Heeren-Werve Evangelical Church
The Protestant church is a listed church building at Heerener Straße 175 in Heeren-Werve , a district of Kamen in the Unna district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The parish of Heeren was first mentioned in a document in 1300. The late Gothic parish church was built at the beginning of the 14th century. From the original building are still the choir room and the two subsequent westward yokes received. Around 1511 the church was extended to the west by a yoke and a tower. In this design, it served the community, which had been Lutheran since around 1568 and reformed from around 1600 through the influence of the Bodelschwingh family , who exercised patronage , for almost 400 years. In 1898 the church was enlarged by adding a south aisle . In 1910 the north aisle with sacristy was added , the central nave was extended to the west and a new tower was built. The architects responsible for the two extensions, Gerhard August Fischer (1898) and Karl Siebold (1910), took up the late Gothic design language and harmoniously integrated the neo-Gothic extensions into the overall structure.
The old structure can be seen more clearly inside the church. The three central nave bays and the choir still have the old brick vaults. They have busted caps and cross ribs made of fluted bars with a keystone. The belt ribs in the ship show the same profile. The round keystones in the choir are decorated with the head of Christ and in the two following yokes with a leaf star and a leaf cross in bas-relief. Originally all the vaults rested on triangular consoles. When the side aisles were added, the vault was supported on two log arches with an intermediate column. In the adjoining yoke, the vault rests on head consoles.
Thorough renovations, especially those from 1955, brought about a change in the interior. The wooden altar made by Heeren-Werver carpenters and decorated with carvings by the church artist J. Goldkuhle from Essen had to give way to today's altar table. The three choir windows were re-glazed according to designs by Paul Thol . They show motifs from the Christmas, Easter and Pentecost stories in beautiful colors.
Until 1800 the church was the burial church of the noble families von Haus Heeren . The crypt was closed around 1800.
Bells
The church received a new bell in 1910. Using the bronze material from the old bells from 1793 and 1798, three bells in the pitches d`, f` and g` were purchased. In 1917, two of these bells had to be handed in during the First World War . In 1924 the presbytery decided to purchase a cast steel bell and the bronze bell was traded in. The three bells in the key of c sharp ', e' and f sharp 'were cast by the Bochum club .
literature
- Georg Dehio , Under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
- Karl-Heinz Stoltefuß: Architectural monuments in Heeren-Werve. (= Westfälische Kunststätten, issue 45). Münster 1987. ISSN 0930-3952 .
- Karl-Heinz Stoltefuß: Heeren-Werve - the story of a Hellweg parish. Came 2000. ISBN 3-00-005868-0 .
- Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Unna district. 1959. Münster.
Web links
- Parish website (accessed April 30, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 1.3 " N , 7 ° 42 ′ 34" E