Marienstift Bedburg

former collegiate church in Bedburg, today parish church of St. Markus

Parish church of St. Markus, Gothic choir

The Marienstift Bedburg (actually Bedbur ) was a spiritual institute founded in the 12th century near Kleve Castle .

history

Before 1138, Count Arnold I. von Kleve founded the Bedburg Abbey , which adopted the rules of the Premonstratensian order, which had been founded shortly before by Norbert von Xanten . Until the beginning of the 14th century, the collegiate church served as the burial place of the Counts of Cleves . Bedburg became a regulated women's monastery around 1270 and a regulated women's monastery in 1519 . In 1604 the convent moved to Kleve , and the monastery buildings in Bedburg fell into disrepair. In 1802 the monastery was secularized. The former monastery church has served as the parish church of St. Markus for Schneppenbaum since 1804 .

building

The monastery church, built around 1130, is a cruciform Romanesque complex with a crossing tower. A Gothic east apse was built in the middle of the 15th century. After the monastery moved to Kleve in 1604, the monastery church fell into disrepair; the consequence was the demolition of the monastery buildings and the church except for the tower and the east wing in 1774. 1900–1902 the missing parts of the church were rebuilt in neo-Romanesque forms.

Furnishing

The window glass pictures were designed by Joachim Klos in 1965–1968 and the glass pictures of the three choir windows were made in 1903 by the Josef Mencke Goch company .

A Vesper picture , with the plaintive Maria , who holds the body of her son in her hands, possibly comes from the master Arnt von Kalkar.

The organ was built in 1968 by the organ building company Breil (Dorsten) and expanded in 1980. The slider chest instrument has 50 stops on four manual works and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Drone	16 '
2.	Principal	08th'
3.	Hollow flute	08th'
4th	Octave	04 '
5.	Pointed flute	04 '
6th	Forest flute	02 '
7th	Mixture IV-VI	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
8th.	Trumpet	08th'

II upper structure C – g ³
9.	Dumped	08th'
10.	Principal	04 '
11.	Reed flute	04 '
12.	Principal	02 '
13.	Fifth flute	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
14th	Scharff IV	01'
15th	Dulcian	16 '
16.	Krummhorn	08th'
	Tremulant

III Swell C – g ³
17th	Wooden dacked	08th'
18th	Dulz flute	08th'
19th	Principal	04 '
20th	Flute	04 '
21st	Nasat	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
22nd	Schwiegel	02 '
23.	third	01 ³ ⁄ ₅  '
24.	Seventh	01 ¹ ⁄ ₇  '
25th	Sif flute	01'
26th	Mixture V	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
27.	Basson	16 '
28.	Rohrschalmei	08th'
29	Hautbois	04 '
	Tremulant

IV Récit C – g ³
30th	Tube bare	08th'
31.	Praestant	04 '
32.	Fifth	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
33.	Octave	02 '
34.	Third flute	01 ³ ⁄ ₅  '
35.	Sif flute	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
36.	Oktavlein	01'
37.	Zimbel III	01'
38.	Hopper shelf	16 '
	Tremulant
	Carillon (CD ³ )

Pedals C – g ¹
39.	Principal bass	16 '
40.	Sub-bass	16 '
41.	Octave bass	08th'
42.	Thought bass	08th'
43.	Quintad	04 '
44.	Principal	02 '
45.	Back set IV	02 '
46.	Bombard	32 '
47.	trombone	16 '
48.	Trumpet bass	08th'
49.	Clairon	04 '
50.	English horn	02 '

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

literature

Willehad Paul Eckert: The Lower Rhine - Landscape, History and Culture. Du Mont Buchverlag Cologne, 3rd edition 1978, ISBN 3-7701-1085-4 .
Karl-Heinz Hohmann: Community of Bedburg-Hau. Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88094-910-7 ( Rheinische Kunststätten 479).

Individual evidence

↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : St. Markus (Schneppenbaum) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

51.763055555556 6.1858333333333Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 47 ″ N , 6 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ E

[1] Information on the organ