Evangelical Church Neuengeseke

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St. John the Baptist, Neuengeseke
Evangelical Church, east elevation, photo taken around 1902
Interior view 1897
Floor plan from around 1902

The Evangelical Church in Neuengeseke , a village in Bad Sassendorf in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), is a listed building of medieval origin.

History and architecture

A previous building was excavated in 1973. It was a hall building with a recessed rectangular choir .

The church, formerly consecrated to Saint John the Baptist , is a Romanesque church made of broken stone . The one-bay choir closes on five sides. The west tower looks massive, it was built in the first half of the 12th century. The nave and choir were built around 1220. The apse above the arched frieze was subsequently raised to the eaves of the choir bay. The lower row of windows in the nave collapsed in 1876 when a gallery was built . The simple building is covered with cross gable roofs over the aisle yokes . The side walls are divided by high arched windows. The southern of the originally three portals was walled up. The Gewändesäulen the nave two portals were up to radicals of the capitals eliminated. The five-story, square tower is crowned with a pyramid roof. In the central nave, domed cross vaults rest between pointed arched belt and divider arches . The ridges are grouped into rings at the apex. Single-hip vaults were drawn into the narrow aisles. The tower hall, which is arched towards the central nave, and the choir square are arched ridge. The end of the choir is designed as a semicircular cone . Flat niches are set into the east walls of the aisles. The sacristy door with Gothic framework is marked 1685.

Furnishing

  • The carved and colored reredos for the main and former side altars with columns, paintings and instructive inscriptions are both labeled 1661.
  • The antependium from 1693 was restored in 1976.
  • The chalice-shaped baptismal font is marked 1691.
  • The pulpit , rich in figures , was made in 1712 by the carpenter Martin Müller from Soest.
  • A wooden crucifix probably dates from the first half of the 15th century.
  • Three bells, tones es′ – f′ – g ′. The large and small bells were cast by Johann Michael Stocky (Stocké) in Niederleuken near Saarburg in 1767 . The bell in the middle comes from the Rincker in Sinn bell foundry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 81.

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 58.6 ″  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 18 ″  E