Christ Church (Ibbenbüren)
The Christ Church Ibbenbüren is a Protestant church in the city center of Ibbenbüren . It was built in the late Gothic style from 1523 to 1533 . The Christ Church is one of the largest Protestant communities in the Tecklenburger Land ( Steinfurt district ).
history
The Christ Church is located at the union of the tarpaulin with the Kürtelbecke above the lower market in Ibbenbüren. Old long-distance trade routes also converge here. The geographical location in the Ibbenbüren valley required the construction of this church. The Ibbenbüren local history researcher Anton Rosen suspected that the church was also built on a pagan place of worship. During excavation work in 1950, boulders were found in the area of the church, which could point to a large stone grave such as the sloop stones near Wersen or a cult site .
The oldest documented document on the existence of a church in Ibbenbüren comes from the year 1348. It says that in 799 Pope Leo III. a church was personally consecrated; At the time of the Saxon Wars, he sought refuge from his enemies with Charlemagne. Other documents from the same period do not confirm this claim. There are also no documents before the end of the 12th century that suggest the existence of a church in Ibbenbüren. The document from 1348 is more likely to be evidence of a legend.
The foundations of a wall that is said to have protected the church are said to have been visible in 1837. A documentary map of these ramparts and ditches disappeared from the parish archives during the turmoil of World War II .
Until the Reformation the church was dedicated to Saint Mauritius . Since the alleged foundation in 799 is actually too early for a Mauritian patron for Westphalia , there have been numerous attempts to explain it up to a change of patronage in the past. It has been suggested that maybe St. Victor was the patron saint of the church before. However, this is actually not common and there is no written evidence.
Before the Reformation
From the 12th to the 14th century the places Riesenbeck , Brochterbeck and Ledde were parish off from Ibbenbüren (independent parishes).
In 1521 the previous church was torn down and replaced by a new late Gothic hall church from 1523 to 1534 . The sundial attached to the south side of the church still indicates that construction began in 1523.
There were no efforts at the Reformation until 1541. The Upper County of Lingen , to which Ibbenbüren also belonged, fell back to the Count of Tecklenburg after the Count's death, from whom it had been separated a few decades earlier. Until the end of the Schmalkaldic War , however, these Reformation efforts were unsuccessful. The Habsburgs received the Upper County of Lingen from the Tecklenburgern defeated in the Schmalkaldic War.
In the years that followed, the Upper County of Lingen became a plaything between the Orange and the Spanish . From 1559 to 1580 Ibbenbüren belonged to the Spanish Habsburgs, who reintroduced the Catholic faith. In 1580 the Orange conquered the county and the Reformed Confession was reintroduced. With the arrival of the Orange people, the parsonage was also destroyed by flames. The affiliation that was transferred from the Diocese of Osnabrück to the Diocese of Deventer in 1559 was dissolved again in 1580 with the introduction of the Reformation.
The Spaniards and Orange people took turns in ownership over and over again in the following years: 1597 to 1605 Orange people, 1605 to 1633 Spaniards, 1633 to 1672 Orange people. The Prince Diocese of Münster conquered the Upper County for two years, only to lose it to the Orange in 1674. In 1677 the church was finally taken over by the evangelical community. The Roman Catholic believers then held their services in the Brumley Valley on Birgter Berg .
After the Reformation
During the great storm of 1703 on December 8th, 1703 the upper half of the church tower was blown over. Not only the Ibbenbüren church was badly affected by the storm, but also the surrounding area, such as the church in Brochterbeck. The tower, which was previously 160 feet tall, was provisionally restored halfway up.
The cemetery in the Kerkhof was closed in 1838 after a new cemetery was established. A victory column was erected here as a war memorial in 1873 on the occasion of the victory over France. This memorial was demolished in 2011 due to a controversial decision of the Protestant parish among the citizens of Ibbenbüren. Today, as a churchyard, this square is one of Ibbenbueren's “good rooms”. Planted with trees, it is somewhat reminiscent of southern European marketplaces.
In 1846 a severe fire destroyed the church and the surrounding houses. Even the pointer of the sundial couldn't withstand the heat and broke off. Thereupon a new hand was attached in honor of the King of Prussia, which showed the Berlin solar time and not the Ibbenbüren. The church was rebuilt and got its present appearance with the characteristic tower that was built on the ancient remainder of the escape tower.
The church was renovated in 2013 and 2014 and an entrance area in modern architecture was added on the north side.
organ
The organ was built in 1972 by the Gustav Steinmann Orgelbau workshop . The instrument has 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal .
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literature
- Ursula Schumacher-Haardt: The Protestant Christ Church in Ibbenbüren. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund (ed.): Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 66, 1992.
- Anton Rosen : Church and parish in the Tecklenburger Land . Ibbenbueren 1954
- Friedrich E. Hunsche: Ibbenbüren from rural parish to modern city 1974
Web links
- Presentation of the Christ Church on Kirchenportal.de
- Presentation on Offene Kirche.de
- On the website of the city of Ibbenbüren
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ibbenbüren, Christ Church. Retrieved October 8, 2014 .
- ^ Paul Merschmeier: Church history of Ibbenbüren :: data on church history . Ibbenbüren City Museum. Retrieved on November 2, 2012: “1188 - 1190: In Count Heinrich von Dale's register of properties, a parish Ibbenbüren is mentioned for the first time in connection with the Hartwich court in Püsselbüren. The addition parish can also have been added through copies made later. "
- ^ Paul Merschmeier: Church history of Ibbenbüren :: data on church history . Ibbenbüren City Museum. Retrieved on November 2, 2012: “1348 August 10: Count Nikolaus von Tecklenburg confirms in a document specially for the cathedral chapter of Münster the return of the Wedeme (rectory) to the Ibbenbüren church after he was informed (!) That it had already has belonged to the church since Charlemagne's time through his own dedication and after consecration by Pope Leo. Also the patrocinium of St. Mauritius comes from this time. The document is likely to be evidence of a certain legend formation, after exact evidence of the age of the Ibbenbüren church was no longer available. In a parallel document dated August of the same year for the public in the county of Tecklenburg these claims are expressly not repeated. But it is interesting that it is the first ever testimony for the Mauritian patronage. "
- ↑ Werner Suer: Refuge in times of persecution. Ibbenbüren Catholics celebrated masses in Brumley Church . In: Our circle. Yearbook for the Steinfurt district , vol. 24 (2011), pp. 159–162, here p. 159.
- ^ Anton Rosen : Ibbenbüren. Then and now ; Ibbenbüren under Prussian rule p. 166 . Ibbenbürener Vereindruckerei, Ibbenbüren 1952, p. 535 .
- ↑ Ibbenbüren, Germany (Lower Saxony) - Christ Church. Organ database NL. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 30.7 " N , 7 ° 42 ′ 52" E