Marienkirche (Iserlohn)

Supreme town church

City church in the cityscape

Ground plan of the church, next to it the ground plan of the crypt

The Protestant St. Mary's Church in Iserlohn (also called the Oberste Stadtkirche ) was probably built when the city expanded at the beginning of the 14th century.

history

At the beginning there was a chapel dependent on the St. Pancras Church , consecrated to Cosmas and Damian . There may also be a castle chapel there. This building is said to have been built around 1330. The shape of the current building probably originated in the 15th century. Since then it has also been called the Marienkirche. The two towers burned down in the town fire of 1500, but were then rebuilt. After the Reformation the church was the main Protestant parish church.

construction

It is a two-aisled, two-bay hall church with a transept. The style is Gothic with the inclusion of older Romanesque components. The choir is single yoke with 3/8 end. To the west of the interior there are tower halls. The northern one is in two parts. A double tower rises above her. A chapel-like extension has been added on the south side of the nave. The sacristy is located on the south side of the choir . Below the choir is an irregularly shaped crypt . There are buttresses on the north side and the choir. The interior is spanned by a cross vault with ribs and keystones between round-arched octagonal columns, pillars and consoles. In the north tower hall, in the sacristy and in the crypt there are cross vaults with ridges. The windows are ogival, in two parts with tracery. The east window is in three parts. The northern portal is early Gothic with corner columns. In the tympanum there is tracery and a Christ head under a Romanesque arch.

Furnishing

High altar

Detailed view of the high altar

On the south side of the choir there are stone Gothic sediles , in three parts with tracery. There is also a wooden Gothic choir stalls . The sacrament house and the altar table are also Gothic. In addition to religious figures, there is also a statue of Count Engelbert III in the church. from the mark . The late Gothic folding altarpiece as well as the panel paintings that belonged to it are noteworthy . The Marienretabel created by the master von Iserlohn around 1455 as part of the high altar consists of eight panels with scenes from the life of the Virgin.

organ

The organ builder Johann Christian Kleine, born in Freckhausen in Oberberg, Germany. 1737, died 1805 (builder of the organ in the Evangelical Church in Eckenhagen and son of the organ builder Joh.Henrich Kleine, who among other things built the organ of the Luther Church in Altena ), lists an organ of the town church from 1741 in his dispositions collections from 1770 and 1796 from organ builder Patroclus Müller (probably Möller) from Lippstadt, which he had visited himself. Accordingly, this organ had the following disposition with 34 registers:

I Manual Principal 16 ′ Octav 08th' Violdigamba 08th' Gemshorn 08th' Quinta 06 ′ Octav 04 ′ Fleute Duxe 04 ′ Tertie 04 ′ Sesquialter III 03 ′ Mixture V 02 ′ Cimbel IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′ Trumpet 08th' Voxhumana 08th' Shalmej 04 '

II positive Principal 08th' Gedact 08th' Octav 04 ′ Fleut Traverso 04 ′ Rohrfleut 04 ′ Quinta 03 ′ Octav 02 ′ Flute 02 ' Scharff II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Mixture IV bassoon 16 ′ Hautbois 08th'

pedal Principal 16 ′ Octav 08th' Octav 04 ′ Mixture 7 choir 03 ' Night horn 01' trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' Cornett 02 ′

• Tremulant
• Coppel to both claviruses
• Calcant bell
• 4 bellows 10 'long and 5' wide

Today's organ in the town church was built from 1972 to 1973 by the organ builder Karl Schuke (Berlin). The slider chests -instrument has 42 registers on three manuals and pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 Prefix 08th' Metal dacked 08th' Quintad 08th' Principal 04 ′ Reed flute 04 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Field whistle 02 ′ third 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sif flute 01' Scharff IV-V Rankett 16 ′ Krummhorn 08th' shawm 04 ′ Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Quintadena 16 ′ Principal 08th' Reed flute 08th' Pointed flute 08th' octave 04 ′ Flute 04 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 02 ′ recorder 02 ′ Mixture V-VI Scharff III-IV Trumpet 08th' Tremulant

III Breastwork C – g 3 Wooden dacked 08th' recorder 04 ′ Principal 02 ′ Sesquialter II Fifth flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Cymbel III Vox humana 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Principal 16 ′ Sub-bass 16 ′ octave 08th' Dumped 08th' Hollow flute 04 ′ Peasant flute 02 ′ Mixture V trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' Trumpet 04 ′ Tremulant

• Coupling: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

In the westwork hang three cast steel bells from the Bochum association from 1921, tuned to ais ° -cis'-e '.

See also

• List of churches and places of worship in Iserlohn

literature

• A. Ludorff: Architectural and art monuments of the Iserlohn district. Münster, 1900 pp. 39–42
• Handbook of historical sites in Germany, Vol. 3: North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart 1976, p. 362

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Lübke: The medieval art of Westphalia depicted according to the existing monuments. Leipzig, 1853 p. 295
2. ↑ Franz G. Bullmann: The Rhenish Organ Builders Kleine - Roetzel - Nohl Part II . In: W. Kolneder (Ed.): Writings on music . tape 7 . Katzbichler, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-87397-007-4 , pp. 15 + 105 .
3. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 25.1 ″  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 47 ″  E