Franciscan monastery Hamm

The Franciscan monastery in Hamm was founded in 1455 by Count Gerhard von der Mark zu Hamm . For this purpose, the ruler provided the Franciscan Observant with several secular buildings that were then used as monastery buildings, the castle chapel of the city ​​castle of Hamm , which was consecrated to St. Agnes . Half a century later, the chapel was expanded into a monastery church and consecrated in 1515. The other monastery buildings were built later.

After secularization at the beginning of the 19th century, St. Agnes received the status of a parish church. A slightly modified successor to the church that was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War is still in the same place . The rest of the monastery grounds are used as a secondary school, the Catholic Marienschule is on Franziskanerstraße. Many street names, including Franziskanerstraße and Brüderstraße , recall this important piece of Hammer history . Various neighboring buildings and businesses also bear or carried the monastery in their name ( monastery drubbel , monastery mill , monastery brewery, etc.).

Information board in front of St. Agnes Church on the history of the Franciscan monastery and its surroundings

Detail from the information board in front of St. Agnes Church; in the left half of the map the monastery district, on the right the district of the lordly castle

Window in the porch of St. Agnes Church, showing St. Francis .

History of the Franciscan Monastery

Founding of a monastery

Count Gerhard von der Mark zu Hamm founded the Franciscan monastery in Hamm at the encouragement of his adviser, the Franciscan Johann von Dahlen , who represented the stricter orientation of his order (so-called observants ). Gerhard's court chaplain and confessor, the Franciscan Petrus von Rheinberg , also strengthened his decision to found a monastery for the Franciscans. It is said that Gerhard wanted to repent with his foundation for some of the atrocities that he had committed in an argument with his older brother, Adolf IV . Adolf was Count of Kleve from 1394 , Count von der Mark from 1398 and Duke of Kleve from 1417 . The later Emperor Sigismund had given him the title of duke at the Council of Constance . Gerhard, who was actually studying in Paris , had led a wild life there and wasted most of his fortune. Therefore, he decided to establish rule in the county of Mark for himself. He rose up against his brother and led a violent argument with him on the backs of the people, which lasted from 1411 to 1437. A settlement was then made, according to which Adolf gave his brother the mark initially for six years and then on July 27, 1437 for life. Count Gerhard chose Hamm as his residence and was the last sovereign to reside in this city.

The young Franciscan convent received the chapel dedicated to St. Agnes in the sovereign castle in the northeast of the city. The exact date of construction of this chapel is not known; In 1328 (alternative information: 1338) it was first mentioned in a document and in 1358 it was expressly differentiated from the Hammer Pauluskirche . Sometimes the year 1296 is also mentioned as the year of construction; The builder is said to have been Count Eberhard I. von der Mark . According to its shape and size, it probably belonged to the Marienhof Cistercian monastery , founded in 1270 , which was relocated to the Count's main courtyard, House Kentrop , in 1290 and existed there until 1808.

The property was in the immediate vicinity of the Lippe . It was initially possible to dispense with the construction of new buildings. On August 10, 1453, Count Gerhard bought the house and farm located west of the St. Agnes chapel, the former castle chapel and now the monastery chapel from Herr von Recke . On March 5, 1455, he also bought the Volmarstein 's court from the von Bochem family, and on February 26, 1455, he exchanged goods via a courtyard with the parish church, the then Georgs and today's Paulus Church.

When it was founded, the monastery therefore consisted of irregularly grouped buildings that were neither individually nor in their summary adapted to their new purpose. Sometimes it was still the old Burgmannshöfe . The founding was not preceded by any noteworthy construction activity, so the observants had to furnish the new buildings as best they could for their purposes.

On March 5, 1455, the observant monastery of St. Agnes was founded. With the consent of Pope Nicholas V , who on January 22, 1453, at the request of Count Gerhard, allowed the establishment of the first monastery of the Franciscan Observants on German soil, the first religious of Rhenish and Belgian descent from the Cologne Franciscan Province ( Colonia ) move into the complex and establish their small convent there. The foundation was carried out by the dean of the St. Patroclus Church in Soest according to the papal deed. He transferred the St. Agnes Chapel to the Order. The first guardian (superior) of the monastery was Cornelius (also: Cornel von Gouda ) and was sent from the observant monastery Gouda, the first of its kind in the Cologne order province. With him came the Fathers Johann von Dinslaken, Lorenz von Aachen, Hermann von Jülich, Peter von Mechelen and the lay brother Johannes von Dahlen. After the consecration, the complex was inspected by the count, his son Everhard, the mayor, the city ​​council of Hamm , the pastor of the parish church of St. Georg (today's Pauluskirche), the Guardian and the other five members of the convent.

The reform movement's Hammer Convention was the first in Westphalia . Besides Münster, it was the second new foundation in this order province. It was the base for the further founding of the Cologne Franciscan Province in Lemgo (around 1460), Korbach (1487) and Bielefeld (1496). Count Gerhard gave the monastery strict conditions along the way, which were intended to ensure a lasting existence for it and to avoid undesirable developments. According to the monastery statutes, apart from the Guardian, no more than twelve priests with the necessary lay brothers should be permanently admitted. A Carthusian prior from Cologne had to monitor the strict observance of all rules of the order, expel irregularly acting brothers and, instead of them, appoint new ones who were obliged to reform the order. Shortly before his death on September 12, 1461, Count Gerhard softened the strict conditions somewhat, which nevertheless contributed to the preservation of the monastery as a whole. The Guardian and his deputy, the vicar of the order, now had the right to freely determine the number of members of the monastery. That is why up to fifty brothers lived in the monastery several times, as evidenced for the year 1714. In the first time they came mainly from the Netherlands and the Rhineland , later also from the Münsterland and other Westphalian regions. The monastery had some significance in the Cologne order province of Colonia ; Provincial chapters often took place here. In 1627 it went to the Saxon Franciscan Province of St. Cross ( Saxonia ), which after the dissolution of many of its monasteries as a result of the Reformation, moved to the west and took over some of the convents of Colonia . The monastery in Hamm served the Saxonia as the main novitiate for the newly entering brothers and as a "recess monastery", to which the provincial members who wanted to lead a peaceful life could withdraw , especially the old confreres.

development

Stones from a former Burgmannshof of the Stadtburg Hamm , exhibited under glass on the forecourt of the former monastery and today's parish church of St. Agnes.

The rulers of Kleve-Mark supported the monastery even after the death of its founder. Extensive donations also flowed from the citizenry. In this way it was possible to gradually build own monastery structures. It all started with the monastery church, construction of which began in 1507. Her choir was consecrated on August 10, 1512, the whole church then in May / June 1515. This was followed by a chapel in honor of St. Mary in Bethlehem , also known as the Bethlehem Chapel for short. Most of it is dated to 1521 (inauguration on July 3, 1521), and some to 1551.

The Reformation of Martin Luther was spread in Hamm by priest Heinrich Wullen , who was employed at the St. Antonius Chapel in January 1550 . In 1562, the preacher Carolus Gallus (1530–1616), ousted from the Netherlands , broke completely with the old church customs and introduced the Heidelberg Catechism . As a result, the first Protestant community of the Calvinist denomination in the county of Mark emerged in Hamm . By the middle of the 16th century, the Reformed creed spread throughout the county. After that, there were essentially no Catholics in the Brandenburg capital of Hamm , and five families remained Catholic.

Only the Fathers of the Franciscan Monastery remained true to the old faith. The St. Agnes Church was thus one of the few churches in the county that remained Catholic. In 1593 the Franciscans were driven out of the city by the Protestants , but were soon able to return. Eventually the community grew again, partly due to the influx of workers from the Catholic Münsterland . In 1631 the archbishop's official in Werl allowed the Franciscans to also dispose of the sacraments outside of Hamm. For the year 1638 it is documented that the Hammer Franciscans exercised the pastoral care of the Catholics in the entire, largely Protestant county of Mark. In several towns and villages in the northern county of Mark, including Kamen and Unna , the Hammer Fathers provided Catholic pastoral care until the beginning of the 19th century. In total there were 28 places where the Franciscans were at least occasionally active in pastoral care, the furthest were seven leagues away from Hamm. The Franciscans also maintained a poorhouse for six female and six male poor at their monastery .

In 1649, the reformed sovereign Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg placed the monastery in Hamm, which had been plundered by the Hessians during the Thirty Years' War , under his protection.

In 1653 Jadocus Ludenius erected the two monastery buildings, which were originally separate from the building of the connecting quadrums 1708/09, and at the same time carried out extensive renovation and renovation work on the Agneskirche. The brick-built monastery buildings confirm the documented information regarding the time of their construction through their design and their sparsely decorative architectural parts. In the east wing, in which the Catholic Marienlyzeum was housed from the 1930s, there were flat ceilings with modest stucco decorations.

In 1666 the monastery church of St. Agnes was recognized as a parish church. In 1699 Johann Wilhelm Hertmanni donated a Catholic poor house on Brüderstraße. A river map by the geometer Johann Bucker from 1707, the "Delineatio des Lippestromes from Hamm to Wesel", shows the earliest view of the Franciscan settlement. It is a single-nave building with a high, baroque forged roof turret .

At a so far unexplained point in time before the construction of the monastery square or monastery square, which was carried out in 1708 or 1709, the ground in the area between Brüderstraße, Franziskanerstraße and Nordenwall as well as in large parts of the old town of Hamm was raised significantly (around 1.30 meters), probably off Reasons for flood protection. From then on the Catholics went down stairs into the church. This elevation meant that the monastery square was laid out on a much higher level than the former Agnes chapel. The monastery square connected the previously separate monastery buildings and was also the place for the burial of the members of the order. While in other monasteries of the same order a crypt chapel can be found in whose wall the grave cells are located, here the same arrangement was observed in the plinths of the three wings of the monastery courtyard. With the exception of the north wing, in the middle of which there was an exit door with a flight of stairs, there were double rows on the wings with twelve grave cells each. When the church square was redesigned in 1932, the church forecourt was lowered again and a staircase was added as part of the renovation of the weathered west facade. During the elevation, the old burial site was also significantly higher, which is why numerous human bones were discovered that testify to the cemetery that was originally located at this position. They were collected and reburied and found a new resting place in the Ostenfriedhof in Hamm . Only the cemetery on the church forecourt was available to the Catholics. In 1800, however, the Prussians banned burials in city centers. The cemetery was subsequently relocated to Ostenallee. During the work of 1932, sandstone foundations were also found, but not documented.

