Christ Church (Plettenberg)

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Christ Church
Distinctive structure in one (of two) choir towers
Fresco Christ as Judge of the World , rediscovered in 1952.

The Protestant Christ Church is a listed church building in the center of Plettenberg . It was originally called Lambertus Church.

In the course of the Reformation, which the Counts of the Mark joined, however, it became the main Protestant church in 1555. It was not named Christ Church until the 1950s.

History and architecture

The previous church was a small hall building from the Ottonian period, which replaced an older church building (possibly from the Carolingian period). The current church was built around 1230 and originally consecrated to Saint Lambertus . It is a Westphalian hall church of the Grafschafter type. The three ships are covered with a Westphalian canopy. The mighty western single tower (built around 1200) is in front of the front of the nave . The two choir flank towers of the original three-icon choir stand in the corners between the arms of the transept and the Gothic choir . After a fire in 1725, four corner turrets on the west tower were dismantled.

The birth and crucifixion of Christ and three women at the grave are depicted in a tympanum above the southern portal . The forked cross appears here for the first time in Westphalia . The biblical story of the homecoming of the prodigal son is depicted with a tympanoma above the north portal from 1934.

A special discovery was made in the course of restoration work in 1952. A fresco in the form of an adoration image ( Deesis ) was discovered. Christ is depicted as the judge of the world (framed by an almond-shaped halo), who is depicted in a purple cloak of a Roman emperor. The other figures are Mary (to the right of Jesus) and John the Baptist.

organ

organ

The organ was built in 1977 by the Emil Hammer company and has 22  registers on two manuals and a pedal . The first manual is a coupling manual . The playing and register actions are mechanical. The slider tray instrument has the following disposition :

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 08th'
2. Coupling flute 08th'
3. octave 04 ′
4th Flute 04 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Forest flute 02 ′
7th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 08th'
9. Spanish dulciana 08th'
Tremulant
III Breastwork (swellable) C – g 3
10. Dumped 08th'
11. Reed flute 04 ′
12. Principal 02 ′
13. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th octave 01'
16. Cymbel III 02 ⁄ 3 ′
17th Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
18th Sub-bass 16 ′
19th Wooden principal 08th'
20th Gemshorn 04 ′
21st Rauschbass III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd bassoon 16 ′

Bells

The bell of the church today consists of three cast steel bells from the Bochumer Verein , cast in 1920. It consists of the Gloria bell in c '(1,900 kg), the day bell in es' (1,100 kg) and the peace bell in ges' (800 kg).

Window in the choir

window

The choir windows in the east were redesigned in 1923 and were made by Otto Linnemann . In the lower third of the three windows, their names are shown in memory of the citizens of Plettenberg who died in the First World War.

Baptismal font

The font is made of green sandstone. It was created by Wolfgang Fentsch in 1952/53. There is no evidence for an older font.

Weathercock

In 2013 the weathercock of the church, which was scaffolded at the time, was stolen twice. It reappeared a few days after the first theft, was stolen again in July 2013 and buried near the church. It was rediscovered during earthworks in February 2020.

literature

  • Reclam's Art Guide Germany III, Monuments, Rhineland and Westphalia. 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 .
  • Evangelical Church Community Plettenberg (Hrsg.), The Christ Church in Plettenberg then and now. without date.

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Plettenberg (ed.), The Christ Church in Plettenberg then and now , p. 10.
  2. ^ Reclam's Art Guide Germany III, Monuments, Rhineland and Westphalia. 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , p. 612.
  3. ↑ Plettenberg's website ( memento from September 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Plettenberg (ed.), The Christ Church in Plettenberg then and now , p. 7.
  5. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Plettenberg (ed.), The Christ Church in Plettenberg then and now , p. 19.
  6. ↑ Information on the organ
  7. ↑ The bells of the Christ Church. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bodo Krön: The Christ Church then and now . Ed .: Evangelical Church Community Plettenberg. October 2004, p. 9 (PDF; 4,980 kB). Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  9. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Plettenberg (ed.), The Christ Church in Plettenberg then and now , p. 22.
  10. ↑ a b Ernst, Dagobert: PLETTENBERG: STOLEN WEATHER VALVE DISCOVERED AFTER YEARS. Westfalenpost, February 20, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '49.9 "  N , 7 ° 52' 29.5"  E