emden (East Frisia) is an Evangelical Reformed preaching church. It was built in the years 1643-1648 as the first post-Reformation church building in northern Germany in the moderate Baroque style."de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Kirche_(Emden)
May 28, 2024
The city of Emden had an estimated 20,000 inhabitants in the middle of the 17th century, including between 5,000 and 6,000 Dutch refugees. The city's churches were no longer sufficient for this. In 1642, the city's magistrate and church council decided to build a third church (after the Great Church and the church of the former Franciscan monastery). This was to be built in Faldern. The town had been a district of Emden since 1570. There had been no church here until then.[
July 20, 2024
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