Until 2008, the question of why the Franciscans had attached the east wing of the monastery in which the novitiate was located to the St. Agnes Church at an angle and not at a 90-degree angle remained unresolved. This question was answered in the course of work on the redesign of the Agnes church square in mid-October 2008. The house, which stood between 1708 (alternative information 1709) and 1921, was built on one of the foundation walls of an old Burgmannenhof. Those subordinates of the city founder, Count Adolf I von der Mark , who were supposed to defend the city ​​castle of Hamm in his absence, lived there. The southern foundation wall of the novitiate, made of bricks, is already covered with earth again. However, the decision was made to keep part of the wall of the old Burgmannenhof visible behind glass. When the church forecourt of St. Agnes was redesigned, more, somewhat younger stones were found.

Some of the priests were active as writers. In 1723 a "Catholisches Gesang-Buch for the Graffschaft Marck, in which many, completely new and old chants with their melodyes on all Son and Feyr days were recorded", published by "a priest of the sanct-Francisci order". A Catholic elementary school also existed by the first half of the 18th century at the latest . The library and the school run by the brothers enjoyed a good reputation. In the course of the construction of the school building, the triumphal arch between the choir and nave of the church could have been demolished in 1746 . In the building history of P. Diodor Henniges it is said that in 1746 a sweat arch that separated the choir from the nave was removed. This information is most likely a mix-up; Nordhoff speaks of a divider arch , which he has not made recognizable in his floor plan. In both cases the triumphal arch that separates the choir from the nave is meant with a probability bordering on certainty. The construction work from 1653 probably caused the triumphal arch to collapse. Between 1746 and 1756 all buildings that did not fit the monastery were abandoned. The monastery received its final design.

Statistics from 1798 show that the number of Catholics in Hamm was not as small as was often assumed. In 1798, of the 3,065 inhabitants of Hamm, 935 (30.5%) were Catholic. Lutheran beliefs were 937 (30.6%). 1130 inhabitants (36.9%) followed the Reformed creed and 63 inhabitants (2.1%) were of Jewish faith. The Franciscans managed from 1672 to 1804, the parish North Herringen that to 1775 the chapel of House North Herringen used for measuring celebration. From 1755 they also took over the mass at Haus Gröneberg . A mission station was maintained in Geithe. In Drechen the Franciscan Fathers held mass twice a year for the minority who remained Catholic, and they also looked after the small Catholic community in Kamen.

Repeal

The Franciscan monastery with its sixteen fathers and ten brothers initially survived the first turmoil of secularization at the beginning of the 19th century largely unscathed. However, as early as 1803, no new novices were allowed to be accepted. In 1807 a “secular reporter” pleaded with the government for the abolition of the monastery: “The unfit monastery subjects should be sent to the central monastery in Wipperfürth or released into the world with a small pension”, while the pastoral care tasks could be continued by “appropriately trained clergymen” . However, the residents of Hamm campaigned for the continued existence of the monastery, as it provided the city with income from outside church visitors on Sundays and the buildings were not needed by the city; seven clergymen are needed to replace the Franciscans.

According to Henniges, in a government letter dated January 21, 1813, the monastery was already described as abolished, but a week later as a "still unsolved spiritual corporation". On July 16, 1824, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia , however, the abolition of the Franciscan monastery in Hamm on September 15, 1824. On July 29, Ludwig von Vincke , who was then President of Westphalia, was informed of this. Von Vincke, in turn, commissioned David Wiethaus as district administrator in the Hamm district to carry out the royal resolution on September 10th . Fathers and lay brothers were allowed to stay in the monastery until January 1, 1825. Most of the monastery library was transferred to the state library in Münster; the church was soon bought back by the Catholic Church for a large sum and converted into a parish church.

A Franciscan, the former concionator (preacher) Pius Ortmeyer , was appointed pastor of St. Agnes in 1825 and released from his religious vows. After his death in 1827 he was buried in front of the great cross in the Ostenfriedhof in Hamm . Another priest was appointed first chaplain, and a lay brother was appointed sexton.

The monastery buildings became the property of the state. The Catholic parish took over the eastern half of the monastery rooms as a school room and apartment for pastors, chaplains and teachers. From 1826 the larger western half was partly used by the Prussian state as a prison and apartment for officials. It was not until 1930 that the building was bought by the Catholic parish and from 1931 on it was used for a girls' school, then called Marienlyzeum, today's Marien-Realschule. A few years later, during World War II , they were completely destroyed by the air raids on November 26th and December 5th, 1944.

Guardians of the monastery

The monastery superior in the Franciscan order is the Guardian . In the case of the mendicant orders - unlike the abbots of the monastic orders - the leadership positions are only granted for a limited period by the chapter of the order . A Guardian serves three or six years but can be re-elected. This results in a frequent change in the guardian's office. There is only an incomplete list of guardians for the Franciscan monastery in Hamm.

The first guardian was Cornelius von Gouda, who was already in Hamm when the monastery was founded.

The list looks like this:  

• Cornelius of Gouda
• Johannes von Dinslaken
• Michael of Lyra
• Reiner von Egmond
• Francis of Gouda
• Hermann von Jülich
• Bernardin Appeldorn
• Johannes Deventer
• Peter of Arnhem
• Stephan von Zevenaar
• Wilhelm Unne
• Anton von Attendorn
•  
• 1720–1723: Jeremias Kerkhove
• 1726–1727: Jeremias Kerkhove
• 1738–1741: Matthias Pauck († 1758)
• 1757–1761: Ludwig Abs († 1779)
• ...
• 1798–1801: Theophil Happe († 1817)

Former monastery church and today's parish church of St. Agnes

Former monastery church and today's parish church of St. Agnes

Back of St. Agnes Church

Main entrance to St. Agnes Church.

St. Agnes Church

St. Agnes Church

Agnes statue above the portal of St. Agnes Church.

Left entrance portal of St. Agnes Church

Right entrance portal of St. Agnes Church.

The Catholic parish church of St. Agnes is located in the Mitte district and has been a listed building since 1985.

History and structure

The only Catholic church building in the old town of Hammer - St. Agnes Church - goes back to the foundation of the Franciscan Observant Monastery in 1455. This year the young Franciscan convent received the chapel dedicated to St. Agnes of the lordly castle in the northeast of the city from Count Gerhard von der Mark zu Hamm .

In 1504 Johann II. Count von Kleve-Mark ceded six feet of his land to the monastery to expand the choir . On October 5, 1507, one day after the name day of St. Francis, the still young convent of the Franciscan monastery began building a large monastery church, the longitudinal axis of which was oriented precisely to the east according to the regulations in force at the time. The foundation stone was laid by the ducal Drosten Rötger or Rotger Brechte ; this is shown by an inscription in Gothic minuscule on the eastern corner of the south wall, replaced by a copy in 1932: Ynt iaer our heren mdVII des nesten dages na sunte francisci heft rotger brecht den first steen ghelecht . Rotger Brechte belonged to the Brechte family , which also provided part of the financial means necessary to build the church. In 1507 Albert Brechte bequeathed a large amount of money to the Franciscans by will. The remaining sum came from generous foundations of the sovereign Johann II. Von Kleve-Mark and the city of Hamm. The former St. Agnes Chapel had to give way to the choir building; In 1926, when the heating system was installed, masonry was encountered, which was interpreted as the remainder of the former castle chapel. The consecration of the choir was carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Dietrich Wichwael (Dietrich von Caster) on August 10, 1511. The west facade of the new building was completed in 1512. This is also evident from an inscription, which was completed in 1512 and has been destroyed today: De hir tho gave and hebben gedaen, de should lose wages. Düt is wanted. In 1512 I stayed here. Finally - again by Auxiliary Bishop Dietrich von Caster - the solemn final blessing of the new monastery church took place on May 20 or 21, 1515. Dietrich set the consecration day on which the church of St. Agnes was consecrated on July 20, followed by Sunday Margaretha . The patronage of Saint Agnes was taken over from the old church. In 1521 (alternatively: 1551) the Bethlehem Chapel was consecrated.

Soon afterwards, the Franciscans transferred the body of the founder, Count Gerhard von der Mark, who had died in Schwerte in 1461 and was temporarily buried in the castle chapel, to the Agnes Church, where they dedicated an elaborate tomb to him.

As a towerless hall church with a long choir closed on five sides of an octagon , the Agneskirche corresponds to the type of sermon churches preferred by the mendicant orders . Wilhelm Lübke , who wrote the first history of art in Westphalia, describes it as a church of extraordinary length but very narrow. This is all the more noticeable as it only has a narrow south aisle that is not half as wide as the main nave. The church building was regularly layered rubble made that from the Möhne area originated. The material was not particularly weather resistant and tended to build verdigris.

In his book "Art and History Monuments of the Hamm District", Josef Bernhard Nordhoff speaks of the entire complex of church and monastery as if it were a historical unit that actually did not exist. In particular, he describes the north aisle, which was divided into two storeys and used structurally and liturgically from the church as the south wing of the monastery by a partition wall, as if this condition had been the original and predetermined. Correspondingly, the literature often states that the only aisle in the original building plan was on the south side; In its original state, the nave of the Agneskirche consisted only of the central nave and the south aisle.

