Marsum Church
One of the oldest Romanesque churches in the north, dedicated to the holy Mauritius. The saddle roof tower has a floor facing the vessel. On the semi-circular apse are so-called nuns and monks (semicircular roof tiles, hollow and convex).
About this building
Inside is a flat 18th century beamed ceiling and a choir fence from a few centuries earlier. The construction of the church would have started in the second half of the 12th century. (Since dendrochronological research has dated the hood to the beginning of the 14th century, the age of the church is under discussion).
Today the church is used for rehearsals of the ensemble Super Librum, known for their historically accurate performances of medieval music. In the choir there is a reconstruction of a medieval organ, the so-called Theophilius organ. The organ was built by Winold van der Putten and employees in 1999 on the basis of two ancient texts from the 10th and 11th centuries: 'De Fistulis Organicis' (about organ pipes), written by an anonymous author from Bern and the tract 'Schedula Diversarum Artium' ( overview of the different arts) of the Benedictine monk Theophilius. An image in the Rutland Psalter from about 1260 largely determined the appearance of the instrument.
