The Ley Line Group
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Ootmarsum
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Ootmarsum
Ootmarsum has something spiritual.
The little city is very near the Tankenberg.
See the special page on the Tankenberg
Before starting the good work
we had a nice lunchbreak at Dintelwerk
Denekamperstraat 49, Beuningen.
Although the Dintelwerk is recently
built,
the whole setup feels very spiritual.
We had drinks and krentewegge,
the local special bread with reasins.
Then on to Ootmarsum.
The expectation was that we would really find
something special in Ootmarsum!
And we did!!
We are ready to enter the little city of
Ootmarsum.
The first impressions are being felt.
It feels as if there is something with
Time.
Ootmarsum is lovely.
Narrow streets with ancient houses.
These narrow streets are part of the old
city wall.
This felt as if we were entering a
circle.
A circle of Time.
The church is situated in the center of
the city.
Here we were entering in second circle
of Time,
but the church was not the center of the
second circle.
When we studied the streetplan,
it became clear that the streets also
had a circle of cobblestones
in the pavement encompassing the whole
inner city.
Studying the ancient church it was
directly noticed, that the front part of
the church
had the familiar architecture
of the Early Middle Aged fortress
church,
like we also found in Nederhorst and
Anloo.
This part of the church is built in
690AD,
so it is indeed of the same years as
Anloo, Vries, Nederhorst.
Like it is with the other churches of
this model,
there has been a tower in front where
now the double doors are.
The wooden tower on top only replaces
the original tower.
This was really a church to take over
the properties of the old religion.
The believers of the old religion in
person became property of the new
Christian religion and had to pay the
new owners
a large part of their harvest.
The people payed this obliged tribute
from 690AD until about 1430AD.
So during 740 years!!
The two saint statues of Simon and Judas
on the front of the church are from a later
date,
because the tower was standing there
originally.
The inside of the Liudger front part of
the building.
The square pillars and the narrow bows
upon them
could be original from the 690AD period,
may be slightly later.
The roof part is of a much later date.
This front building is more elaborate
then the other
Liudger buildings of around 690AD
because this church had to be the top
church in the hierarchy.
The seat of the master bishop of all
Liudger churches.
Compare
with the situation in Anloo.
Time
Everywhere in the inner city of Ootmarsum
are clocks, sundials, time symbols.
We counted 18 sundials between the outer circle and
the inner circle.
Time feeling is very strong among the people of
Ootmarsum.
Sundial on the church Southside.
Meridian indication on the square
A meridian is the time indication of the Sunclock.
Meridian line and sundial on the house.
Clocks upon the churchtower.
There is even a whole house dedicated
to the measuring of time in many ways!
Pavement of the outer circle.
We followed this pavement and it is
indeed an outer circle.
Two circles are to be found like two
clocks.
Or like the two hands of a clock.
Outer circle going slow, through
centuries or years.
Inner circle going much faster.
A lemniscaat is North of the church.
Children who entered the lemniscaat on
the square,
became wild and utterly restless.
The old energy of the Earth is still
there.
We interviewed the chairman of the committee
for old habits.
He told us about the yearly procession
of the eight Poaskerls.
This procession is performed by known
inhabitants,
from generation to generation.
The way these Poaskerls are following is
very ancient.
They follow the old circular road, even
if a house has been
built on the ancient path. In that case
they go through the house.
Eight is also the lemniscaat, symbool of
eternity.
Every body follows the eight Poaskerls
hand in hand
as a long ribbon of people.
The procession of the Poaskerls could
have roots in the
ancient purpose of this area of the
inner city.
The conclusion is that Ootmarsum could have been a
Suntemple
or a Time keeping place.
In ancient times the city of Ootmarsum was built a
little bit more to the North.
The area of inner city we know now was not filled with
houses.
So there was place enough for a religious area.
The Liudger part of the church is built in such a way,
that the proces of time keeping was broken by the
position
of the church building.
See also
our visit to the Suntemple on the Heumenhill
This Suntemple on the Heumenhill was also a time
keeping place,
based upon the yearly cycle of harvest and seasons.
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