Heinrich Ossenberg contradicts this . He first points out that the east and west wings of the monastery were separate structures when they were built in 1653. This results u. a. from the so-called Guardian board, on which "both buildings" are mentioned:

" Judonus Luckenius ordinatus Guardianus in capitulo intermedio, servato Bielfeldiae, Dominica in Albis 1653 restituit et resolidavit columnas et fornices ecclesiae minantes imminentissimam ruinam, curavit aedificari utrumque aedificium et intermedium murum versus plateam occidentalematis a coenemeterio usque usque. "

Jadocus Ludenius (Lücke) renewed the pillars and the vault of the church in 1653, which threatened to collapse; he made sure that both buildings were erected. The documents coincide with the structural findings. It was not until 1708 and 1709 that the quadrum connecting the two buildings was closed by the new construction of the north wing. In the 138 years between 1515 and 1653, the north aisle existed without a quadrum. Ossenberg also points out that in 1515 no one thought of building a new monastery in its later form. As the observant monastery in Münster shows, the immediate vicinity of church and monastery was not required. The order had started building the church with relatively modest means. It is not plausible why the members of the order should have built a fully developed side aisle with cross rib vaults and similar accessories and divided it into two storeys inside by a layer of beams in order to use it after 138 years as the south wing for a monastery quadrum there was no idea when the wing was built. Ossenberg concludes from this that the church was originally built with three aisles as a hall church and was preserved in this form until 1653.

Nordhoff's assumption that Master Pankuken from Hamm, who laid a roof on the parish church in Lünen in 1513, was the author of the construction of the St. Agnes Church, should also not correspond to the facts. Rather, the construction of the church is similar to other Franciscan churches, so that the general design idea probably came from the Franciscans themselves. When Master Pankuken actually laid the church roof as a carpenter, a stonemason's hut was called in for the stone work, probably the one from Cologne.

On the south side, the narrow east aisle bay that still exists today did not belong to the nave from the start, as the different shapes of the base and capital of the last arcade pillar show. The windows in the choir at that time were, like today, in three parts and divided by fish-bubble tracery. The two large windows in the old west wall also had this tracery. In their northern part they were intersected by the adjoining wing of the monastery. The windows in the nave did not get their broad, rounded shape until later renovations.

In 1645 the Guardian Johannes Omenius ordered repairs to the church. In 1653, Father Jodocus Ludenius (Lücke) had the extensive construction work mentioned on the monastery and church carried out. Ludenius was a father, temporarily a guardian in the monastery in Warendorf and later provincial in the observant monastery in Münster . He made a plan for the pilgrimage chapel in Telgte , but it was never implemented. He was also the author of the first draft for the monastery church in Warendorf. Born in Freckenhorst , he died in the Annunziatenkloster in Coesfeld .

According to the information from the Guardian plaque, the vault of the church threatened to collapse. Since such a dilapidated condition of the church had not been ascertained eight years earlier, the conclusion that the construction work in 1653 itself was improperly carried out. On the west wing, two buttresses of the church had to give way to the new building, which is basically not a problem, as the new building provided sufficient new support for the vault pressure. Presumably, however, the supporting buttresses were removed before the new building was able to take on such a support function. As a result, the columns and vaults of the church had to be renewed. The regular construction of the monastery buildings around a square inner courtyard should also have started at this time. Apparently it was Ludenius who made the plan for the monastery. One of the greatest difficulties was the limited depth of the terrain north of the church. This made the construction of a southern cloister impossible from the start. The builder therefore separated the north aisle from the church and attached it to the monastery. This attachment seemed a little violent, as there was a height difference of about 1.60 meters between the floor of the aisle and that of the monastery. Ossenberg suspects that Ludenius built the heavy partition wall when the vault threatened to collapse. He also speculates that before 1653 the same slender round pillars stood on the north side that were later to be found on the south side, and that until 1708 or 1709, the year the foundation stone was laid for the novitiate wing outside the square, the The west facade of the church was exposed. The gracefully shaped baroque roof turret of the church, which is documented by the townscape of Bücker for the year 1707 and probably replaced an older roof turret, probably dates from the second half of the 17th century and suggests that the monastery employs other architects besides Ludenius Has.

In 1708 (alternative information 1709) the monastery square was closed by the construction of the north wing (novitiate wing). The previously separated east and west wings were thereby connected. In 1746 the triumphal arch separating the choir from the nave was removed. In January 1788 the monastery brothers Agapitus Mertens and Alpheus Ricklage had the order to demolish the Ursula altar in the Agneskirche. They found a box on the altar stone, which was only opened on August 18th, months later, by a religious woman in the presence of the Guardian Bonosus Disselhof and the vicar Eduardus Lange . It contained a number of valuable coins that must have been deposited there between 1762 and 1788. Their origin is still unclear today.

After the monastery was dissolved in 1824, the church was made available to the Catholic community as a parish church. The former concionator Pius Ortmeier became the first pastor. In 1827 the roof of the church was repaired. The alternation of frost and heat led to severe weathering, especially on the south side of the roof. The south side was covered with English slate and in the English way. On the north side, on the other hand, only the German cover was improved. In 1848, the main entrance, which until then had been on the south side of the church, was moved to the west side. In the same year the crucifixion group in front of the church was created. In addition, the Corpus Christi procession was reintroduced after 300 years. In 1871 the windows in the choir of the church were renewed, and in 1877 the bells were cast around. In 1882 the “Kaiser-Fenster” donated by Wilhelm I was installed in the south wall with the pictures of the four saints St. Ida , St. Heinrich , St. Hedwig and St. Bonifazius .

The building was renewed in 1889/90. The south wing of the cloister north of the church (according to Ossenberg, the former north wing of the church), which connected the west and east wings of the monastery without being connected to the church, was included in the church. For this purpose, the eastern outer walls were opened; this was first considered in 1864. The dividing wall towards the central nave was opened in ogival openings, which were adapted to the rhythm of the southern row of arcades . The difference was that the parts of the masonry that had been left standing were converted into oblong pillars and new pillars in the form of the southern row of arcades were not erected. In this way the interior presented itself to the visitor as a broad hall with a slightly elevated central nave vault; a three-aisled hall church with an irregular layout was built. Two different rows of supports (octagonal pillars on the north side, round pillars on the south side) separated the elevated central nave from the lower aisles. The similar shape of the ribbed vaults, which covered the choir and central nave in rectangular yokes and the side aisles in rectangular yokes, contributed significantly to the uniform spatial effect of the interior and made the architectural irregularities recede. The smaller size of the windows in the central nave vault compared to those on the south side is explained by these building measures. The three other wings of the cloister were preserved until they were destroyed in World War II . At the same time, the west entrances, which formerly lay under the window flange with their lintel, were raised and framed with new ashlar. In the west gable, a three-part niche was added to the building from 1515, a rare motif from early and high Gothic. There was also a niche in the gable earlier, but in this, as in all Franciscan churches, there was the figure of St. Francis, as indicated by the angels on the side with symbols of the cross and the chalice.

After the First World War , the Marien and Agnes altars were renewed, the walls were painted and a new bell was purchased instead of the bells confiscated during the World War. The Sacred Heart Altar was supplemented by a wall painting in memory of the parishioners who died in the war and rededicated as a war memorial altar.

In 1932 the west facade was given a new facing.

The hail of bombs of the Second World War almost completely destroyed the church and the former monastery buildings and barely left the outer walls in the eastern area. As a result of the severe war damage, the Agneskirche was rebuilt in quarry stone between 1947 and 1953 - almost like a new building . On March 22, 1953, the rebuilt St. Agnes Church was consecrated by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger . The construction of the church was slightly changed when it was rebuilt, but still shows the typical design of a mendicant order church .

Today's church has a long central nave, to which the equally wide choir adjoins. The gable roof of the nave, which covers the three naves, is continued at the same ridge height through the narrower roof of the long choir. This in turn has a pyramidal closure in the east. As in the previous building, a baroque turret reminds us that the Franciscan order, for which the church once served as a place of worship, deliberately did without a bell tower. The outer walls of the choir and the nave, which are partially covered on the north side by the buildings of the former monastery (today's Marienschule), are structured by buttresses. These are stepped twice in the choir, on the lower side aisles only once at the height of the surrounding coffin cornice. There are no buttresses at the southeast corner of the nave and the receding yoke that follows. The exposed parts of the walls of the choir are pierced by slender, pointed-arched windows. The three to the east show three-part fish-bubble tracery, the remaining simple Gothic tracery forms. The window openings of the nave are wide, rounded, and divided by simple four-part tracery. This is similar to that of the choir window.

On the southern side of the nave, to the west of the fifth window axis from the east, the new baptistery emerges from the line of the aisle wall up to the height of the cornice. This extension forms an architectural unit with the new western end of the nave, which includes the entrance hall and organ gallery. This new system clearly stands out from the old parts of the building. The sacristy on the north side of the choir, along with the corridor on the outer choir wall, is also new, but has been rebuilt in the old dimensions.

After entering the church through one of the portals, the visitor stands in the two-bay porch from 1951, which was given a new gable. It is in front of the actual nave in the manner of a Gothic paradise . To the east, five central nave bays adjoin, the vaults of which rest on modern round pillars. A side chapel was set up on the south side, where there is a wooden Pietà, which was made in 1952 by Hubert Harmann . Light enters the Great Hall through large window openings in the south wall. There were probably similar openings as early as the Baroque period. Doors and latticework separate the vestibule from the nave. In contrast to the pre-war building, an elongated roof spans the entire church from the vestibule to the choir. Of the old church building, only the surrounding walls of the choir and the exterior of the nave (damaged) survived the bombing. The west wall, the nave arcades and all the vaults were laid in ruins. That is why there is almost no old building fabric in today's interior. Only the eastern parts and the choir, here the vaulted consoles decorated with leaves deserve special mention, still contain old building fabric, in some cases down to the tracery of the windows. Everything else was created after the Second World War.

Nevertheless, the exterior of the church still gives the impression of a late medieval church. This is made clear by the view from the east of the choir with the roof turret visible above it, which is bound by its baroque predecessor, but also the three-tiered buttresses on the south side that indicate the long nave. The new arcade pillars were modeled on the old round pillars on the south side. Its shape has also been transferred to the northern row and the cross vault has been remodeled using modern means. For the casual observer, today's interior may appear to be a late Gothic hall church. However, many typical elements of a building that has grown over the centuries are missing, especially since hardly a piece of the old furnishings has been preserved. Only some of the windows, namely in the choir, have their Gothic tracery. Instead, simplified pointed arches were inserted.

