St. Aegidii (Munster)
St. Aegidii , usually called Aegidiikirche , is a Roman Catholic church in the old town of Münster . Originally Capuchin Church , she took over after the demolition of the old parish church Aegidii their function and Giles - patronage . The monastery church, renovated by Johann Conrad Schlaun between 1724 and 1728, survived the bombing of Münster's city center in World War II relatively undamaged.
history
The Capuchins, coming from Flanders to Northern Germany, settled in Münster in 1611. On the property where St. Aegidii Church stands today, they built a small previous building, which was dedicated to Saints Mary and Anna . In the years 1725–29 the current building was built according to plans by Johann Conrad Schlaun. The new church also received Mary and St. Francis .
In 1811 the Capuchin monastery was closed and the buildings and the church were used for military purposes. The entire (baroque) furnishings were auctioned off. When the parish of St. Aegidii got the church from the treasury as a replacement for its collapsed church, it was devoid of any facility. Two confessionals could be taken over from Alt-St.-Aegidii, and a still quite good used organ was obtained from the Kinderhaus (today part of Münster). The pulpit, the only original piece of equipment in the Schlaun church, is part of it again because the bidder donated this interesting piece to the community. The interior was whitewashed. The monastery buildings were laid down. In 1858–1860, Edward von Steinle and Dominik Mosler gave the church a uniform decoration and painting in the Nazarene style . Hardly damaged in the Second World War, most of the ceiling paintings were then painted over, but were exposed or added to for the parish anniversary in 1983.
In 2000 the Aegidiigemeinde merged with St. Ludgeri, and in 2007 it was incorporated into the inner city parish of St. Lamberti Münster. St. Aegidii has been a branch church since then . Mass has been celebrated in the church in an extraordinary form since 1998 (currently twice a week). For several years it has also served as a place for the services of the Portuguese native-speaking congregation.
Building description
The church is a four-bay hall , groin-vaulted with a recessed rectangular choir , which consists of a single vaulted yoke. Belt straps divide the individual yokes. The building is made of red brick and has arched windows. The facade is the only part structured and made of sandstone. Behind the choir are the Ölberg and Marienkapelle, above the bell of the - apart from the roof turret - the church without a tower according to the rules of the order. The annex buildings on the north side of the choir are preserved parts of the monastery building that was once located at this point.
Furnishing
The equipment includes the typical neo-Gothic high altar, a choir stalls on both sides, two side altars, each consisting of a simple aedicula with painting, depicting St. Aegidius on the left and St. Maria on the right. The pulpit - carved by lay brother Stephan based on designs by Johann Conrad Schlaun - is made of wood, it shows the handing over of the rules of the order to St. Francis under a carved, branched oak tree that surrounds the pulpit. The sound cover is worked out as a cloth held by angels. The pews belong to the refurbishment around 1850, but do not have any distinctly historicist style features. The wall and ceiling painting, etc. a. by Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast and Dominik Mosler based on designs by Edward von Steinle , thematizes the Eucharist and its Old Testament models , such as the sacrifice of Abraham. The Renaissance font from 1557 is taken from the old parish church. The small St. Joseph's bell (1690) in the roof turret also comes from the old parish church. A small statue of St. Aegidius of French origin completes the equipment. In the Marienkapelle there is still a Pietà , in the Ölbergkapelle the eponymous group of figures ; both from the 19th century. The Stations of the Cross are also located in the Ölberg Chapel - not in the church . On the south inside of the nave of the church there is a depiction of the death of St. Joseph .
The celebration altar made of white marble from 1983 shows on its front the returning Christ on the globe.
organ
The organ on the west gallery was built in 1969 by the organ builder Emanuel Kemper & Sohn (Lübeck), reusing parts of the previous organ, which was built in 1890 by Friedrich Fleiter (Münster). The slider chest instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The game actions and stop actions are mechanical. The console has three manuals: the first manual is a coupling manual.
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- Pairing : II / P, III / P
Bells
In the tower of the Aegidii church there was a three-part bell with classical decorations from 1834 until the Second World War. No bell has survived from this bell. In 1961 a new three-part bell was hung.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | 1961 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock (Gescher) | 840 | 354 | b 1 + 3 | |
| 2 | 650 | 150 | d 2 + 3 | |||
| 3 | 544 | 98 | f 2 + 3 |
various
The church building is only accessible before, during and after the service times and is otherwise closed. The church also opens irregularly on Saturday afternoons in summer.
literature
- Church leaders Schnell and Steiner: St Aegidii Münster 1991.
- 800 years of St. Aegidii Münster 1983.
- Karl Hengst : Westfälisches Klosterbuch, Volume 2, pp. 64–68.
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum landscape Hessen Kassel
- ↑ A wedding for 7,000 Catholics. Münstersche Zeitung of December 2, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2014.
- ^ Adjutorium eV - St. Aegidii Church. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
- ↑ The Kemper organ of the St. Aegidii parish church in Münster. ( Memento from July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Münstersches Orgelmagazin orgelmagazin.de. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Bell concert. (PDF; 90.25 kB) cuba-cultur, May 9, 1998, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 34.2 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 26.4" E