Apostle Church (Münster)
The Apostle Church in Münster is the main Protestant church in the city. It is located in the northern part of the historic old town about halfway between St. Lamberti and the promenade belt .
Building history
The Apostle Church is originally a two-nave, now three-aisled Gothic hall church with a long, narrower choir . On the east end of the long nave roof a ridge rises up with the bell.
The church was built in the second half of the 13th century as a monastery church of the Franciscan Minorites . It is the oldest building of its type in Westphalia . The original patronage was Catherine of Alexandria , possibly because of the religious college of the province, which was located in the monastery.
In the centuries that followed, there were various redesigns and expansions, which, however, did not affect the overall impression. The two west bays and the north aisle were added with great sensitivity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery was closed and the church was profaned before it was re-inaugurated in 1822, after a restoration by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , as a Protestant church of the Prussian military community. It has belonged to the Protestant civil parish since 1840.
The building was named Apostelkirche in 1922 after the construction of a second Protestant church in Münster. In the following years, most of the 19th century fixtures were removed.
The church suffered severe damage during World War II . After a provisional stage, the reconstruction was not completed until 1960. The rededication of the church took place on October 30, 1949 in the presence of Bishop Wilhelm Stählin . Reconstruction was supported by parishes on the Isle of Wight .
Furnishing
Since then, despite the uncovering of parts of the original vault paintings, the church has had an almost unadorned character. The effect of the clearly structured Gothic hall is underlined by the furnishings.
The windows of the nave are equipped with simple, hand-drawn Goethe glass so that the church interior appears flooded with light. Stained glass windows are only in the choir and in the rose window above the side entrance (south side); the designs come from Paul Weigmann (1990/92) and Hubert Spierling (1999/2000).
The most important pieces of equipment today are a crucifix , a Genesis disk, ambo , baptismal font and Easter candlestick by Heinrich Gerhard Bücker from 1976 to 1979.
organ
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The organ was built in 1968 by the Paul Ott company (Göttingen). It is located in the organ gallery on the south wall of the central nave, has 38 registers ( slider drawers ) and is equipped with mechanical action .
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P
- Zimbelstern
Peal
In the roof turret of the church there is a three-part (cymbal) bell.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | Ø (cm) | Weight (kg) | Nominal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S. Catharina | 1675 | Peter Hemony, Amsterdam | 63 | 140 | e 2 |
| 2 | S. Franciscus | 55 | 100 | g 2 | ||
| 3 | S. Antonius | 43 | 47 | h 2 |
literature
- Joseph Bernhard Nordhoff: The Protestant, formerly Minorite Church in Münster. - In: Organ für Christian Kunst , Volume 18, Cologne 1868, pp. 198–202
- Johann-Friedrich Moes: The Apostle Church in Münster ( Westfälische Kunststätten , Issue 77). Munster 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memory of the destroyed Apostle Church. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. October 30, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, October 30, 2019, RMS03.
- ↑ More information on the organ of the Apostle Church. In: apostelkirchengemeinde-muenster.de. Retrieved November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Münster: Kerkklokken Lutherse Apostelkerk on YouTube , accessed on October 15, 2019.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 40 ″ E