Overall, the interior of the church forms a broad hall. The nave has six bays, the choir three. It closes in the 5/8 end . The spatial impression is dominated by the wide central nave. The slightly elevated choir takes up the dimensions of the central nave. The pillars, spars and vaults were cast in concrete during the reconstruction, precisely repeating the original forms. Two keystones of the old sacristy are built into the left wall. In the central nave, the wide ribbed vaults are higher than in the side aisles. The narrow ribs sit on octagonal striker plates towards the central nave and on simple leaf brackets on the outer walls. In keeping with the destroyed models, the crowns of the vault are cautiously colored.

The baroque monastery buildings adjoining to the north, which were burned out down to the surrounding walls, were restored and expanded for school purposes while maintaining the original proportions. The former monastery cemetery with the graves of the fathers set into the surrounding walls, which can be entered from the sacristy, has been preserved.

In 1977/1978 the building was completely restored and the current main altar was carried out by Paderborn's auxiliary bishop Dr. Consecrated to Friedrich Maria Rintelen , a son of the Hammer community. While the bright hall almost hints at the shape of the old religious order from the end of the nineteenth century, the entrance situation has been created completely new with a wide west bar with a baptistery.

The square in front of the church portal is slightly lower than the surrounding streets. A few steps lead down to the small church square. The facade has a different shape than that of the pre-war building. The two round-arched portals, which are designed as a double portal, and the west rose are spanned by a recessed, pointed arches . Above the portals of the new facade there is a monumental figure of Saint Agnes above the gable. This was created in 1952 by the sculptor Hubert Hartmann from Wiedenbrück .

The bronze cladding of the main portals is the work of the Menden sculptor Wilhelm Hausmann . They show scenes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi. This includes the famous sermon of St. Francis on the animals at the left portal as well as his work as the founder of the order on the right portal. The coat of arms of Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger (1892 to 1975) can also be found above the left portal . The newly built church was consecrated in his episcopate . On the right, however, you can see the city arms of Hamm.

St. Agnes is thus a remarkable memorial for the Counts of the Mark and their formerly adjoining castle , which today are only reminiscent of the remains of the wall in front of the old people's home with which their site was built over.

Furnishing

Interior of the St. Agnes Church before 2013

St. Agnes Church, side chapel

Hardly anything has survived from the rich old furnishings. The interior of the former monastery and later parish church had to be completely rebuilt. Remnants of the high altar were brought to the parish church of St. Amandus in Datteln . Other pieces of equipment can be found in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm and in the St. Antonius Church in Geithe. With the altar island and the painting of the former baptistery, the first post-war situation has also been partially changed afterwards.

Inside the church, little reminds of the patroness of the former castle chapel and today's parish church, Saint Agnes. Before the church was destroyed, there was a large mosaic on the east wall of the right aisle showing the saint. It was worked in the style of the Beuron school . Also worth mentioning is Saint Agnes on the outside wall of the church, which adorns the new west gable above the portals. It is the work of the sculptor Hubert Hartmann from Wiedenbrück in 1952. The bronze cladding of the main portals was made by the sculptor Wilhelm Hausmann from Menden (Sauerland) . It shows motifs from the life of St. Francis of Assisi . On the left is shown how he preaches to the animals, on the right his work as the founder of an order.

Modern windows in the end of the choir depict Christ as Savior between Mary and John (Deesis), surrounded by the twelve apostles in the windows on the right and left. Like the ornamentally designed windows, they are works by the artist Hubert Spierling from Menden-Bösperde, which were executed by the Derix company from Kaiserwerth . The window on the right in the choir, donated by the parish youth, shows the fight between Saint George and the dragon . Here, too, the design comes from Spierling, the execution from Derix. The other windows are ornamentally glazed.

Count Gerhard was buried in 1461 in the previous building of the monastery church, his court chapel St. Agnes zu Hamm. The burial site was initially relocated to the center aisle of the new building. In 1836 it was removed from there by order of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and then erected on the north wall of the choir in 1882. The brass tombstone was a Dutch work. On twelve brass plates (1.51 m × 3.29 m) it showed the Count in splendid armor, lying on a patterned carpet with pillows and folded hands, at his feet the double coat of arms of Kleve-Mark held by two swans. On the sides there were pillars, the capitals of which were closed by a Tudor arch, and a ribbon with four family coats of arms. The inscription read: On September 12, 1461, the illustrious patron, Mr. Gerhard von Kleve-Mark, founder of this convent of the Friars Minor of the Observance, died. Pray for his soul to rest in peace. Amen. He was the first and only sovereign to be buried in Hamm. The bombing raids in the Second World War destroyed the church almost completely, only the outer walls in the eastern area remained. The grave slab was also destroyed.

Of the numerous grave slabs depicted by Heinrich Ossenberg in 1936 in the architectural and art monuments of the city of Hamm, only three have survived that once covered graves in the cloister. These grave slabs from the 16th and 17th centuries are now placed in the western part of the south aisle. The first epitaph of 2.43 m × 1.17 m is the grave slab made of Bamberg sandstone of Victor Knippinck († 1573), Lord of Lohausen and Stockum , Droste of Hamm, ducal-Klevian privy councilor and war bishop of the Westphalian district. The knight appears in splendid armor, has put his helmet next to him and is holding a lance and general staff. The corners of the grave slab are adorned with four coats of arms, those of the Knipping, Wrede, Steck and Ense families. Above a shell niche is the inscription: VIKTOR KNIPINCK ANNO AETATIS SUAE LXV (Viktor Knipping in the 65th year of his life), furthermore OMNIS CARO FOENUS ET OMNIS GLORIA EIUS QUASI FLOS AGRI. ISIAE XL (All flesh is like grass and all its beauty is like the flowers of the field Is. 40,6). The other two grave slabs typical of their time are that of Katharina Harmen († 1580) and her mother Margarethe geb. Dedicated to Droste-Vischering († 1585). The damaged grave slabs of Dietrich Knippinck († 1607) - son of Viktor Knippings, depicted as a knight in courtly costume - and his wife Elisabeth, née. Nesselrode with a sculptural bust of the deceased and the heavily damaged remains of a grave slab of Dietrich Harmen († 1589), Herr zu Haaren , were housed in the anteroom on the north side of the choir.

The former sacristy to the north of the choir , a two-bay room with cross-ribbed vaults with two-part tracery windows, was also lost in the hail of bombs of World War II . Heinrich Ossenberg recognized the Bethlehem Chapel, consecrated in 1521, and concluded that there were remains of the former castle chapel due to comparable stylistic elements in keystones and window tracery. The sacristy was therefore much older than the church. In the vestibule on the north side of the choir, where the tombstones are located, the two 14th century, damaged keystones from the old sacristy with the relief depictions of the head of Christ and a human face surrounded by a wreath of leaves were found above the doors to the church let in the masonry.

During the war, the entire 17th century furnishings, including the high altar, choir stalls, pulpit, organ prospectus, confessionals and baptismal fonts, were destroyed. The celebration altar made of sandstone is remarkable, the corners of which are decorated with copper plates with grapes as a Eucharistic symbol. It is the work of the brothers Christoph and Michael Winkelmann from Günne / Westphalia . It contains a reliquary, which is neither signed nor dated, with the remains of Saints Agnes and Saint Ansgar from around 1600. It is a modest but valuable souvenir that is in the tradition of the great reliquary. Starting from Maasland, such reliquary shrines found their way into the churches in Cologne and Westphalia from the beginning of the 13th century. The ecclesiastical art of Westphalia then held on to the shape of the reliquary for a long time. Shrines have been preserved in Soest (Patroclus Shrine 1313–1330), Lippborg (Cornelius and Cyprianus Shrine 1498), Osnabrück (Cordula Shrine 1446, Permerius Shrine 1460–1470) and Rhynern (St. Regina 1457). All of these shrines have sculpted figures, but in the von Rhynern this representational element has been taken back, except for the delicate buttress figures. Made of silver (formerly gold-plated), it is a rectangular box in the shape of a house with dimensions of 32 centimeters in length, 23.5 centimeters in height and 15 centimeters in width, which stands on ball feet. The narrow buttresses with inserted fully plastic figurines of saints emphasize its corners. There are engraved representations on the outside. The pages show the four evangelists with their symbols. The apostle leaders Peter and Paul are depicted in the gable windows . The crucifixion with Mary and John and the veneration of the cross can be seen on the roof . The reliquary box works solely through the chased and engraved representations, which depend on the graphic art.

A modern, round tabernacle stele, which was set up on the southern round pillar, also came from the Winkelmann and Günne brothers . The design of the stele with the high "pinnacle" sitting on the actual, crowned tabernacle is reminiscent of the large free-standing late Gothic tabernacles that can be found in many churches in Westphalia, for example in St. Regina in Rhynern. The stele is designed in the style of the bronze plates of the celebration altar. The bronze work depicts the people of Israel receiving manna from the hand of God.

On the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, September 14, 1981, following the church renovation, the three-figure crucifixion group in the apse of the apse, which dates from the beginning of the 20th century, was consecrated. It ties in with the design of the former baroque high altar, which was destroyed in the war and which showed a crucifixion group made around 1788. The figures are painted in color.

The great Madonna in the Rosary, which was made in the Würzburg Diocesan Museum based on a work by Tilman Riemenschneider , dates from 1985.

A neo-Gothic way of the cross, which comes from the parish church of St. Kunibert in Büderich near Werl and is a work of the Wiedenbrück school around 1870, runs along the aisle walls. In 1952, Hubert Hartmann made the wooden sculptures on the end walls of the side walls. They show Mary and Joseph and Judas Thaddäus .

