Marienkirche (Minden)

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View of St. Mary's Church from the southeast

The Marienkirche is a church built in Minden in East Westphalia and goes back to the Marienstift founded in Minden at the end of the 10th century . The construction of the church began around 1022 and gradually expanded. Initially without a tower, it was later built to the west of the actual church, which has been a Protestant parish church since the Reformation .

history

Layout

At the time of Bishop Sigebert , construction began on the church around 1022, which initially had no tower. Between 1036 and 1056 the church by Bishop was Bruno ordained . The time when the three-sided cloister was built is unknown. In the 12th century the church was given a Romanesque vault. Construction of the tower began around 1255.

A sacristy was added in the 14th century . The Stephen Chapel in the north of the tower was demolished. The former single-nave church was converted into a three-aisled hall church with Gothic aisles. The Gothic tower chapel was created as the choir of the canonesses.

From 1695 to 1708 Franz Hemmen worked as a pastor at the Marienkirche.

After the secularization of 1811, the monastery buildings were used for military purposes. The church continued to serve as a parish church . In 1922 the community bought back the monastery buildings. In 1945 the facility was badly damaged. Until 1975, the buildings were mainly used as residential complexes for church employees. The old monastery buildings were replaced by a new community center in the 1970s, partly with the use of old structures. Remnants of the medieval cloister have been preserved.

Furnishing

The Renaissance - baptismal font of 1598 probably comes from sculptor Kleffemeier from Oberkirchen and painter mat man from Minden. The important epitaph of Colonel Georg von Holle on the southern choir wall dates from the same time .

In 1887 the church received a neo-Gothic altar with elaborate gilding , created by the Gustav Kuntzsch company , Institute for Church Art, Wernigerode . In the 1950s, the altar, damaged by air pressure damage in World War II , was given to the Christ Church in Minden- Todtenhausen .

organ

The organ in St. Marien was built in 2002 by the Freiburger Orgelbau company , master organ builder Hartwig Späth.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture V
10. Cornett V 8th'
11. bassoon 16 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
13. Violin principal 8th'
14th Wooden flute 8th'
15th Viola da gamba 8th'
16. Vox coelestis 8th'
17th Fugara 4 ′
18th Flauto dolce 4 ′
19th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Flageolet 2 ′
21st Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
22nd Plein jeu III – V
23. Sharp IV
24. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
25th Flûte harmonique 8th'
26th Bourdon 8th'
27. Flûte octaviante 4 ′
28. Octavine 2 ′
29 Trumpet harm. 8th'
30th Hautbois 8th'
31. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
32. Principal 16 ′
33. Sub bass 16 ′
34. Bourdon (No. 1) 16 ′
35. Octave (No. 2) 8th'
36. Reed flute (No. 3) 8th'
37. Salicetbass (No. 4) 8th'
38. Octave (No. 5 ) 4 ′
39. trombone 16 ′
40. Bassoon (No. 11) 16 ′
41. Trumpet (No. 12) 8th'

History of the pen

At the Wittekindsburg there was a hermitage in which a female named Thetwif lived. Bishop Milo von Minden had this hermitage expanded into a women's monastery with Benedictine rule. The facility was in 993 by Otto III. privileged. It was consecrated to Maria and Blasius. But already under his successor Ramward the community was probably moved to Minden in 1009. In 1421 the facility was converted into a women's monastery. The move was made by Pope Martin V and Julius III. approved. With the Reformation this only accepted Protestant canonesses. It was repealed in 1810.

literature

  • Heiko KL Schulze : Monasteries and monasteries in Westphalia - a documentation . History, building history and description. In: Géza Jászai (Ed.): Monastic Westphalia. Monasteries and monasteries 800–1800 . Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1982, ISBN 3-88789-054-X , p. 387 f . (Exhibition catalog, Münster, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, September 26, 1982– November 21, 1982).
  • Manfred Groten , Peter Johanek , Wilfried Reininghaus , Margret Wensky (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Published by the regional associations of Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe. 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-27303-9 .

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Minden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elias Friedrich Schmersahl : Reliable news from recently deceased scholars , vol. 1, Celle: Joachim Andreas Deez, 1748, p. 214; Digitized via Google books
  2. ^ Georg Speitel: The baptismal fonts in the Loccum monastery church and in St. Marien zu Minden. Announcements of the Minden History Society, year 55 (1983), pp. 103-110.
  3. ↑ Georg Speitel: The Holle epitaph in the St. Marienkirche in Minden. Messages from the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 56 (1984), pp. 113–120.
  4. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe and Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia. Volume 50. City of Minden. Part III. Old town 2. The collegiate and parish churches, edited by. Fred Kaspar and Ulf-Dietrich Korn u. a., Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2003, p. 165.
  5. ↑ Alexander Völker : The new organ in St. Marien zu Minden (Orgelbauverein St. Marien Minden, 2002); Online information on the Späth organ ( memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freiburgerorgelbau.de
  6. ^ Dietrich W. Poeck: St. Marien in Minden: Foundation and memory. A contribution to the church history of the diocese of Minden. Messages from the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 65 (1993), pp. 49–70.

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '27.7 "  N , 8 ° 54' 54.3"  E