Pauluskirche (Kamen)

Pauluskirche

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The leaning tower as seen from the elevated road

The Protestant Pauluskirche is a listed church building in Kamen , a town in the Unna district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The church was originally dedicated to St. Severin . From the Romanesque predecessor church from the twelfth century, the massive west tower with its inclined helmet is still preserved. The "Leaning Tower" is a symbol of the city. It was probably built deliberately at an angle to the prevailing wind direction.

Today's stately, classical hall with a retracted 5/8 choir was built from 1844 to 1849 according to the plans of the Buchholz building council from Soest. In the interior, clad pillars support three galleries , which also support the joist of the flat wooden ceiling and the roof structure . The wooden ceiling was divided into three fields in 1897 and boarded up again.

Bells

The chime consists of three chilled iron bells, cast in 1921 by Ulrich & Weule in Bockenem. The chime sounds in the Te Deum motif c′-es′-f ′ and has a pretty decent sound despite the material.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Commons : Pauluskirche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 263 .

51.591254 7.662465Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 29 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 45 ″ E

[1] Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 263 .