Little of the former church treasure, once much more extensive, has survived, including a ciborium from around 1715. It bears the mark of the Münster goldsmith master Johann tom Hulse III. who lived from 1676 to 1723. An inscription under the base indicates that it is a donation from Frater Antonius Darfeldt, frater minorum stricta observantia, dedit ad Dei Gloriam (Frater Antonius Darfeldt). Another ciborium from the same period comes from the Augsburg silversmith Johann Zeckel.

The sun monstrance has also been preserved. It was created around 1725 in the Augsburg workshop of Franz Thaddäus Lang (master from 1718–1773). With a height of 75 centimeters and a foot measuring 27 centimeters, it is relatively large. In the middle there is a large four-pass opening of the inspection vessel. Above, under a canopy, are enthroned God the Father with the spirit dove , next to them are Saints Peter and Paul . Mary is depicted under the viewing vessel as the queen of heaven or apocalyptic woman on the crescent moon. Above everything is the cross; Rays behind the monstrance. The foot is adorned with four silver medallion reliefs depicting Saints Francis , Agnes , Antonius and Barbara . Around 1740 Franz Thaddäus Lang created a monstrance for the Premonstratensian Monastery of Cappenberg , which is very similar to the Hammer Monstrance. The crowning of both display vessels with the relief of God the Father and the flanking canopies are designed according to the same graphic template. Other works by Lang in the Archdiocese of Paderborn are the Monstranz in Züschen / St. Johann Baptist, the so-called Dalheimer Chalice in the Paderborn Jesuit Church and a chalice in the Überwasserkirche in Münster.

The church treasury also includes some paraments from the former monastery. These include a red choir cloak from the mid-eighteenth century with the two associated dalmatic (upper garment of a deacon), a golden-flowered choir cloak from the end of the 18th century, and two pink chasuble vestments (end of the 18th century).

When the damaged east wall of the sacristy was demolished in 1952, seven clay jugs were found that had been embedded horizontally in the masonry when the Agneskirche was built, so that the openings were flush with the inner wall. At a distance of around one meter they were at the same height, 30 cm below the cover plate, and sat high up in the final cornice of the choir room. The exact position of the place of discovery can no longer be clearly determined, but was probably on the upper floor of the modern sacristy in the immediate vicinity of the connection to the choir of the Agneskirche. The jugs made of Siegburg stoneware with a height between 15 and 16 centimeters are now in the parish office of St. Agnes. It is unclear why they were walled in. In view of their small number and small volume, it seems rather doubtful that these are sound vessels for improving the acoustics, as they have occasionally been integrated into medieval churches.

On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, a huge hourglass hanging from the ceiling was set in motion at 7 p.m. evening mass. The installation is related to the 500th anniversary of the altar consecration on August 7, 2011 and is intended to commemorate the coming and going of time. The hourglass comes from Cologne and was hanging in the Rochus Church there in 1999, also on the occasion of an anniversary. Six tons of sand trickle down from it. Through this, it should make it clear during the following services up to the anniversary of the altar consecration that time is a constant flow of coming and going and leaves traces.

organ

The historic organ created by the Paderborn master Randebrock with a rich baroque front from around 1700 became a victim of the war. Today's organ was built in 1974 by the organ builder Klais from Bonn . The slider chest instrument has 48 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric. It will be extensively restored in 2012.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 Praestant 08th' Flutdacked0 08th' Quintad 08th' Principal 04 ′ Reed flute 04 ′ Nassard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sif flute 01' None 08 ⁄ 9 ′ Scharff IV 02 ⁄ 3 ′ Cromorne 08th'

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Praestant 16 ′ Principal 08th' Wooden flute 08th' octave 04 ′ Dumped 04 ′ Super octave0 02 ′ Cornett V 08th' Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Cymbel III 01 ⁄ 3 ′ Trumpet 08th' Dulciana 08th' Clairon 04 ′

III Swell C – g 3 Dumped 16 ′ Reed flute 08th' Salicional 08th' Unda maris 08th' Principal 04 ′ Perforated 04 ′ Forest flute 02 ′ Sesquialter I-III0 Acuta V 02 ′ Basson 16 ′ Hautbois 08th'

Pedals C – d 1 Principal 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 08th' Wooden dacked 08th' Choral bass 04 ′ Night horn 02 ′ Aliquotbass V0 Backset VI trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' Schalmey 04 ′

Bells

Almost nothing is known about the number of bells in the church before the time of secularization. There were two bells that were sold when the monastery was closed.

Later there were four small bells, three of which were cast in 1871 or 1877. In the First World War, then they fell prey to the seizure. Weapons were made from the raw material.

In 1921 three new bells were purchased. When the bell was expropriated in 1942, a small bell from 1877 and one from 1921 were confiscated. The third bell remained in the tower and was destroyed along with the church in 1944.

After the war, the roof turret was rebuilt and higher than its predecessor. In 1953 there were two with sensual sayings u. a. Cast steel bells from the Canticle of the Sun inserted by the Bochum Association, which were dedicated to the Mother of God and St. Francis. Their ability to resonate was moderate. Both bells were so thin due to tone corrections at the top that the larger one rusted through over time.

Existence until 2010:

• 1953, BVG, tone b'-5, diameter 870 mm, 247 kg, inscription: + REGINA PACIS + MARIA + QUEEN OF PEACE + PLEASE FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND OUR FATHERLAND +.
• 1953, BVG, tone d´´-5, diameter 745 mm, 167 kg, + FRANZISCUS + SELIG DIE + WHICH THE DEATH FIND IN YOUR WILL +.

What is to be done with these bells has not yet been finally clarified. "There are inquiries from two Hammer parishes who are looking for a cemetery bell", reported Pastor Bernd Mönkebüscher. If the small bell turns out to be too big, it could also be that both copies would be placed in the vicinity of the Agnes Church.

In the run-up to the five hundredth anniversary of the altar consecration in 1511, it was checked whether the ridge turret could ring four bells. The test was positive, but provided that the tower was renovated beforehand. On May 21, 2010, the traditional company Rincker cast four new bronze bells for the Agnes Church in the Hessian sense. The new bronze bells weigh between 150 and 350 kilograms. Their diameter is up to 83 centimeters. These cost around 22,000 euros, which were collected through donations from the four subsidiary communities of St. Georg, St. Josef, Herz-Jesu and Liebfrauen. The new bells were supposed to replace the two badly damaged steel bells. They arrived in Hamm on Thursday, July 1, 2010, after the driver had accidentally waited at the Pauluskirche to receive his goods. At 1:17 p.m., the two old Agnes bells were rung to announce the arrival of the four new orchestras, decorated with motifs by the Cologne sculptor Götz Sambale for the sun song of St. Francis and the words "1511 Consecration of the Altar of St. Agnes Hamm 2011" are provided. These were first stored in the side aisle of the church and then consecrated on August 8, 2010 by Auxiliary Bishop Manfred Grothe . In the consecration sermon, Bishop Grothe recalled that the bells, when they strike in the morning, noon and evening, reflect the rhythm of the day. But they are also a reflection of the rhythm of life, because they sound at the beginning and end of it. With this they speak of the infinity of God and at the same time of the finitude of human life. On September 20, 2010, the old cast steel bells made after the Second World War were dismantled after they had hung in the roof turret of St. Agnes for 57 years. The new bells were placed in pairs on top of each other. After the previous bells were driven by an electric motor and chain, the new bells are controlled by magnets. This saves space and is quieter. The chairs were made of wood for acoustic reasons. At the end of October, the new bells were hoisted into the roof turrets, which had been renovated and strengthened for 118,000 euros (70% of these costs were borne by the vicariate general of the diocese, 30% were covered by donations). The rest of the work was done in November. The completely new bells sounded for the first time on the eve of the first Advent.

local community

After the Franciscan monastery was abolished, the pastors of St. Agnes took over the pastoral care of the Hammer Catholics. In 1847 the forecourt immediately in front of the entrance area was created by abandoning the pastorate garden. Its wall was sold for demolition and the fruit trees were offered for sale. On December 18, 1849, the St. Marien Hospital was opened on Brüderstraße. On December 13, 1887 Pastor Josef Middendorf inaugurated the Catholic orphanage (Vorsterhausen children's home) on Wilhelmstrasse. In 1897 the Josefsgemeinde in the west of Hammer became, in 1909 the Liebfrauengemeinde in the south of Hammer and in 1956 the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde and the Georgsgemeinde in the east of Hammer were separated from the St. Agnes-Gemeinde. The latter two have formed the Hamm-Mitte pastoral network together with the St. Agnes parish since August 2007. On June 1, 2010, other parishes from Hammer Osten joined the parish association.

On March 13, 2011, the church service visitors of the churches of St. Agnes, Herz Jesu and St. Georg were informed about the decision of the three church councils and the parish council to merge the pastoral association Hamm-Mitte into a common parish of St. Agnes on August 1, 2011 want. This creates a large community in Hamm as it had already existed for decades, after all, Herz-Jesu and St. Georg were only parish off from St. Agnes in the 1950s. At the community meeting on April 8th at 7 p.m. in St. George's Church, the community leader and pastor Bernd Mönkebüscher, the head of the pastoral association Hamm-Mitte-Osten, wanted to know about the background of the plans and their integration into the pastoral development of the Catholic churches in Hamm and inform in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The formation of the large community is only a first step. In view of the dwindling number of members and a shortage of priests, all Catholic parishes south of the Lippe are to belong to a single pastoral association in Hamm by 2025. Liebfrauen is planned to be the official seat of the clergyman responsible for management in the south of the hammer.

