Evangelical Church Lünern

North view (2016)

Side view

The Protestant parish church is a listed church building in Lünern , a district of Unna in the Unna district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The building is a non-uniform, three-bay hall construction with a 5/8 end . The Romanesque west tower was built in the 12th century, the two western bays in the 14th century. The choir and the southern sacristy were probably built in the second half of the 15th century. The outer walls are plastered, the window frames and the water hammer of the buttresses are made of green sandstone. The late Gothic tracery windows have one to three lanes. The biforic windows in the tower are adorned with set columns. Ribbed vaults were drawn into the interior . The choir is separated from the nave by a powerful triumphal arch. The three blind arcades in the south wall were probably intended for Levite chairs .

Furnishing

Flemish carved altar

• A Flemish carved altar with depictions of the life of Christ and the Passion dates from around 1525. The cracks and the gilding were renewed in 1948. After the completion of conservation and restoration work in 2017, the retable was selected in March 2018 by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia as Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe .
• The carved wooden pulpit was made around 1680 in the Johann Sasse workshop . A forged ornamental container from a pulpit clock with the designation 1727 is attached to the edge.
• The beaker-shaped font from the twelfth century is simple.
• A sacrament niche with head consoles dates from the 15th century.
• The west tower carries three bronze bells. One bell dates from 1472 and rings in the ". The middle bell rings in g 'and was created by Derik Sluters in 1601. In 1989 Petit & Edelbrock replaced the old iron bell from 1926. The new bronze bell rings in es'.

literature

• Wilfried Hansmann , Dorothea Kluge (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 313.
• Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 1086 f.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Lünern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helena Dick: Monument of the month: Carved retable of the Ev. Church of Unna-Lünern. LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , accessed on June 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 313.

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 40 ″  E