Rietberg Monastery

Monastery Church of St. Catherine

The Rietberg Monastery was a Franciscan monastery in Rietberg in the Gütersloh district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

After the county of Rietberg had belonged to the Lutheran faith for 70 years , it was re-Catholicized from 1610 . Jesuits were initially stationed in Rietberg for missionary work . 1618 donated Count Johann III. with his wife Sabina Catharina a Franciscan monastery to consolidate the faith. The monastery buildings were built by 1621. In 1726 the monastery buildings were erected south of the church.

In 1969 the Franciscan monastery was finally closed and on September 15, 1969, the Rietberg Youth Office took over the building it had been using since July 1, 1969. Since March 16, 2010, the Rietberg youth work has been certified as a curative educational institution by the Professional Association of Curative Pedagogues (BHP) .

Monastery Church of St. Catherine

Layout

The foundation stone for the church was laid in 1618, and it was consecrated on November 15, 1629 by Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Pelcking . The church was damaged in the monastery fire in 1935. The last extensive interior restoration was carried out in 2007.

St. Katharina is a single-nave, four-bay hall church with a 3/6 end, which is covered by a wooden ceiling. Inside there are three Renaissance stone altars with reliefs and figures. The high altar was erected in 1629.

organ

The organ of the monastery church dates from 1747. The builder is unclear. Adolph Cappelmann (Geseke) or Johann Patroclus Möller (Lippstadt) are eligible . The instrument initially had 22 registers on two manuals and an attached pedal . In 1850 the instrument was modified by Bernhard Speith (Rietberg) and a free pedal was added. Some pipe material was also renewed. In 1927 pneumatic cone chests were installed. In 1991 the instrument was reconstructed. The instrument has 29 stops on two manuals and a pedal, 16 of which are from the years 1850 and 1927 respectively.

I main work C–
1.	Drone	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Dumped	8th'
4th	Viola da gamba	8th'
5.	Octave	4 ′
6th	Pointed flute	4 ′
7th	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
8th.	Octave	2 ′
9.	Cornet III
10.	Mixture IV
11.	Zimbel III
12.	Trumpet	8th'
	Tremulant

II Rückpositiv C–
13.	Reed flute	8th'
14th	Quintad	8th'
15th	Principal	4 ′
16.	Dues flute	4 ′
17th	Nasat	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
18th	Forest flute	2 ′
19th	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
20th	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
21st	Sharp IV
22nd	Krummhorn	8th'
	Tremulant

Pedal C–
23.	Sub-bass	16 ′
24.	Principal	8th'
25th	Dumped	8th'
26th	Chorale bass	4 ′
27.	Night horn	2 ′
28.	Back set III
29	trombone	16 ′

Bells

The church has a roof turret in which the two bells are housed. The older of the two bells is 43 centimeters in diameter and is inscribed with in honora dei b. mariae fs cathr. me fieri fecitis 1697 maria ernest francisca fries orien et ntb comitis ... rennevat sub guward r herronimo rawenstein anno 1732 .

Individual evidence

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literature

A. Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of the district of Wiedenbrück . Schöningh, Münster i. W. 1907 ( The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 10), (Reprint: Hermes, Warburg 1996, ISBN 3-922032-50-8 ).
Benno Nordberg: Franciscan Church of St. Catherine, Rietberg Westphalia, Archdiocese of Paderborn. = Franciscan Church Rietberg. Schnell & Steiner, Munich et al. 1978 ( Kleine Kunstführer 1155).
Walther Tecklenborg: The Rietberg Franciscan Monastery and its founders . Rietberg 1955

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Rietberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

51.808592 8.429625Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 30.9 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 46.7 ″ E

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