Parish priest of St. Agnes

• 1825–1827: Pastor Pius Ortmeyer
• 1828–1872: Pastor and country dean Mathias Belmann
• 1872–1898: Pastor and dean Josef Middendorf
• 1898–1920: Pastor and dean Albin Sandhage
• 1921–1930: Pastor Josef Bömer
• 1930–1949: Pastor and dean Hermann Brück
• 1949–1977: Pastor and dean Franz Thöne
• 1977–2007: Pastor Heinz-Josef Hartmann
• 2007 -: Pastor Bernd Mönkebüscher

The historic Agneskapelle

As the original center of the monastery he founded, Gerhard Graf von der Mark zu Hamm had made the chapel of the Hamm town castle , consecrated to Saint Agnes, available to the Order of the Franciscan Observants . The chapel was replaced by the much larger Agneskirche at the beginning of the 16th century. The original Agnes chapel has not existed for over 500 years. Nevertheless, today we roughly know what the chapel once looked like and which buildings existed in its vicinity. The reconstruction was made possible by documentation from the mason foreman Wilhelm Potthoff . He had already discovered traces of older buildings in the course of construction work on the church in 1932. Between September 1947 and July 1948 he was involved in clearing up the bomb debris and used this opportunity to research the building history of the building complex. He received support from the parish, which always shows great interest in the history of the Franciscan monastery. Particularly noteworthy is church board member Wilhelm Mellmann (1876–1953), school rector and local historian. Potthoff recorded his observations, excavations and measurements in a detailed, handwritten report. This is now in the parish archives of the St. Agnes parish. At first it received only sporadic attention and was not scientifically evaluated until 2005 in a publication by the Städtisches Gustav-Lübcke-Museum .

The rest of the Agnes chapel were found in September 1947. During the excavation work for the new boiler room, the foundation walls were encountered at a depth of about 1.50 meters. Wilhelm Potthoff then deliberately exposed the floor plan of the Agnes Chapel, which was completely open on September 9, 1947. The interior of the chapel was 17.90 meters long, divided into the nave in the west and the choir in the east. The nave was 11.60 meters long and 9.40 meters wide. The northern nave wall and the eastern part of the southern nave wall were still preserved in the original as rising masonry. These parts of the chapel were left standing when the church was built between 1507 and 1512 and included in the new building. They had survived the destruction of World War II. The quarry stone material used differed from the material otherwise used in the Agneskirche; the attachment joints were clearly visible.

Several openings were found in the north wall of the nave, which were later walled up. This includes two ground-level door openings 1.80 meters high and 0.70 meters wide. These doors led into a northern side room of the chapel, probably the sacristy. In the preserved part of the southern nave wall, at a height of 2.40 meters, there was a walled-up, 2.40 meters high and 1.60 meters wide window with a high arched end. The chapel was accessed through a door about eight feet wide in the middle of the western front.

The choir was drawn in on both sides by 1.20 meters, its total width was 7 meters. However, it was only 6.30 meters deep. It ended in a segment arc. The foundations of the buttresses show that the choir area was vaulted. The two inward-facing buttress-like foundation projections in the apex of the choir are unusual. In front of the outer wall there are correspondences in the same alignment. One possible explanation is that the choir wall at this point supported a small tower that protruded over the roof of the choir. It is possible that the buttresses were brought together in an arch above a window to be assumed here and in this way absorbed the weight of the tower. Something similar can be found in the Church of the Holy Spirit (Small Church) in Burgsteinfurt, Steinfurt district, which was built between 1471 and 1477. In any case, it is essential for a religious service to be able to operate the bells in a tower from the choir. As can be seen from a document in the parish archive of St. Agnes from March 20, 1455, the Franciscan chapel already had a tower with bells at the time of handover.

The vestry room extended over the entire north side of the nave. According to Potthoff, its clear width was 3.60 meters, but this value is probably due to an error. The clear width was actually 2.40 meters. This area remained unchanged in its width until 1944 and is given in all measurements of the 19th and 20th centuries as 2.30 or 2.40 meters. Potthoff observed a door 0.70 meters wide in the north wall of the nave at a height of 3.15 meters. There were also traces of a staircase leading up to the door from the west. He concluded from this that there was a gallery in the west of the nave, which was accessible from the north side, i.e. from the adjoining room.

The two window openings that he has also drawn in his view, however, do not match the picture of a chapel with sacristy, which is connected to the chapel by two doors and from which one also reaches a gallery. On the one hand, there is a walled-up window opening at a height of 3.25 meters, which when viewed from the north has a round shape with a diameter of about 2 meters, when viewed from the south it is a square shape with a pointed arch. On the other hand, to the west of the door to the gallery, at a height of 2.55 meters above the arch, there is a rectangular, door-like, also bricked-up opening. These two openings make no sense in connection with the adjoining room. So they can only have had a function at a time when there was no component north of the north wall of the chapel. It is therefore conceivable that this wall initially belonged to an older component, which was then supplemented by the adjoining room. The choir may also have been added to an existing building at a later date. Due to the small retraction of only about 1.20 meters, there was no space for the otherwise usual installation of side altars. It is possible that certain framework conditions had to be observed for the floor plan of the chapel due to the existing building structures in the north and the course of the Brüderstraße in the south.

Potthoff discovered two graves in the flowing sand in the choir area of ​​the chapel. These are wooden coffins with a board thickness of 5 centimeters that had been preserved but no longer had a lid. It was not possible to date the burials.

Potthoff's documentation largely coincides with Ossenberg's building description from 1936.

Building a

At the time the monastery was founded in 1455, the Agnes Chapel did not stand alone north of Brüderstraße. Rather, there is evidence of a complex of several buildings in this area. To the northeast of the Agnes chapel stood a north-south oriented house (building A) with internal dimensions of 7.60 meters × 7.74 meters. It served as a sacristy for centuries, and after its reconstruction until today.

The ceiling of the first floor was two-bay and consisted of ribbed vaults. The two-lane windows with an ogival outline showed tracery in the form of four-passages made of pointed arches and garments with wide covings. In the 19th and 20th centuries there were two such windows on the east side, one in the north and one in the west. There was a niche inside under the two east windows.

The two keystones of the 4.50 meter high vault were saved from the rubble. One shows the face of Christ, the other a face wrapped in oak leaves. The first can be found in the wall in the passage from the choir to the sacristy, the other in the north aisle above the door to the inner courtyard of the former monastery.

The floor consisted of regular and large sandstone slabs with a thickness of 8 to 10 centimeters. It was 25 centimeters lower than the one in the destroyed church.

The art-historical classification of the tracery in the windows and the keystones dates the building to the first half of the 14th century. Potthoff reports that the walls around the pointed arch windows contained the outlines of older pointed arch windows. Should it correspond to the facts that larger windows have been reduced to the pointed arch format, building A would have to be placed earlier. But there is no definite proof of this.

Building B

Another building stood north of the western front of the Agnes Chapel. It was found under the floor of the school and former monastery complex. The square monastery complex north of the Agneskirche was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Before the construction of the monastery square, the ground was significantly raised in this area and in large parts of the old town of Hamm. This leads to the fact that the monastery square was laid out on a much higher level than the chapel and the surrounding buildings. The eastern wing of the monastery was built on the ground floor walls of Building B. At least in the area of ​​those documented by Potthoff, this was preserved in this way.

Building B, facing north-south, was 9.15 meters long and 5.30 meters wide and was accessed through two entrances from the east-west corridor. There were four arched windows in the east wall. This was 1.70 meters high and one meter wide. The abutment of the vaults at a height of three meters on the north wall of the east-west corridor were clearly visible. The approach of the vault to the ceiling was divided into three fields by two belt arches. The wall between the doors carried a painting 1.40 meters high and 0.85 meters wide. A praying angel with raised arms and hands was shown on a white background in a yellowish shade. The edges of the robes and wings were set off in a reddish-brown tone. Above the angel was in Latin "Regina Angelorum", under the angel "Ora pro Nobis".

Building B was two-storey, either from the start or added later. The upper floor could be reached by stairs from the adjacent east-west corridor. Under the eastern foundation wall of Building A, below the southern window, Potthoff located a well with a diameter of 1 meter, a depth of 4.80 meters and a water level of 3.60 meters. The well was covered by a millstone 0.25 meters thick.

Due to its alignment with the west wall of the Agnes chapel, building B could belong to the original construction phase, but it could also have been built later. Potthoff considered the building to be the Bethlehem Chapel, consecrated in 1521.

East-west corridor

An east-west corridor must have existed in the early stages of the monastery. Until 1889 there was a closed wall in the north of the nave of the Agneskirche, which separated the church from the monastery square. Then it was removed in order to add the area behind it (again) as the north aisle of the church interior, which had previously had two aisles. There were two horizontal rows of walled-up openings in the wall, which emerged as shallow niches. The lower one had an arched form, the upper pointed arch form. The upper row corresponded to the yoke division of the church, the lower row did not. It must therefore come from an older phase. Apparently there were open arches here that were walled up with bricks. In addition, all parts of the wall consisted of rubble stones. The walled-up arches belong to the south wall of an old east-west corridor. According to Potthoff's drawings, the north wall of the southern wing of the monastery runs parallel to the aforementioned row of arches at a distance of 4.50 meters. There are also two rows of openings, the lower row also not matching the yokes of the Agneskirche. The entrances to building C can be seen in the wall in the far west. In the east there are two entrances to building B and three arched openings in between. These showed up in 1947, but were still recognizable. They look low on the outside, which is due to the elevation of the outdoor area. Potthoff suspects a fourth walled-up window in the east. He has placed smaller niches between the windows.

So the top and bottom rows of openings in the walls of the east-west corridor do not show the same rhythm. This suggests that the corridor was initially one-story and was later extended. To the east, towards the side room of the Agnes chapel, the east-west corridor had a rounded arch. Its purpose was presumably to connect the side room of the Agnes chapel with buildings further to the west, buildings B and C. The connecting corridor was probably built in the period immediately after the monastery was founded, when it was necessary to make the buildings available to form a coherent complex connect to.

Building c

In the north-western corner of the corridor, a walled-up doorway with an arched arch 1.80 meters wide was found. This opening was later reduced to 0.9–1.0 meters wide. A pillar joined it to the east; it was 1.05 meters wide. Then came another opening with an arched arch that was 2.8 meters wide and 3 meters high. The north side of the masonry in the area of ​​the 1.8 meter wide doorway and the pillar was plastered and painted white. Potthoff assumed the transition to an adjoining building, which must have stood here before the west wing of the monastery square was built. According to Potthoff's findings, the height of the floor in Building C was the same as that in the cloister corridor. The monastery square, on the other hand, was at a much higher level. Potthoff could not determine the orientation and dimensions of the building. Apart from the door openings, no building certificates have been preserved. Since only one of the walled-up door openings was plastered, the two adjacent doors could have been used at different times.

