Evangelical Church Volmarstein

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West tower of the village church of Volmarstein

The village church of Volmarstein is a listed church building in the center of Volmarstein , a district of Wetter (Ruhr) in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Protestant parish church is located below the castle ruins of Volmarstein and is listed as architectural monument no. 64 in the monument list of Wetter .

History and architecture

The church was originally dedicated to St. Bartholomew . 1564 Volmarsteiner joined congregation of the Reformation of Martin Luther in and has been Protestant.

The building made of Ruhr sandstone is a simple, rectangular hall with a wooden ceiling. A vaulted , Gothic sacristy is attached to the south side of the essentially Romanesque building . The central nave dates from the 12th century. The west tower is marked 1752. The last renovation was made in 1996.

Furnishing

Interior with altar, organ, baptismal font and pulpit

An altarpiece from 1678 depicts the Last Judgment . The font was created in 1786.

organ

The altar organ was built by Gerhard von Holy from 1732 to 1734 . In 1819 a pedal was added, and a second manual and an independent pedal by Carl Herbst were added in 1863–1864 . In the course of a renovation by Paul Ott , the instrument was expanded and received a new action , new wind chests and a new wind system . 70% of the historical pipe material has been preserved in a modified form, a reconstruction in line with monument requirements has not yet taken place. The organ has 24 registers with the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 3 ′
7th Octav 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI
9. Zimbel III
10. bassoon 16 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II substation C – g 3
12. Dumped 8th'
13. Flute 4 ′
14th Principal 2 ′
15th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
16. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Scharff IV
18th Dulcian 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub bass 16 ′
20th Principal 8th'
21st Hollow flute 4 ′
22nd Backset V
23. trombone 16 ′
24. Trumpet 8th'

Bells

The village church has a total of four bells. A three-part cast steel bell calls for prayer and worship. It is tuned to the Te Deum motif h ° -d'-e '.

There is also a bronze bell that shows the time every half hour.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lisa Thiel, Klaus Becker, Hartmut Czeh: Monuments in Wetter (Ruhr) tell stories - Issue 1. Heimatverein Wetter (ed.), Pro literatur Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86611-295-5 , p. 28 / 29
  2. ^ Georg Dehio , Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann , Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 4566 .
  3. ↑ Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-87023-245-0 , pp. 353 f .

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 2 ″  E