Brunstein Chapel

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Brunstein Chapel

The Brunstein Chapel is a listed , former church building in the district town of Soest ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is the last of around 20 medieval citizen chapels that once existed in Soest.

history

State from 1902

The building was first mentioned in a document in 1225. It is a foundation of the Brunstein family, called Schonkind, who also had the right of patronage and presentation . The rights were transferred to the van der Molen family in 1291 and to Official Bernt von Salzkotten in 1399 . On October 11, 1408, the chapel became the property of the Soest City Council, and was confirmed in 1420 by Archbishop Dietrich von Moers . The re-Catholicization of Soest began in 1548. At the request of the citizens, the council made the chapel available in 1552 as a place of worship for the distribution of the Lord's Supper in both forms . The church was therefore called heretic church . The New Supper was first celebrated in 1552 by the Protestant pastor Walter von Stolwyk. Due to a lack of space, the congregation moved to the evangelical Paulikirche . Services were only held irregularly in the chapel, and so began the slow decline of the chapel. After the collapse of the choir vault in 1662, the church building was renovated by the Reformed community with the help of a donation from the council amounting to 200 thalers and then used. Whitsun 1664 the inauguration took place by Erasmus Bernhard Avermann from Hamm. In 1873, the Reformed community moved its seat to the Alte Thomäkirche ("Leaning Tower"), and so the building was no longer used. The city sold it to the Petri community for the symbolic price of one mark . After the restoration in 1932, devotions and meetings took place in the house again. After the destruction of the Old Thomäkirche, the Reformed community was able to use the chapel from 1949 to 1958. From 1968 to 1998 it served as a place of worship for the Evangelical Baptist Congregation. Since October 1, 1998, the building has been the studio and exhibition space of the painter Fritz Risken from Ampen. The chapel was selected in 2001 on the initiative of the historical city centers in North Rhine-Westphalia as Monument of the Month for January .

architecture

The construction from the beginning of the 15th century, is a small high hall with retracted choir in the 5 / 8 -Schluss, on an almost square shape. The Gothic chapel is 12 m long, 8.8 m wide and 10.7 m high. There are buttresses at the outer corners of the hall . The choir is broken up by ogival tracery windows, and a large ogival window is installed above the south entrance. The lead roof was replaced by a slate roof in 1570 . In 1622 the vault of the choir collapsed; it was not renewed, but a flat ceiling was put in place. The small southern entrance hall with a pointed arched barrel vault is probably still Gothic. As part of the renovation in 1822, wooden galleries were built in. Under the direction of the architect Jänisch, the curved choir roof was raised in 1895 and brought to the height of the nave . The bell was loaned to the chapel in Wickede an der Ruhr in 1899 for a period of 99 years ; she came back earlier (?). It no longer hangs in the roof turret , but above the choir. The tracery in the choir was used in 1907. The roof turret was crowned with an onion in 1932 . In April 2010, the conversion and renovation of the Brunstein Chapel began. The choir was so dilapidated that it was forbidden to enter because of the risk of collapse. The studio could be used again since August 30, 2010.

Furnishing

  • The desk-like pulpit with carvings and tendrils is inscribed DNI 1553. It is therefore the oldest pulpit in Soest. The corner carvings were added later.
  • The door is from the end of the 17th century.
  • The baroque wooden altar table has a profiled connection between the heavy baluster feet . It measures 127 × 77 × 91 cm and dates from around 1620.
  • The bell with a diameter of 36 cm was cast in the Soest bell foundry Stule in 1727. It bears the inscription: THE REFORMED COMMUNITY BINNEN SOIST HAVE CURRED ME IN 1727 .
  • About 20 old grave slabs are protected by a wooden floor.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969.
  • Hubertus Schwartz : Soest in his monuments. Third volume: Gothic churches (=  Soest scientific contributions, volume 16). 2nd unchanged edition. Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1979, pp. 80–84.

Web links

Commons : Brunsteinkapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First name of the risk
  2. ^ Georg Dehio , Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann , Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 540 .
  3. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brunsteinkapelle.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 9.2 ″  E