St. Johann Baptist Church (Brechte)

St. Johann Baptist Church Brechte

The Johann Baptist Church in Dortmund-Brechte from the south-east side around 1890

Back of the Romanesque baptismal font of the Johann Baptist Church in Brechte, around 1890

Front of the Romanesque baptismal font of the Johann Baptist Church in Brechte, around 1890

The Protestant St. Johann Baptist Church forms the center of the Brechte village in the Dortmund district of Eving . Around 1250 the church was built as a three-aisled, two-bay hall on an almost square floor plan with a rectangular choir. The west tower is probably of an older date. The sacristy was built around 1500 . During the restoration of the interior in 1960/1962, extensive paintings from the time the church was built were exposed and restored. The font dates from the 13th century, the pulpit and altar are from the 17th century.

The church is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

organ

Behind a very interesting prospectus , the small Klais organ, which has only been in the church since 2011, has 10 stops , distributed on an interchangeable loop for the two manuals and on the pedal .

I / II manual change loop C – g 3 1. Principal 08th' 2. Salicional 08th' 3. Drone 08th' 4th Octave 04 ′ 5. flute 04 ′ 6th Octave 02 ′ 7th Cornettino 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Bassoon oboe 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 10. Sub bass 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Bells

In the church tower there is a historical bell, consisting of two old bronze bells. The smaller bell from 1451 sounds in ges '' and comes from an unknown foundry. The big bell rings in it 'and was cast by Antonius Paris in 1652 .

literature

• Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia , Volume 3: Dortmund-Land district. Münster 1895 ( digitized at archive.org ).
• Silke Rüsche and Barbara Welzel (eds.): The St-Johann-Baptist-Kirche in Dortmund-Brechte. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-832-7 .

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Brechte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brechte a Dortmund district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0850. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 16, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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.  
2. ↑ Video of the es' bell by Antonius Paris on YouTube
3. ↑ Ringing the two bells ges'-2 and es'-1 on YouTube

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 48.3 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 6.4"  E