New St. Alexander Church (Wallenhorst)
The New St. Alexander Church is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Wallenhorst , Osnabrück district , in Lower Saxony . With it and the Old St. Alexander Church , which has Carolingian origins, two churches in the district are dedicated to the Roman martyr Alexander († 165). With the new church building, the center of Wallenhorst moved from the old village to the west.
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For more than 1,000 years, the Old St. Alexander Church in the “Old Village” served the believers in Wallenhorst and the congregations of the spacious parish as a place of worship. In the middle of the 19th century it became too small for the growing community, and it was on the edge of the parish. The church building was damp and in need of renovation. On December 10th, 1852, the community assembly decided to build a new building. The demolition of the Old St. Alexander Church was temporarily considered, but not carried out. After a long search for a suitable location, the community only decided in 1877 for a new building on the Bokholt in the vicinity of the Gothic Annakapelle from the middle of the 15th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Bokholt was the meeting place of the monastery estates of the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück and also fulfilled the requirement of the vicar capitular Bernhard Höting at the time : “The church must be surrounded by a sizeable free space so that it is unobstructed on all sides and can provide an effective view. "
construction time
The architect Franz Xaver Lütz in Osnabrück received the order for the new building . He designed a three-aisled church in the neo-Gothic style with the tower incorporated into the structure in the west. In the east, three conches close off the main and side aisles. The sacristy is in the south. Construction began in the summer of 1878; the foundation stone was laid in the spring of 1879. Piesberg sandstone from the Lechtinger Bruch of the nearby Piesberg was used as building material . The cornice of the nave and the tower was made of cinder block from Georgsmarienhütte . With the benediction on June 9, 1881, the church was used as a parish church, the consecration by Bishop Bernhard Höting followed in 1891. With the completion of the church and the construction of the rectory, the school and other buildings in 1886, the new center of Wallenhorst was created around the church, the "New Village".
Furnishing
The means for equipping the church were raised by the parishioners through collections and donations. The church was only gradually equipped. The oldest piece of equipment is the baptismal font from the early 13th century from the Old St. Alexander Church. In 1884 the church received a winged altar in the late Gothic style , which was created by the sculptor Heinrich Seling from Osnabrück. In 1888 he also carved the main figures of the Christmas crib . The church received a tower clock, the organ and side altars between 1884 and 1890. In 1891/92 Wilhelm Clausing painted the church with figurative representations and ornaments. The statues of the church fathers Hieronymus , Ambrosius , Augustinus and Gregor came from the church of the Dominican monastery to the Holy Cross in Osnabrück, which was closed in 1803 . They are works of the 18th century.
In 1907 five bronze bells were purchased, which were lost during a metal collection campaign during the First World War. The stations of the cross date from 1913. The triumphal cross is a work by the Osnabrück sculptor Ludwig Nolde from 1929.
In 1979 the church received a holy water stele made of shell limestone . It was made in the art workshops of Maria Laach Abbey . The door handle strips made of bronze were made by Egino Weinert from Cologne. Leaded window glass by the Ohrbeck artist Rudolf Krüger dates from 1981 . One of them shows the transfer of relics of Alexander from Rome to Wildeshausen in 851 from the Roman legend De miraculis sancti Alexandri .
Renovations
The cinder block cornices were already showing signs of damage ten years after the completion of the church and were therefore replaced by sandstone and partly plastered. The mortar joints were cracked in the 1920s and renewed between 1924 and 1926, and damaged sandstones were replaced. The interior painting from the 1890s was painted over in a yellow shade around 1934, the ribs of the vaults and the columns were set off in color. The church windows on the north and south sides were replaced in the same year by colored works by the Osnabrück glass painter Theo M. Landmann . They show the "eight bliss". In 1952 the church tower was given a reinforced concrete structure for static reinforcement. In 1958/59 the church was painted again, this time in gray-yellow tones. In 1961 the tower was covered with copper plates. After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the sanctuary was redesigned in 1965 and 1970. The Romanesque font was brought into the church from the Old St. Alexander Church. In 1978/1979 the church underwent another renovation: damage to the plaster was removed, the painting was renewed and a floor made of natural stone slabs was laid. A partition was removed from the vestibule. In 2007 the top of the church tower with weathercock and cross was extensively renovated because the hurricane Kyrill had damaged the fortifications.
Height reference point
The height connection point of the German main height network is located at the church .
literature
- Catholic parish of St. Alexander Wallenhorst (Ed.): 100 years of the New St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst . Wallenhorst 1981, extended new edition 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catholic parish of St. Alexander Wallenhorst (ed.): 100 years of the New St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst , p. 17
- ↑ Height fixed point 3614-00005 Height: 94.453 m above sea level (DHHN2016). Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 55.7 ″ E