St. John Baptist (Schwaney)

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Parish Church of St. John Baptist
Central nave of the church

The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is a listed church building in Schwaney , a district of the Altenbeken community in the Paderborn district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

A pastor was first recorded in 1313. The previous church fell victim to a large village fire in 1895.

The large neo-Gothic basilica made of sandstone blocks with a choir in the 5/8 end was built in sandstone from 1896 to 1898 under the direction of Lambert von Fisenne . It was inaugurated on October 26, 1898. The tower stands in the west, the walls are divided by tracery windows. The side windows show the eight Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount . Views of the village and references to the founder of the window can be found in two windows. A ribbed vault with ring-shaped keystones was drawn into the elongated, clear interior . The interior is 40 m long and 20 m wide. The vault height in the central nave is 14 m. The vault is of a light, calm color scheme; color accents are set by red, blue and green patterns.

Auxiliary Bishop Augustinus Gockel consecrated the parish church on October 26, 1898. The relics of St. Martyr's Restitutus and St. Eutrophia were locked in the high altar. The third Sunday in October was set as the consecration day.

The church was renovated outside in the early 1990s and inside in 1999.

Furnishing

  • The colored windows were installed between 1910 and 1916.
  • Outside the choir windows there is a war tribute.
  • The Way of the Cross and the pews are from the time the church was built. Sennebauer farmers brought the oak wood for the pews as a valuable gift in 1897.
  • The high altar, carved from wood, is covered in many parts with gold leaf, it dates from the time the church was built. In the altar are a gilded tabernacle and 4 saints, Peter and Paul , St. Liborius as diocesan patron and St. Johannes Baptist as the patron saint of the Schwaneyer Church.
  • The side altars were built in 1898, the cross altar shows a crucifixion group, the Maria altar is framed by Elisabeth of Thuringia and Antonius of Padua .
  • The organ gallery with the large organ, which was built in the 1970s by the Sauer company and later adapted

literature

Web links

Commons : St. John Baptist (Schwaney)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 13.

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 49.3 "  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 2"  E