Observant Church (Münster)
The Observantenkirche is a church building in the old town of Münster on Schlaunstraße , corner of Rosenstraße. The Observant Church is owned by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
History and structure
The church building is a former monastery church of the Franciscan observants and was built at the end of the 17th century. The baroque portal was completed in 1700. The building is not oriented in an east-west direction, but in a north-south direction.
After the monastery was dissolved in 1811/12, the building was used by the Prussian military. It remained closed until 1819, when the church portal and the statues of saints were removed. The tower and sacristy were torn down and a false ceiling was added to the church, the lower floor was used as a stable for horses, and at the beginning of the 20th century also as a prop room for the theater.
After the Second World War , the almost completely destroyed church was rebuilt. It is kept simple inside. The baroque furnishings were not reconstructed.
Since 1961 it has served as the Evangelical University Church and as a concert church for the student choirs of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Münster .
Furnishing
Organs
The observant church has three organs . A small two-manual organ with pedal and an organ positive are available for concert performances.
Until the beginning of the 19th century there was a historic organ from the 17th century in the church. After the abolition of the monasteries, the ornate organ case was sold. Today it is located in the Liebfrauenbasilika (Zwolle) with an organ from 1896 .
The main organ on the south pore was built in 1962 by the organ building company Paul Ott (Göttingen) based on a layout draft by Rudolf Reuter. The slider chest instrument has 36 registers on three manuals and a pedal. The breastwork is also a swellwork , the swell doors are operated via a hand lever. The playing and stop actions are mechanical. The following is the disposition of the main organ.
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- Coupling I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
Three bells hang in the roof turret of the Observant Church.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | 1959 | 800 | h 1 + 3 | |||
| 2 | 1959 | 669 | d 2 + 5 | |||
| 3 | 1959 | 585 | e 2 + 7 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berthold Bockholt: The Order of St. Francis in Munster. A general overview of the living and working of the three orders of St. Francis in Münster i. W. with special consideration of the Franciscan observants. Münster 1917, p. 42ff.
- ↑ cf. the information about the organ on the website of the Liebfrauenbasilika Zwolle
- ↑ Information on the organs of the Observantenkirche, in particular on the large Ott organ ( memento of the original from March 10, 2011 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.
- ↑ Information on the bells ( Memento of the original from December 21, 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. (PDF file; 90 kB)
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 24 ″ E