The building was built over when the west wing of the monastery square was erected. The east wall of building C is said to have been used during the construction of the monastery wing, so that at least its position would be fixed. It is conceivable that the building where the corridor ended in the west is the house of Godert von der Recke, which the founder of the monastery, Count Gerhard, bought in 1453 and which is likely to have been in this area. In 1957, during the foundation of the porch for the entrance portal of the Agneskirche on the western forecourt, building remains made of green sandstone were found, which could have been connected to the von der Recke courtyard complex.

The neighboring Volmersteiner Hof would then have been behind Building C.

Later expansion of the Agnes chapel

In his book from 1936, Ossenberg describes the almost completely preserved framework of an old ceiling construction, a so-called wooden barrel with a pointed arch, above the vault of the church. Since this construction with its structure made no reference to the yoke division of the Agnes Church, but on the other hand was crossed by a construction that was based on the yoke division of the Agens Church, Ossenberg found no explanation and assumed that the wooden barrel was older than the church.

Ossenberg did not yet know that I connected the wooden barrel construction exactly to the Agnes Chapel in terms of alignment and width. It is therefore probably the result of an extension of the Agnes Chapel to the west, which took place before the Agnes Church was built. This expansion is likely due to the permission of the monastery founder to freely determine the size of the convent, which was originally limited to twelve priests. During the expansion, the south wall of the cloister corridor was raised. At the same time, the arches of this corridor were walled up with bricks. It is possible that the entire extension was made of bricks.

When the Agneskirche was built, the northern nave wall of the old Agnes chapel and the eastern part of the southern nave wall were incorporated into the new choir area. The choir walls in particular survived the destruction of 1944 relatively well, so that these parts of the wall of the Agnes Chapel have been preserved to this day. When the Agneskirche was built, building A was connected to the complex. For this purpose, the chapel side room was extended to the east in order to close the gap between Building A (today's sacristy) and the choir.

Today's use of the monastery grounds - Marienschule

The Marienschule is a church-Catholic-oriented private secondary school on the site of the former Franciscan monastery. It is adjacent to the St. Agnes Church. The school sponsor is the Archdiocese of Paderborn . This maintains other secondary schools in Attendorn , Brilon and Meschede , grammar schools in Arnsberg , Attendorn, Brakel , Dortmund , Hagen and Neheim as well as vocational colleges in Hamm and Paderborn .

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  Lettering "Marienschule".

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  Front of the school with connection to the St. Agnes Church.

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  Front of the school, entrance area.

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  Back of the Marienschule between St. Agnes Church and senior center.

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  Back of the Marienschule between St. Agnes Church and senior center.

size

Today the school has over 30 teachers and over 500 students.

history

The Marienschule was founded at Easter 1929. As a girls' middle school, it was initially under the direction of Sister Aurea of ​​the Sisters of Divine Providence. From 1931, school operations could begin on the grounds of the Franciscan monastery.

In 1943 the sisters were forced to stop working. The old building was badly damaged at the end of the Second World War. All old files and certificates were burned. The school could only be rebuilt after the war. The pupils from the school actively helped by bringing stones as building material.

The sponsorship of the school was transferred in 1961 from the nuns to the St. Agnes parish, and in 1980 to the Archbishop of Paderborn.

In 1991 co-education was introduced. 1996 saw the adoption of the last all-girls class.

In 2004 the school celebrated its 75th anniversary.

Other institutions related to the St. Agnes parish

St. Franziskus Vocational College

The St. Franziskus Vocational College is also located near the former monastery grounds and in the area of ​​influence of the St. Agnes Church . It is a vocational college and vocational high school of manageable size with a focus on social and health care. The students have the opportunity to train as a state-certified social worker or a state-approved educator. In addition, the independent school of the Archdiocese of Paderborn offers the possibility of acquiring the general qualifications of the technical college entrance qualification, the technical college entrance qualification, the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) and the Abitur for experienced students who already have the technical college entrance qualification.

A dual sports hall has been built for the Marienschule and vocational college since January 2011 on the corner of Brüderstraße and Antonistraße.

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  Construction plan for the dual sports hall.

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  Construction progress on March 3, 2011.

St. Agnes day care center

The Kita St. Agnes is a Catholic kindergarten or a Catholic day-care center within the sphere of influence of the St. Agnes Church.

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  St. Agnes Kindergarten.

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  Parish office on the north wall.

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  Statue of Agnes at the parish office.

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  Parish home on Franziskanerstrasse.

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  Caritas Association on Franziskanerstraße next to the parish hall.

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  Caritas Association on Brüderstraße next to St. Agnes Church.

Marienhospital

→ Main article : St. Marien Hospital Hamm

The St. Marien Hospital Hamm is a hospital in Hamm . The locations include clinics for cardiology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as the day care clinic. The overall clinic is a center of care and teaching hospital of the University of Witten-Herdecke. With 17 specialist disciplines and 584 beds, it is also the largest clinic in the Hamm / Soest and Unna region.

After the cholera epidemic in the summer of 1849, the St. Agnes Congregation founded the St. Marien Hospital, which was opened on December 18, 1849 under the direction of the Sisters of St. Vincent . After a few extensions, the parts of the building were erected between 1924 and 1928 that represent the basic substance of today's house. 70 percent of the hospital was destroyed by air raids during World War II. The construction work proceeded quickly, and by the time the hospital was 100 years old, 350 beds were available again. In 1984 the St. Marien Hospital Hamm took over the St. Elisabeth children's clinic on the Nordenwall from the sponsorship of the St. Agnes parish. The federal miners' hospital in Knappenstrasse was also taken over by the St. Marien Hospital this year. In 1999 the St. Elisabeth Children's Clinic was merged with the Märkische Children's Clinic to form the “Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine” under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Hospital.

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  Marienhospital / Nassauer Strasse.

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  Marienhospital / Nassauer Strasse.

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  Marienhospital / Nassauer Strasse.

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  Marienhospital / Nassauer Strasse.

St. Elisabeth Children's Hospital

The St. Elisabeth children's clinic , also popularly known as "Elli", existed until 2001 on the Nordenwall on the site of the former Hamm town castle .

It was originally sponsored by the St. Agnes parish and was transferred to the Marienhospital in 1984. In 1999 the clinic merged with the Märkische Children's Clinic of the Evangelical Hospital. During the conversion of the MKK into a clinic for pediatric and adolescent medicine, the entire staff of the Märkische Children's Clinic moved to the Nordenwall. After the renovation was completed in 2003, the St. Elisabeth Clinic was closed. Since then, a children's clinic in Hamm has only been run by the Evangelical Hospital on Werler Strasse.

Today the senior citizens' residence An St. Agnes is on the clinic premises .

neighborhood

Senior residence "An St. Agnes"

In January 2007, the senior citizens' residence "An St. Agnes" was opened on the grounds of the Hamm town castle and the former St. Elisabeth children's clinic in the immediate vicinity of the St. Agnes Church. In 2010, the operator, Hansa Gemeinnützige Altenheim-Verwaltungs- und Service GmbH from Oldenburg , filed for bankruptcy. However, the operation of the old people's home was continued without restriction.

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  Senior citizens' residence "An St. Agnes" on the site of the former Hamm town castle .

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  Rear of the senior citizens' residence “An St. Agnes” with a view from the church.

Pröpsting Monastery Brewery and Klosterdrubbel

The monastery brewery Pröpsting was a brewery on Oststrasse in Hamm. It was named after the Franciscan monastery and was bought up in 1971 by the most famous brewery in Hamm, the " Isenbeck " brewery . There are some indications that the brewery emerged from a brewery of the Franciscan monastery that had existed for much longer.

Location

The monastery brewery was located on the site of today's "Klosterdrubbel" on Oststrasse, behind which the St. Agnes Church is located. With Klosterdrubbel the complex is called, which is delineated by the four streets East Road, Eylertstraße, Brüderstraße and Antoni road. The name refers to the fact that the monastery brewery used to be in this quarter.

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  Lettering "Klosterdrubbel".

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  Klosterdrubbel from the direction of Eylertstrasse.

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  Klosterdrubbel on the corner of Oststraße and Antonistraße.

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  Monastery bustle viewed from Oststrasse.

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  Bier-Kontor in Klosterdrubbel.

history

Former logo of the monastery brewery.

New monastery logo from 2010.

Kloster-Alt, beer mat.

The monastery brewery had been located in Hamm since 1735 and was owned by the Pröpsting family until 1971. Bernhard Caspar Pröpsting is mentioned for the first time in a document in 1735. It cannot be conclusively determined whether Pröpsting was the actual founder of the brewery or whether it arose from a much longer existing brewery in the nearby Franciscan monastery. The brewery of the monastery was built under the Guardian Mauritius Cuer, but extended to the north towards the Wall and was therefore at a location much more northerly. Since it was mentioned in a document, it can be traced in the old documents that the brewery was always inherited from father to son in direct line - until 1971.

The takeover of the brewery by the ISENBECK brewery was surprising even for the many Hammer innkeepers, because the monastery beer has always been a household name, just as the hammer “ Keut ” was a well-known “product” in the early Middle Ages . During the Second World War , more precisely on March 23 and April 22, 1944, 85% of the Isenbeck brewery was destroyed by Allied air raids. During this time, the monastery brewery helped the Isenbeck brewery and helped brew their beers. At the end of the sixties, the monastery brewery also had electric trucks for beer delivery - far ahead of the time - which produced only low noise emissions and no particulate matter.

Closely connected to the city of Hamm and its people, the monastery brewery promoted the work of Lebenshilfe eV in Hamm. The Kloster-Brauerei der Lebenshilfe eV in Hamm, for example, signed the property on which today's Dr. Johannes Kroker residence is located.

