Evangelical Church Hünxe
The Protestant parish church of Hünxe , built in its current form from the 13th century, has the form of a three-aisled pillar basilica , which is rather unusually elaborate for village churches , it contains artistically and historically remarkable pieces of equipment.
As the "Dorfkirche Hünxe " in the Wesel district , it belongs to one of two parishes of the Hünxe parish and with this to the Evangelical Church District of Dinslaken .
Building history
From the medieval patronage of St. Suitbert , a high age of the church, going back to the early Middle Ages, is deduced, which was built on a slight elevation north of today's Dorstener Straße. Oldest articles obtained stuck in the west tower of the mid-13th century the newly built church , from the inside of the tower still arched windows testify. In the first half of the 14th century it got a new, three-aisled nave with six bays with a polygonal 5/8 choir. On the outside, the insignificant gradation of the roof areas can be seen why the upper storey only has windows of low height. After a collapse, the four western yokes were rebuilt with bricks in the late Gothic period . Its six pillars were replaced by sturdy round pillars . The four trachyte columns in the east have capitals with oak leaves, but have been redesigned. The more than one meter thick cladding of the basement of the tower belongs to the late Gothic construction period, while the upper floors were not clad in tuff until 1897 . The Antonius Chapel from the first half of the 16th century opens onto the north aisle.
At the end of the 16th century the church was reformed . The baroque period and the restoration after the damage in the Second World War (tower and north aisle) brought further installations, extensions and conversions as well as restorations.
Hüchtenbruch epitaph
In addition to two medieval altar tables and a baluster-shaped baptismal font from 1766, the most important piece of equipment is the late Baroque Hüchtenbruch epitaph . It was created in 1717, one year after the death of the client Albrecht Georg, the last male offspring of the von Hüchtenbruch family, who sat in the nearby Gartrop Castle and had their hereditary burial in the Hünxer Church, under the Antonius Chapel.
The monumental, 4.35 m high complex is the only documented work by the sculptor Johann Wilhelm Gröninger from Münster . In the base field, a Latin inscription names the baron, his wives Gertrud Sophie von Diepenbroich († 1692) and Anna Luise von Quadt († 1695) and their possessions. Surrounded by ancestral coats of arms, the three buried here are portrayed as busts placed on a sarcophagus on the main floor . The crown above the main cornice shows their family coat of arms. The epitaph is one of the few examples of such elaborately designed and so vividly shaped late baroque tomb art on the Lower Rhine.
literature
- Willi Dittgen : The Hüchtenbrucks and the Gröninger , In: Heimatkalender Kreis Dinslaken 24, 1967, pp. 64–70.
- Roland Günter : The monuments of the Rhineland, vol. 14: Dinslaken district , Düsseldorf 1968, pp. 48–53.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 2.4 ″ E