The logo of the monastery brewery contained the well-known "monastery monk" with the hammer city coat of arms and has been the symbol of the monastery brewery on Oststrasse since 1735. In the old brewery pub, the "Bierkontor", also located there, the top of an old copper brewing kettle from the monastery brewery is still attached to the ceiling. Otherwise, the relics of the former brewery in Hamm have become very rare today. Sometimes you can still see old advertisements with the old monastery advertising emblem in pubs and kiosks. However, these are only relics of the monastery and Isenbeck breweries of that time. Old leaded glass windows can still be found, for example, in the Pinninghoff restaurant on Wilhelmstraße, in Didis Kaminklause on Alleestraße, in the Ritter-Stübchen on Ritterstraße and in Alt Hamm on Nordstraße. In the course of the renovation work at Hamm train station a few years ago, the monastery monk could be seen in the waiting room, above the old, now closed entrance to the train station restaurant. However, this historical advertisement fell victim to the redesign of the station building.

Product range

The Kloster-Brauerei Pröpsting has been producing the Altbier brand Kloster Alt for years . Although the tradition of Altbier production mainly developed in the Rhenish area between Düsseldorf and Krefeld , the Hammer Altbier was known and loved far beyond the city limits. Kloster-Alt was brewed until the end of the brewery in Hamm in 1989. Long before the Isenbeck brewery was taken over by the Warsteiner brewery, the Warsteiner brewery and the Frankenheim brewery had a close partnership. After the Warsteiner brewery took over the Isenbeck brewery, Kloster-Alt's production was discontinued. Within Hammer Gastronomy, the former Alt Abbey has largely been replaced by the Düsseldorf Frankenheim Alt .

In addition to the Kloster-Altbier, the Isenbeck brewery also brought the "Isenbeck-Alt" onto the market at times. However, the already established Alt monastery prevailed. It was brewed until the end of the Hamm brewery in 1989. Even after the Isenbeck brewery took over the monastery name, the Kloster-Alt logo featured the well-known monastery monk with the Hammer coat of arms.

In fact, the KLOSTER Altbier has not existed since 1990. After the ISENBECK brewery was taken over by the WARSTEINER brewery , production was discontinued. The KLOSTER malt beer, which was introduced by the KLOSTER brewery in the 1960s, was still brewed after the ISENBECK brewery took over KLOSTER in 1971. However, production was stopped in the eighties.

In 2010 the beverage wholesaler Norbert Rabe, who also developed the Hermann Brause with eight different flavors, secured the rights to the Kloster brand, including the name and logo. Rabe is planning a premium beer that will be bottled in 0.33 bottles and in kegs for the catering trade. However, the original recipe can no longer be realized because the historical brewing water is no longer available. Rabe's long-term goal is to relocate a brewery in Hamm.

Monastery mill Bruno Pohl

Klostermühle Bruno Pohl, part of the building on Brüderstraße

The two buildings on the left belong to the monastery mill Bruno Pohl, viewed from the north wall.

→ Main article : Klostermühle Pohl

Very close to the monastery grounds, on the Nordenwall and in the Brüderstraße, is the Pohl monastery mill , which is also known as Pohl's Mühle , a historic mill for animal feed .

It was built in 1880 as a two-story building with a field fire brick facade . In 1913 a residential building was added. In 1927, a warehouse with an expressionist brick construction was added, as is often found in Hamm (e.g. at the police headquarters, the tax office and the Lommel commercial building).

The grinding and grist mills date from 1930. They and the sack lifts and chutes are still used today for animal feed production.

Since 1989 the mill structures (mill, granary, business and residential building, connecting property wall and gate entrance) have been under monument protection.

The mill is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

Monastery bastion

The monastery bastion was part of the city fortifications of Hamm. It was between the north gate and the west gate.

literature

• Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 47th district of Unna. Edited by Hans Thümmler, Münster 1959.
• Anneliese Beeck: This is how the new Hamm was created. End of the war and reconstruction. Hamm 1992.
• Hermann Josef Berges: Rediscovered Past. From the history of our mother church “St. Agnes ”. In: Kath. Kirchengemeinde Herz-Jesu (Hrsg.): Put into life. 50 years of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Bad Hamm. 1929-1979. Hamm 1979, pp. 54-56.
• Georg Eggenstein, Günter Wiesendahl: The gift of the count. The Agnes Church in Hamm at the time the monastery was founded in 1455. Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm 2005 (notes on the town's history 11).
• Diodor Henniges: An island of peace washed away by surging waves. The Franciscan monastery in Hamm (Westphalia) . Hamm 1924.
• Pastor Dr. Philipp Hille in Corven, memorial sheets for the 400th anniversary of St. Agnes Church in Hamm. 1512-1912. 1912.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup : Catholic parish church St. Agnes. In: Old churches in Hamm. Hamm 1999, pp. 82-87.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup: Medieval churches in Hamm. In: Traces of Time. The beginnings of the city of Hamm . Edited by Georg Eggenstein - Ellen Schwinzer, Bönen 2001, p. 110.
• Dr. phil. Mar Jucho: Old hammer buildings. In: 700 Years of the City of Hamm (Westf.) Werl 1973, pp. 181–186.
• Ulrich Kunz: The crafty monk of St. Agnes. An old legend about the Hammer Franciscan monastery. In: Our Westphalia. 2006, p. 50.
• Wilhelm Raave (Ed.), Heinrich Ossenberg, Wilhelm Lappe: Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, 43rd volume, City of Hamm. Warburg 1994, ISBN 3-922032-83-4 , pp. 97 ff.
• Andreas von Scheven: Hard argument about the high altar. Intentions to beautify the Hammer St. Agneskirche led to heated technical discussions around 1880. In: Our Westphalia. 2008, pp. 103-104.
• Hugo Schnell, Johannes Steiner, Hans-Walter Stork: Catholic parish church of St. Agnes Hamm. Church leader, Munich / Zurich 1992.
• Wilhelm Wellmann: The Franciscan Monastery and St. Agnes Church. In: Adolf Staßemeyer: Heimatkränzlein for the hammer youth. Hamm 1927, p. 25 ff.
• Annika Wind u. a .: 500 years of St. Agnes. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. October 5, 2007.
• Herbert Zink: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Hamm. In: Ingrid Bauert-Keetman, Norbert Kattenborn, Lisedore Langhammer, Willy Timm, Herbert Zink, Hamm. Chronicle of a city. Cologne 1965, pp. 135 ff., Pp. 148–154.

Web links

Commons : St. Agnes Hamm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hamm Wiki: Franciscan Monastery
• Hamm-Wiki: St. Elisabeth Children's Hospital
• Hamm wiki: monastery brewery
• Hamm-Wiki: Monastery hubbub
• Hamm-Wiki: Klostermühle Pohl
• Hamm Wiki: Marienhospital
• Hamm Wiki: Marienschule
• Hamm Wiki: Parish Church of St. Agnes
• http://www.pastoralverbund-hamm-mitte.de/
• Video of the new space concept of the st. Agnes Church (accessed May 18, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingrid Bauert-Keertman, Norbert Kattenberg Born, Liesedore Langhammer, Willy Timm, Herbert zinc: Hamm. Chronicle of a city. Cologne 1965, p. 52.
2. ↑ State Archives Münster, Hamm OFM, document 1.
3. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 175.343.
4. ↑ Franz-Josef Esser: The Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross on the eve of secularization and its history in the first half of the 19th century. (Unpublished manuscript) o. O. 1973, p. 23 with reference to: Diodor Henniges: An island of peace washed away by surging waves. The Franciscan monastery in Hamm (Westphalia) . Hamm 1924, pp. 59-71.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälischer Anzeiger of October 21, 2008, Lokales / Hamm-Mitte.
6. ↑ Diodor Henniges: Personnel of various monasteries 1802-1811. In: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Published by the Provinzialat, Düsseldorf 1908, pp. 122–130, here p. 126.
7. ↑ Diodor Henniges: An island of peace washed away by surging waves. The Franciscan monastery in Hamm (Westphalia) . Hamm 1924, p. 115.
8. ↑ Diodor Henniges: Personnel of various monasteries 1802-1811. In: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Published by the Provinzialat, Düsseldorf 1908, pp. 122–130, here p. 126.
9. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Hamm, status 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Diodor Henniges: An island of peace washed away by surging waves. The Franciscan monastery in Hamm (Westphalia) . Hamm 1924, p. 11.
11. ↑ Josef Bernhard Nordhoff: The art and historical monuments of the Hamm district. Münster 1880, p. 69.
12. ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of March 9, 2011.
13. ↑ More information about the organ of St. Agnes
14. ↑ Green light for projects. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. April 17, 2010.
15. ↑ ^{a b} The new bells of the Agnes Church are here. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. July 1, 2010.
16. ↑ New bells in St. Agnes are inaugurated. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. July 28, 2010.
17. ↑ Four new bells consecrated for St. Agnes. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. August 8, 2010.
18. ↑ Old Agnes bells have been dismantled. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. September 21, 2010.
19. ^ Weekly newspaper for the city and the district of Hamm from February 13, 1847.
20. ^ Reporting by the Westphalian Gazette of March 14, 2011.
21. ^ Homepage of the Marienschule Hamm
22. ^ History of the Marienschule
23. ↑ Website of the St. Franziskus Vocational College.
24. ↑ Website of the Marienhospital.
25. ^ Retirement home An St. Agnes in the vortex of bankruptcy. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. March 23, 2010.
26. ↑ Kloster-Brauerei F. & W. Pröpsting GmbH, Hamm , in: Hamm. Chronicle of a City, Cologne 1965, pp. 289–290.
27. ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of April 28, 2010.
28. ↑ J. Wünsche: Was the city of Hamm surrounded by fortress walls or were the walls that still exist today fortified by palisades. In: Home calendar for the district and city of Hamm, Unna, Kamen and the area of ​​the former county of Mark. 1926. Hamm, pp. 65-69

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 21.5 ″  E